CeO_2缓冲层热处理对Tl-2212薄膜超导特性的影响

本文采用原子力显微镜(AFM)和XRD研究了生长在蓝宝石(11-02)基片上的CeO_2缓冲层在不同的退火温度和退火时间下表面形貌和相结构的变化,以及对Tl-2212薄膜超导特性的影响.AFM和XRD研究表明,CeO_2薄膜在流动氧环境中退火,表面形貌发生显著的变化;CeO_2薄膜在最佳条件下退火后,可获得原子级光滑表面,结晶质量明显提高.实验结果表明,缓冲层的结晶质量和表面粗糙度与Tl-2212薄膜的超导特性密切相关.在经过最佳条件退火后的CeO_2缓冲层上制备了厚度为500 nm无裂纹的Tl-2212超导薄膜,其临界转变温度(T_c)达到107 K,液氮温度下临界电流密度(J_c)为3.9 MA/cm~2(77 K,0 T),微波表面电阻(R_s)约为281 μΩ(77 K,10 GHz).     

Glutaraldehyde crosslinking of arabinoxylan produced from corn ethanol residuals

This study investigated the possibility of substituting petroleum-based polymers with biopolymers for films and paper coatings. Arabinoxylan (AX) was extracted from distillers’ grains, a low-value corn ethanol byproduct, and modified through crosslinking with glutaraldehyde (GA) which was made into films and paper coatings. The effects of degree of substitution (DS) on film and coating properties of GA cross-linked AX, referred to as GAX, were investigated. The GAX films had markedly higher tensile strength, approximately 3 times higher than the unmodified AX films at low DS, with higher DS causing a negative effect on the film tensile strength. Compared to unmodified AX coating, paper coated with GAX also had significantly higher tensile index, presumably due to high adhesion between the coating and paper interface. When used as a coating binder with calcium carbonate pigments, GAX showed comparable performance to polyvinyl alcohol, a common industrial binder, demonstrating the potential to be substituted for the petroleum-based paper coating binder.     

Information Entropy Dynamics in Spin-1 Dipolar Bose-Einstein Condensates

Information entropy is an important topic due to its relevance to cold atom system. Motivated by the recent work in a scalar dipolar Bose-Einstein condensates (BECs), we extend this issue to the dynamics of information entropy in spin-1 dipolar BECs. Our results show that the periodicity of S_r, S_k and S is broken in the presence of magnetic dipole-dipole interactions (MDDIs). With the increase of dipole strength, the total entropy S and momentum component S_k increase, wile S_r decreases. This is completely opposite with scalar dipolar BECs. In particular, the order parameter δ decay quickly with stronger dipolar interaction, showing that the increase of dipole strength makes the system become more and more disordered.

     

Coarse-Grained Pruning of Neural Network Models Based on Blocky Sparse Structure

Deep neural networks may achieve excellent performance in many research fields. However, many deep neural network models are over-parameterized. The computation of weight matrices often consumes a lot of time, which requires plenty of computing resources. In order to solve these problems, a novel block-based division method and a special coarse-grained block pruning strategy are proposed in this paper to simplify and compress the fully connected structure, and the pruned weight matrices with a blocky structure are then stored in the format of Block Sparse Row (BSR) to accelerate the calculation of the weight matrices. First, the weight matrices are divided into square sub-blocks based on spatial aggregation. Second, a coarse-grained block pruning procedure is utilized to scale down the model parameters. Finally, the BSR storage format, which is much more friendly to block sparse matrix storage and computation, is employed to store these pruned dense weight blocks to speed up the calculation. In the following experiments on MNIST and Fashion-MNIST datasets, the trend of accuracies with different pruning granularities and different sparsity is explored in order to analyze our method. The experimental results show that our coarse-grained block pruning method can compress the network and can reduce the computational cost without greatly degrading the classification accuracy. The experiment on the CIFAR-10 dataset shows that our block pruning strategy can combine well with the convolutional networks.     

基于Willgerodt-Kindler反应的两种二茂铁羧酸的合成及机理研究

以Na2S•9H2O为催化剂, 通过Willgerodt-Kindler反应分别合成了二茂铁乙酸和1,1’-二茂铁二乙酸, 用IR, 1H NMR, MS和元素分析对产物分别进行了结构表征, 并利用GC-MS研究了该反应机理, 推测反应是由多硫阴离子进攻羰基α碳所引发, 同时讨论了影响反应的各种因素.     

