Hydrogenation of imines by rhodium-phosphine complexes

The hydrogenation of imines using RhCl(PPh₃)₃ and [Rh(PPh₃)₂(diene)]PF₆ as catalyst precursors is effective at room temperature under 1 atm of hydrogen, using alcohols as solvents. A water-diethylether phase-transfer system has been used for a solid imine. A catalytic cycle featuring hydrogen bonding between a coordinated alcohol and an imine, and involving a dialkylamido intermediate, is proposed.     

The factors affecting the thickness of sol-gel derived silica coatings prepared by dipping

A partially hydrolysed solution of tetraethoxysilane was used to prepare thin glassy films on glass microscope slides by dipping. The thickness of these films after heat treatment to 500 °C was determined as a function of the withdrawal speed and the properties of the coating solution, such as viscosity, density and surface tension. The results were fitted to available theories of dip coating and acceptable agreement was obtained for coating solution viscosities below around 8 mPas and withdrawal speeds in the range 5 to 15 cm/min. In addition, the thickness of selected coatings were obtained at a range of heat treatment temperatures. Differences in the thickness of coatings prepared after different maturing times of the solution are also discussed.     

污水处理厂及受纳水体样品的三维荧光光谱解析

采用三维荧光光谱表征了污水厂各处理单元及受纳水体上下游的样品,应用平行因子分析方法获得了样品中各主成分的激发发射光谱图及荧光强度得分矩阵。结果表明,类蛋白质和类富里酸物质是污水厂和受纳水体样品的主要荧光组分。污水厂进水样品的类蛋白质荧光较强,后续各处理单元样品的荧光强度显著下降。受纳水体上游样品的类蛋白质荧光较弱,经过城区各取样点的类蛋白质荧光显著增加,而污水厂排放口上游荧光强度则显著高于下游。类蛋白质荧光强度得分可与样品COD值建立相关曲线,污水厂与受纳水体样品的相关系数分别为0.930和0.913,类蛋白质荧光可以反映样品点的有机污染程度。该研究为污水处理厂的运行及其对受纳水体影响提供了新的思路和方法。     

温度扰动下CuCl2/DMF溶液的二维相关拉曼光谱分析

溶液的光谱研究一直受到化学工作者的关注,但大多研究是以一维光谱技术为主,存在分辨率低,误差较大,重叠峰难以分辨等诸多弊端,无法清晰地给出需要的信息。二维光谱通过对外部扰动下的动态光谱进行相关分析计算,从而得到光谱强度的整体变化信息,显著提高一维光谱的分辨率以及重叠峰的分离度。在判断特定外扰下不同官能团的响应次序以及研究分子间、分子内的弱相互作用上具有独特优势。采用二维相关拉曼光谱和理论计算相结合,对溶液内微观团簇及其变化进行了研究。利用显微共焦激光拉曼光谱仪对目标溶液(纯DMF与0.84 mol·L-1的CuCl₂/DMF溶液)进行了升温实验。结果发现在C-N键伸缩振动谱带范围内,由于CuCl₂的加入,特征峰强度整体大幅下降,峰宽变大,在1 115 cm-1有新峰产生,随温度升高,伸缩振动峰强度逐渐下降,峰形变缓。为了获得C-N键振动内各特征峰随温度的变化情况,采用移动窗口二维拉曼(MW2D Raman)光谱技术,对光谱数据进行分析。结果表明溶液内不同类别的微观团簇对温度的敏锐程度不同,随温度升高,它们之间存在相互转化,且变化速度不同。为了获取溶液内各微观团簇运动的实质,以温度为外扰,采用二维拉曼(2D Raman)光谱对目标溶液进行分析,通过对二维光谱中特征峰进行归属和变化次序判断,发现金属Cu2+的加入,使得溶液体系变得更加复杂,除存在原溶剂内所含的团簇构型,还存在与Cu2+发生溶剂化的团簇构型,它们之间存在着一定的相互转化。利用密度泛函理论对溶液中可能存在的团簇构型进行结构优化和热力学计算,结果证实了Cu2+与DMF存在相互作用,且由此产生的团簇构型[Cu(DMF)_n]2+(n=1~6)的稳定性随n的增大逐渐变差,进一步验证了二维相关光谱分析的可行性与正确性。     

