Facile Self-templating Melting Route Preparation of Biomass-derived Hierarchical Porous Carbon for Advanced Supercapacitors

Biomass-derived porous carbons show great potential as electrode materials for supercapacitors due to the environmental friendliness. However, most of the carbonaceous electrode materials suffer from low specific capaci-tance and rate capacity because of the poor porosity. Here, we reported a simple and effective approach to prepare micro/nano-hierarchical structured carbon materials derived from rice husk by NaOH-KOH molten salt co-activation. The as-prepared activated carbons exhibit high porosity and suitable pore size distributions for more electrolyte ion adsorption, which are all beneficial for achieving remarkable electrochemical performances, such as high specific capacitance(194.6 F/g), excellent rate capability(retention of 85.9%) and outstanding cycling stability. Thus, the above biomass-derived carbon materials with high porosity and micro/nano structures obtained by co-activation method offered a new insight into novel electrode material for the use in energy storage systems with high energy density and excellent rate performance.     

Electroless nickel plating on optical fiber probe

As a component of near-field scanning optical microscope （NSOM）, optical fiber probe is an important factor influncing the equipment resolution. Electroless nickel plating is introduced to metallize the optical fiber probe. The optical fibers are etched by 40% HF with Turner etching method. Through pretreatment, the optical fiber probe is coated with Ni-P film by electroless plating in a constant temperature water tank. Atomic absorption spectrometry （AAS）, scanning electron microscopy （SEM）, and energy dispersive X-ray spectrometry （EDXS） are carried out to characterize the deposition on fiber probe. We have reproducibly fabricated two kinds of fiber probes with a Ni-P film： aperture probe and apertureless probe. In addition, reductive particle transportation on the surface of fiber probe is proposed to explain the cause of these probes.     

Thermokinetic studies of the groups on TiO2 surface

The properties of groups on TiO₂ surface were evaluated by infrared (IR) spectra and thermal analysis. It could be found that water and ethanol are removed mainly between 343 and 363 K and the process is accompanied by an endothermic change. The results also show that ethanol could be removed completely below 673 K and the physically bonded or hydrogen‐bonded water could be removed almost completely above 873 K. The exothermic peaks ranging from 573 to 773 K are caused by the changes that chemisorbed water (Ti‐O‐H) on the surface condenses and evolves into water. There appears broad and unstable endothermic process in all temperature ranges due to the adhesions or transformations among the crystal particles. Thermogravimetry (TG) results show that with heat treatment at increasing temperatures, the groups on TiO₂ surface decreases gradually. The half peak breadth of X‐ray diffractometer (XRD) results suggest that TiO₂ crystallize better with higher temperature calcination. The photo‐catalytic efficiency was evaluated by UV‐Vis spectrophotometer. TiO₂ with heat treatment at higher temperature shows more effective photo‐catalytic property. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Synthesis and Crystal Structures of Spiro[1,3-Dihydroperimidine-2,9′-Fluorene] and its Co-Crystal with 9-Fluorenone

Abstract  

The crystal structures of the new compounds spiro[1,3-dihydroperimidine-2,9′-fluorene] (1), and co-crystal (2) consists of 1 and 9-fluorenone were obtained by single crystal X-ray diffraction. Compound 1 crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pbca, with lattice parameters: a = 14.914(9) ?, b = 16.2126(8) ?, c = 26.4850(14) ? and Z = 16. Co-crystal 2 crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group Pca2(1), with lattice parameters: a = 18.0732(9) ?, b = 7.7216(4) ?, c = 17.8262(9) ? and Z = 4. Details of the synthesis, structures, thermal and spectroscopic properties of the new compounds are discussed.     

Comprehensive theoretical studies on the low-lying electronic states of NiF, NiCl, NiBr, and NiI

The low-lying electronic states of the nickel monohalides, i.e., NiF, NiCl, NiBr, and NiI, are investigated by using multireference second-order perturbation theory with relativistic effects taken into account. For the energetically lowest 11 lambda-S states and 26 omega states there into, the potential energy curves and corresponding spectroscopic constants (vertical and adiabatic excitation energies, equilibrium bond lengths, vibrational frequencies, and rotational constants) are reported. The calculated results are grossly in very good agreement with those solid experimental data. In particular, the ground state of NiI is shown to be different from those of NiF, NiCl, and NiBr, being in line with the recent experimental observation. Detailed analyses are provided on those states that either have not been assigned or have been incorrectly assigned by previous experiments.     

