The Anthelmintic Quassinoids Ailanthone and Bruceine a Induce Infertility in the Model Organism Caenorhabditis elegans by an Apoptosis-like Mechanism Induced in Gonadal and Spermathecal Tissues

In continuation of the search for new anthelmintic natural products, the study at hand investigated the nematicidal effects of the two naturally occurring quassinoids ailanthone and bruceine A against the reproductive system of the model nematode Caenorhabditis elegans to pinpoint their anthelmintic mode of action by the application of various microscopic techniques. Differential Interference Contrast (DIC) and the epifluorescence microscopy experiments used in the presented study indicated the genotoxic effects of the tested quassinoids (c _ailanthone = 50 µM, c _{bruceine A} = 100 µM) against the nuclei of the investigated gonadal and spermathecal tissues, leaving other morphological key features such as enterocytes or body wall muscle cells unimpaired. In order to gain nanoscopic insight into the morphology of the gonads as well as the considerably smaller spermathecae of C. elegans, an innovative protocol of polyethylene glycol embedding, ultra-sectioning, acridine orange staining, tissue identification by epifluorescence, and subsequent AFM-based ultrastructural data acquisition was applied. This sequence allowed the facile and fast assessment of the impact of quassinoid treatment not only on the gonadal but also on the considerably smaller spermathecal tissues of C. elegans. These first-time ultrastructural investigations on C. elegans gonads and spermathecae by AFM led to the identification of specific quassinoid-induced alterations to the nuclei of the reproductive tissues (e.g., highly condensed chromatin, impaired nuclear membrane morphology, as well as altered nucleolus morphology), altogether implying an apoptosis-like effect of ailanthone and bruceine A on the reproductive tissues of C. elegans.     

单原子作为保护基团实现石墨双炔纳米线的表面合成

由于在贵金属表面的双炔单元具有高反应活性,表面合成半导体性质的石墨双炔纳米线通常会受到副反应的严重影响,难以分立的纳米线的高质量制备.本文利用化学气相沉积1,4-bis(4-bromophenyl)-1,3-butadiyne分子到表面发生Ullmann偶联反应,可实现无支链的石墨双炔纳米线[-C≡C-Ph_2-C≡C-]_n (PYP)的高产率合成.进一步的单化学键分辨的非接触原子力显微镜表征揭示了单个金增原子与双炔键之间形成了π-ligand键,有效地充当了反应过程中双炔单元的保护基团,避免了偶联过程中的副反应,从而实现了分立的超长石墨双炔纳米线的合成.这项研究将启发对在表面反应中各类表面增原子所起保护作用的更深入研究.     

Polarized Debye Sheath in Degenerate Plasmas

The force on a charged dust grain in a plasma due to polarization of thermal ions and degenerate electrons around the grain is derived in the limits of weakly relativistic and ultra-relativistic degeneracy of electrons. It is found that in both these cases, the magnitude of the polarization force is enhanced compared to that in classical plasmas. The influence of this force on dust-acoustic(DA) modes is examined and discussed. It is shown that the DA wave frequency in degenerate plasmas is significantly reduced compared to the classical DA mode.     

Impacts of neutral shadowing force on dust particle dynamics in cryogenic plasma

Recently, it was shown that the neutral shadowing force can have a strong impact on the structural properties of the charged dust particles in cryogenic dusty plasmas. Therefore, in this work, we have investigated the impact of the neutral shadowing force on the dynamical properties by means of molecular dynamics simulations. By computing the velocity auto‐correlation function of particles and their spectrum, we found that the neutral shadowing force has a strong impact on the dust particle dynamics if the mean free path of neutrals exceeds the mean inter‐dust particle distance.     

基于电磁力近似算法的驱动电机NVH快速仿真方法

电动汽车驱动电机产生的电磁噪声是汽车NVH关注的重点问题,对其进行全转速段多工况NVH仿真通常需要耗费大量时间和计算资源。该文通过有限单元分析揭示了电机气隙电磁力随转速变化的规律,并根据这一规律提出了基于外特性曲线的电磁力时间缩放及插值的近似算法。文章采用电磁力到结构网格的映射算法对结构振动有限元模型进行激励力加载,使用声场有限元方法计算电机的辐射噪声,最终实现了车用驱动电机的电磁振动及噪声的快速仿真。使用该方法对车用电机进行全转速段振动噪声仿真,可大大压缩多工况电磁场有限元分析所需的计算时间,提升仿真效率。     

