Synthesis of Honeycomb-Structured Beryllium Oxide via Graphene Liquid Cells

Using high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and electron energy-loss spectroscopy, we show that beryllium oxide crystallizes in the planar hexagonal structure in a graphene liquid cell by a wet-chemistry approach. These liquid cells can feature van-der-Waals pressures up to 1 GPa, producing a miniaturized high-pressure container for the crystallization in solution. The thickness of as-received crystals is beyond the thermodynamic ultra-thin limit above which the wurtzite phase is energetically more favorable according to the theoretical prediction. The crystallization of the planar phase is ascribed to the near-free-standing condition afforded by the graphene surface. Our calculations show that the energy barrier of the phase transition is responsible for the observed thickness beyond the previously predicted limit. These findings open a new door for exploring aqueous-solution approaches of more metal-oxide semiconductors with exotic phase structures and properties in graphene-encapsulated confined cells.     

Ion-Functionalized Silver(I) Carboxylates: Synthesis and Application in Ru-Catalyzed Olefin Metathesis Reaction

Russian Journal of General Chemistry - The Grubbs–Hoveyda catalysts have a wide range of applications in catalyzed formation of the carbon-carbon double bonds. In this study, several...     

Gas-Sensing Activity of Amorphous Copper Oxide Porous Nanosheets

In this paper, the gas-sensing properties of copper oxide porous nanosheets in amorphous and highly crystalline states were comparatively investigated on the premise of almost the same specific surface area, morphology and size. Unexpectedly, the results show that amorphous copper oxide porous nanosheets have much better gas sensing properties than highly crystalline copper oxide to a serious of volatile organic compounds, and the lowest detection limit (LOD) of the amorphous copper oxide porous nanosheets to methanal is even up to 10 ppb. By contrast, the LOD of the highly crystalline copper oxide porous nanosheets to methanal is 95 ppb. Experiments prove that the oxygen vacancies contained in the amorphous copper oxide porous nanosheets play a key role in improving gas sensitivity, which greatly improve the chemical activity of the materials, especially for the adsorption of molecules containing oxygen-groups such as methanal and oxygen.     

基于冷原子吸收分光光度法的热解析-低温等离子体脱汞技术研究

研究含汞土壤的修复问题,采用热解析和低温等离子体综合技术探究新途径,调整温度、添加剂、时间等因素来判断脱汞效果并探究其不同形态,分析工艺过程废料的内部联系,并对废气处理进行分析实验。结论如下：(1)通过改良技术的BCR连续萃取法,得出研究区汞的形态主要为有机结合态(53%)。之后依次是氧化物结合态(33%)、酸可提取态(8%)、残渣态(6%)。(2)温度对热解析程度影响较大。在500℃以上的热解析条件下,土壤中的汞浓度不足1.5 mg·kg-1。(3)当选用400℃的解析温度时,40 min汞去除总体完成。在低于1 700 mg·kg-1的浓度下,汞去除率随着土壤中的含量的增大而减小。(4)氯化钙对于热解析的促进作用最强,柠檬酸、升华硫也有一定作用,硫化钠对于汞去除形成阻滞。(5)低温等离子体的最佳状态是电源设置电压为22 kV,频率为660 Hz。整个系统的汞去除程度可达近90%。     

可膨胀过热水系统多气核演化过程与临界过热度分析

使用分子动力学方法,研究过热水系统均质沸腾核化过程.采用Langevin 动力学方法控制体积可变系统的温度与压力,更好地模拟了沸腾实际物理过程.得到了液相系统体积连续膨胀、分子间距逐渐增大,最终稳定在汽相的现象学规律.当过热温度较高时,亚稳态液相系统可能在局部形成不同大小的近球形区域：气核,这些气核是不稳定的,处于不断演化之中.通过分析分子所受引力与斥力的共同作用,得到了气核形成与消亡以及多个气核融合的机理.比较了模拟结果与经典沸腾理论的差异,提出了气核生长是比气泡生长更为微观过程的认识.通过研究不同过热 关键词： 过热水系统 分子动力学 气核 临界过热度     

