Predicting Polymorphism of Electrospun Polyvinylidene Fluoride Membranes by Their Morphologies

Although electrospinning of polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) has been studied for more than 10 years, the crystalline phase differentiation of the electrospun mats is still normally through the combination of different characterization techniques, and the relationship between polymorphism and morphology of the fibers in electrospun PVDF membranes has never been reported. Here, we show their close relationships by conducting room-temperature electrospinning experiments on various polymer/solvent systems. The electrospun membranes full of bead-free fibers have a very high fraction of β-phase, F(β), over 90%, and high orientation, whereas the membranes comprising beads and/or a large number of beaded fibers most often result in a low fraction of β-phase (F(β) normally below 50%) and low orientation. On the other hand, electrospun membranes consisting of both bead-free fibers and a very limited number of beaded fibers showed a medium high fraction of β-phase, F(β) more than 70% but less than 90%. These findings suggest the feasibility of intuitively predicting the crystalline phase of electrospun PVDF membranes directly by their morphologies, which is obviously simple, inexpensive and convenient for future investigations.     

Percolation Thresholds in Ternary Polymer Melt Blends with Separate Dispersions of the Inner Phases: Mathematical Model

A mathematical model based on a straightforward geometrical background is developed which enables predictions of a transition of one dispersed phase to a cocontinuous one (i.e., the percolation threshold) on addition of another dispersed phase during melt mixing in ternary polymer blends. The present work concerns only ternary blends with two separate dispersions of the inner phases in which no encapsulation takes place. In addition, in order to simplify the model, one of the inner phases was represented by hard, nondeformable microspheres The expression developed describes well an experimental relationship between the percolation threshold, the concentration above which the former dispersed phase transforms to a continuous one, and concentrations of both inner phases. The results agree well with the experimental data obtained in a previous work.     

Thermal stability of amorphous SiOC/crystalline Fe composite

We examined the thermal stability of amorphous silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) and crystalline Fe composite by in situ and ex situ annealing. The Fe/SiOC multilayer thin films were grown via magnetron sputtering with controlled length scales on a surface-oxidized Si (100) substrate. These Fe/SiOC multilayers were in situ or ex situ annealed at temperature of 600 °C or lower. The thin multilayer sample (~10 nm) was observed to have a layer breakdown after 600 °C annealing. Diffusion starts from low groove angle triple junctions in Fe layers. In contrast, the thick multilayer structure (~70 nm) was found to be stable and an intermixed layer (Fe_xSi_yO_z) was observed after 600 °C annealing. The thickness of the intermixed layer does not vary as annealing time goes up. The results suggest that the Fe_xSi_yO_z layer can impede further Fe, Si and O diffusion, and assists in maintaining morphological stability.     

有机小分子发光材料与聚合物发光材料在大气存放条件下的稳定性对比研究

分别采用紫外光电子能谱（UPS）、X光电子能谱（XPS）、原子力显微镜（AFM）、以及光致发光光谱（PL）等方法对在大气存放条件下的8－羟基喹啉铝（Alq)薄膜和聚（9,9－二辛烷基芴）（PFO）薄膜的电子结构、表面形 及发光特性进行了对比。研究结果表明,PFO的电子结构、表面形貌以及发光特性受外界气氛影响极小,是一种非常稳定的聚合物发光材料。这为聚合物发光器件的稳定性提供了有利的条件。     

界面动力学对过冷熔体中球晶生长界面形态的影响

考虑了在非平衡凝固条件下球晶生长过程中界面动力学系数随界面温度的变化,利用渐近分析方法求出了在过冷熔体中球晶生长温度场和界面的近似解析解,研究了非线性界面动力学过冷对于过冷熔体中球晶界面形态和生长速度的影响.研究表明,界面动力学系数越大,球晶的生长速度越快; 反之,表明界面动力学系数越小,球晶的生长速度越慢.与忽略界面动力学的情形比较,在球晶生长过程中依赖于界面温度变化的界面动力学显著地减缓了晶体生长的速度. 关键词： 球晶 界面形态 渐近分析     

