Metal‐Organic Frameworks Derived Nanotube of Nickel–Cobalt Bimetal Phosphides as Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting

The design of highly efficient, stable, and noble‐metal‐free bifunctional electrocatalysts for overall water splitting is critical but challenging. Herein, a facile and controllable synthesis strategy for nickel–cobalt bimetal phosphide nanotubes as highly efficient electrocatalysts for overall water splitting via low‐temperature phosphorization from a bimetallic metal‐organic framework (MOF‐74) precursor is reported. By optimizing the molar ratio of Co/Ni atoms in MOF‐74, a series of Cox Niy P catalysts are synthesized, and the obtained Co4Ni1P has a rare form of nanotubes that possess similar morphology to the MOF precursor and exhibit perfect dispersal of the active sites. The nanotubes show remarkable hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalytic performance in an alkaline electrolyte, affording a current density of 10 mA cm^?2 at overpotentials of 129 mV for HER and 245 mV for OER, respectively. An electrolyzer with Co4Ni1P nanotubes as both the cathode and anode catalyst in alkaline solutions achieves a current density of 10 mA cm^?2 at a voltage of 1.59 V, which is comparable to the integrated Pt/C and RuO₂ counterparts and ranks among the best of the metal‐phosphide electrocatalysts reported to date.     

分布式紧耦合虚拟专用网可靠性计算方法

为了评估构建在互联网络基础上,具有多个服务质量约束要求的分布式紧耦合虚拟专用网可靠性能,该文提出一套可靠性指标计算方法。首先,在赋有权值参数的互联网络中,计算出所有满足约束条件的分布式紧耦合节点之间路由。然后,根据这些路由建立满足服务质量要求的网络邻接矩阵,对邻接矩阵进行分解与整合等变换,求得满足约束条件的不交化网络状态集。最后,根据不交化网络状态集得到可靠性指标的计算式,进而完成可靠性指标计算。由于所有过程都实现了代数化或逻辑代数化计算,所以易于计算机编程实现。论述了算法关键环节的正确性。通过算例、实验以及与传统算法结果比较等方式,说明新算法能够非常贴切地反映出分布式紧耦合虚拟专用网的可靠性。     

合成孔径雷达二维余弦调相转发干扰研究

该文提出一种新的SAR干扰方法：二维余弦调相转发干扰。该方法通过转发调制了余弦相位的SAR信号,使得SAR回波在距离向频域和方位向多普勒域成对扩展,实现了对SAR的多假目标干扰。理论研究表明,该干扰样式为二维相干干扰,能量利用率高,同时又具有非相干干扰的压制特点,通过优化设置干扰调制参数,可以形成紧凑的面假目标或网格状假目标串,达到掩护分布式目标的目的。仿真实验和基于实测数据的仿真验证了该方法的有效性。     

Ultrasmall Thermally Tunable Microring Resonator With a Submicrometer Heater on Si Nanowires

An ultracompact widely tunable thermooptical (TO) microring resonator (MRR) filter based on Si nanowires is presented. The Si nanowire waveguide has a insulator, Si core, a up-cladding, and a thin metal film at the top. The metal circuit along the microring is used as a submicrometer heater which has the same width as the Si nanowire waveguide. The up-cladding is optimized to reduce the light absorption of the metal as well as to have a good heat-conduction from the heater to the Si core. Two pads used as the contact points for the probes connecting to the electrical power are perpendicularly connected to the microring by using optimized T-junctions (with a low excess loss of about 0.06 dB per T-junction). With such a design, the present thermally tunable microring resonator (MRR) can be fabricated by using a standard fabrication process with a single lithography process, which is much simpler than the fabrication with double lithography processes used for the conventional TO components. Finally, the simulation results show that the designed MRR has a wide tuning range of about 20 nm with a low heating power of 5 mW.     

Optimal Overlapped Message Passing Decoding of Quasi-Cyclic LDPC Codes

Efficient hardware implementation of low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes is of great interest since LDPC codes are being considered for a wide range of applications. Recently, overlapped message passing (OMP) decoding has been proposed to improve the throughput and hardware utilization efficiency (HUE) of decoder architectures for LDPC codes. In this paper, we first study the scheduling for the OMP decoding of LDPC codes, and show that maximizing the throughput gain amounts to minimizing the intra- and inter-iteration waiting times. We then focus on the OMP decoding of quasi-cyclic (QC) LDPC codes. We propose a partly parallel OMP decoder architecture and implement it using FPGA. For any QC LDPC code, our OMP decoder achieves the maximum throughput gain and HUE due to overlapping, hence has higher throughput and HUE than previously proposed OMP decoders while maintaining the same hardware requirements. We also show that the maximum throughput gain and HUE achieved by our OMP decoder are ultimately determined by the given code. Thus, we propose a coset-based construction method, which results in QC LDPC codes that allow our optimal OMP decoder to achieve higher throughput and HUE.     

