Melting and vaporization of salts in a U-LiCl-Li2O system

Summary The electrochemical reduction of uranium oxide in the treatment of spent nuclear fuel requires a characterization of the LiCl-Li₂O salt used as a reaction medium. Physical properties, melting and vaporization are important for the application of the salt and thus they have been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetry (TG), respectively. Experimental data suggest LiCl and Li₂O compound formations, leading to a melting point depression of the LiCl and a co-vaporization of the LiCl-Li₂O salt.     

Non-linear modeling and dynamic analysis of hydraulic control valve; effect of a decision factor between experiment and numerical simulation

Numerical problems that are usually ignored in the dynamic analysis of hydraulic control valves are described, and an analysis of the effects of such problems on the numerical modeling is provided. Previous studies have ignored the effects of changes in the flow coefficient in the orifice, the solenoid force along the spool movement in the valve and an ascending tendency of pressure during reach to the steady state. To eliminate these problems, it was studied a method to substantiate the non-linearity of the pressure loss caused by passing between the orifice and port as well as that caused by interaction with the solenoid. Moreover, the movement of the spool and spring is expressed using the time-delay-element (TDE). The proposed numerical model has been used in the Bond graphs method of a hydraulic control valve and the simulation results have been shown to be accurate. It is known that differences between simulated and experimental results can have a considerable impact on the function of actual systems. The contribution of each parameter is measured separately for the transient state and steady state. Analysis standard observed the first peak value, pressure increase to the steady state and the settling time in the response results.     

Mesoscopic resonating valence bond system on a triple dot

We theoretically introduce a mesoscopic pendulum from a triple dot. The pendulum is fastened through a singly occupied dot (spin qubit). Two other strongly capacitively coupled islands form a double-dot charge qubit with one electron in excess oscillating between the two low-energy charge states (1,0) and (0,1). The triple dot is placed between two superconducting leads. Under realistic conditions, the main proximity effect stems from the injection of resonating singlet (valence) bonds on the triple dot. This gives rise to a Josephson current that is charge- and spin-dependent and, as a consequence, exhibits a distinct resonance as a function of the superconducting phase difference.     

Synthesis of Mg-Al and Zn-Al-layered double hydroxide nanocrystals using laser ablation in water

In this paper, we report our results on the synthesis of Mg-Al and Zn-Al-layered double hydroxides using the laser ablation in the liquid technique. To prepare these layered double hydroxides (LDH) we first began with the laser generation of a Mg (or zinc) target submerged in deionized water and then ablated an aluminum target submerged in the previously prepared Mg-deionized water suspensions (Mg-dw) to produce Mg-Al LDH and in Zn-dw to prepare Zn-Al LDH. In these ablation tests, the Mg ablation duration was selected to vary from 5 to 60 min, while the Al ablation duration was kept constant at 30 min for all samples. The generated Mg-Al LDH was a gel-like and well crystallized nanoparticles of a rod-like shape and were arranged in a well-organized pattern. When the Mg ablation duration between 25 and 35 min, the synthesized nanocrystals were stoichiometric with a formula of Mg₆Al₂(OH)₁₈4.5(H₂O), the interlayer distance (d_(0 0 3)-spacing) was 7.8 Å and the average grain size was 8.0 nm. The synthesized Zn-Al LDH revealed various lamellar thin plate-like nanostructures of hexagonal morphologies. The average diameters of these structures was about 500 nm and the thickness of a single layer was approximately about 6.0 nm. The XRD diffraction peaks were indexed in hexagonal lattice with a_o=3.07 Å and c_o=15.12 Å. These indexes were (0 0 2), (0 0 4), and (0 0 8) and the corresponding interlayer distances, d-spacing (Å), were 7.56 (0 0 2), 3.782 (0 0 4), and 1.891 (0 0 8), respectively.     

Performance limits of pico-cell systems using radio-over-fiber techniques with an electroabsorption modulator

We investigate the performance limits of a pico-cell system using the radio- over-fiber technique with an electroabsorption modulator (EAM) in a 2.4 GHz wireless local area network (WLAN) environment. To understand the performance limits of the system using an EAM as the optical transceiver, we vary the optical modulation index (OMI) of the transmitter for different bias voltages to the EAM. Power margins in the links are found to estimate a possible service range, and packet loss rates (PLRs) in the pico-cell system are measured to evaluate the transmission performance. The total service range can be extended up to 3 m by adjusting the OMI of the transmitter for different applied bias voltages to the EAM.     

Enhanced coercivity in sponge magnets with three dimensionally ordered nanopores

Nanoporous magnets are new promising materials particularly useful in biological assays and ion separations. This letter deals with a simple method for making porous magnets composed of cobalt ferrite, where polymer colloidal spheres were used as sacrificial templates. Compared with the bulk congener the porous cobalt ferrite shows enhancements in coercive field and magnetization, which could be associated with the presence of nanopores ordered three dimensionally. Using the sponge magnet complete removal of magnetic Cu and Fe ions was achieved while partial removal was observed with porous silicate having the same size of nanopores.     

Unstable Surface Waves in Running Water

We consider the stability of periodic gravity free-surface water waves traveling downstream at a constant speed over a shear flow of finite depth. In case the free surface is flat, a sharp criterion of linear instability is established for a general class of shear flows with inflection points and the maximal unstable wave number is found. Comparison to the rigid-wall setting testifies that the free surface has a destabilizing effect. For a class of unstable shear flows, the bifurcation of nontrivial periodic traveling waves is demonstrated at all wave numbers. We show the linear instability of small nontrivial waves that appear after bifurcation at an unstable wave number of the background shear flow. The proof uses a new formulation of the linearized water-wave problem and a perturbation argument. An example of the background shear flow of unstable small-amplitude periodic traveling waves is constructed for an arbitrary vorticity strength and for an arbitrary depth, illustrating that vorticity has a subtle influence on the stability of free-surface water waves.