Condensation and freezing of droplets on superhydrophobic surfaces

Superhydrophobic coatings are reported as promising candidates for anti-icing applications. Various studies have shown that as well as having ultra water repellency the surfaces have reduced ice adhesion and can delay water freezing. However, the structure or texture (roughness) of the superhydrophobic surface is subject to degradation during the thermocycling or wetting process. This degradation can impair the superhydrophobicity and the icephobicity of those coatings. In this review, a brief overview of the process of droplet freezing on superhydrophobic coatings is presented with respect to their potential in anti-icing applications. To support this discussion, new data is presented about the condensation of water onto physically decorated substrates, and the associated freezing process which impacts on the freezing of macroscopic droplets on the surface.     

Self-assembled highly ordered ethane-bridged periodic mesoporous organosilica and its application in HPLC

Monodisperse spherical periodic mesoporous organosilicas (PMOs) with ethane integrated in the framework were synthesized and their application as stationary phase for chromatographic separation is demonstrated. The ethane-PMOs were prepared by condensation of 1,2-bis(triethoxysilyl)ethane (BTSE) in basic condition using octadecyltrimethylammonium chloride (C(18)TMACl) as template and ethanol as co-solvent. The morphology and mesoporous structure of ethane-PMOs were controlled under different concentrations of sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and EtOH. The results of scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), nitrogen sorption measurement, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and elemental analysis showed that ethane-PMOs have spherical morphology, uniform particle distribution, highly ordered pore structure, high surface area and narrow pore-size distribution. The column packed with these materials exhibits good permeability, high chemical stability and good selectivity of mixtures of aromatic hydrocarbons in normal phase high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC).     

Experimental study on condensation heat transfer of steam on vertical titanium plates with different surface energies

Visual experiments were employed to investigate heat transfer characteristics of steam on vertical titanium plates with/without surface modifications for different surface energies. Stable dropwise condensation and filmwise condensation were achieved on two surface modification titanium plates, respectively. Dropwise and rivulet filmwise co-existing condensation form of steam was observed on unmodified titanium surfaces. With increase in the surface subcooling, the ratio of area (η) covered by drops decreased and departure diameter of droplets increased, resulting in a decrease in condensation heat transfer coefficient. Condensation heat transfer coefficient decreased sharply with the values of η decreasing when the fraction of the surface area covered by drops was greater than that covered by rivulets. Otherwise, the value of η had little effect on the heat transfer performance. Based on the experimental phenomena observed, the heat flux through the surface was proposed to express as the sum of the heat flux through the dropwise region and rivulet filmwise region. The heat flux through the whole surface was the weighted mean value of the two regions mentioned above. The model presented explains the gradual change of heat transfer coefficient for transition condensation with the ratio of area covered by drops. The simulation results agreed well with the present experimental data when the subcooling temperature is lower than 10 °C.     

非线性作用随空间变化的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚原子的规则与混沌分布

本文研究了非线性作用随空间变化的玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚原子的规则与混沌空间分布.空间变化的凝聚体相位导致系统中存在稳定的原子流.考虑化学势为正、原子间呈排斥作用的系统,构造了系统的一级微扰通解,该通解的有界性条件包含了著名的Mel’nikov混沌判据.在系统不满足微扰条件的情况下,数值模拟表明无论凝聚原子呈混沌分布还是规则分布,原子流的增大都可以破坏凝聚原子分布的空间对称性.     

光晶格中双组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚系统的调制不稳定性

利用线性稳定分析的方法,在不满足原子流相等的条件下,对光晶格中双组分玻色-爱因斯坦凝聚原子(BEC)系统的调制不稳定性区域与不同BEC组分的波长和不同的调制波长,以及两组分BEC间相互作用大小之间的关系进行了研究.结果显示,光晶格中双组分BEC系统的调制稳定性的区域在不满足原子流相等的条件下,随不同的波长,不同的调制和相互作用之间的大小会出现了较大的变化.相应结果可为实际应用中如何操控双组分BEC提供有用的信息.     

One-body and Two-body Fractional Parentage Coefficients for Spinor Bose-Einstein Condensation

A very effective tool, namely, the analytical expression of the fractional parentage coefficients (FPC), is introduced in this paper to deal with the total spin states of N-body spinor bosonic systems, where N is supposed to be large and the spin of each boson is one. In particular, the analytical forms of the one-body and two-body FPC for the total spin states with {N} and {N−1,1} permutation symmetries have been derived. These coefficients facilitate greatly the calculation of related matrix elements, and they can be used even in the case of N→∞. They appear as a powerful tool for the establishment of an improved theory of spinor Bose-Einstein condensation, where the eigenstates have the total spin S and its Z-component being both conserved.     

A Bose-Einstein condensate wave-packet as a soliton in an ideal potential well

The normalized soliton wave-functions corresponding to Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) wave-packets are studied by an analogy to the solutions of the optical cubic Schrödinger equation. In addition, the two fundamental invariants associated with BEC are evaluated.     

Propagation of light inside shear flows: a remote sensing method to retrieve velocity fields

Inside a moving dielectric medium a wave perceives the matter as an effective gravitational field. The medium and its velocity field alter the way in which an electromagnetism field propagates. We propose an optical method for remote sensing of the velocity fields inside shear flows by angular scanning.     

Inelastic form factors to alpha-particle condensate states in 12C and 16O: What can we learn?

In order to discuss the spatial extention of the 0₂ ⁺-state of ¹²C (Hoyle state), we analyze the inelastic form factor of electron scattering to the Hoyle state, which our 3α-condensate wave function reproduces very well like previous 3α RGM/GCM models. The analysis is made by varying the size of the Hoyle state artificially. As a result, we find that only the maximum value of the form factor sensitively depends on its size, while the positions of maximum and minimum are almost unchanged. This size dependence is found to come from a characteristic feature of the transition density from the ground state to the Hoyle state. We further show the theoretical predictions of the inelastic form factor to the 2₂ ⁺-state of ¹²C, which was recently observed above the Hoyle state, and of the inelastic form factor to the calculated 0₃ ⁺-state of ¹⁶O, which was conjectured to correspond to the 4α condensed state in previous theoretical work by the present authors.     

耦合量子阱中激子凝聚的研究进展

近年来，半导体量子阱中激子的玻色一爱因斯坦凝聚研究取得了很大进展．实验上利用耦合量子阱间接激子中电子和空穴在空间上的分离，显著提高了激子的冷却速度和寿命，成功地把激子冷却到1K以下，观察到了激子的准凝聚状态，并且在强激光照射下，发现了随光照强度增强而增大的激子发光环和环上形成的有规则斑点图案，引起了广泛的兴趣和重视．理论研究表明，发光环的出现是电子和空穴在量子阱中的反常输运行为造成的，但环上形成规则斑点的物理机理目前尚不清楚．文章介绍了这方面的实验背景和形成激子环的物理图像，指出了理论研究中存在的问题，并对解决问题的方案进行了讨论．