State of the art advancement in rational design of g-C3N4 photocatalyst for efficient solar fuel transformation,environmental decontamination and future perspectives

Recently, the graphite based heterogeneous photocatalysts has attained tremendous research attention in various environmental applications. Among them, the graphitic carbon nitride (g-C₃N₄) is categorized as a unique solar active particle with its outstanding intrinsic properties i.e., adequate band configuration, excellent light absorptivity and thermo-physical durability, which make it highly useful and reliable for revenue transformation and ecological concerns. Considering the intrinsic potential of g-C₃N₄ in photocatalysis, so far, no report has been done in literature for its extraordinary configuration, morphological characteristics and perspective tuning for said applications. To overcome this research gap, our primary emphasis of this review regarding photocatalysis is to provide layout as well as the advancement of visible-light-fueled materials as highly stabilized and extremely effective ones for pragmatic implementation. Thus, this existing comprehensive assessment conducts a systematic survey over visible light driven non-metal novel g-C₃N₄. The major advancement of this evaluation is the fabrication of well-designed nanosized g-C₃N₄ photocatalysts with unique configurable frameworks and compositions. Furthermore, alternative techniques in order to customize the analogue band configuration and noticeable cultivation such as metal (cation), nonmetal (anion) doping, worthy metal activating, and alloy initiation with certain semiconductors are discussed in detail. In addition to this, g-C₃N₄ photocatalytic functionalities towards photocatalytic hydrogen evolution, CO₂ photoreduction, biological metal ions deterioration as well as bacterial sanitization are also presented and discussed in detail. Therefore, we believe that such a pivotal compact assessment can provide a roadmap in several perspectives on the currently underway obstacles in the innovation of effective g-C₃N₄ catalytic design processes. Moreover, this critical assessment will ultimately serve as a useful supplement in the research area of g-C₃N₄ nanosized photocatalysts and for the researchers working on its key aspects in diverse range of natural, chemistry, engineering and environmental applications.     

Failure analysis on welded joints of 347H austenitic boiler tubes

Microstructural and thermo-mechanical analyses using the finite element method (FEM) were performed on the welded joint of 347H boiler tubes in a coal-fired power plant after 3600 h of operation. The cracks in the failed tube started on the inner surface of the heat-affected zone (HAZ). This area had a high hardness value and volume fraction of strain-induced martensite. The plastic deformation around the crack was concentrated near the grain boundaries. This failure occurred as the stabilizing effect disappeared due to carbide dissolution in the heat-affected zone, and plastic deformation and tensile residual stress were formed at the inner side due to the solidification contraction of the outer bead.     

T8钢—聚有机硅氧烷仿生减粘降阻复合涂层的特性

研究了Ｔ８钢－聚有机硅氧烷仿生减粘降阻复合涂层的表面润湿性，磨料磨损性及土壤的减粘降组性能，与金属材料相比，仿生复合涂层的表面憎水性显著提高，水在其表面上的接触角达９２°；与４５钢相比，其磨料磨损的体积相对耐磨系数为６３％，降阻率达１５．２２％－－２２．２７％。     

电脉冲快速退火对铁基非晶合金性能的影响

采用大电流交流脉冲对非晶Ｆｅ７８Ｂ１３Ｓｉ９合金进行了去应力退火。初步探讨了电脉冲加热对加热速率和该合金内应力释放、退火脆化以及最终软磁性影响的基本规律。结果表明：电脉冲加热可以得到远高于常规退火的加热速率，选择合适工艺参数可使非晶合金内应力释放９０％，软磁性（Ｈ＿ｃ和Ｂ＿ｓ）达常规退火后的９５％以上，与此同时使合金的延性（断裂应变ε＿ｆ）维持在０．９以上，从而有望实现非晶合金磁性与延性的合理配合。     

Software structure evaluation based on the interaction and encapsulation of methods

Software structure is the most important factor affecting the quality of a program.The evaluation of software structure is a foundational technique for software development.However,the traditional evaluation criteria,such as "high cohesion and low coupling",are no longer appropriate for the new web applications,which are designed with a hierarchical framework.A novel approach is proposed in this paper to evaluate software quality based on the interaction and encapsulation of methods.In particular,two criteria for high quality software,the functional and hierarchical structure,are proposed to support widely used web applications.The cohesion and coupling and layer matching ratios between methods within a software package are calculated to determine whether the package is well implemented in terms of functional or hierarchical structure.This approach enables us to quantify the quality of a software system according to the structural types of its packages.Experiments were carried out on 18 versions of Struts and six open-source software packages.Our evaluation concurs with the intuition that minor upgrades,aimed at fixing bugs and adding minor functionality quickly,reduce software quality,whereas major upgrades,which normally clean up messy code and re-construct the software,improve software quality.     

Bayesian network based general correspondence retrieval method for depth sensing with single-shot structured light

This study reinvestigated one of the most fundamental problems in structure light depth sensing field: correspondence retrieval of features between patterns and images. We formulate the global optimum correspondence retrieval by maximizing a conditional probability of correspondence given observed features, which is depicted by a Bayesian network. Different from traditional “code-only” based correspondence retrieval methods, the proposed Bayesian network based method exploits the positional correlations of correspondences of neighboring features, namely, the correspondences of poorly detected features are estimated with the aid of the correspondences of well detected features. The method performs especially well on challenging scenes with rich depth variations, abrupt depth changes, edges, etc. Experiments show that the proposed method increase the correspondence accuracy by about 40% on challenging scenes, compared with traditional “code-only” based correspondence retrieval methods.     

Bio-inspired self-organized cooperative control consensus for crowded UUV swarm based on adaptive dynamic interaction topology

Applied Intelligence - Cooperative control is currently a challenging topic of crowded unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) swarm. However, individual behavior conflict and chain-avalanche collision...