Inorganic complexation of nickel and cobalt in natural waters

The distribution of nickel and cobalt species has been computed, based on the pH-dependent model of Zirino and Yamamoto. The media used in the pH range of 7 to 9 are natural waters like fresh water, sea water and a mixture of them at different compositions, at 25°C temperature and 1 atm pressure. In fresh water, both nickel and cobalt dominate as free cations at lower pH, and as carbonato complexes at higher pH. In sea water, chloro complexes are significant. In mixtures of the two kinds of water, as might be found in a totally mixed estuary, chloro complexes are important, varying slowly with pH. Sea water plays an important role in complexation. The present results are in excellent agreement with experimental data obtained by the resin exchange method.     

一类新的极小谱任意符号模式

若给定任意一个$n$次首一实系数多项式$f(\lambda)$,都存在一个实矩阵$B\in Q(A)$, 使得$B$的特征多项式为$f(\lambda)$,则称$A$为谱任意符号模式. 如果一个谱任意符号模式的任意非零元被零取代后所得到的符号模式不是谱任意,那么这个谱任意符号模式称为极小谱任意符号模式.本文证明一类极小谱任意符号模式.     

Quantised phase filters with binary low and high pass amplitude response: the effect of quantisation for scale and rotation input distortions

In the field of optical pattern recognition, there are a large number of filters that possess identification capabilities for certain kinds of input distortions. The resolution of the spectral components plays an important role in the overall processing time of a correlator that may employ such filters. In this paper, two different techniques are discussed: low pass phase filtering and high pass phase filtering. This is achieved by binarizing the amplitude information which then allows certain frequencies to pass and others to be blocked. Their response to different kinds of input distortions is presented and the effect of phase quantisation is considered in detail.     

The henomeric types of 2-sided patterns in the plane

We extend the classification of pattern types by Grünbaum and Shephard to the 2-sided plane to include patterns having layered or interlaced motifs. Such patterns may have symmetries that turn the plane over. There are 17 infinite families of pattern types for 2-sided rosettes (twelve 1-parameter families and five 2-parameter families), 68 types of 2-sided frieze pattern, and 264 types of 2-sided periodic pattern. The definition of ‘henomeric’ is clarified to ensure that two of the periodic patterns are distinguished.      

Dynamics of spatio-temporal defects in the Taylor-Dean system

The dynamics of defects in a pattern of traveling inclined rolls has been investigated. Two regimes were identified in the neighborhood of defects: a diffusive regime, with a negative phase diffusion coefficient, and a coalescence regime in which the phase gradient diverges in time following a power law behavior. The observed periodic nucleation of defects is related to the frequency inhomogeneity induced by the disymmetry of the wave amplitude. Amplitude holes have been observed in the secondary modulated pattern. Received 23 February 1999 and Received in final form 26 May 1999     

Approximation of conformal mappings by circle patterns

A circle pattern is a configuration of circles in the plane whose combinatorics is given by a planar graph G such that to each vertex of G corresponds a circle. If two vertices are connected by an edge in G, the corresponding circles intersect with an intersection angle in (0, π). Two sequences of circle patterns are employed to approximate a given conformal map g and its first derivative. For the domain of g we use embedded circle patterns where all circles have the same radius decreasing to 0 and with uniformly bounded intersection angles. The image circle pattern has the same combinatorics and intersection angles and is determined from boundary conditions (radii or angles) according to the values of g′ (|g′| or arg g′). For quasicrystallic circle patterns the convergence result is strengthened to C ^∞-convergence on compact subsets.      

Random and AB diblock copolymers of tricyclodecanemethanol urethane methacrylate with styrene: Synthesis and morphology characterization

A monomer design having a bulky terminal tricyclodecane (TCD) unit linked via hydrogen bondable urethane to an ethyleneoxy methacrylate unit, and capable of generating three‐dimensional honeycomb patterns upon solvent casting has been investigated. Random copolymers as well as a diblock copolymer Poly(Sty₄₂‐b‐TCD₁₈) of this monomer with styrene were prepared by free‐radical polymerization route and atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) route. Morphology characterization was carried out using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis. Particle size was measured by dynamic light scattering measurements (DLS). Irrespective of the wide differences in molecular weight and polydispersity index values, the random copolymers having TCD content >30 mol % were found to form microporous films upon solvent casting from a THF/water 9:1 solvent combination. The amount of TCD in the copolymer was found to have an influence on the pore size formed. The diblock copolymer formed microspheres ～200 nm in diameter. The thermal properties of all the polymers were studied using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), and the copolymers were found to have good thermal stability. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 46: 1278–1288, 2008     

Electronic speckle pattern interferometry analysis of tensile tests of semihard copper sheets

Uniaxial tension tests of semihard copper sheets were studied by means of electronic spekle pattern interferometry (ESPI). The setup allowed the authors to analyze in detail the transitions from elastic to plastic behavior and from homogeneous to inhomogeneous plastic deformation. In agreement with the conventional definition of the yield point for copper fully plastic behavior starded at permanent strains close to 0.005. The strain-hardening coefficient was very low at the early stage of plastic flow (“easy glide”), increasing progressively until values on the order of 0.13 to 0.14 were reached at maximum load. A this point, the appearance of unequally spaced fringes signaled the beginning of inhomogeneous deformation. With ESPI, this occurrence may thus serve as a criterion to establish the forming limit of the material.     

Porosity, mechanical properties, residual stresses of supersonic plasma-sprayed Ni-based alloy coatings prepared at different powder feed rates

The aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of powder feed rate (PFR) on the microstructure and mechanical properties of the supersonic plasma-sprayed Ni-Cr-B-Si-C coatings. The microstructure, porosity and mechanical properties of the coatings and the residual stresses at the coating surfaces were experimentally determined. Results showed that the variations of porosity, elastic moduli and micro-hardness of the coatings followed Weibull distribution. From the statistical trend, the porosity of the coating increased with increasing PFR. However, the elastic modulus and the micro-hardness of the coating decreased and reached local minima and then increased with increasing PFR. Elastic modulus could be generally considered to be an increasing function of micro-hardness. The mean value of the elastic modulus of the coating calculated from Weibull plot was almost proportional to the square root of the mean value of the micro-hardness of the coating. Moreover, with increasing PFR, the residual stress at the coating surface, which was mainly governed by the elastic modulus of the coating, decreased to a local minimum and then increased.