应用于氧还原反应的石墨烯-无定形碳核壳结构复合材料载铂催化剂(英文)

采用氯化法制备石墨烯-无定型碳复合材料(GNS@a-C),并用作质子交换膜燃料电池(PEMFC)氧还原反应Pt催化剂的载体.结果显示,所制Pt/GNS@a-C催化剂与传统商业催化剂Pt/C相比,有较好的活性和较高的稳定性:质量活性(0.121 A/mg)几乎是Pt/C(0.064 A/mg)的两倍.更重要的是,该新型催化剂加速4000圈后其电化学活性面积保留了最初的51%,与Pt/C的33%相比,前者有更好的电化学稳定性,显示它在PEMFC中将具有较好的应用潜力.     

添加甲醇对二甲醚/空气二阶段燃烧过程的影响

采用一维层流预混火焰模型对二甲醚/甲醇/空气预混气体的流动反应过程进行了数值模拟, 考察甲醛、甲酸等污染物的生成规律. 结果表明: 在低流速下, 添加甲醇能够改变二甲醚反应途径, 抑制二甲醚的低温氧化反应. 当添加和二甲醚等质量的甲醇时, 二甲醚几乎不发生低温氧化反应, 生成的OH自由基减少是导致其发生的主要原因. 随着甲醇添加量的增加, 甲酸排放指数EI_HCOOH迅速降低, 而甲醛排放指数EI_HCHO在少量增加后持续降低. 添加适量甲醇能够同时降低这两种污染物的排放指数.     

In Situ Explosive Detection Using a Miniature Plasma Ion Source and a Portable Mass Spectrometer

A small low-temperature plasma (LTP) ionization probe was coupled to a portable mass spectrometer for the rapid detection of trace explosives on surfaces. Using only a small diaphragm pump to supply ambient air to the LTP source, 100 ng each of pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), 1,3,5-trinitroperhydro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX), and 2,4,6-trinitrophenylmethylnitramine (Tetryl) were detectable on glass in under 1 minute. The main ion signal from these molecules (M) is the [M + NO₃]^? species. While much optimization remains, it is believed that this miniature LTP source will remove the need for external gas cylinders and additional heating for in situ explosives detection using portable mass spectrometers.     

Slow Relaxation in Ice and Ice Clathrates and its Connection to the Low-Temperature Phase Transition Induced by Dopants

We have used dielectric spectroscopy (frequency range: 10 6 Hz-10 m 3 Hz) and differential scanning calorimetry down to a temperature of 77 K, to study the effect of various dopants on the molecular relaxation in hexagonal ice ( I h ) and some clathrate hydrates ( I c ). The nonelectrolytic dopants did not affect a large change in the dynamics. However, when I h and I c are doped with the alkali hydroxides: KOH, NaOH, LiOH and Ca(OH) 2 , a drastic fall in the relaxation times of the order of 10 7 -10 12 has been noticed. It appears that the alkali metal- and hydroxyl-ion pair exert a large influence on the orientational mobility of water molecules by way of polarization over a domain. The amount of phase that gets transformed to the low temperature (low- T ) ordered phase depends on the solid solubility of the dopant. The nature of the relaxation and variation of the static dielectric constant have been examined critically to get an insight into the actual mechanism responsible for the above phenomena. Our studies confirm the earlier views of Tajima et al . (1984) J. Phys. Chem. Solids , 45 , 1135, that the low- T phase transition which has so far escaped observation for kinetic reasons has now revealed itself by the catalytic action of the dopants.     

Inelastic low-temperature transport through a quantum dot with a Mn ion

Using the nonequilibrium Hubbard operator Green's function technique, we study the inelastic low-temperature quantum transport through an artificial single-molecule magnet coupled to a single phonon mode. For a minimal model based on CdTe quantum dot doped with a single Mn²⁺ ion (S=5/2), the calculated results show that in the presence of hole–phonon coupling, in addition to main Kondo-like peaks associated with (2S+1) sublevels of spin pair states, satellite Kondo-like peaks originating from emitting phonons appear in the local density of states and differential conductance. Moreover, the number of these phonon-induced Kondo-like peaks depends on the parity of the local large spin, i.e., S=integer or half-integer. It is expected that the intrinsic properties of artificial single-molecule magnets can be obtained by detecting these transport characteristics.     

