Understanding energetic disorder in electron-deficient-core-based non-fullerene solar cells

Recent advances in material design for organic solar cells(OSCs) are primarily focused on developing near-infrared nonfullerene acceptors, typically A-DA′D-A type acceptors(where A abbreviates an electron-withdrawing moiety and D, an electron-donor moiety), to achieve high external quantum efficiency while maintaining low voltage loss. However, the charge transport is still constrained by unfavorable molecular conformations, resulting in high energetic disorder and limiting the device performance. Here, a facile design strategy is reported by introducing the "wing"(alkyl chains) at the terminal of the DA′D central core of the A-DA′D-A type acceptor to achieve a favorable and ordered molecular orientation and therefore facilitate charge carrier transport. Benefitting from the reduced disorder, the electron mobilities could be significantly enhanced for the"wing"-containing molecules. By carefully changing the length of alkyl chains, the mobility of acceptor has been tuned to match with that of donor, leading to a minimized charge imbalance factor and a high fill factor(FF). We further provide useful design strategies for highly efficient OSCs with high FF.     

Fe/Co‐based Bimetallic MOF‐derived Co3Fe7@NCNTFs Bifunctional Electrocatalyst for High‐Efficiency Overall Water Splitting

Electrocatalytic water splitting to produce hydrogen and oxygen is regarded as one of the most promising methods to generate clean and sustainable energy for replacing fossil fuels. However, the design and development of an efficient bifunctional catalyst for simultaneous generation of hydrogen and oxygen remains extremely challenging yet is critical for the practical implementation of water electrolysis. Here, we report a facile method to fabricate novel N‐doped carbon nanotube frameworks (NCNTFs) by the pyrolysis of a bimetallic metal organic framework (MIL‐88‐Fe/Co). The resultant electrocatalyst, Co₃Fe₇@NCNTFs, exhibits excellent oxygen evolution reaction (OER) activity, achieving 10 mA/cm² at a low overpotential of just 264 mV in 1 M KOH solution, and 197 mV for the hydrogen evolution reaction. The high electrocatalytic activity arises from the synergistic effect between the chemistry of the Co₃Fe₇ and the NCNTs coupled to the novel framework structure. The remarkable electrocatalytic performance of our bifunctional electrocatalyst provides a promising pathway to high‐performance overall water splitting and electrochemical energy devices.     

In-plane Operating Deflection Shape Measurement of an Aluminum Plate Using a Three-dimensional Continuously Scanning Laser Doppler Vibrometer System

Background

In-plane vibration is significant to a structure and has been accurately solved by many numerical methods; however, there are still not enough studies on its experimental measurement.

Objective

This work aims to propose a non-contact and fast way to measure dense full-field in-plane vibration of a plate structure, which has high frequencies and low response magnitudes.

Methods

A novel three-dimensional (3D) continuously scanning laser Doppler vibrometer (CSLDV) system that contains three CSLDVs is developed to conduct full-field scanning of a plate with free boundary conditions under sinusoidal excitation to measure its 3D vibrations. Calibration among the three CSLDVs in the 3D CSLDV system based on the geometrical model of its scan mirrors is conducted to adjust their rotational angles to ensure that three laser spots can continuously and synchronously move along the same two-dimensional scan trajectory on the plate. The demodulation method is used to process the measured response to obtain in-plane operating deflection shapes (ODSs) of the plate.

Results

Four in-plane ODSs are obtained in the frequency range of 0–5000 Hz. Modal assurance criterion (MAC) values between in-plane ODSs from 3D CSLDV and step-wise scanning laser Doppler vibrometer (SLDV) measurements are larger than 95%. MAC values between ODSs from 3D CSLDV measurements and corresponding mode shapes from the finite element model of the plate are larger than 91%.

Conclusions

Results from 3D CSLDV measurements have good accuracy compared to those from SLDV measurements and numerical calculation, and the 3D CSLDV system can scan much more measurement points in much less time than the SLDV system.