利用混合有机空穴传输材料提升有机薄膜晶体管场效应迁移率

通过采用在并五苯薄膜与源漏电极之间插入10 nm并五苯掺杂的N,N'-二苯基-N,N'-二(3-甲基苯基)-1,1'-联苯-4,4'-二胺薄膜的方法研究了基于并五苯有源层的底栅错面型有机薄膜晶体管的电学特性。研究发现:N,N'-二苯基-N,N'-二(3-甲基苯基)-1,1'-联苯-4,4'-二胺的引入可以有效改善有源层和源漏电极接触界面的表面形貌,利于形成欧姆接触,从而改善器件性能,最终使优化器件的迁移率由(0.1±0.01)cm2/(V·s)提升至(0.31±0.02)cm2/(V·s),阈值电压由(-34.6±1.3)V降至(-30.1±1.2)V。     

基于数学形态学的弱点状运动目标的检测

提出了一种新的基于数学形态学的红外图像序列中弱点状运动目标的非参数检测算法。采用数学形态学抑制背景杂波干扰和增强目标,用沿时间轴投影和二维空域搜索代替复杂的时空三维搜索形成组合帧,然后在每条可能的轨迹上将进行目标能量累加,实现了一种快速检测前跟踪(TBD)检测算法。仿真实验表明:在恒虚警概率条件下,该检测算法能高效地检测信噪比约为2的弱点状运动目标,检测性能对噪声分布不敏感,能精确地得到目标的即时位置和速度信息,适合于实时图像处理和目标探测,具有很高的实用价值。     

One-dimensional Anderson model with dichotomic correlation in the presence of external electric field

A one-dimensional diagonal tight binding electronic system with dichotomic correlated disorder in the presence of external d.c field is investigated. It is found numerically that the conductance distribution obeys fairly well to log-normal distribution in weak disorder strength in localized regime, which indicates validity of single parameter scaling theory in this limit. Contrary to the universal cumulant relation C ₁ = 2C ₂ in the absence of d.c. field, we demonstrated numerically that C ₁ ≫ 2C ₂ in the presence of the field in localized regime. We interpret this result as suppression of the fluctuation effects by the external field. In addition, it is obtained that the quantity NF _c , here N is the system size and F _c is the crossover field, decreases as the as the system energy E increases. Moreover, we find numerically a simple linear relation between the average logarithm of the conductance 〈ln(g)〉 and the field strength as 〈ln(g)〉 = C(N, λ)F, here C(N, λ) is a constant for particular values of N and λ, which is the Poisson parameter of the dichotomic process.     

Image analysis of atmospheric corrosion of field exposure high strength aluminium alloys

The corrosion morphology image acquisition system which can be used in the field was established. In Beijing atmospheric corrosion exposure station, the image acquisition system was used to capture the early stage corrosion morphology of five types of high strength aluminium alloy specimens. After the denoise treatment, wavelet-based image analysis method was applied to decompose the improved images and energies of sub-images were extracted as character information. Based on the variation of image energy values, the corrosion degree of aluminium alloy specimens was qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed. The conclusion was basically identical with the result based on the corrosion weight loss. This method is supposed to be effective to analysis and quantify the corrosion damage from image of field exposure aluminium alloy specimens.     

用蒙特卡罗方法模拟直接转换X射线探测器的响应特性

采用Monte Carlo方法模拟了HgI₂、非晶Se和CdTe几种直接X射线转换探测器在医用X射线范围(10—100keV)的透过谱、背向散射谱、吸收效率和光电灵敏度. 对X射线和HgI₂的作用过程模拟采用了EGSnrc Monte Carlo代码系统, 对信号电荷的产生考虑了电荷产生的高斯噪声和材料深陷阱作用造成的部分电荷收集影响. 结果表明, 载流子平均自由程(Schubweg)在相对于探测材料厚度较小时, 陷阱作用能很大地影响探测灵敏度. HgI₂的灵敏度是非晶Se的5倍以上, CdTe的灵敏度是非晶Se的10倍以上, 采用高Z序数材料可以大大提高探测灵敏度.