Enhancing the thermoelectric performance through the mutual interaction between conjugated polyelectrolytes and single-walled carbon nanotubes

We present a method of constructing composites composed of conjugated polyelectrolytes(CPEs)and singlewalled carbon nanotubes(SWCNTs)to obtain a high-performing flexible thermoelectric generator.In this approach,three kinds of polymers,namely,poly[(1,4-(2,5-didodecyloxybenzene)-alt-2,5-thiophene](P1),poly[(1,4-(2,5-bis-sodium butoxysulfonate-phenylene)-alt-2,5-thiophene](P2),and poly[(1,4-(2,5-bis-acid butoxysulfonic-phenylene)-alt-2,5-thiophene](P3)are designed,synthesized and complexed with SWCNTs as thermoelectric composites.The electrical conductivities of the CPEs/SWCNTs(P2/SWCNTs,and P3/SWCNTs)nanocomposites are much higher than those of non-CPEs/SWCNTs(P1/SWCNTs)nanocomposites.Among them,the electrical conductivity of P2/SWCNTs with a ratio of 1:4 reaches 3686 S·cm^-1,which is 12.4 times that of P1/SWCNTs at the same SWCNT mass ratio.Moreover,CPEs/SWCNTs composites(P2/SWCNTs)display remarkably improved thermoelectric properties with the highest power factor(PF)of 163μW·m^-1·K^-1.In addition,a thermoelectric generator is fabricated with P2/SWCNTs composite films,and the output power and power density of this generator reach 1.37μW and 1.4 W·m;(cross-section)at△T=70 K.This result is over three times that of the thermoelectric generator composed of non-CPEs/SWCNTs composite films(P1/SWCNTs,0.37μW).The remarkably improved electrical conductivities and thermoelectric properties of the CPEs/SWCNTs composites(P2/SWCNTs)are attributed to the enhanced interaction.This method for constructing CPEs/SWCNTs composites can be applied to produce thermoelectric materials and devices.     

ESR方法初探树木年轮记载的气候效应

对新疆托木尔峰地区松树年轮样品的ESR研究表明,其自由基浓度N_g是树木生长速率的指示,它与季节有关。春材的N_g值普遍高于秋材,与气温、降雨量有关,但不是一一对应的关系。年轮的N_g明显地受太阳黑子活动周的影响,随着太阳周而变化,只是峰谷和峰值年要前移或后推1—2年。     

光声门图理论、实验与应用

首次建立了光声门图数学模型。以相乘同态信号模型和对声带振动的研究结果为基础,提出、研究并实现了光声门图信号数字处理。仪器使用结果表明,光声门图技术对喉科学、艺术嗓音、语言学、语音声学及语言信号数字处理等领域具有广泛和重要的应用价值。     

GPU accelerated CESE method for 1D shock tube problems

In the present study, a GPU accelerated 1D space–time CESE method is developed and applied to shock tube problems with and without condensation. We have demonstrated how to implement the CESE algorithm to solve 1D shock tube problems using an older generation GPU (the NVIDIA 9800 GT) with relatively limited memory. To optimize the code performance, we used Shared Memory and solved the inter-Block boundary problem in two ways, namely the branch scheme and the overlapping scheme. The implementations of these schemes are discussed in detail and their performances are compared for the Sod shock tube problems. For the Sod problem without condensation, the speedup over an Intel CPU E7300 is 23 for the branch scheme and 41 for the overlapping scheme, respectively. While for problems with condensation, both schemes achieve higher acceleration ratios, 53 and 71, respectively. The higher speedup of the condensation case can be ascribed to the source term calculation which has a local dependence on the mesh point and the SOURCE kernel has a higher acceleration ratio.     

