Precipitation of flaky moolooite and its thermal decomposition

Moolooite particles with flaky morphology were synthesized by mixing dilute solutions of copper nitrate and sodium oxalate in the presence of citric acid. Solution pH value, citric acid concentration, and stirring were found to have large effect on the shape of the precipitated particles. Under the stirring, the radial area of flaky moolooite particles was enlarged and extended to become a thinner and larger flake. This is ascribed to growth promotion caused by the selective absorption of citric ligands onto a particular crystalline surface of the moolooite particles. Flaky shape of the moolooite particles tended to become spherical and disappeared completely when decomposed under an Ar atmosphere, leading to the formation of large porous aggregated particles composed of many tiny nanosized copper crystals.     

Effects of stress ratio on the temperature-dependent high-cycle fatigue properties of alloy steels

This paper addresses the effects of stress ratio on the temperature-dependent high-cycle fatigue (HCF) properties of alloy steels 2CrMo and 9CrCo, which suffer from substantial vibrational loading at small stress amplitude, high stress ratio, and high frequency in the high-temperature environments in which they function as blade and rotor spindle materials in advanced gas or steam turbine engines. Fatigue tests were performed on alloy steels 2CrMo and 9CrCo subjected to constant-amplitude loading at four stress ratios and at four and three temperatures, respectively, to determine their temperature-dependent HCF properties. The interaction mechanisms between high temperature and stress ratio were deduced and compared with each other on the basis of the results of fractographic analysis. A phenomenological model was developed to evaluate the effects of stress ratio on the temperature-dependent HCF properties of alloy steels 2CrMo and 9CrCo. Good correlation was achieved between the predictions and actual experiments, demonstrating the practical and effective use of the proposed method.     

A novel GEL-OHA/HAp bone substitute

Self-crosslinked gelatin-oxidized hyaluronic acid/ hydroxyapatite (GEL-OHA/HAp) composite bone substitute was successfully prepared with a novel in situ precipitation method without using any toxic chemical cross-linkers, and its characterizations, including elemental composition, surface morphology, crystallinity, and structure of crystalline phase, were carried out. In order to evaluate its corresponding performances, comparisons with glutaraldehyde crosslinked gelatin/hydroxyapatite (GEL-Glu/ HAp) composite were made in detail. The results indicate that nano-HAp crystallites are homogeneously dispersed in both GEL-OHA/HAp and GEL-Glu/HAp composites, and the HAp crystallites in the former take larger particle size than those in the latter. Mechanical property tests show the acceptable mechanical strength at high strain of GEL-OHA/HAp composite. Study of in vitro degradation and swelling demonstrate that the two composites have similar degradation rate and water absorption capability. By in vitro cell culture, it has been found out that the cells on the GEL-OHA/HAp composite show higher proliferative potential than the cells on the GEL-Glu/HAp composite. Compared with GEL-Glu/HAp composite, GEL-OHA/HAp composite provides an excellent strategy for preparation of non-toxic bone substitute with acceptable corresponding properties.     

Fault-Tolerant Design for Data Efficient Retransmission in WiNoC

There is a sharp decline in the network performance when the wireless link fails as a data path in the Wireless Network-on-Chip(WiNoC).To counteract this problem,we propose a fault-tolerance mechanism for the efficient retransmission of data in the WiNoC.When an error is detected in the data transmission process,this mechanism works to feed back the fault information to the source node in real time via fault signal lines.In the source node,the highest transmission priority is assigned to the backup retransmitted data,and the corresponding direct link is positioned to enable the data packet for its efficient retransmission to the destination node,thereby ensuring efficiency in fault tolerance.Additionally,we have improved the receiving port of the wireless router,added the corresponding redundant buffers and mux,and dynamically selected the retransmitted non-faulty data packets to be written to the local router in order to avoid the disorderly retransmission of the data packets.The evaluation results of this paper demonstrate that compared with the methods which are under different fault conditions,this fault-tolerant method drastically improves the data throughput rate,reduces the delay,effectively guarantees the reliability of the network,and improves the system performance.     

In situ observation of cracking and self-healing of solid electrolyte interphases during lithium deposition

The growth of lithium(Li)whiskers is detrimental to Li batteries.However,it remains a challenge to directly track Li whisker growth.Here we report in situ obser...     

Emission inventories of primary particles and pollutant gases for China

Detailed high-resolution emission inventories of primary particles(PM2.5,BC and OC) and pollutant gases(SO2,NOx,NH3,CO and VOCs) for China in 2007 were constructed on the basis of the latest fuel consumption data,mostly at the county level,and from socio-economic statistics and data on fossil and biomass fuels obtained from government agencies.New emission factors reflecting local features were also used.The calculated emissions were 13.212 Mt PM2.5,1.4 Mt BC,2.946 Mt OC,31.584 Mt SO2,23.248 Mt NOx,16.017 Mt NH3,164.856 Mt CO and 35.464 Mt VOCs.The national and regional emissions were gridded with 0.5°× 0.5° resolution for use in air quality models.Larger emissions were found in eastern and central China than in western China.The emissions estimated here are roughly equal to those obtained in previous studies,but with different contributions from because of seasonal changes in residential heating and biomass combustion.Finally,uncertainties in inventories were analyzed.     

迈克尔逊干涉仪非对称补偿的分析及校准

本文主要对迈克尔逊干涉仪处于非对称补偿状态进行了分析，定量得出补偿镜偏离量与光程差之间的关系，并就如何判断偏离和校准偏离提出了一种方法。     

离散正交小波包及其在噪声抑制中的应用

研究有限长序列的小波包处理和噪声抑制的方法,方法用正交共轭滤波器构造有限维内积空间的正交值和分解及有限长离散小波包,分析了噪声的小波包分解系数的特性,并提出小波包变换域降噪的方法。     

Restricted allowable generalized quantum gates

An allowable generalized quantum gate (introduced by Long, Liu and Wang) has the form of U = Σ _k=0 ^d−1 c _k U _k , where U _k’s are unitary operators on a Hilbert space H and |Σ _k=0 ^d−1 c _k |⩽1 and |c _k |⩽1 (0⩽k⩽d−1). In this work we consider a kind of AGQGs, called restricted allowable generalized quantum gates (RAGQGs), satisfying 0 < Σ _k=0 ^d−1|c _k |⩽1. Some properties of the set RAGQG(H) of all RAGQGs on H are established. Especially, we prove that the extreme points of RAGQG(H) are exactly unitary operators on H and that B(H)=R ⁺ RAGQG(H).     

Transitional phenomenon of particle dispersion in gas-solid two-phase flows

Without using any turbulent model, direct numerical simulation of a three-dimensional gas-solid two-phase turbulent jet was performed by finite volume method. The effects on dispersion of particles with different Stokes numbers by the transitional behavior of turbulent structures were investigated. To produce high-resolution results and reduce the computation and storage, the fractional-step projection algorithm was used to solve the governing equations of gas phase fluid. The low-storage, three-order Runge-Kutta scheme was used for time integration. The governing equations of particles were solved in the Lagrangian framework. These numerical schemes were validated by the good agreement be-tween the statistical results of flow field and the related experimental data. In the study of particle dis-persion, it was found that the effects on particle dispersion by the spanwise vortex structures were prominent. The new behaviors of particle dispersion were also observed during the evolution of the flow field, i.e. the transitional phenomenon of particle dispersion occurs for the particles with small and intermediate Stokes numbers.