强脉冲电磁场对金属凝固组织影响的研究

提出了用强脉冲磁场和电流细化金属凝固组织的新工艺.与未经磁场或电流处理的凝固样品相比,强脉冲电磁场能够显著地改善LY12铝合金的凝固组织,使晶粒明显细化、球化;电磁场的强度愈强,这种改善效果愈明显.对该新工艺的细化机理进行了理论分析,同时,指出了实验中的新现象和新问题. 关键词：     

Proventriculus of Cephalotes ants: A structural and comparative analysis

The use of optic microscopy and scanning electron microscopy propitiated the comparative examination of the structure of the proventriculus bulb of Cephalotes atratus, Cephalotes clypeatus and Cephalotes pusillus. This portion of the digestive tract possesses highly sclerotized projections which act in the selection of victuals. This structure is of importance to phylogeny studies and thus was compared with others known species of ants in a dendrogram adapted from Eisner (1957). We did not detect differences among the three studied species in the nature of histochemistry and ultra morphology.     

Measurement of the total active 8B solar neutrino flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with enhanced neutral current sensitivity

The Sudbury Neutrino Observatory has precisely determined the total active (nu(x)) 8B solar neutrino flux without assumptions about the energy dependence of the nu(e) survival probability. The measurements were made with dissolved NaCl in heavy water to enhance the sensitivity and signature for neutral-current interactions. The flux is found to be 5.21 +/- 0.27(stat)+/-0.38(syst) x 10(6) cm(-2) s(-1), in agreement with previous measurements and standard solar models. A global analysis of these and other solar and reactor neutrino results yields Deltam(2)=7.1(+1.2)(-0.6) x 10(-5) eV(2) and theta=32.5(+2.4)(-2.3) degrees. Maximal mixing is rejected at the equivalent of 5.4 standard deviations.     

Addition patterns in carbon allotropes: independence numbers and d-codes in the Klein and related graphs

The problem of predicting stoichiometries and patterns of chemical addition to a carbon framework, subject solely to the restriction that each addend excludes neighboring sites up to some distance d, is equivalent to determination of d-codes of a graph, and for d = 2 to determination of maximum independent sets. Sizes, symmetries, and numbers of d-codes are found for the all-heptagon Klein graph (prototype for "plumber's nightmare" carbon) and for three related graphs. The independence number of the Klein graph is 23, which increases to 24 for a related, but sterically relaxed, all-heptagon network with the same number of vertices and modified adjacencies. Expansion of the Klein graph and its relaxed analogue by insertion of hexagonal faces to form leapfrog graphs also allows all heptagons to achieve their maximum of 3 addends. Consideration of the pi system that is the complement of the addition pattern imposes a closed-shell requirement on the adjacency spectrum, which typically reduces the size of acceptable independent sets. The closed-shell independence numbers of the Klein graph and its relaxed analogue are 18 and 20, respectively.     

A catalogue of isomerization transformations of fullerene polyhedra

Representation of isomerization and carbon insertion or extrusion mechanisms as patch replacements on a fullerene surface allows construction of a catalogue of topologically distinct local transformations of fullerenes, classified by patch boundary and pentagon content. All isomerization patches and isomerization pairs containing up to five pentagons and with an upper limit for the boundary length depending on the number of pentagons are listed. Several infinite series of transformations are identified.     

The four-electron diamagnetic ring current of porphycene

Porphycene, an isomer that can replace porphin in chemical and biochemical contexts, is predicted by ab initio calculation to exhibit a global diatropic pi ring current with bifurcation across the four pyrrole units of the macrocycle. Analysis of the orbital contributions to the current density in porphycene reveals that the global current, with its bifurcation feature, is attributable to the four electrons of the near-degenerate HOMO levels, the same set of active electrons that feature in the well-known four-orbital model of the electronic spectra of porphyrins. Integration of the current density gives 1H, 13C and 15N NMR shieldings that are compatible with the observed low-field shifts of peripheral and bridge protons and high-field shift of the internal NH protons, assignment of the 13C NMR spectrum and the single average 15N chemical shift resulting from rapid NH tautomerism. Geometries were calculated with the DFT B3LYP functional, the current density maps were calculated with the ipsocentric coupled-Hartree-Fock CTOCD-DZ method, and the shieldings with the CTOCD-PZ2 variant, all in the same 6-31G** basis.     

Reflection and transmission of waves near the localization threshold

A theory is presented for propagation of waves in bounded media near the mobility edge, based on the self-consistent theory for localization. It predicts a spatially inhomogeneous diffusion constant that leads to scale dependence in enhanced backscattering and transmission.     

Evidence for changing of cosmic ray composition between 10(17) and 10(18) eV from multicomponent measurements

The average mass composition of cosmic rays with primary energies between 10(17) and 10(18) eV has been studied using a hybrid detector consisting of the High Resolution Fly's Eye (HiRes) prototype and the MIA muon array. Measurements have been made of the change in the depth of shower maximum and the muon density as a function of energy. The results show that the composition is changing from a heavy to lighter mix as the energy increases.