Synthesis and herbicidal activity of O,O-dialkyl phenoxyacetoxyalkylphosphonates containing fluorine

A series of substituted phenoxyacetoxyalkylphosphonates bearing fluorine were designed and synthesized. All the new compounds were identified by elemental analysis, IR, ¹H NMR and MS and were tested for herbicidal activity in greenhouse at a rate of 1.5 kg/ha. The results of preliminary bioassay showed that fluorine moiety introduced to the core structure could help to improve the herbicidal activity, and compounds with a 3-trifluoromethyl in benzene ring exhibited higher inhibitory activity.     

Exact solutions and geometric phase factor of time-dependent three-generator quantum systems

There exist a number of typical and interesting systems and/or models, which possess three-generator Lie-algebraic structure, in atomic physics, quantum optics, nuclear physics and laser physics. The well-known fact that all simple 3-generator algebras are either isomorphic to the algebra sl (2, C) or to one of its real forms enables us to treat these time-dependent quantum systems in a unified way. By making use of both the Lewis-Riesenfeld invariant theory and the invariant-related unitary transformation formulation, the present paper obtains exact solutions of the time-dependent Schr?dinger equations governing various three-generator Lie-algebraic quantum systems. For some quantum systems whose time-dependent Hamiltonians have no quasialgebraic structures, it is shown that the exact solutions can also be obtained by working in a sub-Hilbert-space corresponding to a particular eigenvalue of the conserved generator (i.e., the time-independent invariant that commutes with the time-dependent Hamiltonian). The topological property of geometric phase factors and its adiabatic limit in time-dependent systems is briefly discussed. Received 6 July 2002 / Received in final form 21 October 2002 Published online 11 February 2003     

The influence of hard‐segments on two‐phase structure and shape memory properties of PCL‐based segmented polyurethanes

Poly(ε‐caprolactone)‐based segmented polyurethanes (PCLUs) were prepared from poly(ε‐caprolactone) diol, diisocyanates (DI), and 1,4‐butanediol. The DIs used were 4,4′‐diphenylmethane diisocyanate (MDI), 2,4‐toluenediisocyanate (TDI), isophorone diisocyanate (IPDI), and hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI). Differential scanning calorimetry, small‐angle X‐ray scattering, and dynamic mechanical analysis were employed to characterize the two‐phase structures of all PCLUs. It was found that HDI‐ and MDI‐based PCLUs had higher degree of microphase separation than did IPDI‐ and TDI‐based PCLUs, which was primarily due to the crystallization of HDI‐ and MDI‐based hard‐segments. As a result, the HDI‐based PCLU exhibited the highest recovery force up to 6 MPa and slowest stress relaxation with increasing temperature. Besides, it was found that the partial damage in hard‐segment domains during the sample deformation was responsible for the incomplete shape‐recovery of PCLUs after the first deformation, but the damage did not develop during the subsequent deformation. © 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 45: 557–570, 2007     

Preparation of nanosized ZnO using α brass

Nanosized ZnOs were synthesized on the surface of α brass coated a film of nickel catalyst at 500-700 °C under atmosphere of O₂ and CH₄ gases. The nanosized ZnOs have shapes including pillar, leaf, sheet and rod, which were determined by the synthesis temperature and the flow rates of O₂ and CH₄ gases. The nanosized ZnOs were characterized by electron microscopy including transmission electron microscope for crystal structure, morphology and high resolution images, both field emission scanning electron microscope and scanning electron microscope for morphology, and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscope equipped in electron microscope for chemical composition. A mechanism was proposed for the growth of nanosized ZnO obtained in this work.     

Photoinitiated cationic polymerization of cycloaliphatic epoxide with siloxane or alkoxysilane functionalized polyol coatings

Polyols were reacted with tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) or 3-isocyanatopropyltriethoxysilane (IPTES) to form siloxane functionalized polyols. The UV-reactivity of these siloxane functionalized polyols were investigated using real-time FT-IR spectroscopy. The reactivity of TEOS modified polyols was dependent on the relative humidity. However, for the IPTES functionalized polyols the effect of relative humidity was dependent on the degree of IPTES functionalization. When the polyols were only partially functionalized with IPTES, the effect of relative humidity was minimal. However, when polyols were fully functionalized with IPTES, the curing was dependent on relative humidity. The siloxane functionalized polyols were formulated with a cycloaliphatic epoxide and cationic photoinitiator. The photo-induced curing kinetics of these cycloaliphatic epoxide/siloxane functionalized polyol coatings were also investigated. Unlike the TEOS functionalized polyols, the addition of IPTES functionalized polyols into the formulation inhibited the curing speed. This inhibition was attributed to the basicity nitrogen of the urethane linkage. The effect of relative humidity on the UV-curing reaction of cycloaliphatic epoxide coatings was lowered by the incorporation of the TEOS functionalized polyols.     

