CO2 hydrogenation to formic acid on Ni(110)

Hydrogen (H) in the subsurface of transition-metal surfaces exhibits unique reactivity for heterogeneously catalyzed hydrogenation reactions. Here, we explore the potential of subsurface H for hydrogenating carbon dioxide (CO₂) on Ni(110). The energetics of surface and subsurface H reacting with surface CO₂ to form formate, carboxyl, and formic acid on Ni(110) is systematically studied using self-consistent, spin-polarized, periodic density functional theory (DFT-GGA-PW91) calculations. We show that on Ni(110), CO₂ can be hydrogenated to formate by surface H. However, further hydrogenation of formate to formic acid by surface H is hindered by a larger activation energy barrier. The relative energetics of hydrogenation barriers is reversed for the carboxyl-mediated route to formic acid. We suggest that the energetics of subsurface H emerging to the surface is suitable for providing the extra energy needed to overcome the barrier to formate hydrogenation. CO₂ hydrogenation to formic acid could take place on Ni(110) when subsurface H is available to react with CO₂. Additional electronic-structure based dynamic calculations would be needed to elucidate the detailed reaction paths for these transformations.     

The first pulsar discovered by FAST

<正>To assist with the commissioning [1] of the Five-hundredmeter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we performed a pulsar search, with the primary goal of developing and testing the pulsar data acquisition and processing pipelines. We tested and used three pipelines, two (P1 and P2 hereafter) searched for the periodic signature of pulsars     

Temperature Dependence of In-plane Resistivity and Inverse Hall Angle in NLED Holographic Model

In the strange metal phase of the high-Tc cuprates, it is challenging to explain the linear temperature dependence of the in-plane resistivity and the quadratic temperature dependence of the inverse Hall angle. In this paper, we investigate the temperature dependence of the in-plane resistivity and inverse Hall angle in the nonlinear electrodynamics holographic model developed in our recent work. Maxwell electrodynamics and Born-Infeld electrodynamics are considered. Both cases support a wide spectrum of temperature scalings in parameter space. For Maxwell electrodynamics, the T-linear in-plane resistivity generally dominates at low temperatures and survives into higher temperatures in a narrow strip-like manner. Meanwhile, the T-quadratic inverse Hall angle dominates at high temperatures and extends down to lower temperatures. The overlap between the T-linear in-plane resistivity and the T-quadratic inverse Hall angle, if occurs, would generally present in the intermediate temperate regime. The Born-Infeld case with a 0 is quite similar to the Maxwell case. For the Born-Infeld case with a 0, there can be a constraint on the charge density and magnetic field. Moreover, the overlap can occur for strong charge density.     

Structure transition and photoluminescence of CdS/Si nanoheterostructure array on thermal annealing

CdS/Si heterojunctions have been prepared through growing CdS nanocrystallites (nc-CdS) on the silicon nanoporous pillar array (Si-NPA) by the chemical bath deposition method. Cadmium nanocrystallites (nc-Cd) have been observed and ascribed to the reducibility of Si-NPA. The reason for the appearance of CdO is indistinct and the related work will be done in the future. The blue, green and red emissions are ascribed to the silicon oxide layer, band gap of nc-CdS and the sulphur vacancies, respectively. Redshift and blueshift with the annealing temperature about green emissions are contributed to quantum size effect and the structure transition from nc-Cd to CdO. It is beneficial for investigating the structures and defects to the application of CdS/Si in the optoelectronic field.     

固定效应部分线性可加面板数据模型的惩罚二次推断估计

具有较强解释力和灵活性的部分线性可加面板数据模型在各学科领域应用广泛.针对个体内存在相关结构的固定效应部分线性可加面板数据模型,本文在结合幂样条函数和最小二乘虚拟变量(LSDV)法的基础上,利用惩罚二次推断函数(PQIF)法对模型进行估计,在一定的正则条件下,证明了参数估计的渐近正态性和非参数估计的收敛性,Monte Carlo数值模拟显示所述估计方法具有良好的有限样本表现,同时,我们还将估计技术应用于实际数据分析中.     

Joint Reducing Subspaces of Multiplication Operators and Weight of Multi-variable Bergman Spaces

This paper mainly concerns a tuple of multiplication operators defined on the weighted and unweighted multi-variable Bergman spaces, their joint reducing subspaces and the von Neumann algebra generated by the orthogonal projections onto these subspaces. It is found that the weights play an important role in the structures of lattices of joint reducing subspaces and of associated von Neumann algebras. Also, a class of special weights is taken into account. Under a mild condition it is proved that if those multiplication operators are defined by the same symbols, then the corresponding von Neumann algebras are $*$-isomorphic to the one defined on the unweighted Bergman space.     

Efficient algorithms for a constrained k-tree core problem in a tree network

Let T=(V,E) be a free tree in which each vertex has a weight and each edge has a length. Let n=|V|. Given T and parameters k and l, a (k,l)-tree core is a subtree X of T with diameter l, having k leaves, which minimizes the sum of the weighted distances from all vertices in T to X. In this paper, two efficient algorithms are presented for finding a (k,l)-tree core of T. The first algorithm has O(n²) time complexity for the case that each edge has an arbitrary length. The second algorithm has O(lkn) time complexity for the case that the lengths of all edges are 1. The (k,l)-tree core problem has an application in distributed database systems.     

Localization theory of distributed fiber vibration sensor

Based on Sagnac interferometer, a simple distributed optical fiber sensing system with sub-loop is presented to monitor the vibration applied on the sensing fiber. By introducing a sub-loop, three output beams of interference with different delay time are gotten. Location of the vibration is analyzed through mathematical-physical equations. The vibration frequency, amplitude, and location are theoretically simulated. The results agree well with the previous experiments.     

BMO from dyadic BMO via expectations on product spaces of homogeneous type

Using the random dyadic lattices developed by Hytönen and Kairema, we build up a bridge between BMO and dyadic BMO, and hence one between VMO and dyadic VMO, via expectations over dyadic lattices on spaces of homogeneous type, including both the one-parameter and product cases. We also obtain a similar relationship between _Ap$A_p$ and dyadic _Ap$A_p$, as well as one between the reverse Hölder class _RHp${\mathit{RH}}_p$ and dyadic _RHp${\mathit{RH}}_p$, via geometric–arithmetic expectations. These results extend the earlier theory along this line, developed by Garnett, Jones, Pipher, Ward, Xiao and Treil, to the more general setting of spaces of homogeneous type in the sense of Coifman and Weiss.