Teaching-Material Design Center: An ontology-based system for customizing reusable e-materials

Use of electronic teaching materials (e-material) to support teaching is a trend. e-Material design is therefore an important issue. Currently, most e-material providers offer a package of solutions for different purposes. However, not all teachers and learners need everything from a single package. A preferable alternative is to find useful material from different packages and combine them for a particular course. Currently, most educators collect the material manually, which is time-consuming and may result in missed material. In this paper, we describe a system – the Teaching-Material Design Center, which follows the standard of Sharable Content Object Reference Model – to separate e-material for use as teaching templates and learning objects and to label the material with use of semantic metadata for searching. This system can find existing teaching templates and learning objects for e-material designers and provide a convenient environment for constructing customized e-material for different requirements. We describe the implementation and evaluation of the proposed system for a course. Our system is efficient in finding teaching templates and learning objects and shortening the e-material development process.     

A Silicon–Silica Nanocomposite Material

The synthesis and characterization of a novel silicon–silica nanocomposite material are reported. A self‐assembly method allows the encapsulation of silicon nanoclusters within the channels of a periodic mesoporous silica thin film. The result is the formation of a silicon–silica nanocomposite film with bright, room‐temperature photoluminescence in the visible range, and a nanosecond luminescence lifetime. The properties of the nanocomposite material have been studied by several analytical techniques, which collectively show the existence within the channels of non‐diamondoid‐structure‐type silicon nanoclusters with various hydrogenated silicon sites. It is estimated that the silicon nanoclusters in the silica mesoporous films occupy up to 39 % of the accessible pore volume. The nanocomposite film shows improved resistance to air oxidation compared to crystalline silicon. The high loading and chemical stability to oxidation under ambient conditions are important advantages in terms of the development of silicon‐based light‐emitting diodes from this class of materials.     

用介孔材料制备定向碳纳米管的研究进展

综述了近年来采用介孔材料制备定向碳纳米管的研究进展,包括介孔材料的合成及介孔材料在制备定向碳纳米管方面的应用。重点介绍了采用合成介孔材料的模板剂石墨化及介孔材料作为载体制备定向碳纳米管的方法,探讨了模板剂种类、催化剂的制备方法及反应温度和时间对定向碳纳米管生长的影响和定向碳纳米管生长的介孔限制机理,并提出了这一领域的研究方向。     

助模板剂对MCM—41分子筛孔结构和性能的影响

在硅酸钠－硫酸铝－十六烷基三甲基氯化铵－水体系中，加入不同类型，如正庚烷、三甲基苯和十二胺的有机助模板剂（简称助剂）进行ＭＣＭ－４１分子筛的合成试验，并用ＸＲＤ、ＩＲ及Ｎ２吸附等方法考察了助剂对ＭＣＭ－４１分子筛孔径、热稳定性及酸性的影响。结果表明，十二胺助剂对ＭＣＭ－４１分子筛的孔径影响最大，但热稳定性较差，相比之下，三甲基苯助剂合成的ＭＣＭ－４１分子筛具有孔径大、热稳定性好和酸性特征较好的特点。     

Ray-cast volume rendering accelerated by incremental trilinear interpolation and cell templates

Two related ideas for improving the speed of ray-cast volume rendering are studied in this paper. The first is an incremental algorithm for trilinear interpolation, a method commonly used in ray-cast volume rendering to calculate sample values. The incremental algorithm can expedite trilinear interpolation when many samples along a ray are located in one cell. The second is an efficient hybrid volume rendering restricted to parallel projection. In the preprocessing stage, acell template is created to store the information used by the incremental trilinear interpolation. When a cell is parallel projected, the information is retrieved from the template to compute the cell contribution. Because the algorithm with only one template may cause aliasing, an antialiasing technique exploiting multiple cell templates is proposed. With our method, ray-cast volume rendering can be accelerated considerably.     

