An electrochemical and optical anion chemosensor based on tripodal tris(ferrocenylurea)

A neutral tripodal tris(ferrocenylurea) anion receptor has been designed that can electrochemically and optically recognize sulfate and phosphate anions. The binding of the tetrahedral anion induced distinct cathodic shifts of the ferrocene/ferrocenium redox couple in chloroform, whereas the UV/Vis spectrum of the receptor showed an increase in the d–d transition band upon addition of sulfate ions. Furthermore, the anion complexes (TBA)₂ ? [SO₄?L] ? H₂O ( 1 ) and TBA[F?L] ( 2 ; TBA=tetrabutylammonium ion) were isolated. Crystal structural analyses showed that the receptor in the two 1:1 (host/guest) complexes encapsulated sulfate or fluoride ions in the tripodal cavity through multiple hydrogen bonds. ¹H NMR spectroscopic and ESI mass‐spectrometric analysis revealed strong sulfate and fluoride binding in solution.     

Stability of piecewise affine systems with application to chaos stabilization

This paper addresses the stability issue for a class of piecewise affine (PWA) systems, where the state spaces are assumed to be dividable into a certain number of hypercuboid subspaces. By constructing appropriate piecewise continuous Lyapunov functions, several numerically tractable stability criteria are developed for four subclasses of such PWA systems, which allow to recast the switching control problem for the PWA systems as a convex optimization problem. Moreover, the proposed method is applied to switching controller design for (globally and locally) stabilizing the unstable equilibrium points of PWA chaotic systems. Numerical simulations on the chaotic Chua's circuit are presented to verify the theoretical results.     

Biological computation of the solution to the quadratic assignment problem

Biological computing provides a promising approach to attacking computationally intractable problems. The quadratic assignment problem (QAP) is a well-known NP-hard combinatorial optimization problem. This paper addresses the problem of how to solve QAP under the Adleman–Lipton-sticker model. A theoretically efficient DNA algorithm for solving QAP is proposed, which is executed by performing O(Kn⁴) operations on test tubes of DNA molecular strands with n² + K + 1 bit regions, where n is the number of facilities, and K is the length of the binary representation of an upper bound on the objective function. With the rapid progress of molecular biology techniques, the proposed algorithm might be of practical use in treating medium-sized instances of QAP.     

尾流气泡幕光学特性的数理模型

对实验室模拟的尾流以及真实尾流气泡幕中气泡的运动规律进行了分析和计算,并提出了气泡幕中气泡随半径分布规律的数学物理模型,引入了最可几半径的概念从单个气泡对激光散射的影响推导出了气泡幕对激光的散射效应的数学表达式,并利用所得到的表达方式在实验室条件下进行了相关计算所建立的理论模型对于气泡分布的计算结果同实验结果相比,一致性相当好在气泡幕对激光散射的影响中,首次对激光偏振化特性的影响进行了区别计算计算结果表明:激光的两种偏振化状态对气泡幕散射的影响从粗糙结构来看没有明显差异,但其精细结构有所不同对不扩束和扩束两个条件下的计算明确显示出,扩束条件下散射光的强度是不扩束条件下的二倍以上,但二者的精细结构并没有可见的差别.     

A synapse memristor model with forgetting effect

In this Letter we improved the ion diffusion term proposed in literature [13] and redesigned the previous model as a dynamical model with two more internal state variables ‘forgetting rate’ and ‘retention’ besides the original variable ‘conductance’. The new model can not only describe the basic memory ability of memristor but also be able to capture the new finding forgetting behavior in memristor. And different from the previous model, the transition from short term memory to long term memory is also defined by the new model. Besides, the new model is better matched with the physical memristor (Pd/WOx/W) than the previous one.     

Polymer Acceptor Based on B←N Units with Enhanced Electron Mobility for Efficient All‐Polymer Solar Cells

We demonstrate that polymer electron acceptors with excellent all‐polymer solar‐cell (all‐PSC) device performance can be developed from polymer electron donors by using B←N units. By alleviating the steric hindrance effect of the bulky pendant moieties on the conjugated polymers that contain B←N units, the π–π stacking distance of polymer backbones is decreased and the electron mobility is consequently enhanced by nearly two orders of magnitude. As a result, the power conversion efficiency of all‐PSCs with the polymer acting as the electron acceptor is greatly improved from 0.12 % to 5.04 %. This PCE value is comparable to that of the best all‐PSCs with state‐of‐the‐art polymer acceptors.     

高速摄影技术对水中气泡运动规律的研究

气泡在许多不同过程中起着重要作用.舰船尾流中的气泡提供了这样一个线索,即基于对气泡的特性研究,并以此对舰船进行追踪是一种独特的方法.用高速摄影技术来研究气泡,具有直观、低费用的优点,配合以半自动胶片判读仪,可获得较为详细的关于气泡的参量.实验结果表明,水中气泡上升速度的大小都在随时间减小,气泡的末速度存在一极值,它与一定大小的气泡相对应.文中详细讨论了水中气泡的动力学特征,并与高速摄影所得到的气泡图象数据进行了比较,其结果的一致性肯定了高速摄影技术对水中气泡运动规律的研究中的重要性     

核酸碱基的表面增强喇曼散射效应研究

本文应用表面增强喇曼散射(SERS)技术对两种碱基-鸟嘌呤和胞嘧啶-进行了研究,并对其在银镜上的吸附特性做了分析.在银镜上,胞嘧啶表现出很强的SERS特性,而鸟嘌呤不能得到象胞嘧啶那样明显的增强效应.吸附在银镜附近的胞嘧啶可以容易地从银膜上解吸,这是两种氢健的竞争所产生的结果.从已经取得的实验数据提出一种新的作用机制:胞嘧啶在银镜上的吸附是在氢键力下建立的,并且在化学上是可逆的.     

银片上茜素的表面增强共振喇曼散射效应及模式标识

本文对吸附在经连续的氧化 还原循环(ORC)过程处理的银片衬底上的茜素的表面增强共振喇曼散射(SERRS)特性进行了研究,并对茜素SERRS谱中的振动模式做了标识.结果表明,吸附在经氧化.还原循环(ORC)处理的银片衬底上的茜素分子,其表面增强喇曼散射的强度,主要是由于最靠近银片的一层分子的增强,而第一层以外的分子贡献很小.也就是说,表面增强喇曼散射具有单层饱和效应.茜素在经ORC处理的银片上和在银镜上所显示的SERRS特征基本一致,其中有些振动模式存在小的频移,这与银片、银镜各自的表面特性有关.