The supersymmetric WKB approximation of ring-shaped oscillator potential in r and θ dimensions with spherical polar coordinates

According to calculation of the energy spectrum of ring-shape oscillator potential by using the supersymmetric WKB approximation, it is shown that the energy spectrum of some noncentral separable potentials can be exactly obtained in r and θ dimensions by above method.     

卤代对苝醌类光敏剂光敏活性影响的量子化学研究

以一种新型的醌类光敏剂—菌生素 (HMB)为模型化合物 ,利用量子化学从头算HF/ 6 31G和含时密度泛函TD B3LYP/ 6 31G方法计算研究了卤代作用对醌类光敏剂分子性质和光敏活性的影响 .结果发现 ,卤代作用降低了HMB母体的HOMO和LUMO能级 (EHOMO和ELUMO)及其差值△E ,随卤族元素从上到下 ,EHOMO和ELUMO呈增大趋势 ,而△E呈减小趋势 ,使得分子激发光谱有不同程度的红移 ,在增加PQP三重态量子产率的同时降低了分子最低三重激发态的能量 ,两种作用相互抵消 ,使得卤代物的 1O2 量子产率与母体相似 ;增加了分子的绝热电子亲合势 ,使分子产生O2 -的能力下降 ;卤原子的引入 ,降低了HMB母体分子内氢键的强度 ,同时使顺式构型的分子内质子传递势垒增大 ,而使反式构型势垒减小 .     

Fractional Order Disturbance Observer for Robust Vibration Suppression

For the first time, the fractional order disturbance observer (FO-DOB) is proposed for vibration suppression applications such as hard disk drive servo control. It has been discovered in a recently published US patent application (US20010036026) that there is a tradeoff between phase margin loss and strength of the low frequency vibration suppression. Given the required cutoff frequency of the low pass filter, also known as the Q-filter, it turns out that the relative degree of the Q-filter is the major tuning knob for this tradeoff. The solution in US20010036026 was based on an integer order Q-filter with a variable relative degree. This actually motivated the use of a fractional order Q-filter. The fractional order disturbance observer is based on the fractional order Q-filter. The implementation issue is also discussed. The nice point of this paper is that the traditional DOB is extended to the fractional order DOB with the advantage that the FO-DOB design is now no longer conservative nor aggressive, i.e., given the cutoff frequency and the desired phase margin, we can uniquely determine the fractional order of the low pass filter.     

n维氢原子的散射态

研究了n维氢原子的散射态性质．给出了精确的按“k/2π标度”归一化的散射态的精确解波函数及相移表达式，讨论了相移的解析性质，获得了束缚-连续跃迁矩阵元的解析计算公式．普通氢原子(n=3)散射态的有关结果作为特例包含在本文的一般结论之中． 关键词： n维氢原子 散射态 精确解 相移 束缚-连续跃迁矩阵元     

Convergence rate of the best-r-point-average estimator for the maximizer of a nonparametric regression function

The best-r-point-average (BRPA) estimator of the maximizer of a regression function, proposed in Changchien (in: M.T. Chao, P.E. Cheng (Eds.), Proceedings of the 1990 Taipei Symposium in Statistics, June 28–30, 1990, pp. 63–78) has certain merits over the estimators derived through the estimation of the regression function. Some of the properties of the BRPA estimator have been studied in Chen et al. (J. Multivariate Anal. 57 (1996) 191) and Bai and Huang (Sankhya: Indian J. Statist. Ser. A. 61 (Pt. 2) (1999) 208–217). In this article, we further study the properties of the BRPA estimator and give its convergence rate under some quite general conditions. Simulation results are presented for the illustration of the convergence rate. Some comparisons with existing estimators such as the Müller estimator are provided.