Polymer multilayer film formation studied by in situ ellipsometry and electrochemistry

Polyelectrolyte multilayer films adsorbed on gold surfaces were studied by combined ellipsometric and electrochemical methods. Multilayers were composed of “synthetic” (poly(4-styrenesulfonic acid) ammonium salt (PSS) and poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) (PSS/PAH)) and “semi-natural” (carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and chitosan (CHI) (CMC/CHI)) polyelectrolytes. It was found that only PSS/PAH Layer-by-Layer (LbL) assembled structures result in dense surface confined films that limit permeability of small molecules, such as ferri-/ferrocyanide. The PSS/PAH assemblies can be envisaged as films with pinholes, through which small molecules diffuse. During the LbL deposition process of these films a number of pinholes quickly decay. A representative pinhole diameter was found to be approximately 20 μm, which determines the diffusion of small molecules through LbL films, and yet remains constant when the film consists of a few LbL assembled polyelectrolyte bilayers. CMC/CHI LbL assemblies at gold electrode surfaces give very low density films, which do not limit the diffusion of ferri-/ferrocyanide between the surface of the electrode and the solution.     

Poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide)-grafted polyacrylamide: a self-coating copolymer for sieving separation of native proteins by CE

The potential of a series of newly synthesized poly(N,N-dimethylacrylamide) (PDMA) grafted polyacrylamide (PAM) copolymers (P(AM-PDMA)) as a replaceable separation medium for protein analysis was studied. A comparative study with and without copolymers was performed; the separation efficiency, analysis reproducibility and protein recovery proved that the P(AM-PDMA) copolymers were efficient in suppressing the adsorption of basic proteins onto the silica capillary wall. Furthermore, the size-dependent retardation of native proteins in a representative P(AM-PDMA) copolymer was demonstrated by Ferguson analysis. The results showed that the P(AM-PDMA) copolymers combine the good coating property of PDMA and the sieving property of PAM and could be applied as a sieving matrix for the analysis of native proteins.     

The self-similarly expanding Eshelby ellipsoidal inclusion: I. Field solution

The solution of a self-similarly (subsonically) dynamically expanding ellipsoidal inclusion with general spatially uniform transformation strain temporally constant is obtained by the use of the Radon transform and the satisfaction of the zero initial conditions and the radiation condition at infinity. It constitutes the self-similar evolution of the inclusion singularity (jump discontinuity at the inclusion boundary) starting from zero dimension. The field solutions for the displacement gradient and particle velocity are presented. Due to the fact that for a self-similarly expanding subsonic motion the hyperbolic system of the partial differential equations of motion becomes elliptic (as proved in Ni and Markenscoff, 2015), it is shown here explicitly that the solution for the displacement gradient in the interior domain of the expanding ellipsoid is constant, thus extending the Eshelby property to the self-similarly expanding ellipsoids as pointed out by Burridge and Willis (1969). Also, the particle velocity is shown to be zero in the interior domain (lacuna) as the waves emitted by the self-similarly expanding inclusion cancel each other due to the symmetries of geometry and motion.     

Defects inspection of the solder bumps using self reference technology in active thermography

With the decrease of solder bumps in dimension and pitch, defects inspection of the solder bumps become more difficult. A nondestructive detection system based on the active thermography has been developed for solder bumps inspection. However, heating non-uniformities and emissivity differences may impede the defects recognition. In this paper, we propose a method using a self reference technology based on a source distribution image (SDI) to eliminate the influence of unevenness in emissivity values and heating power distribution. Three thermograms captured right after the heat pulse are averaged to create the SDI. Then the SDI is subtracted from the original thermograms, and we get the thermal contrast images, in which eight points on the edge of each hot spot are selected as the feature points for the corresponding bump. Thermal difference between the feature points and the central point are adopted to quantify the thermal behaviors of the solder bumps, by which the missing bump is distinguished from the reference bumps. The results show that it is effective using the method to eliminate the impacts of emissivity unevenness and heating non-uniformities on defects identification in the active infrared test.     

The effect of plasma channel on the self-distortion of laser pulse propagating through the collisional plasma channel

In the present paper, laser pulse distortion/breakup and the effect of the plasma channel on the laser propagation through the collisional plasma have been studied by using moment theory approach. Second order nonlinear differential equations of the beam width parameter have been derived for the propagation of the laser through uniform homogenous plasma and preformed plasma channel having parabolic density profile. Differential equations of beam width parameter have been solved numerically using Runge Kutta method. It has been observed from analysis that when the laser pulse propagates through the homogenous plasma, the low intensity front and rear parts of the laser get defocused/diffracted and the high intensity central/main portion of the laser pulse gets self-guided. As a result of this, the laser pulse gets distorted. This distortion of the laser has not been observed when the laser pulse is propagated through the plasma channel having density minimum at the axis and maximum at the edges. The laser pulse is guided as a whole, even the low intensity front and rear parts of the laser are also guided. Therefore, the plasma channel is useful to prevent the distortion/breakup of the laser.     