     

基于车桥耦合理论的梁式桥阻尼比识别研究

提出一种基于车桥耦合动力学理论的梁式桥阻尼比识别方法. 首先按照动力学理论将测试车设计为单自由度体系, 然后利用安装在测试车上的传感器采集信号, 从测试车与桥梁接触点响应信号中得到梁式桥响应的信号, 基于车桥耦合动力学原理滤波处理得到包含梁式桥第一阶频率的信号, 最后假定梁式桥阻尼比值, 通过假定的梁式桥阻尼比值获取假定的梁式桥第一阶振型, 不断循环直至假定的阻尼比值下计算的第一阶振型最大值点居中, 即为识别的梁式桥真实阻尼比. 本文首先从车桥耦合动力学理论推导上说明了该方法的可行性, 然后考虑在不同车速与非恒定车速、路面粗糙度、环境噪音等影响因素下进行车桥耦合动力学模型分析, 最后通过实桥试验进行了初步验证. 研究结果表明: 该方法能一定程度上克服外界不利因素的影响, 达到识别梁式桥阻尼比的目的, 为识别梁式桥阻尼比提供一种更优方法, 其具有参数设置较少、操作简单方便以及更高测试精度等优点, 同时有助于推动基于车桥耦合的车桥耦合动力学理论技术在梁式桥模态参数识别工作中的实际工程应用.      

Nonlinear singular traveling waves in a slightly compressible thermo-hyperelastic cylindrical shell

Nonlinear Dynamics - In this paper, we present a novel methodology for nonlinear dynamic analysis of chemical processes that are posed as differential–algebraic equations (DAE) systems. With...     

Piecewise Continuous Almost Automorphic Functions and Favard’s Theorems for Impulsive Differential Equations in Honor of Russell Johnson

Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations - We define piecewise continuous almost automorphic (p.c.a.a.) functions in the manners of Bochner, Bohr and Levitan, respectively, to describe almost...     

五氧化二钒催化环己烯烯丙位氧化

 研究了以五氧化二钒为催化剂,以过氧化氢水溶液为氧源氧化环己烯. 考察了溶剂种类、溶剂用量、催化剂用量和反应温度等因素对催化剂性能的影响. 结果表明,常温下环己烯在此催化体系中主要发生烯丙位氧化反应生成环己烯酮. 溶剂的种类对催化活性和烯丙位酮式氧化的选择性具有较大的影响,丙酮是该反应的合适溶剂. 在丙酮与环己烯的体积比为4, 五氧化二钒与环己烯的质量比为1∶40, 过氧化氢与环己烯的摩尔比为3和反应温度为20 ℃的条件下,反应24 h后的环己烯转化率可达60%以上,环己烯酮选择性可达85%. 催化反应过程中丙酮可能与过氧化氢作用生成过氧化酮,从而进行氧转移,催化剂则经过V5+/V4+物种的循环使环己烯氧化成为环己烯酮等产物.     

Preparation of styrene–divinyl benzene copolymer-supported platinum complexes and their catalytic properties in hydrosilylation

A new type of catalyst for the hydrosilylation of unsaturated monomers with dichloromethylsilane (DCMS) was prepared, which consisted of thiolmethylene-substituted styrene–divinyl benzene copolymer and platinum. When using DCMS as a hydrosilylation agent, these catalysts showed a high activity in the hydrosilylation of vinyl and acetylene monomers as styrene, alkyl vinyl silanes, acetylene, phenyl acetylene, butyl acrylate. The activities of catalysts were not significantly reduced even after 20 reuse cycles.     

Preparation of polymer-protected Pt/Co bimetallic colloid and its catalytic properties in selective hydrogenation of cinnamaldehyde to cinnamyl alcohol

A polymer-protected Pt/Co bimetallic colloid with a molar ratio of 3:1 has been prepared by a polyol process. Over the above Pt/Co bimetallic colloid catalyst, cinnamaldehyde can be selectively hydrogenated to cinnamyl alcohol with 99.8% selectivity at 96.2% conversion.     

The Effect of Different Inorganic Salts on the Growth Rate of NaCl Crystallized from Sea Water

A comprehensive experimental study on the effect of fourteen different inorganic salts on the growth rate of NaCl single crystals is presented. The fourteen different inorganic salts are chosen as they are present in Chinese sea water. The impurity content of each salt has been varied according to its presence in the natural sea water. The impurities are differentiated in groups related to their effect on the growth rate of NaCl. The examined impurities are: MgCl₂ · 6 H₂O, KCl, SrCl₂, NaBr, Nal, NaF, Na₂SO₄, NaBO₂ · 4 H₂O, Na₂CO₃, Na₂SiO₃ · 9 H₂O, ZnSO₄, CuSO₄ · 5 H₂O, PbCl₂, and K₄Fe(CN)₆.