INTERACTION CURVES OF LINEARLY INTENSIFYING POLYMERIC MATERIALS UNDER TENSILE-TORSIONAL STRESS

Theoretical and experimental research has been performed on the interaction curves and stress paths of crystallinepolymeric materials PE and POM under tensile-torsional stress with a linearly intensifying model and in terms of the yield points undergoing Von Mises criterion.     

Studies on the structure-activity relationship of delta-sleep inducing peptide

DSIP and its fourteen analogs as well as three short peptides were synthesized by solid phase method. The design of the analogs was based on the consideration of the introduction of D-amino acid into the molecules to inhibit the enzymatic hydrolysis and the introduction of amino acids with a hydrophobic side chain. The modification was placed on the position of 1, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9, e.g. D- Trp¹, Tyr¹, Tyr¹ Phe⁵, D-Trp¹ Phe⁸, Trp^3,4, D-Trp^1,3,4 Phe⁸, D-Trp3^,4 Phe⁸ D-Glu⁹, D-pF-Phe^3,4 Phe⁸ D-Glu⁹, Phe⁵, Glu⁵ Asp⁹, Tyr⁶ Asp⁹, Asp⁹ and Ala⁷-DSIP as well as Trp-Ala-Gly-Gly-Asp, Trp-Ala-Gly-Gly-Glu and Trp-Gly-Glu. DSIP and Phe⁵-DSIP were also prepared by pentafluorophenyl ester method. The purity of the synthetic peptides was checked by amino acid analysis, elemental analysis, thin layer chromatography and paper electrophoresis. The biological assay showed that the analogs of D-Trp¹, Tyr¹, Tyr¹ Phe⁵ and Ala⁷-DSIP as well as three short peptides were inactive whereas Phe⁵-DSIP showed similar activity as that of synthetic DSIP.     

Poly(methyl methacrylate)/silica nanocomposite fibers by electrospinning

Uniform poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/silica nanocomposite fibers containing up to 20 wt % silica were prepared by electrospinning. The electrospun solutions were prepared by mixing a solution of PMMA in dimethyl formamide (DMF) with colloidal silica in methyl ethyl ketone (MEK). The average fiber diameter decreases from 2.49 μm to 1.69 μm when 20 wt % silica is incorporated as a result of considerably increased solution conductivity, although the solution viscosity increases significantly, which should result in opposite effect. Thinner fibers (down to 350 nm) can be obtained by changing DMF/MEK proportion and by the addition of an ammonium salt. Nano‐sized silica particles (10–40 nm) distributes homogeneously in the fibers, as revealed by transmission electron microscopy. Furthermore, the incorporation of silica nanoparticles can change the thermal properties and surface wettability of the fiber mats. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 47: 1211–1218, 2009     

Pressure‐Induced Emission Enhancement of a Series of Dicyanovinyl‐Substituted Aromatics: Pressure Tuning of the Molecular Population with Different Conformations

A series of dicyanovinyl‐substituted aromatic compounds (Ar‐DCV; Ar=9‐anthracenyl, 1‐naphthyl, 1‐pyrenyl) with dual fluorescence are prepared, and their emission properties—when molecularly dispersed in a polymer medium—are investigated under pressure perturbation. The total emission intensity is enhanced drastically from ambient pressure up to 70 kbar. Emission 30–107 times more intense than that at ambient pressure is observed at higher pressure. In dual emission, the enhancement of the local excited state (LE state) is significantly different from that of the intramolecular charge‐transfer state (ICT state). The intensity of the ICT emission increases faster (30–370 times) than that of the LE emission (less than 20 times). In accordance with spectroscopic data, emission dynamics at different pressures, and computational studies on the molecular conformations of these compounds, a kinetic model is proposed to explain the effect of pressure on the emissive properties of the Ar‐DCV compounds from the point of view of pressure‐dependent populations of the species in the ground state.     

Monte Carlo simulation of spin-wave excitation for the magnetic films with structure and interaction fluctuations

Monte Carlo simulation studies are performed to examine influence of structure and interaction fluctuations on magnetic properties of a ferromagnetic system modelled with a Heisenberg Hamiltonian. It is found that the spontaneous magnetization at low temperature for the multilayered films decreases with temperature in a Bloch law of spin-wave excitations. Both Bloch coefficient B and exponent b vary evidently because of a strong surface and size effect in the finite magnetic films with free boundaries. For the disordered bulk FCC magnet with periodic boundary, the Bloch T^3/2 law is followed at low temperature and B is greatly influenced by the structure and interaction fluctuations. At the same time, Bloch coefficient B of the amorphous magnet with the coordination and interaction fluctuations has been derived. The simulated results are in good agreement with the theoretical predictions of spin-wave excitation, and explain the experimental facts well.     

Q和Q_B准则在Double设计中的应用

一阶回归模型通常用来从众多因子当中筛选出效应显著的因子,而Q和QB准则能够比较简单地从众多合格的拟合子模型中找出最优设计.因此本文主要探讨了极大模型为一阶回归模型时,初始设计d分别与Double设计d dd-d,完全反转设计d-d,设计dd11-dd22之间的关系,以及它们在Q和QB准则下的最优性关系.     

Boundedness of Solutions in Asymmetric Oscillations via the Twist Theorem

In this paper we consider the boundedness of all the solutions for the equation x″ + ax ⁺−bx ⁻ = f(t) is a smooth 2π-periodic function, a and b are positive constants (a≠b). Received November 27, 1998, Accepted October 15, 1999     

Numerical simulations on the formation of laser speckles with nanofluids

Our recent work revealed that speckles can be formed when nanofluids containing a proper volume fraction of nanoparticles are illuminated by a monochromatic laser beam [Qian M, Liu J, Yan M-S, Shen Z-H, Lu J, Ni XW, et al. Investigation on utilizing laser speckle velocimetry to measure the velocities of nanoparticles in nanofluids. Opt Express 2006; 14: 7559–66]. In this paper, two different physical models are established to figure out the speckle-formation mechanism. The photon–nanoparticle-collision model emphasizes the random collisions between photons and nanoparticles, and Monte Carlo method is used to simulate how the incident photons move in the vessel containing nanofluids. However, in the electric-dipole model, each illuminated nanoparticle becomes an electric dipole and sends out scattering lights, and the coherent addition of the scattering lights from nanoparticles is numerically calculated. Finally, from the numerical results, the speckle-formation mechanism is figured out.