Hydrodynamic behavior of an internally circulating fluidized bed with tubular gas distributors

To better understand the hydrodynamic behavior of an internally circulating fluidized bed, solids holdup in the down-comer （Eso）, solids circulation rate （Gs） and gas bypassing fraction （from down-comer to riser y~R, and from riser to down-comer yRD） were experimentally studied. The effects of gas velocities in the riser and in the down-comer （UR and UD）, orifice diameter in the draft tube （dor）, and draft tube height （HR） were investigated. Experimental results showed that increase of gas velocities led to increase in Gs and yDR, and slight decrease in yeD. Larger orifice diameter on the draft tube led to higher 8sD, Gs and yDR, but had insignificant influence on YRD. with increasing draft tube height, both Gs and YDR first increased and then decreased, while yRD first decreased and then increased. Proposed correlations for predicting the hydrodynamic parameters agreed reasonably well with experimental values.     

有限深抛物势量子环类氢杂质能级

在有效质量近似下,用微扰法研究InAs量子环内类氢杂质基态及低激发态的能级.受限势采用有限深抛物型势,在二维平面极坐标下,用薛定谔方程的解析解计算.数值结果显示:在抛物势平台区,类氢杂质能级不随电子径向坐标改变,并具有二维氢原子能级的特征;在有限深抛物势区,电子能级敏感地依赖于量子环半径,能级存在极小值,这是由于限制势采用抛物势的结果.如果减小环的半径,可以增加能级间距;简并能级发生分裂并且间距随半径增大而增大,第一激发态的简并没有消除,第二激发态的简并被部分地消除.本文结果对研究量子环的光跃迁及光谱结构有指导意义.     

一种基于效率矩阵的网络节点重要度评价算法

为了实现对网络节点重要性的有效评价,提出一种基于网络效率矩阵的节点重要度评价算法.该方法综合考虑节点的度值(局部重要度)和网络节点之间的重要性贡献(全局重要度),利用节点的度和效率矩阵表征网络节点的重要度贡献,克服重要性贡献矩阵法中节点只依赖于邻接节点的不足.考虑实际网络的稀疏性,该算法的时间复杂度为O(n²).通过算例分析验证了该算法的可行性和有效性,结果表明:该算法能够更加直观、简单有效地区分节点的重要度差异,并且对于大型复杂网络具有较理想的计算能力.     

双水杨醛缩乙二胺合铜(Ⅱ)席夫碱金属配合物的合成及应用

合成了双水杨醛缩乙二胺合铜(Ⅱ)[Cu(Ⅱ)-EDBSAD]席夫碱金属配合物,并以该配合物为中性载体制备PVC膜电极,该电极对SCN-具有优良的电位响应特性,在pH=5.5磷酸盐缓冲溶液中,SCN-浓度在1.0×10-1～1.0×10-7 mol/L之间具有能斯特响应,校准曲线方程为Ｅ(mV)＝-51.75lg cSCN--255.29,检测下限为5.6×10-8 mol/L。 将电极用于废水中硫氰酸盐含量的测定,结果与高效液相色谱法基本一致。     

Three New Compounds Based on 4,4'-Azo-1,2,4-triazol-5-one: Synthesis,Crystal Structure and Thermal Properties

A series of guanidine salts of 4,4'-azo-1,2,4-triazol-5-one with guanidine(1), aminoguanidine(2), diaminoguanidine(3) and triaminoguanidine(4) was prepared. Compounds 2-4 were characterized by infrared(IR) spectroscopy, elemental analysis and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Thermal decomposition processes of compounds 1-4 were investigated by differential scanning calorimetry(DSC), and all the compounds showed good thermal stability up to 190℃. Moreover, these four guanidine salts are more unstable with the increasing number of amino groups. Thermal stability parameters(T_e,0 and T_b) and thermodynamic functions(ΔS^≠, ΔH^≠ and ΔG^≠) for compounds 1-4 were calculated. The constant-volume combustion heats(Δ_cU) for compounds 2-4 were determined and tended to increase with the increase of the number of amino groups. The calculated standard molar enthalpies of formation(Δ_fH⁰m) of compounds 2-4 are -541.04, -178.67 and -83.08 kJ/mol, respectively. The impact sensitivities results indicate that these four energetic salts are less sensitive than 1,3,5-trinitrotriazacyccohexane(RDX) and 1,3,5,7-tetranitrotetraqza-cyclo-octane(HMX).