Nanocomposites of CsPbBr3 perovskite quantum dots embedded in Gd2O3:Eu3+ hollow spheres for LEDs application

Gd₂O₃:Eu³⁺@CsPbBr₃ quantum dots (QDs) mesoporous hollow nanocomposites with good luminescent properties and high stability were built. Among which, the hollow Gd₂O₃:Eu³⁺ spheres and CsPbBr₃ QDs were prepared by urea homogeneous precipitation and hot-injection method, respectively. Finally, the Gd₂O₃:Eu³⁺@CsPbBr₃ QDs shell–core compounds were constructed through mechanical stirring. The structure, morphology, stability and luminescent properties were studied by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), differential scanning calorimetry/thermogravity (DSC/TG), X-ray diffraction (XRD), field-emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), photoluminescence excitation/photoluminescence (PLE/PL) and life decay tools. Compared to the original CsPbBr₃ QDs, Gd₂O₃:Eu³⁺@CsPbBr₃ QDs display better photostability, thermal stability and current stability. The resulting Gd₂O₃:Eu³⁺@CsPbBr₃ QDs composite exhibits good yellow emission. The Gd₂O₃:Eu³⁺@CsPbBr₃ QDs mixed silicone resin was directly coated on the blue LED chip, then the w-LED device with the color coordinate of (0.31, 0.32) was successfully assembled. The Gd₂O₃:Eu³⁺@CsPbBr₃ QDs compounds with excellent luminescent properties and stability are expected to be widely used in lighting and display areas.     

工艺设计文件输出管理数据库的开发

文章首先研究了工艺设计文件的数据库管理问题,设计开发了工艺文件输出管理数据库,创建了一套符合要求的工艺卡片模板,实现了工艺文件卡片的在线自动填写及输出,方便了用户的使用.     

Low-temperature catalytic growth of carbon nanotubes under microwave plasma assistance

Various carbon nanotubes (CNTs) including aligned arrays, Y-branching and some other novel morphologies have been catalytically grown on anodic porous alumina template (APAT) and on the alumina-supported catalysts with methane (or benzene) as carbon source under microwave plasma assistance below 520 °C. The growth process could be simply operated since neither heating nor bias-voltage was applied to the catalysts or APAT. The results presented in this paper not only greatly richened the nanostructures of carbon family but also provided with a new technique path for synthesizing CNTs or some other nanostructures with the characteristics of low-temperature which has some special advantages or applications.     

Fabrication of Porous SiC Ceramics with Special Morphologies by Sacrificing Template Method

Sacrificial template technique is widely used in producing porous materials with controlled morphologies and tailored properties. In this paper, unique templates such as filters, carbon nanotube, carbon fiber and silica were used to make porous SiC ceramic with special morphologies. Template derived porous ceramic plates, SiC nano-net, fiber-inverse and bead-inverse porous SiC ceramic were successfully prepared from the preceramic precursor, polymethylsilane (PMS). The synthesis procedures were involved with the infiltration of the templates with appropriate concentration of the preceramic polymer, their curing, pyrolysis and subsequent template removal. The synthesized porous SiC was characterized by SEM, TEM, XRD and BET methods.     

基于并查集和边缘检测模板的非理想虹膜定位

非理想虹膜图像往往存在虹膜边缘模糊、灰度变化不均匀、位置偏移及光斑干扰等问题, 这些问题的存在会在一定程度上影响虹膜内、外边界定位的准确率. 针对这个问题, 本文提出采用并查集和边缘检测模板的方法来对非理想虹膜进行内、外边界定位. 内边界定位是首先采用并查集方法完成瞳孔区域粗定位, 然后采用Hough变换对瞳孔进行精确定位; 外边界定位是先利用一系列边缘检测模板大致确定外圆的位置, 然后再依据外边界附近圆环内边缘点的密度来最终完成外边界的精确定位. 实验结果表明, 对于非理想虹膜图像, 本文方法的定位正确率和定位速度均高于其他同类方法.