Highly efficient approach for characterizing nanometer-sized gold particles by capillary electrophoresis

This paper demonstrates that capillary electrophoresis (CE) can be employed for characterizing the sizes of nanometer-scale gold particles. We characterized the gold nanoparticles by effecting CE separation using a buffer of SDS (70 mM) and 3-cyclohexylamino-1-propanesulfonic acid (CAPS; 10 mM) at pH 11.0 and an applied voltage of 18 kV and obtained a linear relationship (R² > 0.99) between electrophoretic mobilities and size for nanoparticles whose diameters fall in the regime from 5.0 ± 0.5 to 41.2 ± 3.3 nm; the relative standard deviations of these electrophoretic mobilities are <0.8%. We evaluated the feasibility of employing these separation conditions for the size characterization by of gold nanoparticle samples that were synthesized by a rapid microwave heating method. We confirmed that this CE method is a valid one for size characterization by comparing the results obtained by CE with those provided by scanning electron microscopy (SEM); a good correlation exists between these two techniques. Our results demonstrate that CE can be employed to accelerate the analysis of the sizes of nanomaterials.     

辐射在CH泡沫中传输的数值模拟

利用一维多群辐射输运程序对辐射在CH泡沫中的传输过程进行了数值模拟,给出一些细致的物理图像和定量结果。在一定的入射辐射流条件下,密度变化对辐射传输特征、辐射加热介质的热力学平衡弛豫过程有重要影响。随着密度下降,辐射由亚声速传输转变为超声速传输,辐射在传输过程中的能谱形状也不同。     

Optimal Operations Management and Network Planning of a District Heating System with a Combined Heat and Power Plant

District heating plants are becoming more common in European cities. These systems make it possible to furnish users with warm water while locating the production plants in the outskirts having the double benefit of lowering the impact of pollution on the center of the city and achieving better conversion performances. In order to amortize the costs throughout the year, the system often includes a combined heat and power (CHP) plant, to exploit the energy during the summer as well, when the demand for warm water decreases. A linear programming model for the optimal resource management of such a plant is presented and some results for a real case are reported. A distribution network design problem is also addressed and solved by means of mixed integer linear programming.     

短脉冲激光加热模型的遴选原则

 利用推导出的1维半空间光致热弹性应力响应的精确解,对激光与材料相互作用的加热模型的选取进行了研究。理论分析和计算结果表明：常用的表面加热模型只有在热穿透深度远大于光吸收长度时有效,若将其应用于超短脉冲激光（ps以下量级）加热的情况,可能会导致较大的误差;皮秒和飞秒激光辐照的热效应须用体加热模型计算。     

阿尔芬波加热研究的进展

本文概述了阿尔芬波加热的理论和实验情况。讨论了阿尔芬波加热的基本物理问题,并介绍了某些重要的实验结果。对在大托卡马克上采用阿尔芬波加热的可能性进行了全面论述。     

Model of heating and ignition of conductive polydisperse powder in electrostatic discharge

Heating of a conductive polydisperse powder by electrostatic discharge (ESD) is modelled numerically. Powder packing is described using a discrete element model; powder resistance is defined by geometry of particle contacts and properties of plasma produced by electrical breakdown between neighbour particles. A set of parametric calculations in combination with experimental data is used to determine necessary adjustable model parameters. The model predicts the temperature for each powder particle resulting from its heating by the ESD current. Location and packing of individual particles within the powder affects greatly their achieved temperatures and thus the likelihood of ignition. Consistently with experiments, a trend showing that smaller particles are generally heated to higher temperatures at a given ESD energy is detected for coarser powders; this trend becomes less clear for finer powders with particle sizes less than the breakdown distance given by the Paschen curve in air. Comparison of the experimental data and calculations suggests that the transition from single particle to cloud combustion occurs when the distance between the particles ignited by ESD becomes close to the flame size for the individual burning particle. This distance, inversely proportional to the number of ignited particles, is primarily determined by the ESD energy.     

