Visualizing electronic chirality and Berry phases in graphene systems using photoemission with circularly polarized light

Electronic chirality near the Dirac point is a key property of graphene systems, which is revealed by the spectral intensity patterns as measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy under various polarization conditions. Specifically, the strongly modulated circular patterns for monolayer (bilayer) graphene rotate by ±90° (±45°) in changing from linearly to circularly polarized light; these angles are directly related to the phases of the wave functions and thus visually confirm the Berry's phase of π (2π) around the Dirac point. The details are verified by calculations.     

Tea polyphenols as a novel reaction-type electrolyte additive in lithium-ion batteries

In this study, we reported tea polyphenols (TP) as a novel, cheap, environment-friendly and easy dissolution in common electrolytes reaction-type electrolyte additive for the graphite anode of the lithium-ion batteries. The TP can capture less stable radical anions that are harmful to oxidation stability of ethylene carbonate (EC) to form stable polymer. To a certain extent, it improved the electrochemical performance of the graphite electrode such as reversible capacity and cyclic stability by charge-discharge test, cyclic voltammetry (CV), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and electrochemical impedance microscope (EIS). The first charge capacities of the graphite electrodes in electrolytes without and with TP were 327.1 and 349.1 mAh g^?1, respectively. The charge capacities were 306.8 and 344.2 mAh g^?1 after 100 cycles and the capacity retention were 93.79 and 98.60%, respectively. The improvement was benefited from the effective scavenging the less stable radical anions and improvement the oxidation stability of EC and formation of a stable, compact and thin solid electrolyte interface (SEI) film with lower resistance.     

Prediction of mixed-mode fracture based on an elasto–plastic energy balance criterion

The maximum energy release rate criterion, i.e., G _max criterion, is commonly used for crack propagation analysis. This fracture criterion is based on the elastic macroscopic strength of materials. In the present investigation, however, the G _max criterion has been modified in order to accommodate the consideration of plastic strain energy. This modified criterion is extended to study the fatigue crack growth characteristics of mixed-mode cracks. To predict crack propagation due to fatigue loads, a new elasto–plastic energy model is presented. This new model includes the effects of material properties such as strain hardening exponent n, yield strength σ _y , and fracture toughness and stress intensity factor ranges. The results obtained are compared with those obtained using the commonly employed crack growth law and the experimental data.     

Experimental study and electromechanical model analysis of the nonlinear deformation behavior of IPMC actuators

This paper develops analytical electromechanical formulas to predict the mechanical deformation of ionic polymer–metal composite(IPMC) cantilever actuators under DC excitation voltages. In this research, IPMC samples with Pt and Ag electrodes were manufactured, and the large nonlinear deformation and the effect of curvature on surface electrode resistance of the IPMC samples were investigated experimentally and theoretically. A distributed electrical model was modified for calculating the distribution of voltage along the bending actuator. Then an irreversible thermodynamic model that could predict the curvature of a unit part of an IPMC actuator is combined with the electrical model so that an analytical electromechanical model is developed. The electromechanical model is then validated against the experimental results obtained from Pt-and Ag-IPMC actuators under various excitation voltages. The good agreement between the electromechanical model and the actuators shows that the analytical electromechanical model can accurately describe the large nonlinear quasi-static deflection behavior of IPMC actuators.     

Implicit Function Theorems for Nondifferentiable Mappings

Sufficient conditions are given for a mapping to be γ-G inverse differentiable. Constrained implicit function theorems for γ-G inverse differentiable mappings are obtained, where the constraint is taken to be either a closed convex cone or a closed subset. A theorem without assuming the γ-G inverse differentiability in a finite-dimensional space is also presented. Communicated by F. A. Potra The author thanks the referees for valuable suggestions concerning the presentation of this paper. He also thanks Professor J. R. L. Webb and Dr. M. French for help.     

A note on regularity for a class of quasilinear elliptic equations

The following regularity of weak solutions of a class of elliptic equations of the form are investigated.     

带干扰的多险种风险模型的破产概率

将多险种风险模型推广到带干扰项的一种新模型,讨论了收益过程的性质,并利用鞅的方法得出了破产概率所满足的Lundberg不等式及其一般公式.     

非线性光学中薛定谔型方程的整体吸引子

研究了一类非线性薛定谔型方程,描述了光波在光折射晶体中的传播.首先构造了该模型整体弱的吸引子,然后通过能量方程的精确分析,证明整体弱吸引子实际为系统整体强吸引子.最后给出了整体吸引子的分形维数和Hausdorff维数的上界估计.     

Some results on fractionaln-factor-critical graphs

A simple graphG is said to be fractionaln-factor-critical if after deleting anyn vertices the remaining subgraph still has a fractional perfect matching. For fractionaln-factor-criticality, in this paper, one necessary and sufficient condition, and three sufficient conditions related to maximum matching, complete closure are given.     

Cauchy-type integral formula and Plemelj formula of hypermonogenic functions on unbounded domains

In this paper, we discuss the Cauchy-type integral formula of hypermonogenic functions on unbounded domains in real Clifford analysis, then we extend the Plemelj formula and Cauchy–Pompeiu formula of hypermonogenic functions on bounded domains to unbounded domains. We also deal with the Green-type formula on unbounded domains and get several important corollaries.