Recent developments in CVD growth and applications of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with fascinating electronic energy band structures, rich valley physical properties and strong spin–orbit coupling have attracted tremendous interest, and show great potential in electronic, optoelectronic, spintronic and valleytronic fields. Stacking 2D TMDs have provided unprecedented opportunities for constructing artificial functional structures. Due to the low cost, high yield and industrial compatibility, chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is regarded as one of the most promising growth strategies to obtain high-quality and large-area 2D TMDs and heterostructures. Here, state-of-the-art strategies for preparing TMDs details of growth control and related heterostructures construction via CVD method are reviewed and discussed, including wafer-scale synthesis, phase transition, doping, alloy and stacking engineering. Meanwhile, recent progress on the application of multi-functional devices is highlighted based on 2D TMDs. Finally, challenges and prospects are proposed for the practical device applications of 2D TMDs.     

多循环脉冲爆震发动机流场数值研究

针对二维带有收敛扩张喷管的脉冲爆震发动机模型，采用带基元化学反应的Euler方程组和H2、空气的9组分20基元反应，对发动机在前六个工作循环的流场进行了数值模拟。通过对前几个循环流场进行比较，发现脉冲爆震发动机在第五个循环后流场就基本稳定，单循环得到的流场和多循环稳定后的流场有很大的差别，同时喷管对发动机内流场影响特别大。     

一些磷－氮型极压抗磨添加剂性能的研究

合成了一些磷－氮型极压抗磨添加剂烷基亚磷酸酯胺盐和氮杂环胺盐，并对其油溶性和润滑性等进行了试验研究。结果表明，磷－氮型极压抗磨添加剂的化学结构对其油溶性和极压抗磨性都有较大的影响：烷基链增长有助于油溶性的改善，氮杂环胺盐的油溶性更好；伯胺盐的抗磨性比仲胺盐和叔胺盐的都好，氮杂环胺盐的抗磨性更好；磷－氮型极压抗磨添加剂的减摩性明显比硫化烯烃、烷基亚磷酸酯和苯三唑十八胺的都好，有的在２５０℃时的摩擦系数仅约为０．０４．Ｘ射线光电子能谱和俄歇电子能谱分析发现，磷－氮型极压抗磨添加剂在摩擦表面形成了一种含氮富磷的化学反应膜。其中，元素磷是以磷酸铁的化合态形式存在，而元素氮则是以其原有的价态形式存在，这表明氮参与了整个摩擦过程。在试验研究和分析讨论的基础上，通过综合归纳还提出了磷－氮型极压抗磨添加剂的作用机理模式图。     

爆炸作用数值模拟

采用简单的炸药化学反应率方程，利用二维流体弹塑性流动程序，对一个变直径铜壳中装药的爆炸作用做了数值模拟。     

溶质在微极流体中的弥散——考虑无偶应力边界条件

本文研究溶质在作圆管和渠道层流的微极流体中的弥散规律，考虑了化学反应效应。利用Ｅｒｉｎｙｅｎ的微极流体理论，无偶应力边界条件和Ｔａｙｌｏｒ简化假定，导出相对浓度分布Ｃ和等效扩散系数Ｄ＊的解析式，并作数值计算，分析了微极参数λ．ｋ０和化学反应率参数β对上述量的影响。     

THERMODYNAMIC AND PARTICLE-DYNAMIC STUDIES ON SYNTHESIS OF SILICA NANOPARTICLES USING MICROWAVE-INDUCED PLASMA CVD

1. Introduction1.1 Silica nanoparticles and synthesis methods Silica (SiO2) nanoparticles are widely used in industry asan active filler for polymer reinforcement, a rheologicaladditive in fluids, a free flow agent in powders, and anagent for chemical mechanical polishing during IC (inte-grated circuit) fabrication (Sniegowski & de Boer, 2000).Silica powder is also used for producing silicon carbide(Koc & Cattamanchi, 1998) or opaque silica aerosols (Leeet al., 1995). Many methods can …     

A model for the deformations and thermodynamics of liquids involving a dislocation kinetics

A model for the deformation and thermodynamics of liquids is developed that depends on dislocation kinetics. The approach uses concepts from statistical mechanics to model a stochastic evolution equation for a scalar dislocation density function. The dislocation density is used in an idealized model for the discrete discontinuous deformation due to dislocation motion and dislocation creation kinetics. The total deformation functional for a liquid is modelled as a continuum deformation of an idealized lattice structure plus the discontinuous deformation due to dislocation kinetics. This results in a thermodynamic model that has an elastic response from the continuum lattice structure and a fluid response from the dislocation kinetics.In the thermodynamics, a generalized internal energy functional is assumed to exist and to have a dependence on the functions of entropy, continuum lattice strain, scalar dislocation density, velocity, and mass density. The continuum lattice strain is termed the recoverable strain and its conjugate variable is the thermodynamic stress. The conjugate variable to the scalar dislocation density is the thermodynamic chemical potential for a dislocation configuration, somewhat analogous to Gibbs' treatment of chemical potential for various mass species.This model implies that a liquid and a crystalline solid have analogous deformation and thermodynamic responses. Their differences appear in the dislocation densities and in the dislocation chemical potentials. To illustrate the deformation response analogy, some solutions are developed for simple laminar shear flows. Also, using some concepts primarily from Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf's melting model, a definition for a specific dislocation creation heat equivalent is given. This thermodynamic formalism suggests that the melting process can be modelled as the consequence of a continuous change in the dislocation density function.Work performed under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Energy by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-ENG-48.     

聚氨酯在磨粒侵蚀条件下的表面化学效应

在工程实际中，由于高分材料的抗磨粒侵蚀性能都比较而得到了广泛的应用，然而载至目前，所见这类材料在磨粒侵蚀磨损机理方面的研究报道相当之少，而且仅局限于物理过程的考察。因此，对聚氨酯在磨粒侵蚀条件下的表面化学效应进行了试验研究。利用扫描电子显微镜、Ｘ射线光电子能谱仪和傅立叶表面红外分析仪，对这种高分子材料在磨粒侵蚀磨损前后表面的微观形貌、元素组成、结合能和官能闭进行了分析。     

Biology‐Oriented Synthesis of a Withanolide‐Inspired Compound Collection Reveals Novel Modulators of Hedgehog Signaling

Biology‐oriented synthesis employs the structural information encoded in complex natural products to guide the synthesis of compound collections enriched in bioactivity. The trans‐hydrindane dehydro‐δ‐lactone motif defines the characteristic scaffold of the steroid‐like withanolides, a plant‐derived natural product class with a diverse pattern of bioactivity. A withanolide‐inspired compound collection was synthesized by making use of three key intermediates that contain this characteristic framework derivatized with different reactive functional groups. Biological evaluation of the compound collection in cell‐based assays that monitored biological signal‐transduction processes revealed a novel class of Hedgehog signaling inhibitors that target the protein Smoothened.