热预处理对细胞分裂效率的影响

以发酵酵母为研究对象，采用超声波空蚀和高压均质方法对细胞进行机械细胞分裂，研究了热预处理对微生物细胞分裂效率的作用。结果表明：酵母悬浮液的温度经热预处理从室温（22±1）℃上升到40-50℃时，达到相同程度的细胞分裂效率所需的能量降低了；当酵母悬浮液的温度经热预处理上升到50℃时，蛋白质浓度达到最大值，蛋白质发生变质的热预处理温度≥52℃。     

Extrusion Freeforming of Millimeter-Wave Electromagnetic Bandgap (EBG) Photonic Crystals

Extrusion freeforming can be used for the rapid prototyping of millimeter-wave electromagnetic bandgap (EBG) structures. In this work, an alumina-polymer paste with a relatively high volatility solvent (propanol) was used and the characteristics of the ceramic paste, particularly the rheological features are described. The advantage of high volatility solvent is that the viscosity and elastic modulus of the paste are increased sharply as the solvent evaporates. Thus, the rigidity of the extruded filament is quickly increased as a small amount of solvent evaporates. Finally, by employing this procedure, different EBG structures such as 2-D, 3-D woodpile and aperiodic structures were fabricated and their bandgaps were measured. The experimental results show that extrusion freeforming is a relatively simple and easy method to fabricate these woodpile structures with a bandgap in the 90–110 GHz region.     

Solid Freeforming and Combinatorial Research

A view of manufacturing processes is presented in which five distinct categories are defined as casting, deformation, machining, joining, and solid freeforming. Solid freeforming is essentially biomimetic and shares problems of morphogenesis with natural processes. Our team in University of London has been exploring three mechanisms of solid freeforming. In dry powder deposition and direct ink-jet printing, the emphasis has turned to the problem of delivering a complex shape in which the three dimensional spatial arrangement of composition is delivered from the design file. In extrusion freeforming, the aim is to control microstructure at hierarchical levels also from the design file. The quest for 3-D functional gradients is satisfied by acoustic and ultrasonic dispensing and mixing of powders so that each layer can be patterned. These methods could be extended to deliver the complex patterns demanded by left-handed microwave metamaterials. Dry powder deposition and direct ink-jet printing are turning towards combinatorial methods in which multiple sample libraries are used to accelerate discovery. In turn, this paves the way for ‘autonomous research machines’ which steer their own search refinements in response to our requests for new materials. In this way, solid freeforming used for sample preparation can give an ‘arm’ to an intelligent machine so that it can conduct its own experimentation and learning; an idea that originated with Alan Turing in the late 1940s.     

δ-搀杂GaAs/AlAs多量子阱中铍受主远红外吸收研究

报道了在GaAs中均匀搀杂和一系列GaAs/AlAs多量子阱中d-搀杂浅受主杂质铍(Be)原子带内跃迁的远红外吸收研究. 在4.2 K温度下实验测量的远红外吸收谱中清楚地观察到了三条主要的浅受主带内跃迁吸收线, 它们分别来源于铍受主基态到它的三个奇宇称激发态的跃迁. 应用变分原理, 我们计算了量子限制铍受主2p激发态到1s基态跃迁能量随量子阱宽度的变化关系. 通过比较发现, 2p_z→1s跃迁能量理论计算符合类-D吸收线的实验结果.