Application of in-plasma catalysis and post-plasma catalysis for methane partial oxidation to methanol over a Fe2O3-CuO/γ-Al2O3 catalyst

Methane partial oxidation to methanol (MPOM) using dielectric barrier discharge over a Fe2O3-CuO/γ-Al2O3 catalyst was performed. The multicomponent catalyst was combined with plasma in two different configurations, i.e., in-plasma catalysis (IPC) and post-plasma catalysis (PPC). It was found that the catalytic performance of the catalysts for MPOM was strongly dependent on the hybrid configuration. A better synergistic performance of plasma and catalysis was achieved in the IPC configuration, but the catalysts packed in the discharge zone showed lower stability than those connected to the discharge zone in sequence. Active species, such as ozone, atomic oxygen and methyl radicals, were produced from the plasma-catalysis process, and made a major contribution to methanol synthesis. These active species were identified by the means of in situ optical emission spectra, ozone measurement and FT-IR spectra. It was confirmed that the amount of active species in the IPC system was greater than that in the PPC system. The results of TG, XRD, and N2 adsorption-desorption revealed that carbon deposition on the spent catalyst surface was responsible for the catalyst deactivation in the IPC configuration.     

聚氰基丙烯酸乙酯空心纳米纤维的制备

通过溶液聚合法制备了具有空心结构的聚氰基丙烯酸乙酯纳米纤维,纤维直径为50~100 nm.研究了3种溶液体系对形成聚氰基丙烯酸乙酯纳米纤维形貌与直径的影响,并探讨了其形成机理.通过调控溶液体系内外环境可得到不同形貌的聚合物纤维,且纤维表面表现出疏水性质.该方法适用于平整且具有粗糙结构的表面.所形成的聚氰基丙烯酸乙酯纳米纤维涂层可用于基底的疏水改性.     

Formation of Monolayer Lipid Membranes in Water and Ethanol from Bolaamphiphiles

Three single-chain bolaamphiphiles containing two salicylidene units per molecule as the rigid segment were synthesized. Their aggregation behavior in water and ethanol has been studied. They can form monolayer membranes not only in water solution but also in pure ethanol. The presence of a relatively short methylene chain as a spacer at the center of the molecule has a dramatic influence on the morphology of the aggregates formed. Copyright 2001 Academic Press.     

Surfactant driven flows overlying a hydrophobic epithelium: film rupture in the presence of slip

Both for tear films and along the airways within the lung, one has an extremely thin fluid layer overlying a biological substrate; in both cases surfactants either of natural origin, or artificially introduced, are important in driving fluid flows. There is evidence that slip can occur when hydrophilic liquids, similar to mucus or aqueous tear films, overlie hydrophobic epithelium. Utilizing results from recent experimental findings we examine the possible influence of slip upon tear film rupture, important in so-called dry eye, and upon surfactant-induced flows within the lung, used in surfactant replacement therapy.     

Preparation,structure, and some coordination properties of 2-chloro-3,3-diphenyl-3-thioxo-1-(2,4,6-tri-t-butylphenyl)-1,3-diphosphapropene

A sterically encumbered 3-thioxo-1,3-diphosphapropene, bearing a P=C-P=S skeleton, was prepared, characterised, and allowed to react with a carbonyltungsten(0) reagent and iodine affording the corresponding chelate tungsten(0) complex and charge-transfer complex with iodine, respectively, which were analysed by the X-ray crystallography.     

Thin-disc piezoceramic ultrasonic motor. Part II: system construction and control

Design and performance evaluation of an ultrasonic motor was discussed in [Wen et al., Thin-disc piezoelectric ultrasonic motor. Part I: design and performance evaluation, Ultrasonics]. Higher precision position control of piezoceramic ultrasonic motor depends on mechanical design and servo control of a very precise and adequate metrology. This paper proposes the design of a driving circuit and controller to deal with non-linearities behavior in the model of piezoceramic-driving ultrasonic motor. The performance of the driver and the effectiveness of the proposed controller are demonstrated by command inputs of sinusoidal and step signals. For comparison purpose, the ultrasonic motor is controlled using two methods: i.e., proportional-integral-derivative (PID) and sliding-mode control (SMC). It was proven that SMC would compensate automatically for unmodeled behaviors such as piezoceramic non-linearities and mechanical stick-slip phenomena. Furthermore, SMC scheme has been successfully applied to position tracking to demonstrate the excellent robust performance in noise rejection.     

Engineering transverse Bragg resonance waveguides for large modal volume lasers

We recently analyzed a new class of laser amplifier based on transverse Bragg reflection. We show that the unique properties of Bragg confinement make it possible through modal loss discrimination to achieve single-transverse-mode operation with transverse modal size that is an order of magnitude larger than in lasers that depend on total internal reflection for transverse confinement.     

Brillouin scattering spectrum in photonic crystal fiber with a partially germanium-doped core

The Brillouin scattering spectrum in a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) with a partially Ge-doped core is measured with a pump-probe technique at a wavelength of 1320 nm. One main peak and four subpeaks are observed. The main peak has a Lorentzian shape with the bandwidth deltanuB = 66 MHz. Its intensity is six times higher than that from a standard single-mode fiber measured under the same conditions, which is consistent with the ratio of (1/Aeff(PCF))/(1/Aeff(SMF)), where Aeff is the effective area of the fibers. The temperature coefficient for the main peak is 0.96 MHz/degrees C. We believe that the subpeaks are caused by an interaction between light-wave and guided modes of longitudinal acoustic waves in the graded-Ge-doped region, the silica region, and the microstructured cladding. An analysis of the guiding and antiguiding properties of the PCF for acoustic waves is presented.     

Marginal Distributions of Wigner Function in a Mesoscopic L-C Circuit at Finite Temperature and Thermal Wigner Operator

Wigner function in phase space has its physical meaning as marginal probability distribution in coordinate space and momentum space respectively, here we endow the Wigner function with a new physical meaning, i.e., its marginal distributions’ statistical average for q ²/(2C) and p ²/(2L) are the energy stored in capacity and in inductance of a mesoscopic L-C circuit at finite temperature, respectively. PACS numbers: 03.65.-w, 73.21.-b