GIS中实时建立区域拓扑关系的快速算法

针对GIS中建立区域拓扑关系的实时性要求,论文提出一个结合基于图的拓扑信息和基于几何的左转算法的区域拓扑关系生成算法。利用区域的连通性提高了算法效率,左转算法保证了算法的可靠性。     

浅谈IMS和PSTN/CS网络的互通

IP多媒体子系统自从3GPP UMTS Release5后已经被加入到通用移动通信系统(UMTS)的核心网络中.现在,UMTS网络主要包含以下3个域:电路交换(CS)、分组交换(PS)和IP多媒体子系统(IMS).IMS需要同原有相对陈旧的网络电路交换(CS)网络及公用电话交换网(PSTN).本文主要针对IMS同PSTN/CS网络的互通进行了概述.     

硅基碲镉汞红外探测器表面钝化研究

碲镉汞(Mercury Cadmium Telluride, MCT)材料的表面钝化是红外探测器制备中的关键工艺之一。高性能MCT器件需要稳定且可重复生产的钝化表面和符合器件性能要求的界面。因此,探究MCT表面钝化技术具有重要意义。研究了MCT的分子束外延(Molecular Beam Epitaxy, MBE)原位钝化与磁控溅射钝化两种钝化技术。结果表明,MBE原位钝化膜层的致密性较好,钝化层表面的缺陷孔洞较小,钝化层与MCT的晶格匹配度较好,器件流片的电流-电压(I-V)特性要优于磁控溅射正常钝化。     

Bacteria-Responsive Self-Assembly of Antimicrobial Peptide Nanonets for Trap-and-Kill of Antibiotic-Resistant Strains

Bacterial trapping using nanonets is a ubiquitous immune defense mechanism against infectious microbes. These nanonets can entrap microbial cells, effectively arresting their dissemination and rendering them more vulnerable to locally secreted microbicides. Inspired by this evolutionarily conserved anti-infective strategy, a series of 15 to 16 residue-long synthetic β-hairpin peptides is herein constructed with the ability to self-assemble into nanonets in response to the presence of bacteria, enabling spatiotemporal control over microbial killing. Using amyloid-specific K114 assay and confocal microscopy, the membrane components lipoteichoic acid and lipopolysaccharide are shown to play a major role in determining the amyloid-nucleating capacity as triggered by Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria respectively. These nanonets displayed both trapping and killing functionalities, hence offering a direct improvement from the trap-only biomimetics in literature. By substituting a single turn residue of the non-amyloidogenic BTT1 peptide, the nanonet-forming BTT1-3A analog is produced with comparable antimicrobial potency. With the same sequence manipulation approach, BTT2-4A analog modified from BTT2 peptide showed improved antimicrobial potency against colistin-resistant clinical isolates. The peptide nanonets also demonstrated robust stability against proteolytic degradation, and promising in vivo efficacy and biosafety profile. Overall, these bacteria-responsive peptide nanonets are promising clinical anti-infective alternatives for circumventing antibiotic resistance.     

A NIR-II AIEgen-Based Supramolecular Nanodot for Peroxynitrite-Potentiated Mild-Temperature Photothermal Therapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Compared to conventional photothermal therapy (PTT) which requires hyperthermia higher than 50 °C, mild-temperature PTT is a more promising antitumor strategy with much lower phototoxicity to neighboring normal tissues. However, the therapeutic efficacy of mild-temperature PTT is always restricted by the thermoresistance of cancer cells. To address this issue, a supramolecular drug nanocarrier is fabricated to co-deliver nitric oxide (NO) and photothermal agent DCTBT with NIR-II aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristic for mild-temperature PTT. NO can be effectively released from the nanocarriers in intracellular reductive environment and DCTBT is capable of simultaneously producing reactive oxygen species (ROS) and hyperthermia upon 808 nm laser irradiation. The generated ROS can further react with NO to produce peroxynitrite (ONOOˉ) bearing strong oxidization and nitration capability. ONOOˉ can inhibit the expression of heat shock proteins (HSP) to reduce the thermoresistance of cancer cells, which is necessary to achieve excellent therapeutic efficacy of DCTBT-based PTT at mild temperature (<50 °C). The antitumor performance of ONOOˉ-potentiated mild-temperature PTT is validated on subcutaneous and orthotopic hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) models. This research puts forward an innovative strategy to overcome thermoresistance for mild-temperature PTT, which provides new inspirations to explore ONOOˉ-sensitized tumor therapy strategies.