0.24Pb(In1/2Nb1/2)O3-0.42Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.34PbTiO3 transparent ceramics were fabricated by a conventional sintering technique. Through optimization of sintering conditions of calcination and sintering temperatures and time, the obtained ceramics showed high optical transmittance of 53% and 71% at light wavelengths of 1300 and 2000 nm, respectively. The ceramics showed a rhombohedral to tetragonal phase transition at ~120°C and a tetragonal to cubic phase transition at 222°C. These transition temperatures were higher than those of 0.67Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)-0.33PbTiO3 ceramics. In addition, the ceramics had a ferroelectric hysteresis loop, a large piezoelectric constant d33 of 407 pC/N, and a planar electromechanical coupling factor kp of 52%. These results suggest that the transparent ceramics may be used as a temperature-stable, linear electro-optic material. 相似文献
The enzyme butyrylcholinesterase (BChE) represents a promising target for imaging probes to potentially enable early diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's disease (AD) and to monitor disease progression in some forms of cancer. In this study, we present the design, facile synthesis, in vitro and preliminary ex vivo and in vivo evaluation of a morpholine-based, selective inhibitor of human BChE as a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer with a pseudo-irreversible binding mode. We demonstrate a novel protecting group strategy for 18F radiolabeling of carbamate precursors and show that the inhibitory potency as well as kinetic properties of our unlabeled reference compound were retained in comparison to the parent compound. In particular, the prolonged duration of enzyme inhibition of such a morpholinocarbamate motivated us to design a PET tracer, possibly enabling a precise mapping of BChE distribution. 相似文献
Increasing the reaction temperature of the living cationic polymerization of isobutylene is crucial for industrial production due to the cost of refrigeration. The reaction temperature increase was achieved with an accelerated reaction rate using a flow reaction system. The polymerization conditions, including the flow reactor design, were based on the results of kinetic studies. Utilizing a milli‐scale flow reactor, polyisobutylene, which has a narrow molecular weight distribution, was obtained within a considerably short residence time at a high temperature. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the value of Mw/Mn correlates with the product of the Reynolds number and the angle of collision. 相似文献
Concerning the safety problems of conventional Li-ion batteries with liquid electrolytes, it is crucial to develop reliable solid-state electrolytes with high ionic conductivity. Li1+xAlxTi2?x(PO4)3 (LATP, x = 0.3) is regarded as one of the most promising solid electrolytes due to its high ionic conductivity and excellent chemical stability to humidity.Herein, a new strategy is proposed for improving the sintering behavior and enhancing the ionic conductivity of LATP by using LiBO2 as the sintering aid via liquid phase sintering. The as-prepared sample LATP with homogeneous microstructure and high relative density of 97.1% was successfully synthesized, yielding high total ionic conductivity of 3.5 × 10?4 S cm?1 and low activation energy of 0.39 eV at room temperature. It was found that the addition of LiBO2 could effectively enhance the densification and increase the ionic conductivity of LATP electrolyte, proving an effective way to synthesis LATP ceramics by a simple and reliable route. 相似文献
A series of fully-acylated dextrin esters (DS = 3) with varying side-chain lengths (C2–12) were synthesized by heterogeneous esterification using trifluoroacetic anhydride/carboxylic acid. The influence of side-chain lengths on structure and properties of dextrin esters were investigated by structural, thermal, mechanical and hydrophobic analysis. The thermal stability of dextrin was enhanced by esterification, presenting ca. 40–60 °C higher decomposition temperatures than that of neat-dextrin. The transition temperatures of melting and crystallization were not observed for all dextrin esters because they were amorphous polymers. The glass transition temperature (Tg) was not observed in dextrin but was observed in dextrin esters. As increasing side-chain length, Tgs of dextrin esters decreased ranged from 162.2 °C (C2) to 49.2 °C (C12). Colorless and transparent dextrin ester films were prepared to measure the film properties. Tensile strength of dextrin ester films tended to decrease with increasing side-chain lengths, whereas the elongation at break increased. And, dextrin ester films showed significantly increased hydrophobicity with a contact angle of up to 102° (C12). 相似文献
This article addresses a new pattern mining problem in time series sensor data, which we call correlated attribute pattern mining. The correlated attribute patterns (CAPs for short) are the sets of attributes (e.g., temperature and traffic volume) on sensors that are spatially close to each other and temporally correlated in their measurements. Although the CAPs are useful to accurately analyze and understand spatio-temporal correlation between attributes, the existing mining methods are inefficient to discover CAPs because they extract unnecessary patterns. Therefore, we propose a mining method Miscela to efficiently discover CAPs. Miscela can discover not only simultaneous correlated patterns but also time delayed correlated patterns. Furthermore, we extend Miscela to automatically search for correlated patterns with any time delays. Through our experiments using three real sensor datasets, we show that the response time of Miscela is up to 20.84 times faster compared with the state-of-the-art method. We show that Miscela discovers meaningful patterns for urban managements and environmental studies.
The objective of this paper is to present an inequality decomposition method, the two-stage nested Theil decomposition method,
which is an extension of the ordinary one-stage Theil decomposition method. The method is analogous to a two-stage nested
design in the analysis of variance (ANOVA). It considers the three-level hierarchical structure of a country: region-province-district,
and decomposes overall regional inequality, as measured by Theil indices based on district-level mean incomes, into three
components: the between-region, between-province, and within-province inequality components. The within-province component
is a weighted-average of within-province income inequalities for each province, while the between-province component is a
weighted-average of between-province income inequalities within each region. The method uses a district as the underlying
regional unit to measure regional income inequality, rather than a province, and thus can analyze the contribution of within-province
inequalities as well as between-province and between-region inequalities to the overall regional income inequality in a coherent
framework. This paper applies the two-stage nested Theil decomposition method to district-level income and population data
in China and Indonesia and explores factors determining regional income inequality in China and Indonesia.
Received: October 2000/Accepted: June 2002
The author is grateful to the Foundation of International Education (Kokusai Kyoiku Zaidan) and Japan Society for the Promotion
of Science (Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research No. 12630073) for their financial support, and to anonymous referees for
helpful comments. 相似文献