基于RFM的机载余度计算机软件快速测试平台

现代飞机普遍采用电传飞行控制系统,飞行控制计算机是该系统的核心。为了提升飞控计算机的可靠性,普遍采用余度技术构建余度飞控计算机,该计算机由多个通道构成,每个通道有一个CPU,互相构成备份。但是,这给飞控计算机的软件调试和测试带来的巨大的困难,因为各个通道的机载软件之间相互同步、通信和交叉监控,必须并行调试和测试,这就造成了机载软件调试和测试的滞后,必须等待真实的飞控计算机开发出来之后才能开展工作。本文提出了一种基于RFM(反射内存)的余度计算机快速原型测试平台设计方法。该平台使用商用货架产品构成余度计算机的多个冗余通道,使用RFM模拟多通道间的通信、同步过程,通过对底层驱动封装实现硬件故障模拟和余度功能模拟,方便实现软件调试和从性能、功能测试,大大提高了开发效率,减少了研制周期。     

Superior effect of a pi-acceptor ligand (phosphine-electron-deficient olefin ligand) in the Negishi coupling involving alkylzinc reagents

Palladium-catalyzed Negishi cross-coupling involving primary and secondary alkyls, even in the presence of beta-H, can be achieved at ambient temperature using chelating ligands containing a phosphine and an electron-deficient olefin. The superior effects of the ligands were shown not only in the desired cross-coupling product yields but also in the fast reaction at mild conditions. This reaction has been also scaled up to 50 g in 0.005 mol % catalyst (20,000 TONs) at room temperature.     

Kinetics of CO2 nanobubble formation at the solid/water interface

The kinetics of adsorption of CO(2) molecules dissolved in aqueous solution onto a hydrophobised silica surface were investigated using a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). The results of this investigation were compared with those obtained earlier from tapping mode atomic force microscopy (TMAFM) under the same experimental conditions (J. Yang, J. Duan, D. Fornasiero, J. Ralston, J. Phys. Chem. B., 2003, 107(25), 6139-6147; ref. 1). The QCM results represent the early stage of CO(2) gas adsorption (<20 min), before CO(2) gas bubbles adsorbed on the surface can be directly observed by TMAFM. The QCM results confirmed our observation from TMAFM imaging: that CO(2) gas molecules present in solution only adsorb on silica when its surface is hydrophobic. More importantly, the results showed that gas adsorption/bubble growth undergoes two consecutive kinetic processes: a slow and a fast adsorption process.     

Cell-penetrating quantum dots based on multivalent and endosome-disrupting surface coatings

We report the development of cell-penetrating quantum dots (QDs) based on the use of multivalent and endosome-disrupting (endosomolytic) surface coatings. Hyperbranched copolymer ligands such as polyethylene glycol (PEG) grafted polyethylenimine (PEI-g-PEG) are found to encapsulate and solubilize luminescent quantum dots through direct ligand-exchange reactions. Because of the positive charges and a "proton sponge effect" associated with multivalent amine groups, this class of ligand-exchanged QDs is able to penetrate cell membranes and is also able to disrupt endosomal organelles in living cells. The grafted PEG segment is essential for reducing the cytotoxicity of PEI as well as for improving the overall nanoparticle stability and biocompatibility. In comparison with previous QDs encapsulated with amphiphilic polymers, the cell-penetrating QDs are smaller in size and are considerably more stable in acidic environments. Cellular uptake and imaging studies reveal that the number of PEG grafts per PEI molecule has a pronounced effect on the intracellular pathways of internalized QDs. In particular, QDs coated with PEI-g-PEG2 are rapidly internalized by endocytosis, and are initially stored in vesicles, followed by slow endosomal escape and release into the cytoplasm. These insights are important toward the design and development of nanoparticle agents for intracellular imaging and therapeutic applications.     

Organo[2-(hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilanes as mild and reproducible agents for rhodium-catalyzed 1,4-addition reactions

Stable and reusable tetraorganosilicon reagents, alkenyl-, aryl-, and silyl[2-(hydroxymethyl)phenyl]dimethylsilanes, undergo 1,4-addition reactions to alpha,beta-unsaturated carbonyl acceptors under mild rhodium-catalysis. The reaction tolerates a diverse range of functional groups and is applicable to gram-scale synthesis. Use of a chiral diene ligand allows the achievement of the corresponding enantioselective transformations using the tetraorganosilicon reagents, providing the silicon-based approach to optically active ketones and substituted piperidones that serve as synthetic intermediates of pharmaceuticals. A rhodium alkoxide species is suggested to be responsible for a transmetalation step on the basis of the observed kinetic resolution of a racemic chiral phenylsilane in the enantioselective 1,4-addition reaction under the rhodium-chiral diene catalysis.     

In situ synthesis of molecularly imprinted polymers on glass microspheres in a column

A facile method to fabricate molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) on glass microspheres in a column was developed. The column was prepacked with glass microspheres, and then the prepolymerization mixture was injected into the interstitial volume of the column. The polymerization took place in situ and the column could be directly used for high-performance liquid chromatography after the template had been removed. The template consumption was reduced greatly because the prepolymerization mixture just filled the interstitial volume between the glass microspheres in the column. The MIPs obtained exhibited better kinetic properties, higher efficiency, and low back pressure of the column. Emodin imprinted polymers were prepared by this method and were used for solid-phase extraction.