Transparent h-BN/polyacrylamide nanocomposite hydrogels with enhanced mechanical properties

In this study, a facile way has been proposed to prepare transparent, tough and flexible polyacrylamide (PAM) hydrogels which is composed of a dually crosslinked single network by chemical crosslinking of N,N'-methylenebisacrylamide (BIS) and physical crosslinking of hydrophilic hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) nanosheets. The resulting h-BN/PAM nanocomposite hydrogels are highly transparent, and exhibit significantly enhanced mechanical properties compared to the dark (GO)/PAM nanocomposite hydrogels or chemical crosslinking PAM hydrogels. Thus it opens up new opportunities for developing nextgeneration transparent, tough and flexible hydrogels that hold great promise in such important applications as light responsive soft robot and liquid microlenses.     

pH‐Triggered Charge‐Reversal Polyurethane Micelles for Controlled Release of Doxorubicin

A series of pH‐triggered charge‐reversal polyurethane copolymers (PS‐PUs) containing methoxyl‐poly(ethylene glycol) (mPEG), carboxylic acid groups, and piperazine groups is presented in this work. The obtained PS‐PUs copolymers can form into stable micelles at pH 7.4, which response to a narrow pH change (5.5–7.5) and show a tunable pH‐triggered charge‐reversal property. Doxorubicin (DOX) is encapsulated into the PS‐PU micelles as a model drug. The drug release of DOX‐loaded PS‐PU micelles shows an obviously stepped‐up with reducing the pH. Meanwhile, it is found that the charge‐reversal property can improve the cellular uptake behavior and intracellular drug release in both HeLa cells and MCF‐7 cells. Additionally, the time‐dependent cytotoxicity of the DOX‐loaded PS‐PU micelles is confirmed by MTT assay. Attributed to the tunable charge‐reversal property through changing the molar ratio of piperazine/carboxyl, the PS‐PU micelles will be a potential candidate as an intelligent drug delivery system in future studies.

     

Red phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes based on a novel host material with thermally activated delayed fluorescent properties

High cost of phosphors and significant efficiency roll-off at high brightness are the two main factors that limit the wide application of phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs). Efforts have been paid to find ways to reduce the phosphors’ concentration and efficiency roll-off of PHOLEDs. In this work, we reported red emission PHOLEDs with low dopant concentration and low efficiency roll-off based on a novel host material 2,4-biscyanophenyl-6-(12-phenylindole[2,3-a]carbazole-11-yl)-1,3,5-triazine (BCPICT), with thermally activated delayed fluorescent(TADF) properties. The device with 1.0% dopant concentration displayed a maximum external quantum efficiency of 10.7%.When the dopant concentration was increased to 2.0%, the device displayed a maximum external quantum efficiency of 10.5% and a low efficiency roll-off of 5.7% at 1000 cd/m2.     

Population size estimation with covariate values missing non-ignorable

The main purpose of this paper is using capture-recapture data to estimate the population size when some covariate values are missing, possibly non-ignorable. Conditional likelihood method is adopted, with a sub-model describing various missing mechanisms. The derived estimate is proved to be asymptotically normal, and simulation studies via a version of EM algorithm show that it is approximately unbiased. The proposed method is applied to a real example, and the result is compared with previous ones.     

A new stabilized finite element method for advection‐diffusion‐reaction equations

In this article, a new stabilized finite element method is proposed and analyzed for advection‐diffusion‐reaction equations. The key feature is that both the mesh‐dependent Péclet number and the mesh‐dependent Damköhler number are reasonably incorporated into the newly designed stabilization parameter. The error estimates are established, where, up to the regularity‐norm of the exact solution, the explicit‐dependence of the diffusivity, advection, reaction, and mesh size (or the dependence of the mesh‐dependent Péclet number and the mesh‐dependent Damköhler number) is revealed. Such dependence in the error bounds provides a mathematical justification on the effectiveness of the proposed method for any values of diffusivity, advection, dissipative reaction, and mesh size. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the performance of the method. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 32: 616–645, 2016     

基于增量式PID控制的全静压测试系统设计

针对现阶段全静压测试设备结构复杂、价格昂贵,并且自动化程度低、测试效率低等问题,提出一种基于增量式PID控制的全静压测试系统的设计方法。系统通过STM32单片机完成核心控制任务,实现对密闭容器及管路中压力的精确控制,并完成压力的自动测量和相关飞行参数的显示。实验证明该系统具有响应速度快,超调量小等优点,并且能达到全静压系统测试精度的要求。该全静压测试系统成本低廉,通用性强,使用方便,测试周期短,适合于多种机型,具有较好有应用前景。     

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.