The dehydration of copper(II) acetate monohydrate

The thermal dehydration of copper(II) acetate hydrate has been studied between 353 and 406 K, over a range of humidities. The dehydration is controlled by nucleation-and-growth kinetics at low temperatures, with an activation energy of 154 kJ·mol⁻¹, which changes to contracting-disc kinetics at higher temperatures with a lower activation energy of 76 kJ·mol⁻¹. Frequency factors have also been derived; the value for the high temperature process is low (10⁷s⁻¹) and that for the low temperature step is high (10¹⁷s⁻¹). Optical microscopy has been used to clarify the bulk kinetics; there is evidence for a reactive layer at the surface of the decomposing solid. In celebration of the 60^th birthday of Dr Andrew K. Galwey     

固体类流态与地震的相似性研究

固体类流态的研究能够为地震机理研究和地震预报提供一种动态的具有物理意义的方法.作者应用OLYMPUS显微镜和安装在该显微镜上的PanasonicF10高速摄像机,拍录到在常温常压下固态合金中存在的除气、液、固三态之外的运动状态———类流态.应用Sandbox方法和VC 程序实现了图像的数据化和动力学过程的研究,并对地震形成过程中裂缝丛集、扩展和类流态胞区产生裂纹进行对比分析.在绝对分形一致的情况下,应用类流态振荡的时间序列检验四川和新疆等地区1996年～2001年的地震发生情况,符合效果较好.从而为地震预报和孕震机理等方面研究提供了一种动态的具有物理意义的新方法.     

实现汽车发动机可变气门相位的新方法

介绍一种用于双顶置凸轮轴式发动机的采用两级谐波传动的新型进气凸轮轴调相机构。它由输入刚轮（正时带轮）、柔轮、输出刚轮（与进气凸轮轴联接）、固定波发生器、动波发生器和步进电机等组成。用步进电机驱动动波发生器可改变输出、输入刚轮的相对位置，从而改变进气相位。该机构能在很大角度范围内，以小步长实现多级调相，轴向尺寸小，转动惯量小，控制驱动功率小。２００ｈ试验表明，该机构工作可靠，能够准确地根据控制信号进行凸轮轴的调相。     

Pb-Sn-Bi三元系α相固溶体的点阵参数

应用X射线衍射法测定了Pb-Sn-Bi三元系Pb基α相固溶体的点阵参数,发现点阵间距与成分呈线性变化,对两批实验数据分别进行回归分析,得到点阵参数-浓度关系的统一解析式: α=0.49495X_(Pb)+0.47813X_(Sn)+0.50629X_(Bi)。其F检验置信度大于99.9％,残余标准差σ=6.4×10~(-5) nm,分析点阵畸变的影响因素表明尺寸效应是控制固溶体点阵行为的主要因素。     

钢液定氧测头响应时间和热平衡态

本文分别研究了ＺｒＯ２（ＭｇＯ）固体电解质管头壁厚，参比电极量对定氧测头响应时间的影响，得出了以ＺｒＯ２管头壁厚为０．６０－０．８０ｍｍ，Ｃｒ／Ｃｒ２Ｏ３参比电极加入量为４０－６０ｍｇ所组成的定氧测头响应速度最快，同时采用了“双偶法”对定氧测头在工作过程中的热平衡态进行了研究。结果表明：氧浓差电池中的传热是响应过程的控速步骤，氧电势曲线上峰值的产生是起源于电池中的热平衡态。     

脉动流诱发有附着物的板振分析

利用压气机与脉动流发生装置，变流体成脉动流注入到工程中的板壳结构上，使其固体结构部分在脉动流的作用下产生强迫振动，这对工业上分离板壳结构表面固体附着物很有实际意义，以薄板为研究对象，导出了薄板横向振动即弯曲振动微分方程，并着重从理论上分析了分离其上的固体附着物的条件及其各种影响因素。     

Crystalline structure of polyamide 12 as revealed by solid‐state 13C NMR and synchrotron WAXS and SAXS

The crystalline structure of polyamide‐12 (PA12) was studied by solid‐state ¹³C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) as well as by synchrotron wide‐ and small‐angle X‐ray scattering (WAXS and SAXS). Isotropic and oriented PA12 showed different NMR spectra ascribed to γ‐ and γ′‐crystalline modifications, respectively. On the basis of the position of the first diffraction peak, the isotropic γ‐form and the oriented γ′‐form were shown to be with hexagonal crystalline lattice at room temperature. When heated, the two PA12 polymorphs demonstrated different behaviors. Above 140 °C, the isotropic γ‐PA12 partially transformed into α‐modification. No such transition was observed with the oriented γ′‐PA12 phase even after annealing at temperatures close to melting. A γ′–γ transition was observed here only after isotropization by melting point. Various structural parameters were extracted from the WAXS and SAXS patterns and analyzed as a function of temperature and orientation: the degree of crystallinity, the d‐spacings, the Bragg's long spacings, the average thicknesses of the crystalline (l_c) and amorphous (l_a) phases, and the linear crystallinity x_cl within the lamellar stacks. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 43: 3720–3733, 2005     

Photonic crystals--a step towards integrated circuits for photonics.

The field of photonic crystals has, over the past few years, received dramatically increased attention. Photonic crystals are artificially engineered structures that exhibit a periodic variation in one, two, or three dimensions of the dielectric constant, with a period of the order of the pertinent light wavelength. Such structures in three dimensions should exhibit properties similar to solid-state electronic crystals, such as bandgaps, in other words wavelength regions where light cannot propagate in any direction. By introducing defects into the periodic arrangement, the photonic crystals exhibit properties analogous to those of solid-state crystals. The basic feature of a photonic bandgap was indeed experimentally demonstrated in the beginning of the 1990s, and sparked a large interest in, and in many ways revitalized, photonics research. There are several reasons for this attention. One is that photonic crystals, in their own right, offer a proliferation of challenging research tasks, involving a multitude of disciplines, such as electromagnetic theory, nanofabrication, semi-conductor technology, materials science, biotechnology, to name a few. Another reason is given by the somewhat more down-to-earth expectations that photonics crystals will create unique opportunities for novel devices and applications, and contribute to solving some of the issues that have plagued photonics such as large physical sizes, comparatively low functionality, and high costs. Herein, we will treat some basics of photonic crystal structures and discuss the state-of-the-art in fabrication as well give some examples of devices with unique properties, due to the use of photonic crystals. We will also point out some of the problems that still remain to be solved, and give a view on where photonic crystals currently stand.