Spray-Coating of Superhydrophobic Coatings for Advanced Applications

Superhydrophobic coatings are widely applicable, e.g., as self-cleaning surfaces or water–oil separation membranes, yet their wider usage is impeded due to costs of fabrication, size, or substrate limitation. Spray-coating is a versatile coating procedures and might offer a good solution for the fabrication of these superhydrophobic coatings, due to the fact that coatings can be fabricated on various materials in a simple, fast, and inexpensive manner. Most procedures rely on hybrid coatings of hydrophobized nanoparticles and a polymeric matrix, which have several drawbacks including the easy loss of nanoparticles and difficult waste handling. Here, the fabrication of the superhydrophobic material, called Fluoropor, for the first time, by spray-coating on various substrates including metals, tissues, concrete, and glass is presented. It is fabricated by spray-coating a mixture of a highly fluorinated monomer blended with porogens followed by photopolymerization. The superhydrophobicity of the material relies on the porous structure on the micro-/nanoscale across the bulk material and does not require any nanoparticles. Excellent self-cleaning ability of these coatings, resistance against thermal and abrasive impact, and their application as oil–water separation membranes are shown. This versatile applicability is highly promising for real-world application as self-cleaning coatings or oil–water separating membranes.     

Improved Tribocorrosion Properties of Ti6Al4V Alloy by Anodic Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation

Ti6Al4V alloy has good corrosion resistance due to the formation of the passive oxide films on the surface of Ti6Al4V alloy. However, Ti6Al4V alloy has poor tribocorrosion resistance in the seawater environment. Herein the present work, plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) with the electrolyte of glycerol and sodium borate is used to generate PEO coatings on the surface of Ti6Al4V alloy to improve its tribocorrosion properties. The microstructure and tribocorrosion properties of PEO coatings are investigated by using scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and tribometer, respectively. The growth kinetics and the tribocorrosion mechanisms of PEO coatings are discussed in detail. It is shown in the results that PEO coatings deposited on the surface of Ti6Al4V alloy are composed of rutile and anatase phases. The surface hardness and thickness of PEO coatings are enhanced with the increase of the voltage and time. The wear rate of Ti6Al4V alloy with PEO coatings is significantly reduced in artificial seawater.     

大庆HDPE装置改扩建可行性分析

大庆石化总厂规划在“九五”期间将30万t/a乙烯装置扩建到48万t/a,HDPE装置是主要的乙烯使用装置。根据该装置几年来的生产实践及与日本三井油化同类装置生产情况的对比,并经过对主要操作单元的详细计算,对该装置设计能力由14万t/a扩建到24万t/a进行了可行性分析,提出了通过对部分设备进行改造后,产量提高10万t/a是可行的。     

Retardation of human drug-resistant HL-60 cell in G1 phase and induction of sensitive cell to apoptosis by cyclosporine A

To further study the relationship between resistance to apoptosis and drug resistance in harringtonine-resistant HL-60 cells (HR20), cyclosporine A (CsA) 20, 10 micrograms.ml-1 was shown to induce the sensitive HL-60 cells to apoptosis, showing a typical DNA "ladder" band. But the same concentrations of CsA retarded the HR20 cells in G1 phase and could not induce the cells to apoptosis. The cellular daunorubicin accumulation increased when HR20 cells were treated with low concentration of CsA and the reversal of drug resistance by CsA was unrelated to the retardation of cell cycle progression. High phosphorylation of about 50 kDa protein occured when HR20 cells were treated with CsA 10 micrograms.ml-1. The results domonstrate that cyclosporine A retarded the harringtonine-resistant HL-60 cells in G1 phase but induced HL-60 cells to apoptosis, and the retardation was unrelated to drug resistance.     

An immune-inspired approach to qualitative system identification of biological pathways

In this paper, a special-purpose qualitative model learning (QML) system using an immune-inspired algorithm is proposed to qualitatively reconstruct biological pathways. We choose a real-world application, the detoxification pathway of Methylglyoxal (MG), as a case study. First a converter is implemented to convert possible pathways to qualitative models. Then a general learning strategy is presented. To improve the scalability of the proposed QML system and make it adapt to future more complicated pathways, a modified clonal selection algorithm (CLONALG) is employed as the search strategy. The performance of this immune-inspired approach is compared with those of exhaustive search and two backtracking algorithms. The experimental results indicate that this immune-inspired approach can significantly improve the search efficiency when dealing with some complicated pathways with large-scale search spaces.     

基于静态路由的ISP负载均衡解决方案

传统的ISP负载均衡方法主要有2种,一是使用开启BGP协议的高端防火墙;二是使用专业负载均衡设备.本论文建立了1套新型的基于静态路由的ISP负载均衡解决方案.本文首先通过Whois协议获得ISP的AS号码,在公网BGP路由器数据库中根据这个AS号码查询属于不同ISP的全部BGP路由条目;之后将不同ISP(例如中国电信和中国联通)的路由条目导入园区网边界防火墙,使得用户访问实现负载分担和路由备份.本方案适用于大中型企业和大型居民小区园区网,相比传统的负载均衡方法,本方案能够节省大量设备投资.     

基于DDS的低通滤波器设计与仿真

分析了几种经典滤波器特性,重点研究了DDS系统中低通滤波器的设计方法。根据DDS的结构特点和输出杂散频谱特性,结合滤波器技术指标使用了归一化法完成了一个九阶椭圆函数低通滤波器的设计,使其通带截至频率为120MHz、通带内最大衰减为0.2dB、在135MHz处阻带内最小衰减为66dB。通过Multisim10对其进行仿真后可以得出,使用此种方法设计的低通滤波器过渡带陡峭、幅频特性仿真良好,并且能够很好地满足预期的技术指标。     

A guided local search procedure for the multi-compartment capacitated arc routing problem

In this paper, we introduce and study the multi-compartment capacitated arc routing problem—an extension of the classical capacitated arc routing problem, but where the required edges have a demand for different products, and multi-compartment vehicles are available to co-distribute these commodities. We present a local search algorithm that exploits well-known moves (2-opt, re-insert, relocate, exchange and cross). We take advantage of speed up tricks such as marking and neighbour lists, and we combine the procedure with the guided local search meta-heuristic in order to reach high quality solutions. We report on results from extensive computational experiments. Our aim is to reveal in what situations co-distribution by partitioned vehicles saves in routing costs as compared with separate distribution with un-partitioned trucks. We explore sensitivities in key problem characteristics including, the number of commodities, the vehicle capacity, the location of the depot and required edges, the density of required edges, and the demand per commodity for the required edges.     

改进的FCM与局部信息相结合的图像分割

传统的EM算法和FCM算法分割精度低,时间消耗大。为解决以上不足,提出了一种基于EM、FCM和KCN三种算法相结合的全新的图像分割算法。该算法有较好的分割精度。考虑到图像会受到噪声的干扰,在改进算法的基础上又引入图像的局部信息。首先利用图像的局部信息重塑图像的灰度直方图,增强了像素的类间散布性和类内紧凑性,然后让改进的算法在重塑图像上执行。实验结果表明,该算法具有很好的分割效果和较强的抗噪性能。