Generally applicable and efficient esterification of aldehydes with alcohols catalyzed by cyclopalladated ferrocenylimine

The palladacycle‐catalyzed esterification of a variety of aldehydes with alcohols was developed. This reaction allows formation of esters in moderate to excellent yields not only for various aldehydes but also alcohols. In addition, the esterification could proceed well under mild conditions with a low catalyst loading of 0.0625 mol%. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Image registration based on matrix perturbation analysis using spectral graph

We present a novel perspective on characterizing the spectral correspondence between nodes of the weighted graph with application to image registration. It is based on matrix perturbation analysis on the spectral graph. The contribution may be divided into three parts. Firstly, the perturbation matrix is obtained by perturbing the matrix of graph model. Secondly, an orthogonal matrix is obtained based on an optimal parameter, which can better capture correspondence features. Thirdly, the optimal matching matrix is proposed by adjusting signs of orthogonal matrix for image registration. Experiments on both synthetic images and real-world images demonstrate the effectiveness and accuracy of the proposed method.     

Acceptor Concentration Effects on Photovoltaic Response in the La1-xSrxMnO3/SrNbyTi1-yO3 Heterojunction

Photovoltaic response in the heterojunction of La1-x SrxMnO3/SrNby Ti1-yO3 （LSMO/SNTO） is analyzed theoretically based on the drift-diffusion model. It is found that the decrease of acceptor concentration in the La1-xSrxMnO3 layer of hereto junction can increase the peak value of photovoltaic signal and the speed of photovoltaic response, whereas the changing of donor concentration in the SrNby Ti1-yO3 layer has no such evident effect. Furthermore, the result also indicates that the modulation of Sr doping in La1-xSrxMnO3 is an effective method to accommodate the sensitivity and the speed of photovoltaic response for LSMO/SNTO photoelectric devices.     

有限时间Lyapunov指数的高精度计算新方法

针对目前有限时间Lyapunov指数(FTLE)计算方法准确度不高和无法获得边界值的问题,基于对偶数理论提出了一种新的高精度计算方法.首先描述了基于有限空间差分方法计算FTLE的缺点和问题:其次介绍了基于对偶数理论的高精度导数计算方法及其显著优点,并将动力系统的柯西一格林形变张量计算问题转化为对偶数空间中非线性微分方程数值求解问题;最后对单摆和非线性Duffing振子两个典型物理动力系统进行了数值实验.结果表明:基于对偶数理论的新方法能有效、方便和高精度地计算出有限时间Lyapunov指数场,并成功识别出所包含的拉格朗日相关结构.     

Distribution Algorithm for Torque Control of New Energy Four-Wheel Hub Motor

Russian Physics Journal - Due to the nonlinear, strong coupling and uncertain parameters of the new energy four-wheel hub motor, it is more difficult to control the torque of the motor. In order to...     

Hydrophobic drying and hysteresis at different length scales by molecular dynamics simulations

We performed molecular dynamics simulations to investigate hydrophobic interactions between two parallel hydrophobic plates immersed in water. The two plates are separated by a distance D ranging from contact to a few nanometers. To mimic the attractive hydrophobic force measurement in a surface force experiment, a driving spring is used to measure the hydrophobic force between two hydrophobic plates. The force-distance curves, in particular the force variations from spontaneous drying to hydrophobic collapse are obtained. These details are usually not accessible in the surface force measurement due to the unstable jump into contact. The length-scale effect on the hydrophobic drying during normal approach and the hydrophobic hysteresis during retraction has been studied. We find that the critical distance at which a spontaneous drying occurs is determined by the shorter characteristic dimension of the plate, whereas the hydrophobic hysteresis is determined by the longer characteristic dimension of the plate. The variations of the potential of mean force versus separation during approach and retraction are also calculated. The results show that water confined between two parallel hydrophobic plates is in a thermodynamic metastable state. This comparably high energy state leads to the spontaneous drying at some critical distance.     

基于粒子滤波的一种改进的资料同化方法

针对在粒子数较少时传统的集合卡尔曼滤波和粒子滤波方法不能有效表征后验概率密度函数(PDF)的问题, 提出了一种改进的粒子滤波方法. 主要思想是在预测步之后引入更新步, 并且将观测时刻与非观测时刻的同化分析进行区别处理. 对典型的低维和高维混沌系统的仿真结果表明:改进粒子滤波方法是一种非常有效的估计非线性非高斯随机系统状态的方法.     

Optical pulse compression of ultrashort laser pulses in a multi-hollow-core fiber

By numerical simulations and analysis, we proposed a fiber with multi-hollow-core structure for optical pulse compression of high energy ultrashort laser pulses. In this scheme, different parts of a high-energy flat-top pulse are coupled into different hollow cores of such fiber and each of the cores functions as an independent traditional hollow-core fiber compressor. After the multi-hollow-core fiber, the output beams are collimated and compressed to few-cycle level. Then they can be focused to ultra-high intensity. This method can easily be scaled to compressing pulses of large beam size with high energy without limit in principle.