The solubility of nano-sized metal oxides (nZnO, nCuO, nTiO2, nCeO2, and nFe3O4, 17–42 nm) and some non-nano-mineral powders (ZnO, ZnSiO3, ZnS, and CuO) were evaluated by using gastrointestinal solubility bioavailability research consortium (SBRC), in vitro gastrointestinal (IVG) method, pulmonary artificial lysosomal fluid (ALF), and Gamble solution method, respectively. It is found that these nano-sized metal oxides aggregated more or less when suspending in the simulated biological fluids analyzed by dynamic light scattering (2 mg L?1) and UV-Vis spectrometry (100 mg L?1). The aggregation and sedimentation of nano-metal oxides in a simulated biofluid are influenced by its surface property and the ingredient of the liquid. The dissolution in fluids may decrease the aggregating radius of a nano-metal oxide. In return, the aggregative effect can influence the solubility of metal elements and result in their weakened bioaccessibility. The suspending stability was consistent in the order of nFe3O4 < nCuO < nTiO2 < nCeO2 < nZnO in all the simulated biological fluids. Nano-ZnO and nCuO showed higher gastrointestinal and pulmonary bioaccessibility than nFe3O4, nTiO2, and nCeO2. The further comparisons on the bioaccessibility for nCuO and nZnO with non-nano-powder CuO and ZnO indicated that the aggregating size in suspension could play more important role in influencing the bioaccessibility than single particle size does. The present study reveals that aggregation of all studied nano-sized metal oxides occurred in body physiologic fluids and that nZnO and nCuO were easily dissolved in simulated physiologic fluids, suggesting more potential health risks from nZnO and nCuO’s exposure.
Small amounts of an impurity may affect the key properties of an ionic liquid and such effects can be dramatically amplified when the electrolyte is under confinement. Here the classical density functional theory is employed to investigate the impurity effects on the microscopic structure and the performance of ionic-liquid-based electrical double-layer capacitors, also known as supercapacitors. Using a primitive model for ionic species, we study the effects of an impurity on the double layer structure and the integral capacitance of a room temperature ionic liquid in model electrode pores and find that an impurity strongly binding to the surface of a porous electrode can significantly alter the electric double layer structure and dampen the oscillatory dependence of the capacitance with the pore size of the electrode. Meanwhile, a strong affinity of the impurity with the ionic species affects the dependence of the integral capacitance on the pore size. Up to 30% increase in the integral capacitance can be achieved even at a very low impurity bulk concentration. By comparing with an ionic liquid mixture containing modified ionic species, we find that the cooperative effect of the bounded impurities is mainly responsible for the significant enhancement of the supercapacitor performance. 相似文献
This paper investigates the robust sliding-mode control (SMC) problem for a class of uncertain switched systems with a time delay. The design process of sliding-mode control is divided into two steps. First, a sliding surface is constructed such that the reduced-order equivalent sliding mode restricted to the sliding surface is completely invariant to all admissible uncertainties under switching laws with an average dwell-time property. Second, variable structure controllers are developed to drive the states of the switched delay system to reach the sliding surface in finite time and remain on it thereafter. Finally, a numerical example is given to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method. 相似文献
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The effect of Co on the thermal stability and impact toughness of sintered Nd–Fe–B magnets has been investigated. The results showed that the addition of Co decreased the intrinsic coercivity and the temperature coefficient of remanence (α), and increased the temperature coefficient of coercivity (β) for sintered Nd–Fe–B magnets. The impact toughness of sintered Nd–Fe–B magnets with the addition of Co first decreases, reaches a minimum, and then starts to increase. The possible reasons for increasing the temperature coefficients of coercivity (β) for sintered Nd–Fe–B magnets were analyzed, and the relations between the microstructure and impact toughness of sintered Nd–Fe–B magnets were studied. 相似文献