Visible light-driven superoxide generation by conjugated polymers for organic synthesis

Nano Research - Benefiting from their unique delocalized electronic structure, conjugated polymer-based semiconductors are widely applied in the fields of organic electronics, sensors, and...     

氮掺杂碳负载表面部分暴露的CoFe2O4用于高性能催化析氧反应

开发价格低廉、储量丰富、高效的析氧反应(OER)电催化剂对于可持续能源的转换具有重要意义。目前,虽然尖晶石型二元过渡金属氧化物表现出了很有潜力的OER活性,但其固有的低电导率一定程度上降低了其电化学性能。本文提出了一种通过金属有机框架(MOF)辅助合成表面部分暴露的CoFe₂O₄纳米颗粒负载在氮掺杂碳基底上(CoFe₂O₄@NC)的方法,且CoFe₂O₄@NC具有优良的催化活性。在碱性介质中,CoFe₂O₄@NC表现出了优异的OER活性,在10 mA·cm^-2电流密度的过电势仅为1.517 V,Tafel斜率为87 mV·dec^-1,这是由于CoFe₂O₄@NC具有足够暴露的活性位点和较高的电子转移能力。此外,CoFe₂O₄@NC能稳定运行15 h,具有出色的稳定性。该工作将为探索经...     

Regulation of Polymer Configurations Enables Green Solvent-Processed Large-Area Binary All-Polymer Solar Cells With Breakthrough Performance and High Efficiency Stretchability Factor

With the great potential of the all-polymer solar cells for large-area wearable devices, both large-area device efficiency and mechanical flexibility are very critical but attract limited attention. In this work, from the perspective of the polymer configurations, two types of terpolymer acceptors PYTX-A and PYTX-B (X = Cl or H) are developed. The configuration difference caused by the replacement of non-conjugated units results in distinct photovoltaic performance and mechanical flexibility. Benefiting from a good match between the intrinsically slow film-forming of the active materials and the technically slow film-forming of the blade-coating process, the toluene-processed large-area (1.21 cm²) binary device achieves a record efficiency of 14.70%. More importantly, a new parameter of efficiency stretchability factor (ESF) is proposed for the first time to comprehensively evaluate the overall device performance. PM6:PYTCl-A and PM6:PYTCl-B yield significantly higher ESF than PM6:PY-IT. Further blending with non-conjugated polymer donor PM6-A, the best ESF of 3.12% is achieved for PM6-A:PYTCl-A, which is among the highest comprehensive performances.     

Spoken emotion recognition through optimum-path forest classification using glottal features

A new method for the recognition of spoken emotions is presented based on features of the glottal airflow signal. Its effectiveness is tested on the new optimum path classifier (OPF) as well as on six other previously established classification methods that included the Gaussian mixture model (GMM), support vector machine (SVM), artificial neural networks – multi layer perceptron (ANN-MLP), k-nearest neighbor rule (k-NN), Bayesian classifier (BC) and the C4.5 decision tree. The speech database used in this work was collected in an anechoic environment with ten speakers (5 M and 5 F) each speaking ten sentences in four different emotions: Happy, Angry, Sad, and Neutral. The glottal waveform was extracted from fluent speech via inverse filtering. The investigated features included the glottal symmetry and MFCC vectors of various lengths both for the glottal and the corresponding speech signal. Experimental results indicate that best performance is obtained for the glottal-only features with SVM and OPF generally providing the highest recognition rates, while for GMM or the combination of glottal and speech features performance was relatively inferior. For this text dependent, multi speaker task the top performing classifiers achieved perfect recognition rates for the case of 6th order glottal MFCCs.     

Implementation and experimental performance evaluation of a hybrid interrupt-handling scheme

The performance of network hosts can be severely degraded when subjected to heavy traffic of today’s Gigabit networks. This degradation occurs as a result of the interrupt overhead associated with the high rate of packet arrivals. NAPI, a packet reception mechanism integrated into the latest version of Linux networking subsystem, was designed to improve Linux performance to suit today’s Gigabit traffic. NAPI is definitely a major step up from earlier reception mechanisms; however, NAPI has shortcomings and its performance can be further enhanced. A hybrid interrupt-handling scheme, which was recently proposed in Salah et al. [K. Salah, K. El-Badawi, F. Haidari, Performance Analysis and Comparison of Interrupt-Handling Schemes in Gigabit Networks, International Journal of Computer Communications, Elsevier, Amsterdam 30 (17) (2007) 3425–3441], can better improve the performance of Gigabit network hosts. The hybrid scheme switches between interrupt disabling–enabling (DE) and polling (NAPI). In this paper, we present and discuss major changes required to implement such a hybrid scheme in the latest version of Linux kernel 2.6.15. We prove experimentally that the hybrid scheme can significantly improve the performance of general-purpose network desktops or servers running network I/O-bound applications, when subjecting such network hosts to both light and heavy traffic load conditions. The performance is measured and analyzed in terms of throughput, packet loss, latency, and CPU availability.     