Intelligibility enhancement for noisy whispered speech using asymmetric cost function

We proposed two whispered speech enhancement methods based on asymmetric cost functions in this paper to deal with the amplification and attenuation distortions of whispered speech distinctively.The modified Itakura-Saito（MIS）distance function provides more penalties to speech amplification distortion,whereas the Kullback-Leibler（KL）divergence function gives more penalties to speech attenuation distortion.The experimental results show that the MIS function based method achieves significant improvement of intelligibility in contrast to the conventional speech enhancement algorithms when the signal-to-noise ratio（SNR）falls below-6 dB,whereas the KL function based one achieves the similar result as the minimum mean square error（MMSE）speech enhancement method.The results show that the effects of the amplification and attenuation distortions on the intelligibility of the enhanced whisper are different,where larger attenuation distortion may result in better intelligibility of speech with low SNR.However,the attenuation distortion has small effects on intelligibility of speech with high SNR.     

Mo掺杂调控电子结构增强NiS电催化固氮性能

以泡沫镍为骨架,通过水热法制备了Mo掺杂的NiS多级纳米花状结构(Mo-NiS).在偏压为-0.7 V(vs RHE)下,2 h内,0.83 Mo-NiS(制备时钼、镍物质的量之比为0.83)的电催化固氮速率平均可达4.21μg·cm-2·h-1,法拉第效率平均为18％.XPS测试和DFT计算表明,Mo掺杂增加了Ni活...     

A proposal for preparation of cluster states with linear optics

Measurement-based quantum computation in an optical setup shows great promise towards the implementation oflarge-scale quantum computation. The difficulty of measurement-based quantum computation lies in the preparation ofcluster state. In this paper, we propose the method of generating the large-scale cluster state, which is a platform formeasurement-based quantum computation. In order to achieve more complex quantum circuits, the preparation protocolof N-photon cluster state will be proposed as a generalization of the preparation of four- and five-photon cluster states.Furthermore, our proposal is experimentally feasible.     

Proposal for Remotely Realizing Multi-qubit Controlled-Phase Gates

A feasible proposal is explored to remotely perform a family of multi-qubit controlled-phase gates (MQCPG), with the aid of entanglement transfer and quantum repeater. To remotely realize the gates, some local transformations, including single-qubit rotating operation, controlled-NOT gate and quantum phase gate, are employed during the realization. It turns out that MQCPG can be implemented among separate spatially agents with nearly unit fidelity and success probability. Besides, required classical information consumption of the proposed scenario is worked out. Furthermore, some attractive issues are discussed including the feature of present proposal and the experimental feasibility based on current technologies. Remarkably, it is revealed that our proposal essentially accesses to several nontrivial features lying in breaking through the limitation that error probability scales exponentially with the length of the channel in the course of the realization of the gates, and well compatibility with today’s experimental technologies.     

A novel hierarchical crystalline structure of injection-molded bars of linear polymer: co-existence of bending and normal shish–kebab structure

The hierarchy structures and orientation behavior of high-density polyethylene (HDPE) molded by conventional injection molding (CIM) and gas-assisted injection molding (GAIM) were intensively examined by using scanning electronic microscopy (SEM) and 2D wide-angle X-ray diffraction (2D-WAXD). Results show that the spatial variation of crystals across the thickness of sample molded by CIM was characterized by a typical skin–core structure as a result of general shear-induced crystallization. Unusually, the crystalline morphologies of the parts prepared by GAIM, primarily due to the penetration of secondary high-compressed gas that was exerted on the polymer melt during gas injection, featured a richer and fascinating supermolecular structure. Besides, the oriented lamellar structure, general shish–kebab structure, and common spherulites existed in the skin, sub-skin, and gas channel region, respectively; a novel morphology of shish–kebab structure was seen in the sub-skin layer of the GAIM parts of HDPE. This special shish–kebab structure (recognized as “bending shish–kebab”) was neither parallel nor perpendicular to the flow direction but at an angle. Furthermore, there was a clear interface between the bending and the normal shish–kebab structures, which may be very significant for our understanding of the melt flow or polymer rheology under the coupling effect of multi-fluid flow and complex temperature profiles in the GAIM process. Based on experimental observations, a schematic illustration was proposed to interpret the formation mechanism of the bending shish–kebab structure during GAIM process.