X-ray-diffraction approach for studies on fatigue and creep

It is well known that X-ray diffraction is one of the most powerful means for investigating the microscopic structure of crystalline materials. X-ray diffraction is advantageous when it is applied to metallic materials; it responds very sensitively to changes in the metal's crystalline structure. Another characteristic advantage of the X-ray-diffraction approach is its nondestructive nature in the measurement of crystalline-material parameters, enabling us to observe the process of mechanical phenomena of metals, such as fatigue and creep. The X-ray-diffraction patterns obtained on a deformed material include a great deal of information covering the microscopic and macroscopic characters consistent with the nature of the existing material. Residual stress measured by means of X ray is called the macroscopic-material parameter. It is evaluated by measuring the shift of the peak of a diffraction profile. The diffusiveness of the profile corresponds to the irregularity in microscopic structure of deformed crystalline material and it is noted as the submacroscopic material parameter. The X-ray-microbeam diffraction technique supplies information on the change in microscopic structure such as subgrain size, misorientation and microlattice strain. Profile analysis is another way to evaluate the microscopic-material parameters: particle size and microscopic strain. By appropriately combining these techniques in the study of mechanical behavior of materials, the parameters that control the phenomena may be extracted to facilitate discussion of their mechanism. In this lecture, X-ray-diffraction techniques to evaluate the macroscopic, submacroscopic and microscopic-material parameters are presented and the approach is demonstrated by exhibiting a case of studies on fatigue and creep of carbon steels at room and elevated temperature, where phenomena are discussed in terms of the change in the material parameters. Initiation and propagation of fatigue crack in steel at room temperature, the change in microstructure during isothermal and thermal fatigue, and also that in creep at elevated temperature under variational load are presented.     

Biography of Nobel laureate Shuji Nakamura

Shuji Nakamura discovered p‐type doping in Gallium Nitride (GaN) and developed blue, green, and white “InGaN‐based” light emitting diodes (LEDs) and blue laser diodes (LDs). His inventions made possible energy efficient, solid‐state lighting systems and enabled the next generation of optical storage. In this biography, Shuji Nakamura tells the story of his personal life and his scientific career.

     

A Convenient Synthesis of Aromatic-Ring-Substituted Diacetylenes

A simple and convenient way for the preparation of symmetrical diarylbutadiynes 5 with improved yields is reported (Scheme 2). The reaction time is drastically reduced using this method compared to previously reported procedures.     

Discrimination of ethylene/vinyl acetate copolymers with different composition and prediction of the content of vinyl acetate in the copolymers and their melting points by near-infrared spectroscopy and chemometrics

Near-infrared (NIR) diffuse reflectance spectra have been measured by use of a rotating drawer for pellets of 12 kinds of ethylene/vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymers with vinyl acetate (VA, the comonomer) varying in the 7–44 wt % range. They are unambiguously discriminated from one another by a score plot of the principal component analysis (PCA) Factor 1 and 2, based upon the NIR spectra pretreated by multiplicative scatter correction (MSC). Principal component (PC) weight loadings for Factor 1 show that the discrimination relies largely upon bands due to the overtone and combination modes arising from the VA unit. We have found one “outlier” in the score plot and elucidated its spectral characteristics based upon PC weight loadings for Factor 2. Partial least-squares (PLS) regression has been applied to propose calibration models which predict the VA content in EVA. The models have been prepared for three kinds of pretreatment, the first derivative, the second derivative, and MSC; and four kinds of wavelength regions. The NIR spectra in the 1100–2200 nm region after the MSC treatment has given the best correlation coefficient and standard error of prediction (SEP) of 0.998 and 0.70%, respectively. The calibration models, prepared by NIR diffuse reflectance spectroscopy for the pellet samples, are compared with previously reported models by NIR transmission spectroscopy for the flowing molten samples, and with those by Raman spectroscopy for the pellet samples. PLS regression has also allowed us to predict melting points of the copolymers with the correlation coefficient and SEP of 0.997 and 0.78°C, respectively. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Polym Sci B: Polym Phys 36: 1529–1537, 1998     

基于非周期多层膜的X射线成像研究

设计了惯性约束聚变（ICF）诊断实验用X射线Kirkpatrick-Baez（KB）显微镜,给出了系统的结构参量.使用ZEMAX光学软件对KB型显微镜进行了性能模拟,结果表明：在8 keV能点,放大率为8倍时,轴上点的最佳空间分辨率小于2 μm,200微米视场的空间分辨率优于10μm.采用磁控溅射方法制备了W/B4C非周期多层膜,经X射线衍射仪（XRD,工作能量8 keV）测量,其反射率为20％,带宽为0.3°,达到了KB型显微镜成像系统的要求.使用Cu靶X射线管进行了成像实验,得到了放大倍数分别为1倍和2倍的一维X射线像.     

Studies on Epitaxial Polymerization of 1,3-Bis （3-quinolyl）- 1,4-butadiyne

During investigating what causes the low yield of the polymerization product of 1,4-bis (quinolyl)-1, 3-butadiyne (DQ), we found that the DQ crystals formed on the surface of PDQ cauld be polymerized to give blue crystals, in which DQ could be sublimated and crystallized on the surface of PDQ film. According to the experimental results, the reason why the DQ crystals can be polymerized is that the sublimation of DQ changes the molecular orientation of DQ in the crystal. The crystals formed in epitaxial growth on the surface of DQ or PDQ during sublimation of DQ are suitable for 1,4-addition polymerization.     

Preparation of a uniform poly(methyl methacrylate) macromonomer and its polymerization

Syndiotactic poly(methyl methacrylate) (st-PMMA) macromonomer having methacryloyl end group was prepared from st-PMMA living anion and separated into uniform macromonomers by means of supercritical fluid chromatography. A uniform macromonomer with the degree of polymerization of 32 was polymerized radically in benzene at 60°C. The uniform dimer, trimer and tetramer of the uniform macromonomer were isolated from the polymerization product by means of gel-permeation chromatography (GPC). The intrinsic viscosity ([η]) in tetrahydrofuran of these uniform comblike polymers was determined by GPC/differential viscometric analysis. The plot of logarithmic [η] against logarithmic molecular weight indicated that the trimer and tetramer assume a little shrinking molecular shape as compared with the unimer and dimer.     

Heterogeneity of active species in metallocene catalysts

From a detailed analysis of poly[ethylene-co-(1-hexene)] obtained with typical metallocene catalysts, it was found that metallocene catalysts give two kinds of copolymers which differ in crystallinity. It may be thus plausible to assume that there are two kinds of active species in metallocene catalysts.     

(K,Mo)Y分子筛中钼组分的EXAFS研究

应用同步辐射Eextended X-ray Ab sorption Fine S tructure(EXAFS)技术研究固态法制备的KHMoY分子筛的氧化态和硫化态样品以及硫化态KHY／MoO3样品中钼组分的局域配位环境结构,并与KHMoY和KHY／MoO3 样品催化加氢活性结果进行对照。结果表明,随原子比（K＋2Mo）／Al的变化,钼原子周围的配位环境有显著的差异。当（K＋2Mo）／Al时,KHMoY和KHY/MoO3硫化后,钼组分主要以MoS2小原子簇分散在分子筛超笼中;（K＋2Mo)/Al>1时,钼组分则有两种存在环境,即分子筛超笼中的和分子筛外表的钼组分。分子筛超笼中的Mo S2原子簇的催化加氢合成醇选择性较高;分子筛外表面的MoS2微小颗粒的尺寸相对于超笼中的要大许多,其合成醇选择 性较低。