Cosmological constraints from radial baryon acoustic oscillation measurements and observational Hubble data

We use the Radial Baryon Acoustic Oscillation (RBAO) measurements, distant type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), the observational H(z)$H(z)$ data (OHD) and the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) shift parameter data to constrain cosmological parameters of ΛCDM$\mathrm{\Lambda }\text{CDM}$ and XCDM cosmologies and further examine the role of OHD and SNe Ia data in cosmological constraints. We marginalize the likelihood function over h   by integrating the probability density P∝e−χ²/2$P\propto e^{-{\chi }^2/2}$ to obtain the best fitting results and the confidence regions in the Ωm–ΩΛ${\Omega }_m\text{–}{\Omega }_{\Lambda }$ plane. With the combination analysis for both of the ΛCDM$\mathrm{\Lambda }\text{CDM}$ and XCDM models, we find that the confidence regions of 68.3%, 95.4% and 99.7% levels using OHD+RBAO+CMB$\text{OHD}+\text{RBAO}+\text{CMB}$ data are in good agreement with that of SNe Ia+RBAO+CMB$\text{Ia}+\text{RBAO}+\text{CMB}$ data which is consistent with the result of Lin et al.'s (2009) [24] work. With more data of OHD, we can probably constrain the cosmological parameters using OHD data instead of SNe Ia data in the future.     

H^＋与He原子碰撞中电子俘获截面的BIB方法计算

用考虑边界修正的一级玻恩畸变波方法（ＢＩＢ）计算了质子与Ｈｅ原子碰撞中的电子俘获面。结果表明在所关心的能区（１００ｋｅＶ～２４００ｋｅＶ）与实验结果较好地一致     

电流变液与电-磁流变液的衍射特性

本文把电流变液装置作为反射光栅研究其衍射特性,首次提出由电场强度改变来调节光栅常数的概念.并讨论了同时外加电场与磁场的情况下,电磁流变液的衍射特性.     

The investigation of electrochemical properties and ionic motion of functionalized copolymer electrolytes based on polysiloxane

The effect of EO side chain functionalization on the transport and electrochemical properties of polysiloxane electrolytes has been examined in this report. First, a study of the electrochemical stability of the electrolytes by linear sweep voltammetry shows that the polymer electrolytes have a negligible effect on the electrolyte stability windows. In addition, the parameters of cation mobility in polysiloxane electrolytes, such as ionic transference numbers and diffusion coefficients, were increased by increasing the lengths of the EO side chain. However, cation mobility in polymer structures is quite different compared to liquid-based systems and is probably suppressed, resulting in their polymer structure. Therefore, Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) was used to study the relationship between orthopositronium (o-Ps) lifetime, free volume radius, free volume of micro voids and EO side chain affection at different temperatures. Finally, a battery application with LiCoO₂ and LiFePO₄/polymer electrolyte/lithium metal electrode was monitored for its potential use in the future.     

Entanglement dynamics in Coriolis coupled rovibrational states of formaldehyde

The entanglement dynamics of two vibrational modes of a polyatomic molecule coupled by Coriolis interaction to overall molecular rotation is studied in terms of two negativities, N(t) and N_s(t), respectively, defined by the minimum of the eigenvalues and by the sum of the negative eigenvalues of the partial transpose of a density matrix. Various initial states are the products of Dicke states and the products of coherent states of vibrations and rotations. Formaldehyde is taken as an example, and the von Neumann entropy s(t) is simulated for the comparison with both negativities. It is shown that negativity N_s(t) is positively correlated with entropy s(t), and the correlated behavior between negativity N(t) and entropy s(t) strongly depends on initial states. However, these three indicators of entanglement display a dominantly positive correlation for the coherent states with small or large parameters. In addition, for the latter state two quantities N(t) and s(t) are nearly unchanged for a long time. This time can be further increased by the increasing of vibrational quantum number so that molecular information processing and quantum computing is allowed. These results are useful in quantum information theory.     

掺Yb钒酸盐晶体激光振荡中的光学双稳态现象研究

研究了三种掺Yb钒酸盐晶体Yb:LuVO4,Yb:YVO4和Yb:GdVO4的激光振荡中所呈现的光学双稳态效应.以晶体所吸收的抽运功率表征的双稳区宽度ΔPabs可超过1W,在双稳区高功率一侧的边界,即激光振荡的上阈值点,出现激光输出功率的不连续变化或跃变,同时发生亚毫秒时间尺度上的大幅度强度涨落.谐振腔的输出耦合透过率、晶体长度、晶体中的热效应等对双稳态效应均具有重要影响.