超临界流体技术制备有序材料研究进展

超临界流体由于其特殊的性质, 是制备在纳米及微米尺度范围有序结构的一种良好的溶剂, 其中包含超临界二氧化碳. 超临界流体根据其特殊性, 可扩展“自上而下”的方法, 包括沉积法、清洁法、刻蚀法和表面修饰法, 从而达到最精细的雕琢. 当采用“自下而上”的方法时, 由于二氧化碳分子与聚合物的相互作用, 尤其是与嵌段共聚物模板的作用, 可促使完全的结构精细化, 因此超临界流体中纳米粒子和纳米线的合成近年来发展迅速, 由此制备的有序结构材料在微电子、探测技术、能量转换等领域显示了令人欣喜的应用前景. 本文就有关领域, 对超临界流体技术的基础及其应用进行了评述.     

液体爆炸分散过程中界面破碎的实验研究

设计了一种有上下平面约束的液体爆炸分散装置, 通过阴影照相获得气液界面破碎形态变化的时间序列, 并应用平面激光诱导荧光(PLIF)得到了径向膨胀液体环内诱导的荧光照片. 采用二维图像处理、分形几何和数值模拟相结合的方法, 较系统地分析了实验结果. 最后, 讨论了液体环及其气液界面运动数学模型建立中的问题.     

应用核磁共振波谱技术研究蛋白质相互作用

从结构生物学角度研究蛋白质与蛋白质相互作用十分重要. 核磁共振波谱技术是目前结构生物学的主要研究方法之一, 该方法具有其他技术所不可替代的重要作用. 核磁共振波谱技术可以在接近生理条件下研究蛋白质相互作用, 特别适合研究瞬时存在的动态复合物. 该技术是少数几种能够提供无结构或有部分结构的蛋白质以及蛋白质折叠过程等多方面信息的方法. 核磁共振波谱技术还可以在多种时间尺度下提供蛋白质的动力学信息. 本文以中国科学技术大学生物核磁共振波谱实验室的研究实例对上述观点进行阐述.     

Capacity Reliability of Signalized Intersections with Mixed Traffic Conditions

The reliability of capacity of signalized intersections in mixed traffic conditions involving vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians was investigated to complete the conventional, deterministic capacity calculations. Simulations using VISSIM provided estimates of capacity distributions, and demonstrated the effects of the analysis intervals on the distributions. With the random vehicle arrivals taken into account, a capacity reliability assessment method was given as a function. Assessments were also performed...     

Estimating the Willingness-to-Pay for Urban Housing in Chinese Cities

The housing market, an important component of the urban economy, is closely integrated with urban development. Urban development attracts labor inflows which then increase the housing demand in the cities. Urban dwellers’ willingness-to-pay (WTP) for housing, as part of their living costs, depends on their incomes they can earn in the cities and the quality of life (QOL) they want to enjoy. Urban wage growth and quality of life improvements are always accompanied by increased demand and increased WTP. This ...     

A Study of Melt Flow Analysis of an ABS-Iron Composite in Fused Deposition Modelling Process

Fused deposition modelling (FDM) is a filament based rapid prototyping system which offers the possibility of introducing new composite material for the FDM process as long as the new material can be made in feedstock filament form. Swinburne has been undertaking extensive research in development of new composite materials involving acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) and other materials including metals. In order to predict the behaviour of new ABS based composite materials in the course of FDM process, it is necessary to investigate the flow of the composite material in liquefier head. No such study is available considering the geometry of the liquefier head. This paper presents 2-D and 3-D numerical analysis of melt flow behaviour of a representative ABS-iron composite through the 90-degree bent tube of the liquefier head of the fused deposition modelling process using ANSYS FLOTRAN and CFX finite element packages. Main flow parameters including temperature, velocity, and pressure drop have been investigated. Filaments of the filled ABS have been fabricated and characterized to verify the possibility of prototyping using the new material on the current FDM machine. Results provide promising information in developing the melt flow modelling of metal-plastic composites and in optimising the FDM parameters for better part quality with such composites.     

A NAM Representation Method for Data Compression of Binary Images

A representation method using the non-symmetry and anti-packing model (NAM) for data compression of binary images is presented.The NAM representation algorithm is compared with the popular linear quadtree and run length encoding algorithms.Theoretical and experimental results show that the algorithm has a higher compression ratio for both lossy and lossless cases of binary images and better reconstructed quality for the lossy case.     

Applying File Information to Block-Level Content Addressable Storage

Content addressable storage (CAS) is a promising technology for improving storage efficiency as well as access throughput.Currently,many CAS products are implemented on the block level,which results in loss of file information.Thus,some sophisticated optimizations cannot be achieved,such as accurate fileprefetching.This paper presents a file-aware block-level storage system combined with the CAS function.In contrast with some existing file-level CAS,this system is transparent to upper-level applications,including the operating system and the file system.These features are achieved by using smart-disk technologies to help the storage system to learn the file-system layout.A prototype was implemented on an open-source virtual machine (VM) with the guest operating system being Windows XP.Tests show that this combination significantly reduces the size of the VM image file and improves the storage performance by discarding unused blocks and using a simple file-level prefetching strategy.     

Simplified Design for Concurrent Statistical Zero-Knowledge Arguments

This paper shows that the protocol presented by Goyal et al.can be further simplified for a one-way function,with the simplified protocol being more practical for the decisional Diffie-Hellman assumption.Goyal et al.provided a general transformation from any honest verifier statistical zero-knowledge argument to a concurrent statistical zero-knowledge argument.Their transformation relies only on the existence of one-way functions.For the simplified transformation,the witness indistinguishable proof of kn...     

Effective Factors on Forming Precision in Patternless Casting Manufacturing Technique

The patternless casting manufacturing (PCM) technique, which adopts a new concept of double scanning method, combines the principle of discreteness and deposition with resin-bonded sand technique. This paper is to evaluate the dimensional accuracy of sand mould on PCM. The two important factors-the liquid penetration rule in the space of particles and the shape and dimension of the agglomeration unit body, which influence the process parameters such as scanning speed, layer thickness, liquid flux on dimension accuracy, and surface qualities, were investigated systematically, thus the theoretical basis for these parameters was provided. Experiments on rapid manufacturing of sand mould were carried out, and the results of the free penetration and the constraint penetration well verified the relationship of the two factors and the process parameters.