Conformationally Selective Synthesis of Mononitrocalix[4]arene in Cone or Partial Cone

Nitro‐substituted calixarenes in a cone and a partial cone conformation were prepared selectively using distinct synthetic routes. The selective nitration of tris‐ or penta‐substituted phenols of calix[4]arene or calix[6]arene provided mononitrocalix[n ]arenes (n  =  4, 6). Subsequent addition of ethylene glycol (EG) moieties to mononitrocalix[4]arene provided tetraEGylcalix[4]arene in locked partial cone conformation. By an alternative route – initial addition of EG moieties to the non‐derivatized calix[4]arene followed by the uncontrolled nitration – provided mononitro‐ and dinitro‐tetraEGylcalix[4]arenes locked in the cone conformation. These nitrocalix[4]arenes with locked cone or partial cone conformation are useful building blocks for further assembly of supramolecular systems, especially in the area of material sciences.     

Redundant actuators to achieve minimal vibration trajectory tracking of flexible multibodies: Theory and application

We address the problem of inverse dynamics for flexible multibodies, which arises, in trajectory tracking control of flexible multibodies such as space manipulators and articulated flexible structures. Previous research has resolved this trajectory tracking problem by computing the system inputs for feedforward control of actuators at the joints. Recently, the use of distributed actuators like electro-strictive actuators in flexible structures has introduced a new dimension to this trajectory tracking problem. In this paper we optimally utilize such actuators to aid joint actuators for tracking control, and introduce a new inverse dynamics scheme for simultaneously (1) tracking a prescribed trajectory and (2) minimizing ensuing elastic deflections. We apply this scheme for trajectory tracking of a two-link two-joint planar manipulator with joint motors and distributed electro-strictive actuators. Experimental results are presented to contrast our new scheme with other existing methods.     

万有引力场中挠性联结双体系统的稳定性与分岔

本文讨论受万有引力矩作用沿圆轨道运动的挠性联结双体系统的平面天平动。讨论其相对轨道坐标系的可能平衡状态。利用Ｌｉａｐｕｎｏｖ直接法分析各平衡状态的稳定性。分析表明，当刚度系数足够小时，平衡状态呆产生分岔和稳定性突变。利用参数空间对系统的全局运动性态作出定性的描述。     

Heat release and structural collapse of flexible polyurethane foam

Flexible polyurethane foam used in upholstered furniture remains one of the major fire hazards to date. The heat release rate of burning items made of foam depends strongly on the foam's physical behavior, notably its collapse to a burning liquid that can result in a pool fire. In this contribution, the cone calorimeter was used to study the physical processes and to determine their influence on foam combustion over a range of external heat fluxes. The initial stage of foam collapse can be described as the propagation of a liquid pyrolysis layer through the foam sample. The rate of propagation of the liquid layer was found to depend strongly on the convective heat transfer from the flame, which simultaneously defined and depended on the sample shape. The effective heat of combustion during foam collapse and pool fire was matched to the heat release potential of the components of the foam formulation to deduce which are consumed. The proposed analysis can serve to clarify the mechanism of flame retardant action, as demonstrated for a commercial brominated-phosphorous compound.     

多醛基海藻酸钠交联剂的制备及性能

采用水/乙醇为反应溶剂,用高碘酸钠氧化海藻酸钠,制备了多醛基海藻酸钠(multi-aldehyde sodium alginate,MASA)。采用费林试剂、盐酸羟胺-NaOH电位滴定法、乌氏粘度计、与明胶的交联反应分别对氧化后的海藻酸钠进行表征。结果发现,氧化的海藻酸钠溶液可与费林试剂反应生成砖红色沉淀;海藻酸钠的氧化度随高碘酸钠用量及反应时间的增加而增加。投料比为80%时,氧化度最高可达约80%,收率约58.7%。MASA的粘度随反应时间、高碘酸钠浓度的增加而急剧下降。氧化度分别为20%、40%、60%的MASA,37℃下可使明胶在5min内生成凝胶。因此,水/乙醇作为反应介质、通过控制氧化剂的用量和反应时间,可以得到产率较高、分子量及氧化度可控的多醛基海藻酸钠多糖交联剂。     

Development of novel flexible black silicon

We report a new type of black silicon: flexible black silicon. A silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer is irradiated by automatically scanning a femtosecond laser and then split by etching out the SOI silica middle layer. Large-area, uniform micro spikes on the surface of a very thin flexible silicon layer are obtained. The black silicon shows good flexibility and optical properties. The absorption spectrum of the flexible black silicon is as high as 97% in the visible and insensitive to the change of the incident angle of the light, which makes it a potential good candidate as an absorber for the solar-thermo generator.     

A discrete artificial bee colony algorithm for the multi-objective flexible job-shop scheduling problem with maintenance activities

This paper presents a novel discrete artificial bee colony (DABC) algorithm for solving the multi-objective flexible job shop scheduling problem with maintenance activities. Performance criteria considered are the maximum completion time so called makespan, the total workload of machines and the workload of the critical machine. Unlike the original ABC algorithm, the proposed DABC algorithm presents a unique solution representation where a food source is represented by two discrete vectors and tabu search (TS) is applied to each food source to generate neighboring food sources for the employed bees, onlooker bees, and scout bees. An efficient initialization scheme is introduced to construct the initial population with a certain level of quality and diversity. A self-adaptive strategy is adopted to enable the DABC algorithm with learning ability for producing neighboring solutions in different promising regions whereas an external Pareto archive set is designed to record the non-dominated solutions found so far. Furthermore, a novel decoding method is also presented to tackle maintenance activities in schedules generated. The proposed DABC algorithm is tested on a set of the well-known benchmark instances from the existing literature. Through a detailed analysis of experimental results, the highly effective and efficient performance of the proposed DABC algorithm is shown against the best performing algorithms from the literature.     

Flexible capacity strategy with multiple market periods under demand uncertainty and investment constraint

We establish a flexible capacity strategy model with multiple market periods under demand uncertainty and investment constraints. In the model, a firm makes its capacity decision under a financial budget constraint at the beginning of the planning horizon which embraces n market periods. In each market period, the firm goes through three decision-making stages: the safety production stage, the additional production stage and the optimal sales stage. We formulate the problem and obtain the optimal capacity, the optimal safety production, the optimal additional production and the optimal sales of each market period under different situations. We find that there are two thresholds for the unit capacity cost. When the capacity cost is very low, the optimal capacity is determined by its financial budget; when the capacity cost is very high, the firm keeps its optimal capacity at its safety production level; and when the cost is in between of the two thresholds, the optimal capacity is determined by the capacity cost, the number of market periods and the unit cost of additional production. Further, we explore the endogenous safety production level. We verify the conditions under which the firm has different optimal safety production levels. Finally, we prove that the firm can benefit from the investment only when the designed planning horizon is longer than a threshold. Moreover, we also derive the formulae for the above three thresholds.     

柔性基底红外波段左手材料制备及光学特性

采用平板电极化学电沉积的方法,通过调节实验参量,在柔性ITO导电薄膜基底上制备了尺度与红外波长匹配、结构单元大小不等、排列无序的银树枝状结构.通过调节聚乙二醇-20000浓度可以很好地调控银树枝状结构单元的形貌和尺寸,研究发现,在一定范围内增加电解液中的聚乙二醇-20000浓度,可在基底上形成分布较密、分枝较细、分枝级数较高的银树枝状结构单元.通过在银树枝状结构表面涂覆一定厚度的聚乙烯醇作为绝缘层,组装成了柔性"三明治"结构复合材料,测试得到样品在红外波段的多通带透射谱,平板聚焦实验进一步验证了样品的左手效应.