表/界面水的扫描探针技术研究进展

表面和界面水在自然界、人们的日常生活以及现代科技中无处不在.它在物理、化学、环境学、材料学、生物学、地质学等诸多基础学科和应用领域起到至关重要的作用.因此,表面和界面水的功能与特性的研究,是水基础科学的一项核心任务.然而,由于水分子之间氢键相互作用的复杂性,及其与水-固界面相互作用的竞争,使得表(界)面水对于局域环境的影响非常敏感,往往需要深入到分子层次研究其微观结构和动力学过程.近年来,新型扫描探针技术的发展使得人们可以在单分子甚至亚分子尺度上对表(界)面水展开细致的实空间研究.本文着重介绍几种代表性的扫描探针技术及其在表(界)面水体系中的应用,包括:超高真空扫描隧道显微术、单分子振动谱技术、电化学扫描隧道显微术和非接触式原子力显微术.此外,本文还将对表(界)面水扫描探针技术研究面临的挑战和未来发展方向进行了展望.     

飞秒激光场中原子所受光学偶极力研究

通过求解全波矢布洛赫方程研究了两能级原子与飞秒超快激光脉冲的相互作用过程,计算了不同拉比频率取值下原子所受光学偶极力和粒子数布居随时间的演化情况,分析了光场失谐量对光学势分布情况的影响.研究发现:由飞秒激光场产生的横向光力的时间平均值并不等于零,而是随着拉比频率的增加呈现振荡的增大趋势;纵向光力的时间平均作用也并非是拉比频率的单调函数,而是随着拉比频率的增加呈现周期性的振荡分布特性;光学势的分布对光场的失谐量具有明显的依赖性,随着失谐量的变化,光学势的性质也随之发生了改变.     

Investigation of Coulomb force effects on ethylene glycol based nanofluid laminar flow in a porous enclosure

Forced convection heat transfer of ethylene glycol based nanofluid with Fe_3O_4 inside a porous medium is studied using the electric field. The control volume based finite element method(CVFEM) is selected for numerical simulation. The impact of the radiation parameter(R_d), the supplied voltage(?φ), the volume fraction of nanofluid(?), the Darcy number(Da), and the Reynolds number(Re) on nanofluid treatment is demonstrated. Results prove that thermal radiation increases the temperature gradient near the positive electrode. Distortion of isotherms increases with the enhance of the Darcy number and the Coulomb force.     

An analytical poroelastic model for laboratorial mechanical testing of the articular cartilage (AC)

The articular cartilage (AC) can be seen as a biphasic poroelastic material. The cartilage deformation under compression mainly leads to an interstitial fluid flow in the porous solid phase. In this paper, an analytical poroelastic model for the AC under laboratorial mechanical testing is developed. The solutions of interstitial fluid pressure and velocity are obtained. The results show the following facts. (i) Both the pressure and fluid velocity amplitudes are proportional to the strain loading amplitude. (ii) Both the amplitudes of pore fluid pressure and velocity in the AC depend more on the loading amplitude than on the frequency. Thus, in order to obtain the considerable fluid stimulus for the AC cell responses, the most effective way is to increase the loading amplitude rather than the frequency. (iii) Both the interstitial fluid pressure and velocity are strongly affected by permeability variations. This model can be used in experimental tests of the parameters of AC or other poroelastic materials, and in research of mechanotransduction and injury mechanism involved interstitial fluid flow.     

浅水区海底管道周围海床渗透压力计算研究

我国海上油田开采起步较晚,大部分油田处于浅水区,因此,在设计管道时,应充分考虑由浅水区波浪引起的管道周围海床渗流力。根据浅水波相关假设,考虑自由水面非线性影响,推导出椭圆余弦波的波面方程,在此基础上进一步得到一个关于速度势的表达式,并根据该表达式得出作用于海床表面的波压公式。考虑海床土的压缩性,推导出一阶近似椭圆余弦波作用下浅水区埋置管道周围海床的渗流压力解析解,最后将计算结果与大型水槽试验及以往研究成果作对比。结果表明,在椭圆余弦波的作用下,由一阶椭圆余弦波理论得到的计算结果与试验结果规律基本一致,与相似工况下的现有理论成果数值基本相同,具有一定的可行性和工程价值。