Design of a Fully Non-Fused Bulk Heterojunction toward Efficient and Low-Cost Organic Photovoltaics

To modulate the miscibility between donor and acceptor materials both possessing fully non-fused ring structures, a series of electron acceptors (A4T-16, A4T-31 and A4T-32) with different polar functional substituents were synthesized and investigated. The three acceptors show good planarity, high conformational stability, complementary absorption and energy levels with the non-fused polymer donor (PTVT-BT). Among them, A4T-32 possesses the strongest polar functional group and shows the highest surface energy, which facilitates morphological modulation in the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) blend. Benefiting from the proper morphology control method, an impressive power conversion efficiency (PCE) of approaching 16.0 % and a superior fill factor over 0.795 are achieved in the PTVT-BT : A4T-32-based organic photovoltaic cells with superior photoactive materials price advantage, which represent the highest value for the cells based on the non-fused blend films. Notably, this cell maintains ≈84 % of its initial PCE after nearly 2000 h under the continuous simulated 1-sun-illumination. In addition, the flexible PTVT-BT : A4T-32-based cells were fabricated and delivered a decent PCE of 14.6 %. This work provides an effective molecular design strategy for the non-fused non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs) from the aspect of bulk morphology control in fully non-fused BHJ layers, which is crucial for their practical applications.     

Systemic Risk and Stochastic Games with Delay

We propose a model of inter-bank lending and borrowing which takes into account clearing debt obligations. The evolution of log-monetary reserves of banks is described by coupled diffusions driven by controls with delay in their drifts. Banks are minimizing their finite-horizon objective functions which take into account a quadratic cost for lending or borrowing and a linear incentive to borrow if the reserve is low or lend if the reserve is high relative to the average capitalization of the system. As such, our problem is a finite-player linear–quadratic stochastic differential game with delay. An open-loop Nash equilibrium is obtained using a system of fully coupled forward and advanced-backward stochastic differential equations. We then describe how the delay affects liquidity and systemic risk characterized by a large number of defaults. We also derive a closed-loop Nash equilibrium using a Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman partial differential equation approach.     

金属醇盐法制备Ta2O5气凝胶

 以乙醇钽为前驱物,采用金属醇盐溶胶-凝胶技术,获得了Ta₂O₅湿凝胶,分析了不同条件下的溶胶-凝胶过程,并初步探讨了凝胶过程机理。Ta₂O₅的溶胶-凝胶过程主要受到水量、催化剂用量及钽源浓度等因素的影响：体系在强酸性条件下凝胶,且随着酸性的增强,体系凝胶时间明显缩短;当水量较少时,凝胶时间随水量的增加而增加,但当水量增加到一定程度时,体系凝胶时间基本不变;实验证明,通过增大溶剂用量,体系凝胶时间延长,气凝胶理论密度降低。通过对溶胶-凝胶过程的控制,结合超临界干燥技术,获得了密度低至44 mg/cm³的Ta₂O₅气凝胶样品。     

Breaking chaotic shift key communication via adaptive key identification

This paper proposes an adaptive parameter identification method for breaking chaotic shift key communication from the transmitted signal in public channel. The sensitive dependence property of chaos on parameter mismatch is used for chaos adaptive synchronization and parameter identification. An index function about the synchronization error is defined and conjugate gradient method is used to minimize the index function and to search the transmitter's parameter (key). By using proposed method, secure key is recovered from transmitted signal generated by low dimensional chaos and hyper chaos switching communication. Multi-parameters can also be identified from the transmitted signal with noise.     