EAST装置内置低温冷凝泵低温分配阀箱的研制

在全超导磁约束核聚变试验装置EAST中,为了防止杂质从偏虑器靶板附近进入等离子体核心,为EAST长脉冲放电试验提供持续的排灰能力以及装置长冲放电等,低温冷凝泵是必不可少的部件之一,在装置真空室上下安装了内置低温凝泵以提高装置运行参数,为满足低温泵的低温条件,增加一低温分配阀箱给内置低温冷凝泵提供低温条件。文中介绍应用于EAST装置系统中的内置低温冷凝泵分配阀箱研制的技术要求、冷却流程、结构特征。     

Exchange bias for ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic bilayers with the uniaxial anisotropy being misaligned with the exchange anisotropy

Using the principle of minimal energy and S-W model, the exchange bias for ferromagnetic/antiferromagnetic bilayers has been investigated when the uniaxial anisotropy is misaligned with the exchange anisotropy. According to the relation between the energy of the bilayer and the orientation of ferromagnetic magnetization, it is found that the bilayer will be in the monostable state or bistable state when the external field is absent in the initial magnetization state. The monostable state or bistable state of the bilayer, which determines the angular dependence of exchange bias directly, is controlled by the competition between the exchange anisotropy and uniaxial anisotropy. When the applied field is parallel to the intrinsic easy axes and intrinsic hard axes, one of the switching fields of the hysteresis loop shows an abrupt change, while the other keep continuous by analyzing the magnetization reversal processes. Consequently, the exchange bias field and the coercivity will show a jump phenomenon. The numerical calculations indicate that both the magnitude and direction of the exchange anisotropy will significantly affect the angular dependence of exchange bias. The jump phenomenon of exchange bias is an intrinsic property of the bilayer, which is dependent on the interfacial exchange-coupling constant, the orientation of the exchange anisotropy, the thickness and uniaxial anisotropy constant of the ferromagnetic layer.     

Fibrinogen adsorption onto 316L stainless steel, Nitinol and titanium

Fibrinogen adsorption onto mechanically polished biomedical grade 316L stainless steel (316LSS), nickel titanium alloy (Nitinol) and commercially pure titanium (CpTi) surfaces were studied by measurements of adsorption isotherms and adsorption kinetics using an ex-situ wavelength dispersive spectroscopy technique (WDS). Surface composition, roughness and wettability of these materials were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), atomic force microscopy (AFM) and water contact angle (WCA) measurements. Adsorption isotherm results showed that surface protein concentration on these materials increased with increasing concentration of fibrinogen in phosphate buffer solution. The fibrinogen adsorption isotherms were modeled by both the monolayer Langmuir isotherm and the multilayer Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) isotherm. The results strongly suggest that fibrinogen forms multilayer structures on these materials when the concentration in solution is high. Complementary measurements on the absorbed fibrinogen films by spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) support this view.     

Positive solutions and eigenvalue regions of two-delay singular systems with a twin parameter

The paper is concerned with a two-delay singular differential system with a twin parameter. Applying fixed-point index theory, we show the relationship between the asymptotic behaviors of nonlinearities (at zero and infinity) and the open regions (eigenvalue regions) of parameters, which are correlated with delays, such that the system has zero, one and two positive solution(s).     

Preconditioned Krylov subspace method for the solution of least-squares problems

We consider preconditioned Krylov subspace iteration methods, e.g., CG, LSQR and GMRES, for the solution of large sparse least-squares problems min ∥Ax – b ∥₂, with A ∈ R ^m×n, based on the Krylov subspaces K_k (BA, Br) and K_k (AB, r), respectively, where B ∈ R ^n×m is the preconditioning matrix. More concretely, we propose and implement a class of incomplete QR factorization preconditioners based on the Givens rotations and analyze in detail the efficiency and robustness of the correspondingly preconditioned Krylov subspace iteration methods. A number of numerical experiments are used to further examine their numerical behaviour. It is shown that for both overdetermined and underdetermined least-squares problems, the preconditioned GMRES methods are the best for large, sparse and ill-conditioned matrices in terms of both CPU time and iteration step. Also, comparisons with the diagonal scaling and the RIF preconditioners are given to show the superiority of the newly-proposed GMRES-type methods. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)