C(3)-酯基取代的1,5-苯并硫氮杂卓的合成、晶体结构及抑菌和构效关系的研究

设计、合成了三类C(3)酯基取代的1,5-苯并硫氮杂卓衍生物: 2,3/2,5-二氢和2,3,4,5-四氢-1,5-苯并硫氮杂卓-3-甲酸乙酯, 采用元素分析、IR、MS、1H NMR及X射线衍射法确定了标题化合物的分子结构．结构分析表明, 2,5-二氢-1,5-苯并硫氮杂卓-3-甲酸乙酯属单斜晶系, C2/c空间群, 晶胞参数为: a＝2.0319(4) nm, b＝1.4985(3) nm, c＝1.3659(3) nm, α＝90°, β＝120.49(3)°, γ＝90°, V＝3.5840(12) nm3, Z＝8, Dc＝1.397 g/cm3, μ＝0.351 mm－1, F(000)＝1560, R＝0.0478, Rw＝0.1304; 研究了2,3/2,5-二氢-1,5-苯并硫氮杂卓的合成反应条件, 发现该两种互变异构体分别是速度控制产物和平衡控制产物; 抑菌活性及抑真菌构效关系研究表明, 亚胺型的2,3-二氢-1,5-苯并硫氮杂卓具有明显的抑菌活性, 亚胺官能团是其抑真菌的药效团．     

Two new flavanone glycosides from Macrothelypteris torresiana （Gaud.） Ching

Two new flavanone glycosides 1 and 2 were isolated from the aerial parts oi Macrothelypteris torresiana(Gaud.)Ching.The structures of two products were identified as(2S)-5,7,2',5'-tetrahydroxyfiavanone-2'-O-β-D-6"-O-acetylglucopyranoside and(2S)- 5,7,2',5'-tetrahydroxyflavanone-2'-O-β-D-glucopyranoside on the basis of their chemical and spectral analysis,respectively.     

Comprehensive high-performance liquid chromatographic method for the measurements of lipophilic antioxidants in human plasma

Owing to the increasing interest in the health effects of antioxidant micronutrients on chronic diseases, a robust and rapid HPLC method for simultaneous measurement of coenzyme Q₁₀ (ubiquinone and ubiquinol), vitamin A (all-trans-retinol), vitamin E (tocopherols and tocotrienols) and carotenoids (lutein, zeaxanthin, β-cryptoxanthin, lycopene and β-carotene) was developed. Sample preparation and analytical conditions that would affect solubility and stability of these antioxidants were investigated and optimized. The mobile phase used was made up of acetonitrile, methanol, ethanol and tert-butanol without corrosive additives such as ammonium perchlorate and perchloric acid. Our results show that using two C₁₈ columns coupled with photodiode array, fluorescence and electrochemical detection, a comprehensive spectrum of 16 lipid-soluble antioxidants in 30 μL of plasma could be separated and quantified within 30 min. The chromatographic run time was about 3-fold faster and the sample size was about 5-fold smaller than when assays were performed separately using existing methods. The present method will be useful for dietary habit studies and for antioxidant status investigations.     

Preparation of Antibacterial Waterborne Polyurethane/silver Nanocomposite

Stable aqueous dispersions of silver (Ag) nanoparticles were prepared by reducing silver nitrate solutions with sodium borohydride (NaBH₄) in the presence of waterborne polyurethane as a stabilizing agent. WPU/Ag nanocomposites were obtained after evaporating water. Transmission electron microscope (TEM) shows nanoscale Ag particles are well dispersed in WPU matrix at a lower concentration, while particles exhibit a little aggregation at a higher concentration. UV‐visible spectra, X‐ray powder diffraction, and energy dispersive X‐ray spectrometer (EDS) confirm the existence of Ag particle in WPU matrix. The WPU/Ag composite films show good antibiotic ability.     

One‐Pot Formation of Large Macrocycles with Modifiable Peripheries and Internal Cavities

The shape of things to come : Aromatic oligohydrazide macrocycles with planar backbones enforced by three‐center hydrogen bonds are formed in high yield from monomeric diacid chlorides and dihydrazides. Macrocycles consisting of six meta‐linked pyridine and benzene residues have an internal cavity of about 10 Å diameter, while those with alternating meta‐ and para‐linked benzene residues are larger and contain multiple convergent sites (see picture).