In-situ and ex-situ study of crystallization behaviour of magnetron sputtered Ni63Zr37 amorphous thin film

ABSTRACT

The stages of crystallization of magnetron sputter-deposited Ni₆₃Zr₃₇ film with mostly amorphous structure have been investigated by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and in-situ annealing at 300°C by use of heating stage on a high-resolution transmission electron microscope (HRTEM). These results have been further confirmed by grazing incidence X-ray diffraction analyses of thin film specimens annealed ex-situ at 300°C for various durations. The temperature for crystallization found by DSC has been found to increase from 371°C to 434°C with an increase in heating rate from 3°C/min to 10°C/min, and the apparent activation energy for amorphous to crystalline transformation has been found as ～260.2?kJ/mol from the Kissinger plot. Studies on HRTEM using in-situ heating stage have shown the crystallization to occur on annealing at 300°C for ～10?min. Crystallization at a temperature lower than that found by DSC is attributed to structural relaxation with reduction of free volume due to thermal activation. It has been observed that Ni₃Zr forms first due to its large negative enthalpy of formation, and is followed by the formation of Ni-rich solid solution (Ni_ss) grains. HRTEM studies have shown grain rotation with the formation of partial dislocations at Ni₃Zr-Ni_ss interfaces as well as twinning followed by detwinning with dislocation formation in the Ni_ss matrix possibly to reduce the interfacial energy.     

热源塔热泵系统夏季工况优化运行实验研究

由于热源塔在冬夏季工况下的换热能力存在较大差异,按冬季工况设计的热源塔热泵系统,在夏季工况下运行时存在换热能力过剩的问题,影响系统性能。为解决上述问题,本文构建了热源塔热泵系统,实验研究了其冬夏季工况的性能差异。在此基础上,对夏季工况下的优化运行进行了实验研究,结果表明,通过调节空气和溶液流量,将热源塔的逼近度和冷幅分别控制在3.5℃和4.3℃,可使得系统性能系数由3.6提升至3.9,并对其节能机理进行了分析。     

HCN laser scattering on the JIPP T-IIU tokamak

A 4-channel HCN laser scattering system has been developed and applied to the JIPP T-IIU tokamak. Main aim of this system is to study microturbulence excited in the plasma, especially in the high power ICRF heating experiment. The observed density fluctuations are in a frequency range of the electron diamagnetic drift wave and have broad frequency spectra. The main part of the wavenumber is found to satisfy the condition of . In the heating experiments, deterioration of the energy confinement time is observed, and the density fluctuation level increases with the increase of the heating power.     

Mode selective directional couplers for overmoded waveguide systems

Two types of directional couplers for transverse electric (TE) modes are described: short and multihole couplers, respectively. They selectively pick one mode out of a mode mixture in an overmoded circular waveguide system. Unwanted modes are either statistically kept at low level or are suppressed by destructive interference in the coupling waveguide. Mode selectivity and directivity in multihole couplers oscillate up and down with an increasing number of holes, finally reaching a minimum of approximately 20 dB, unless there are competing modes with rational fractions of the beat wavelength. A multihole coupler for the TE₀₂ mode (28 GHz, 63.4 mm waveguide diameter, 41 holes) and a length of 1.6 m shows a calculated directivity of 68 dB and suppresses the unwanted modes TE₀₁ with 34 dB (24 dB), TE₂₂ with 37 dB (45 dB), and further modes TE_m (<5, m<6) with 17 dB to 34 dB in forward direction (figures in parentheses are for unwanted modes propagating in backward direction).A short directional coupler for the TE₀₁ mode (28 GHz, 63.4 mm waveguide diameter) with 16 holes and a length of 230 mm shows a directivity of 55 to 100 dB between 27.9 and 28.1 GHz, suppressing the TE₀₂ mode with 35 to 80 dB, the TE₀₃ mode with 30 to 65 dB, and the TE₂₂ mode with 30 to 70 dB.