Preparation and evaluation of thermally stable nano-structured self-doped polythiophene coating for analysis of phthalate ester trace levels

Nano‐structured self‐doped polythiophene (SPT) electrodeposited in the presence of fluorinated organic acid was applied as a thermally stable conductive polymer‐based solid‐phase microextraction (SPME) fiber candidate. Quantitative determination of trace levels of phthalate esters including dimethyl phthalate (DMP), diethyl phthalate (DEP), dibutyl phthalate (DBP), and diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) was carried out using this novel fiber, coupling with gas chromatography‐flame ionization detector (GC‐FID). The SPT coating was proved to be stable at high temperatures (～350°C) with a high extraction capacity and long lifetime (more than 60 times). Improved temperature resistance was obtained by the presence of sulfonated groups in the backbone of polymer. Thermal stability of novel SPT was superior to common polythiophene (synthesized in LiClO₄). The extraction procedure was optimized by means of the Taguchi orthogonal array experimental design with an OA₁₆ (4⁵) matrix including extraction temperature, extraction time, salt concentration, stirring rate, and headspace volume. The good linearity was obtained for most compounds with correlation coefficients (R²) of between 0.993 and 0.995. The detection limits were lower than 0.12 ng/mL for dimethyl phthalate, DEP, dibutyl phthalate, and diethylhexyl phthalate. The method was successfully applied to the analysis of water samples with the recoveries from 90±1 to 107±1%.     

基于DIS系统测定自制音叉振动频率的研究

利用自制装置将音叉的振动转换为感应电流,使用数字信息化系统(DIS)微电流传感器,变更测量参量,从而测定出待测音叉的频率.     

自嵌入双功能图像水印算法

利用自嵌入技术提出一种同时实现版权保护和内容认证的双功能图像水印算法.在嵌入端,首先将原始图像划分成互不重叠的子块,将各子块每个像素的最低m位置0,然后将最低m位置0后的子块进行奇异值分解,通过提取奇异值范数的最高位奇偶性产生原始鲁棒特征水印,然后再将原始鲁棒特征水印嵌入各子块每个像素的最低m位得到含水印图像.检测端从攻击的含水印图像提取鲁棒特征水印的过程与嵌入端产生原始鲁棒特征水印的过程类似,并且通过计算提取的鲁棒特征水印与原始鲁棒特征水印之间的归一化相关度进行版权鉴别,通过判断提取的鲁棒特征水印与攻击图像各子块每个像素的最低m位的一致性实现篡改检测进行内容认证.理论分析和实验结果都表明算法具有非常好的不可见性.实验结果还表明,算法不仅在抵抗添加噪音、剪切、JPEG压缩、平滑、重采样和几何攻击如随机删除行、向右偏移列、向下偏移行表现出很强的鲁棒性,而且能够精确定位出篡改位置和区分篡改类型.因此,算法具有版权保护和内容认证双重功能.     

基于梯度阈值自适应处理的红外图像超分辨率重建

超分辨率图像重建中,Huber马尔可夫随机场模型是一种常用的正则化算子.针对Huber函数中固定梯度阈值引起图像重建效果不佳的问题,本文提出一种梯度阈值自适应处理的红外图像超分辨率重建算法.在最大后验概率理论框架下,构造了基于数据项和正则项的正则化模型;通过迭代的方式,利用中间重建结果不断更新正则化参量,解决了Huber马尔可夫随机场模型中梯度阈值不易选择的难题.实验结果表明,改进算法能够根据局部梯度特征自适应选择相应的正则化参量并找到最优解,较好恢复目标细节的同时有效抑制了图像噪音.     

Structure of planar integral self‐affine tilings

For a self‐affine tile in $\mathbf {R}^2$ generated by an expanding matrix $A\in M_2(\mathbf {Z})$ and an integral consecutive collinear digit set ${\mathcal D}$, Leung and Lau [Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 359 , 3337–3355 (2007).] provided a necessary and sufficient algebraic condition for it to be disklike. They also characterized the neighborhood structure of all disklike tiles in terms of the algebraic data A and ${\mathcal D}$. In this paper, we completely characterize the neighborhood structure of those non‐disklike tiles. While disklike tiles can only have either six or eight edge or vertex neighbors, non‐disklike tiles have much richer neighborhood structure. In particular, other than a finite set, a Cantor set, or a set containing a nontrivial continuum, neighbors can intersect in a union of a Cantor set and a countable set.