Surface structure and related chemistry understanding is a vital element in the design of high biocompatible materials since adsorption and adhesion of biological components are involved. These features are even more important in the case of nanostructured materials such as carbon nanotubes (CNTs) fibers. In our preliminary work we synthesised CNTs based fibers for medical applications. This new hybrid system combines polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) with CNTs and polylactic-co-glycolic acid (PLGA), a biodegradable copolymer. The surface properties of this material are investigated in order to guarantee a biocompatible response. Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (TOF-SIMS) was found to be an ideal tool for fiber characterisation owing to its capacity to provide chemical specificity combined with detection limits beyond the reach of techniques previously used. Complementary morphological information is provided by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The corroboration of both data enables us to define the chemistry and structure of this new formulation. 相似文献
The surface morphology evolution of Ni/W alloys was studied, as a function of the alloy composition. Using the modified plating baths developed in our laboratory recently, electroplated Ni/W alloys with different W content, in the range of 7–67 atom percent (a/o), can be obtained. This was found to lead to different structures, ranging from polycrystalline fcc-Ni type structure to amorphous, followed by orthorhombic with increasing W content in the alloy. Powder XRD was studied to determine the crystal structures. Ex situ STM, AFM and SEM were used to study in detail the surface morphologies of the different alloys, and their evolution with increasing W content.
The important findings are that a mixture of two crystalline forms can give rise to an amorphous structure. Hillocks that are usually a characteristic of epitaxial growth can also exist in the amorphous alloys. Oriented scratches caused by stress can also be formed.
Up to 20 a/o of W is deposited in the alloys in crystalline form, with the fcc-Ni type structure. Between 20 and about 40 a/o an amorphous structure is observed, and above that an orthorhombic crystal structure is seen, which is characteristic of the NiW binary alloy. Careful choice of the composition of the plating bath allowed us to deposit an alloy containing 67 a/o W, which corresponds to the composition NiW2. 相似文献
A method for solving a linear system is defined. It is a Lanczos-type method, but it uses formal vector orthogonality instead of scalar orthogonality. Moreover, the dimension of vector orthogonality may vary which gives a large freedom in leading the algorithm, and controlling the numerical problems. The ideas of truncated and restarted methods are revisited. The obtained residuals are exactly orthogonal to a space of increasing dimension. Some experiments are done, the problem of finding automaticaly good directions of projection remains partly open. 相似文献
Deployed US Navy aircraft carriers must stock a large number of spare parts to support the various types of aircraft embarked
on the ship. The sparing policy determines the spares that will be stocked on the ship to keep the embarked aircraft ready
to fly. Given a fleet of ten or more aircraft carriers and a cost of approximately 50 million dollars per carrier plus the
cost of spares maintained in warehouses in the United States, the sparing problem constitutes a significant portion of the
Navy’s resources. The objective of this work is to find a minimum-cost sparing policy that meets the readiness requirements
of the embarked aircraft. This is a very large, nonlinear, integer optimization problem. The cost function is piecewise linear
and convex while the constraint mapping is highly nonlinear. The distinguishing characteristics of this problem from an optimization
viewpoint are that a large number of decision variables are required to be integer and that the nonlinear constraint functions
are essentially “black box” functions; that is, they are very difficult (and expensive) to evaluate and their derivatives
are not available. Moreover, they are not convex. Integer programming problems with a large number of variables are difficult
to solve in general and most successful approaches to solving nonlinear integer problems have involved linear approximation
and relaxation techniques that, because of the complexity of the constraint functions, are inappropriate for attacking this
problem. We instead employ a pattern search method to each iteration of an interior point-type algorithm to solve the relaxed
version of the problem. From the solution found by the pattern search on each interior point iteration, we begin another pattern
search on the integer lattice to find a good integer solution. The best integer solution found across all interations is returned
as the optimal solution. The pattern searches are distributed across a local area network of non-dedicated, heterogeneous
computers in an office environment, thus, drastically reducing the time required to find the solution. 相似文献
An apparatus has been designed and implemented to measure the elastic tensile properties (Young's modulus and tensile strength)
of surface micromachined polysilicon specimens. The tensile specimens are “dog-bone” shaped ending in a large “paddle” for
convenient electrostatic or, in the improved apparatus, ultraviolet (UV) light curable adhesive gripping deposited with electrostatically
controlled manipulation. The typical test section of the specimens is 400 μm long with 2 μm×50 μm cross section. The new device
supports a nanomechanics method developed in our laboratory to acquire surface topologies of deforming specimens by means
of Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) to determine (fields of) strains via Digital Image Correlation (DIC). With this tool, high
strength or non-linearly behaving materials can be tested under different environmental conditions by measuring the strains
directly on the surface of the film with nanometer resolution. 相似文献
In this paper, we review briefly some methods for minimizing a functionF(x), which proceed by follwoing the solution curve of a system of ordinary differential equations. Such methods have often been thought to be unacceptably expensive; but we show, by means of extensive numerical tests, using a variety of algorithms, that the ODE approach can in fact be implemented in such a way as to be more than competitive with currently available conventional techniques.This work was supported by a SERC research studentship for the first author. Both authors are indebted to Dr. J. J. McKeown and Dr. K. D. Patel of SCICON Ltd, the collaborating establishment, for their advice and encouragement. 相似文献
An initial-value method is given for second-order singularly perturbed boundary-value problems with a boundary layer at one endpoint. The idea is to replace the original two-point boundary value problem by two suitable initial-value problems. The method is very easy to use and to implement. Nontrivial text problems are used to show the feasibility of the given method, its versatility, and its performance in solving linear and nonlinear singularly perturbed problems.This work was supported in part by the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Contract No. 86.02108.01, and in part by the Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione. 相似文献
In this paper, we discuss the classical ill-posed problem of numerical differentiation, assuming that the smoothness of the function to be differentiated is unknown. Using recent results on adaptive regularization of general ill-posed problems, we propose new rules for the choice of the stepsize in the finite-difference methods, and for the regularization parameter choice in numerical differentiation regularized by the iterated Tikhonov method. These methods are shown to be effective for the differentiation of noisy functions, and the order-optimal convergence results for them are proved.