Decreasing the grain boundary diffusivity in binary alloys with increasing temperature

An interfacial thermodynamic model predicts that the interplay of grain boundary (GB) premelting, prewetting, and retrograde solubility in a binary alloy can lead to a decrease in the GB diffusivity with increasing temperature. This counterintuitive prediction is experimentally confirmed for a single-phase, Mo +0.5 at.?% Ni alloy. This study calls for a reappraisal of the classical GB adsorption (segregation) theories to consider the coupling with structural disordering, and it critically supports GB premelting and prewetting theories with broad applications.     

Neighbouring carbonyl group-assisted sequential 1,2-azide and1,4-oxygen migrations of vinyl azides leading to α-azido ketones

The development of azide migration reactions is a formidable challenge due to potential competition from side processes driven by the release of molecular nitrogen. Here, we show a novel neighbouring carbonyl group-assisted sequential 1,2-azide and 1,4-oxygen migration reaction of α-vinyl azides for the efficient preparation of a range of α-azido ketones. This represents the first transformation of α-vinyl azides into α-azido ketones. Notable features of this method are its high efficiency, broad substrate scope, excellent functional group compatibility, and high yields. The computational studies gave a key insights into the regioselective 1,2-azide and 1,4-oxygen migrations assisted by the neighbouring carbonyl group. Further conversions into a variety of nitrogen-containing compounds demonstrated the synthetic utility of the α-azido ketone products. Preliminary mechanistic studies disclosed a novel reaction mechanism involving neighbouring carbonyl group-assisted sequential 1,2-azide and1,4-oxygen migrations.     

Nonlinear vibrations of electroelastic shells with relatively large shear deformations

A set of two-dimensional nonlinear equations for thin electroelastic shells in vibrations with moderately large thickness-shear deformations are obtained from the variational formulation of the three-dimensional equations of nonlinear electroelasticity by expanding the mechanical displacement vector and the electric potential into power series in the shell thickness coordinate and retaining lower order terms. As an example, the equations are used to study nonlinear thickness-shear vibrations of a circular cylindrical shell driven by an electric voltage. Nonlinear amplitude-frequency behavior of electric current near strong resonance is obtained.     

一种新的混合斑精子分离方法

制备了精子表面膜抗原受精素β蛋白(Fertilinβ)的特异性抗体,通过抗原-抗体反应和抗体固相偶联技术,将抗体连接到琼脂糖球珠上,建立了混合斑精子分离纯化的新方法.首先,通过聚合酶链式反应(PCR)扩增编码人受精素β蛋白第341~373位氨基酸的基因序列,构建PGEX-4T-1/Fertilinβ原核表达质粒;其次,诱导表达GST-Fertilinβ融合蛋白,制备受精素β蛋白多克隆抗体,免疫荧光检测结果表明,受精素β蛋白定位于精子的头后部,并且阴道上皮细胞没有受精素β蛋白的表达;最后,将受精素β抗体与ProteinA琼脂糖球珠连接构建固相抗体系统,将精子吸附于表面,可从混合斑(精子与阴道上皮细胞混合液)中分离纯化精子.本文为性犯罪案件侦破提供了新的方法.     

New Quantum MDS Code from Constacyclic Codes

In recent years, there have been intensive activities in the area of constructing quantum maximum distance separable(MDS for short) codes from constacyclic MDS codes through the Hermitian construction. In this paper, a new class of quantum MDS code is constructed, which extends the result of [Theorems 3.14–3.15, Kai, X., Zhu, S., and Li,P., IEEE Trans. on Inf. Theory, 60(4), 2014, 2080–2086], in the sense that our quantum MDS code has bigger minimum distance.