Reactive blending of polyamide 6 (PA) with polyethylene (PE) having reactive sites, maleic anhydride (MAH content=0.1 wt%),and glycidyl methacrylate (GMA content=3-12 wt%), was carried out at 70/30 and 65/35 (PA/PE) blend ratios. Blend morphology evolved by reactive blending was analyzed by light scattering and transmission electron microscopy. The blends were then irradiated by electron beam. The degree of crosslinking was estimated by measuring the dynamic storage modulus at a temperature above melting point of PA. It was found that surface-to-surface interparticle distance τ was significantly reduced by the micelle formation via pull-out of in situ-formed graft copolymers. The blend with shorter τ was crosslinked by electron-beam irradiation at the lower dose level. A blend having the minimum τ (∼0.2 μm) was nicely crosslinked at a low dose level same as for PE, and even for the PA matrix system. 相似文献
Pt(0.3)/Ni(10)/Al2O3, prepared by a sequential impregnation method, exhibited a more excellent performance in methane reforming with CO2 and O2 in terms of the catalytic activity and the temperature profile of the catalyst bed than Pt(0.3) + Ni(10)/Al2O3 prepared by a coimpregnation method, Ni(10)/Al2O3, Pt(0.3)/Al2O3, and Pt(10)/Al2O3. It is thought that this is because the surface Pt atoms on Ni catalyst can contribute to the enhancement of the catalyst reducibility. 相似文献
The penetration phenomena of liquid manganese (Mn) alloy into porous ZrO2 (8 vvt % Y2O3) coating plasma sprayed on SS400 steel substrate was studied by heating in a vacuum atmosphere. The improvement in mechanical
properties of the coating by heat treatment with liquid Mn alloys was examined. Liquid Mn alloys, such as Mn-Cu, Mn-Sn, and
Mn-In, rapidly penetrated the coating and formed a chemical bond between the coating and the substrate. The densification
of the ZrO2 coating occurred when ZrO2 particles were sintered with liquid Mn alloys that penetrated the porous coating. The dense coating was free of porosity,
and its hardness increased after heat treatment with Mn alloys, compared with assprayed ZrO2 coating. Moreover, the fracture toughness of the coating reached the same levels as those of sintered yttria-stabilized PSZ. 相似文献
Recently, we revealed a standard pattern of a macroscopic molecular network for controlling morphogenetic processes such as the development of organs, including blast, mesoderm, heart, and hands during about sevenfold cell divisions and a standard bio-chemical clock like the circadian one (Naitoh in Artif Life Robot 13, 2008; Japan J Ind Appl Math 28(1), 2011; J Phys Conf Ser 344, 2012; Artif Life Robot 17, 2012) A network model derived logically based on experimental observations is described by a nonlinear differential equation for predicting time evolutions of six macroscopic molecular groups: three gene groups and three enzyme groups, which include promoting and suppressing factors. Here, the macroscopic model extended for also describing aging processes shows various types of cycles and reveals the physical condition for determining whether or not living beings such as humans can survive after getting ill. It is stressed that, after becoming ill, living systems with overly fast generation of information molecules such as various genes end in death, whereas relatively fast production of enzymes leads to recovery. This may also explain an essential feature underlying carcinogenic processes. 相似文献
To improve the performance of embedded processors, an effective technique is collapsing critical computation subgraphs as
application-specific instruction set extensions and executing them on custom functional units. The problem with this approach
is the immense cost and the long times required to design a new processor for each application. As a solution to this issue,
we propose an adaptive extensible processor in which custom instructions (CIs) are generated and added after chip-fabrication.
To support this feature, custom functional units are replaced by a reconfigurable matrix of functional units (FUs). A systematic
quantitative approach is used for determining the appropriate structure of the reconfigurable functional unit (RFU). We also
introduce an integrated framework for generating mappable CIs on the RFU. Using this architecture, performance is improved
by up to 1.33, with an average improvement of 1.16, compared to a 4-issue in-order RISC processor. By partitioning the configuration
memory, detecting similar/subset CIs and merging small CIs, the size of the configuration memory is reduced by 40%. 相似文献
Abstract— In order to improve the reflective contrast ratio of transflective IPS‐LCDs, a novel pixel design for a normally white reflective IPS has been proposed. In this design, the large‐inter‐electrode‐spacing layout using a novel driving method and a double‐layered electrode have effectively reduced the light leakage. By applying these two technologies, a transflective IPS‐LCD has been successfully demonstrated with a high contrast ratio (15:1) in the reflective mode and a wide‐viewing‐angle characteristic in the transmissive mode. 相似文献
We developed equipment and methods for measuring quantitatively the local Young's modulus of solids. It consists of an electrodeless langasite oscillator and line antennas, and oscillator vibrations are generated and detected contactlessly. A constant biasing force results from oscillator mass and is independent of surface roughness. The effect of material anisotropy on the measured stiffness is theoretically discussed for studying the limitation of the quantitative measurement. The microscopy has been applied to polycrystalline copper, and the measured modulus is compared to calculations based on electron-backscatter-diffraction measurements. Also, we applied it to a duplex stainless steel and an embedded silicon-carbide fiber. The results reveal textured regions, defects with high sensitivity, and even stiffness distribution in a single grain. 相似文献
Based on scientific databases adopted for designing ITER plasmas and on the advancement of fusion nuclear technology from the recent R&D program, a low wall-loading DEMO fusion reactor has been designed, where high priority has been given to the early and reliable realization of a tokamak fusion plasma over the cost performance. Since the major radius of this DEMO reactor is chosen to be 10 m, plasma ignition is achievable with a low fusion power of 0.8 GW and an operation period of 4–5 hours is available only with inductive current drive. The low ignition power makes it possible to adopt a first wall with an austenitic stainless steel, for which significant databases and operating experience exists, due to its use in the presence of neutron irradiation in fission reactors. In step with development of advanced materials, a step-wise increase of the fusion power seems to be feasible and realistic, because this DEMO reactor has the potential to produce a fusion power of 5 GW. 相似文献
Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that may affect the autonomic nervous system (ANS) from 15 to 20 min before seizure onset, and disturbances of ANS affect R–R intervals (RRI) on an electrocardiogram (ECG). This study aims to develop a machine learning algorithm for predicting focal epileptic seizures by monitoring R–R interval (RRI) data in real time. The developed algorithm adopts a self-attentive autoencoder (SA-AE), which is a neural network for time-series data.
The results of applying the developed seizure prediction algorithm to clinical data demonstrated that it functioned well in most patients; however, false positives (FPs) occurred in specific participants. In a future work, we will investigate the causes of FPs and optimize the developing seizure prediction algorithm to further improve performance using newly added clinical data.
Microsystem Technologies - We demonstrate a new operation mode of thermal gas sensor based on thermal capacity extraction with identification algorithm. The system is a silicon microstructure... 相似文献