Low-temperature light detectors: Neganov–Luke amplification and calibration

The simultaneous measurement of phonons and scintillation light induced by incident particles in a scintillating crystal such as CaWO₄ is a powerful technique for the active rejection of background induced by γ?s and β  ?s and even neutrons in direct Dark Matter searches. However, ?1%$?1\text{\%}$ of the energy deposited in a CaWO₄ crystal is detected as light. Thus, very sensitive light detectors are needed for an efficient event-by-event background discrimination. Due to the Neganov–Luke effect, the threshold of low-temperature light detectors based on semiconducting substrates can be improved significantly by drifting the photon-induced electron–hole pairs in an applied electric field. We present measurements with low-temperature light detectors based on this amplification mechanism. The Neganov–Luke effect makes it possible to improve the signal-to-noise ratio of our light detectors by a factor of ∼9 corresponding to an energy threshold of ∼21 eV$\sim 21\text{eV}$. We also describe a method for an absolute energy calibration using a light-emitting diode.     

Low-temperature direct wafer bonding of GaAs/InP

An approach for low-temperature direct wafer bonding of GaAs/InP was presented. The bonding procedure was carried out at temperatures from 350 to 500 ^°C, and the bonded n-GaAs/n-InP specimens were obtained even at a temperature as low as 350 ^°C. The compositional profile on the GaAs/InP heterointerface was studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. The bonded interfacial properties were also characterized by current–voltage (I–V$I\text{–}V$) and bonding strength measurement. The experimental results revealed an InGaAsP (or/and InGaAs) interlayer formed at the bonded interface, which influences the electrical property as well as the bonding strength. For the specimen bonded at 350 ^°C, the transport of major carriers could be explained by a tunneling effect. But the carrier transport was described by the thermionic emission theory for the specimen bonded at 450 ^°C. Finally, the mechanism of GaAs/InP bonding was discussed.     

Plastic flow in very low temperature regime within annular micropores

The rate of deformation for glassy (amorphous) matter confined in microscopic domain at very low temperature regime was investigated using a rate-state-dependent model considering the shear thinning behavior which means, once material being subjected to high shear rates, the viscosity diminishes with increasing shear rate. The preliminary results show that there might be the enhanced rate of deformation and (shear) yield stress due to the almost vanishing viscosity in micropores subjected to some surface conditions: The relatively larger roughness (compared to the macroscopic domain) inside micropores and the slip. As the pore size decreases, the surface-to-volume ratio increases and therefore, surface roughness will greatly affect the (plastic) flow in micropores. By using the boundary perturbation method, we obtained a class of microscopic fields for the rate of deformation and yield stress at low temperature regime with the presumed small wavy roughness distributed along the walls of an annular micropore.     

Modeling of band shapes in the low-temperature molecular liquid spectra affected by resonance dipole–dipole interaction

The band shape theory of the vibrational transitions accompanied by an excitation of a strongly IR-active fundamental is elaborated for low-temperature molecular liquids with an account for strong intermolecular resonance dipole–dipole interactions. The developed model of a liquid uses the regular (fcc structure) crystal whose structure is then destroyed by introducing random, normally distributed displacements of particle positions, by assigning arbitrary molecular orientations as well as a varied number of randomly distributed vacancies. This model was applied to several molecular liquids , those having triply degenerate modes were studied more in detail.     

基于DBD 悬浮电极低温等离子体杀菌消毒仪研制

基于介质阻挡放电(DBD)原理,研究设计了一种悬浮电极式的低温等离子体发生设备,产生的等离子体温度较低且对人体安全,可直接接触。用所研制的低温等离子体发生设备对大肠杆菌做了灭活实验,实验结果表明,该设备产生的低温等离子体对大肠杆菌作用10s 以上,在等离子体有效作用区内大肠杆菌杀灭率为100%,表明所研制的低温等离子体发生设备具有很好的杀菌消毒效果。