Surface tension of supercooled graphene oxide nanofluids measured with acoustic levitation

Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry - The surface tensions of graphene oxide nanofluids of five mass concentrations were measured by the oscillation droplet method in an acoustic levitator....     

Synthesis and properties of sulfur‐contained poly(silylene arylacetylene)s

Poly(silylene arylacetylene) (PSA) is a kind of poly(arylacetylene) silicon‐containing resins with excellent heat resistance and good mechanical performances. In this article, the sulfur atom is introduced into the main chain of the PSA molecule to obtain a sulfur‐containing poly(silylene arylacetylene), named S‐PSA. By Williamson and Sonogashira reactions, bis(4‐ethynylphenyl)sulfide and bis(4‐ethynylphenyl)sulfone were synthesized. Thereafter, through Grignard reagent way, the poly(silylene ethynylene phenylene sulfide phenylene ethynylene) (PSESE) and poly(silylene ethynylene phenylene sulfone phenylene ethynylene) (PSESO₂E) were synthesized from bis(4‐ethynylphenyl)sulfide, bis(4‐ethynylphenyl)sulfone, and methylphenyl dichlorosilane. Poly(silylene ethynylene phenylene sulfoxide phenylene ethynylene) (PSESOE) was synthesized by the oxidation of PSESE. The structures and properties of these resins were characterized and the mechanical properties of the T300 reinforced composites were tested. The results show that the novel S‐PSA resins have excellent heat resistance and good mechanical properties, and could be used as resin matrices for high‐performance composites in high‐tech fields. © 2019 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Polym. Sci., Part A: Polym. Chem. 2019, 57, 2324–2332     

环形含内钝缺口试件在斜加载作用下弹塑性场的分布特征

运用有限元数值计算方法,对含内缺口的环形试件在受到与缺口对称面成不同角度的载荷作用下,缺口前端附近的弹塑性场分布特征进行了研究,得到了缺口前端应力和应变场以及塑性区的变化情况,此外,选取缺口弧度不同的模型,探讨了缺口顶端钝化程度对弹生场的影响,为了对计算结果的可靠性进行评价,运用高精度云纹干涉实验力学方法进行了验证性试验,试验得到的位移,应变分布情况与计算结果基本吻合。文中得到的结果为钝口试件的材     

Synthesis and performance study of a novel sulfonated polytriazole proton exchange membrane

Sulfonated polytriazole (SPTA) proton exchange membranes (PEMs) with a series of sulfonation degrees was synthesized based on click chemistry from a rigid diazide monomer, 4,4′-bis(azidomethyl)-1,1′-biphenyl (BAMB), with 2,2-bis[(4-propargyloxy)phenyl]propane (BPBPA) and 4,4′-diazido-2,2′-stilbenedisulfonic acid disodium salt (DSDA). The structure of the copolymers was characterized by nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and gel permeation chromatography (GPC). As a result of the introduction of rigid biphenyl structure and the ionic interaction between triazole rings and sulfonic acid groups, the SPTA membranes exhibited higher water uptake and lower swelling ratio compared to NRE211 membrane, indicating excellent dimensional stability. AC impedance revealed that the proton conductivity of SPTA membranes ranged from 2.5 to 35 mS/cm at 30 °C and 13–105 mS/cm at 80 °C. Besides, the membranes have high thermal and oxidative stability, good mechanical property, and low methanol permeability as well.     

Optimal estimation of sensor biases for asynchronous multi-sensor data fusion

An important step in a multi-sensor surveillance system is to estimate sensor biases from their noisy asynchronous measurements. This estimation problem is computationally challenging due to the highly nonlinear transformation between the global and local coordinate systems as well as the measurement asynchrony from different sensors. In this paper, we propose a novel nonlinear least squares formulation for the problem by assuming the existence of a reference target moving with an (unknown) constant velocity. We also propose an efficient block coordinate decent (BCD) optimization algorithm, with a judicious initialization, to solve the problem. The proposed BCD algorithm alternately updates the range and azimuth bias estimates by solving linear least squares problems and semidefinite programs. In the absence of measurement noise, the proposed algorithm is guaranteed to find the global solution of the problem and the true biases. Simulation results show that the proposed algorithm significantly outperforms the existing approaches in terms of the root mean square error.     

Assessment of AI-Based Protein Structure Prediction for the NLRP3 Target

The recent successes of AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold have demonstrated the value of AI methods in highly accurate protein structure prediction. Despite these advances, the role of these methods in the context of small-molecule drug discovery still needs to be thoroughly explored. In this study, we evaluated whether the AI-based models can reliably reproduce the three-dimensional structures of protein–ligand complexes. The structure we chose was NLRP3, a challenging protein target in terms of obtaining a three-dimensional model both experimentally and computationally. The conformation of the binding pockets generated by the AI models was carefully characterized and compared with experimental structures. Further molecular docking results indicated that AI-predicted protein structures combined with molecular dynamics simulations offers a promising approach in small-molecule drug discovery.     

脉冲展宽分幅变像管场曲特性研究

介绍了一种脉冲展宽分幅变像管,并对其场曲特性和离轴空间分辨本领进行了分析.该分幅变像管采用多个短磁透镜将产生于阴极的电子图像成像于微通道板接收面.通过模拟仿真对透镜个数成像的场曲特性进行了研究,并通过实验进行了验证.仿真计算结果表明,采用多透镜可有效校正成像系统场曲,提高空间分辨率.当成像比例为1∶1时,在离轴30 mm处单透镜、双透镜、三透镜和四透镜成像面与高斯像面的轴向偏离分别为13 cm、4.7 cm、2.5 cm和1.7 cm.测试结果表明,采用四透镜成像系统的离轴调制度较单透镜提升了约40％.     

Promotion of the photoacid generation performance of sulfonium salts by inhibiting the isomerization of conjugated systems using a cyclization strategy

This work describes an original structure−reactivity relationship within a series of sulfonium salts synthesized using a cyclization strategy. The new sulfonium salt comprises a stilbene subunit decorated with a combination of cyclized structure, that is, carbocyclic ring, furan ring, and thiophene ring, to inhibit the isomerization of double bond systems. The photoacid generation efficiency of such cyclized stilbene derivative sulfonium salts is mainly modulated by the five-membered ring structures and the substituent as confirmed by photodegradation, in situ nuclear magnetic resonance, and cyclic voltammetry. Such cyclization drastically regulates the population of highly reactive excited singlet species and thus enhances the photoacid generation performance of the sulfonium salts by more than one order of magnitude within the series, especially when introducing oxygen to form the benzofuran ring structure. Given this amplified photoreactivity, the application potential of the photoinitiated cationic polymerization of the sulfonium salts was evaluated at different irradiation wavelengths.     

Highly efficient Nd:YAG/LBO laser at 473 nm under direct 885-nm diode laser pumping

<正>In diode pumped Nd:YAG lasers,the quantum defect is the most important parameter determining the thermal load of the laser crystal,which can be dramatically reduced by pumping directly into the upper laser level.A compact folded three-mirror cavity with a length of 105 mm is optimized to obtain a highly efficient 473-nm laser.When the absorbed pump power(with 15.8-W incident pump power) at 885 nm into Nd:YAG is 10 W,a continuous-wave 473-nm blue laser as high as 2.34 W is achieved by LBO intra-cavity frequency doubled.The optical-to-optical conversion efficiency is 14.8%.To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest efficiency at 473 nm by an intra-cavity doubled frequency Nd:YAG laser.