改进型合并净化槽处理生活污水的影响因素

通过设置改性复合填料和微电解铁屑床对合并净化槽进行工艺改进,采用厌氧(缺氧)好氧(A2/O)工艺处理生活污水。为优化该装置处理生活污水的效果,分别选取水力停留时间、有机负荷、污泥回流比作为运行条件进行试验室中试研究。结合试验结果和经济效益,得出最佳运行条件:水体停留时间为8 h,此时系统对COD、TN和TP的去除率分别为95%、63%8、7%;COD有机负荷为2.7 g/(L.d),该条件下出水COD、TN和TP平均去除率分别可达到90%、74%、88%;污泥回流比为75%,此时净化槽出水COD、TN和TP平均去除率分别达到95%、70%、94%。     

基于石墨烯增强效应电化学检测饮料中的柠檬黄

采用石墨烯作为敏感膜,提高了电化学传感器检测柠檬黄的灵敏度和速度。优化了检测条件:pH 5.0的磷酸盐缓冲溶液作为测定缓冲溶液,石墨烯用量为0.5mg.mL-1 5μL,富集电位和时间分别为0.6V和2min。在最佳条件下,检测柠檬黄的线性范围为0.05～0.5μg.mL-1,检测限为0.04μg.mL-1。应用新的传感器成功地检测了饮料中的柠檬黄,并对其结果与高效液相色谱法进行了比较。     

Variation of the photoluminescence and vacuum ultraviolet excitation characteristics of BaZr(BO3)2:Eu3+ by the incorporation of Al3+, La3+, or Y3+ into the lattice

The photoluminescence (PL) and vacuum ultraviolet (VUV) excitation properties are studied for the BaZr(BO₃)₂:Eu³⁺ phosphor with incorporating the Al³⁺, La³⁺, or Y³⁺ ion into the lattice. The excitation spectrum shows an absorption band in the VUV region with the band-edge at 200 nm and a very weak charge transfer band of Eu³⁺ at about 226 nm. The luminescence spectrum shows a strong emission at 615 nm (⁵D₀ → ⁷F₂ transition) and weak emission at 594 nm (⁵D₀ → ⁷F₁ transition) in BaZr(BO₃)₂:Eu³⁺, with a good red color purity. The PL intensity is increased by incorporating Al³⁺ into the BaZr(BO₃)₂ lattice. The PL intensity has also increased by incorporating La³⁺ into the lattice, however, the red color purity has deteriorated because of the increased centrosymmetric nature of the site. With the incorporation of Y³⁺ into the BaZr(BO₃)₂ lattice, the PL characteristics of the Eu³⁺ activator resembles that in the YBO₃ lattices. The intensity of the red PL for the Eu³⁺ activator is the highest with good color purity for BaZr(BO₃)₂:Eu³⁺ incorporated with both Al³⁺ (10%) and La³⁺ (0.5%).     

Dielectric spectroscopy of polypyrrole–γ–Fe2O3 composites

In situ polymerization of pyrrole was carried out in the presence of γ–Fe₂O₃ (FE) to synthesize polypyrrole–γ–Fe₂O₃ composites (PPy/FE) by chemical oxidation method. The PPy/FE composites have been synthesized with various compositions viz., 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 wt.% of γ–Fe₂O₃ in pyrrole. The AC conductivity was studied in the frequency range 10²–10⁷ Hz. The dielectric behaviour was also investigated in the frequency range 10²–10⁷ Hz. The dimensions of γ–Fe₂O₃ particles in the matrix have a greater influence on the conductivity values and the observed dielectric values.     

Crystal structure of a new organic dihydrogenomonophosphate (C6H8N3O)2(H2PO4)2

Chemical preparation, X-ray single-crystal, thermal behavior, and IR spectroscopy investigations are given for a new organic cation dihydrogenomonophosphate (C₆H₈N₃O)₂(H₂PO₄)₂ (denoted IAHP) in the solid state. This compound crystallizes in the orthorhombic space group P2₁2₁2₁. The unit cell dimensions are: a = 7.422(3) Å, b = 12.568(5) Å, c = 20.059(8) Å with V = 1871.1(13) Å³ and Z = 4. The structure has been solved using direct method and refined to a reliability R factor of 0.029. The atomic arrangement can be described as inorganic layers of H₂PO₄⁻ anions between which are located the organic groups (C₆H₈N₃O)⁺ through multiple hydrogen bonds.