Shape controlled interpolatory ternary subdivision

Ternary subdivision schemes compare favorably with their binary analogues because they are able to generate limit functions with the same (or higher) smoothness but smaller support.In this work we consider the two issues of local tension control and conics reproduction in univariate interpolating ternary refinements. We show that both these features can be included in a unique interpolating 4-point subdivision method by means of non-stationary insertion rules that do not affect the improved smoothness and locality of ternary schemes. This is realized by exploiting local shape parameters associated with the initial polyline edges.     

最优折衷三元相位振幅滤波器设计

 为了使在空间光调制器上易于实现的三元相位振幅滤波器在畸变容限、噪声抑制能力和相关峰尖锐度这3个指标上均能取得较好的性能,在最优折衷最大相关高度滤波器的基础上提出了最优折衷三元相位振幅滤波器,并研究了其设计方法。它只需最大化单个准则就能确定最优的临界线角度和支撑区域,简化了优化设计过程。实验结果表明：与二元纯相位滤波器相比,这种滤波器对于在30°的旋转畸变范围内并存在复杂背景的目标能给出更尖锐的相关峰。这将提高相关峰探测的准确性。     

插层三元铁硒超导体的电子结构和磁性质的理论研究

最近发现的插层三元铁硒超导体AyFexSe2（A=K,Rb,Cs和/或Tl）显示诸多新颖现象.为了澄清这些现象,作者分别计算了没有铁空位的基于完整四方FeSe层的AFe2Se2,含有四分之一铁空位的4×2或2×2超结构的AFe1.5Se2,以及含有五分之一铁空位的槡5×槡5超结构的A0.8Fe1.6Se2三种情况下的电子结构和相应的磁构型,发现AFe2Se2是双共线反铁磁的半金属,而AFe1.5Se2和A0.8Fe1.6Se2则是分别具有数十和数百毫电子伏特能隙的反铁磁半导体,并分别处于共线反铁磁长程序和区块化棋盘反铁磁长程序中.作者还分析和讨论了AyFexSe2的这些基本电子结构可能对超导性质的影响.     

Thermal treatment-dependent chemical composition of ternary CdS1−xSex nanocrystals grown in borosilicate glass

Variation of the chemical composition of ternary CdS_1−xSe_x nanocrystals grown in borosilicate glass depending on the thermal treatment is studied by resonant Raman spectroscopy. It is shown that only for the nanocrystals with roughly equal content of substitutive S and Se chalcogen atoms (0.4<x<0.6) the nanocrystal composition is independent of the thermal treatment parameters. In other cases an increase of the thermal treatment temperature (625–700 °C) and duration (2–12 h) results in a considerable increase of the predominant chalcogen content in the nanocrystals.     

Compatibility Range in Polymer Mixtures. An approach using analogue calorimetry and group contribution procedures

The mixing enthalpies of blends of polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) with poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN) were investigated by analogue calorimetry through the determination of the excess enthalpies of pseudobinary model mixtures corresponding to the addition of methyl-i-butyrate to a binary mixture of acetonitrile or propionitrile plus toluene or ethylbenzene. A group contribution procedure, based on UNIQUAC equation, was also devised and the polymeric mixing enthalpies were calculated from properly defined group contributions. Enthalpies for polymeric interactions were introduced into the Flory-Huggins equation and the miscibility window of PMMA-SAN mixtures was calculated. The results show a qualitative agreement with the experimental miscibility data and indicate that both the analogue calorimetry and the group contribution procedures yield correct results when acetonitrile, and not propionitrile, is chosen as the model for the polyacrylonitrile repeat unit of the copolymer. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

The effect of polyethylene addition on the morphology of polystyrene/polyamide blends

The effect of a small admixture of high‐density polyethylene (HDPE) with a high or low viscosity to polystyrene/polyamide (PS/PA) blends of various compositions was studied. PS/PA blends with composition near 50/50 form sheet‐like or fiber‐like morphology at mixing that passes to the cocontinuous structure during compression molding. Ternary PS/PA/HDPE blends with PS/PA ratio about 50/50 show similar behavior. Generally, neither continuity nor shape of PS and PA phases was changed qualitatively by the addition of a small amount of HDPE. In agreement with existing rules for ternary blends, HDPE particles prefer a contact with PS phase to PA phase. On the other hand, none of these rules explains why a number of small HDPE subinclusions were dispersed into PS particles instead of HDPE‐PS core‐shell structure with a lower Gibbs free energy. Quantitative evaluation of the size of PA particles in blends with PS matrix showed that the previously proposed rule stating, that the addition of a small amount of a third immiscible component leads to a strong decrease in the size of dispersed particles, was not valid for the blends studied in this work. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 47: 2158–2170, 2009     

Mixed-ligand complex formation equilibria of CuII with biguanide in presence of glycine as the auxiliary ligand

Equilibrium study on the mixed ligand complex formation of Cu^II with biguanide(Bg) and glycine (HG), indicated the formation of the complexes: Cu(Bg)²⁺, Cu(Bg) ₂ ²⁺ , Cu(Bg-H)(Bg)+, Cu(Bg-H)₂, Cu(Bg)(OH)⁺, Cu(Bg-H)(OH); Cu(G)⁺, Cu(G)(OH), Cu(G)₂; Cu(G)(Bg)⁺, Cu(G)(Bg-H); (G)Cu(Bg)Cu(G)²⁺, (G)Cu(Bg-H)Cu(G)⁺, and (G)Cu(Bg-2H)Cu(G). From the deprotonation constants of coordinated biguanide (Bg) in the complexes Cu(Bg)(OH)⁺, Cu(Bg-H)(Bg)⁺ and Cu(G)(Bg)⁺, the Lewis basicities of the coordinated ligand species (Bg-H)^-, OH^- and glycinate (G^-) were found to be of the order: (Bg-H)^-≫ OH^- > G^-. Bridging (N¹-N⁴, N²-N⁵) tetradentate mode of coordination by biguanide species Bg, (Bg-H)^- and (Bg2H)^2- was indicated from the occurrence of biguanide-bridged dinuclear mixed ligand complexes (G)Cu(Bg)Cu(G)²⁺, (G)Cu(Bg-H)Cu(G)⁺, (G)Cu(Bg-2H)Cu(G) in the complexation equilibria.     

A nearfield-free definition of regular Hughes planes and some embeddings of PG(3,q) in Hughes planes of order q 4

We give a nearfield-free definition of some finite and infinite incidence systems by means of half-points and half-lines and show that they are projective planes. We determine a planar ternary ring for these planes and use it to determine the full collineation group and to demonstrate some embeddings of these planes among themselves. We show that these planes include all finite regular Hughes planes and many infinite ones. We also show that PG(3, q) embeds in Hu(q ⁴) (and show infinite versions of this embedding). Dan Hughes 80th Birthday.     

Some further observations on the systems cellulose/trifluoroacetic acid/CH2Cl2 and cellulose triacetate/TFA/CH2Cl2

There is little or no trifluoroacetylation of cellulose dissolved in TFA-CH₂Cl₂ admixtures. Both cellulose and cellulose triacetate (CTA)are slowly degraded in the solvent. Cellulose forms a mesophase as low as 4%(w/w)concentration, but CTA has a much higher critical concentration, 20% (w/w), in TFA-CH₂Cl₂. The cellulose behaves as a rigid rod in TFA-CH₂Cl₂ (70/30v/v) and its persistence length calculated using the lattice model approximates its chain length, presumably due to extensive interaction with the solvent. As expected, due to low polymer-solvent interactions, the persistence length of CTA in TFA-CH₂Cl₂ is only one-fourth the chain length.