Comparative assessment of multiresponse regression methods for predicting the mechanisms of toxic action of phenols

The use of regression methods for classifying and predicting the mechanisms of toxic action of phenols was investigated in this study. Multiresponse regression was conducted using a total of six linear and nonlinear regression methods: simple linear regression (LinReg), logistic regression (LogReg), generalized additive model (GAM), locally weighted regression scatter plot smoothing (LOWESS), multivariate adaptive regression splines (MARS), and projection pursuit regression (PPR). A database containing phenols acting by four mechanisms (polar narcosis, weak acid respiratory uncoupling, proelectrophilicity, and soft electrophilicity) was used to assess the performances of the six regression methods in the multiresponse regression approach. For comparison purposes, traditional linear discriminant analysis (LDA) was also conducted as a baseline method to study the potential improvement of prediction accuracy by the multiresponse regression approach. Results showed that compared to LDA, the overall mechanism prediction error rate could be reduced to below 10% by multiresponse regression based on PPR. In addition to prediction accuracy, interpretability of the resultant models was discussed.     

两类K_4同胚图的色唯一性

用k4(a ,b ,c ,d ,e,f)表示k4 同胚图 ,其中a ,b ,c ,d ,e,f分别表示度为 3的顶点间的道路的长 .本文主要研究了两类k4 同胚图的色唯一性 ,同时得到了几族新的不是色唯一的k4 同胚图     

Switchable dielectric permittivity with temperature and Dc-bias in a semifluorinated azobenzene derivative

The thermodynamic, optical, structural, and dynamic properties of the semifluorinated (E)-1-(4-octylphenyl)-2-(4-(perfluorooctyl)phenyl)diazene (4) and the corresponding (E)-1,2-bis(4-octylphenyl)diazene (5) have been studied with differential scanning calorimetry, polarizing optical microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and dielectric spectroscopy. 4 combines the azobenzene properties with the fluorophobic effect and gives rise to a responsive material with a temperature and dc-bias-driven switchable dielectric permittivity within the narrower nematic phase. This is caused by the nematic potential that inevitably brings some fluorocarbon chains in proximity to the hydrocarbon chains from adjacent molecules. Frustration is alleviated by reducing the nematic-to-isotropic transition temperature and by increasing the crystalline-to-nematic transition temperature, thus limiting the stability of the nematic phase. Unlike the normal isotropic phase of compound 5, the isotropic phase of compound 4 contains dipoles with short-range orientation correlations. Optimizing the type of interactions may result in materials with applications as molecular switches and electrooptic devices.     

不同形态阴离子的高效毛细管电泳的间接紫外检测

本文研究了用毛细管电泳紫外间接检测法对几种阴离子不同形态进行分析。     

Synthesis of Derivatives of Pyrido[4,3‐d]pyrimidin‐4(3H)‐one via an Iminophosphorane

A series of new, 2‐substituted 3‐aryl‐8,9,10,11‐tetrahydro‐5‐methyl[1]benzothieno[3′,2′ : 5,6]pyrido[4,3‐d]pyrimidin‐4(3H)‐ones, compounds 5a – q , were designed and synthesized via the aza‐Wittig reaction as the key step. The iminophosphorane 1 reacted with phenyl isocyanate (or 4‐chlorophenyl isocyanate) to the carbodiimide 4 , which was cyclized to 5 upon addition of different amines, EtOH, or phenols in the presence of a catalytic amount of EtONa or K₂CO₃ (Schemes 1 and 2). The structures of compounds 5 were confirmed by IR, ¹H‐ and ¹³C‐NMR, EI‐MS, elemental analyses, and, in the case of 5l , by single‐crystal X‐ray diffraction (Figure).     

Catalytic properties of a (A=Ba, Ca, Sr and Y) modified lanthanum hexaaluminates for catalytic combustion of methane

A series of hexaaluminates, La_0.8A_0.2MnAl₁₁O_19−δ samples (A = Ba, Ca, Sr and Y) as new catalysts were prepared by carbonate precipitation and calcined at high temperature. The structure and properties of these samples were characterized by XRD, BET and XPS techniques. Upon calcination at 1200°C, the hexaaluminate structure was formed and it retained the specific surface area of 17∼20 m²g⁻¹. The La_0.8Ca_0.2MnAl₁₁O_19−δ catalyst has a surface area of 19.3 m²g⁻¹ and shows a good activity in CH₄ combustion.