Epitaxial growth and thermal-conductivity limit of single-crystalline Bi2Se3/In2Se3 superlattices on mica

Nano Research - Thermal transport in superlattices is governed by various phonon-scattering processes. For extracting the phonon-scattering contribution of hetero-interfaces in chalcogenide...     

Bootstrapping Analysis of Lifetime Data with Subsampling

Because of cost and time limitations, reliability experiments frequently contain subsampling, which is a restriction on randomization. A two‐stage approach can analyze right censored Weibull distributed reliability data with subsampling. However, in implementing such a method, we found that it did not address the problems of how to perform confidence intervals of low percentiles and reduce the bias of estimates. In this paper, we present a two‐stage bootstrapping approach and an unbiasing factor approach to solve the aforementioned problems. An example is provided to illustrate the proposed method. In addition, the proposed method is compared with existing methods through simulation. The resulting simulations show that the proposed method performs well in low percentiles. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Fe_3O_4@MgO纳米复合材料的制备及其对Pb~(2+)的吸附性能

采用两步化学沉淀法制备了Fe_3O_4@MgO纳米复合材料,研究了纳米复合材料对Pb~(2+)的吸附性能。结果表明,所制备的复合材料具有较高的顺磁性和稳定性,其饱和磁化强度为58.07 emu/g,初始氧化增重温度为125℃,对Pb~(2+)有较好的吸附能力,在50 min内可以达到吸附平衡,最大吸附量为711.5 mg/g,其吸附过程符合准二级动力学模型和Langmuir等温吸附模型。     

Engineered Macrophages: A Safe-by-Design Approach for the Tumor Targeting Delivery of Sub-5 nm Gold Nanoparticles

Ultrasmall nanoparticles (NPs) are a promising platform for the diagnosis and therapy of cancer, but the particles in sizes as small as several nanometers have an ability to translocate across biological barriers, which may bring unpredictable health risks. Therefore, it is essential to develop workable cell-based tools that can deliver ultrasmall NPs to the tumor in a safer manner. Here, this work uses macrophages as a shuttle to deliver sub-5 nm PEGylated gold (Au) NPs to tumors actively or passively, while reducing the accumulation of Au NPs in the brain. This work demonstrates that sub-5 nm Au NPs can be rapidly exocytosed from live macrophages, reaching 45.6% within 24 h, resulting in a labile Au NP-macrophage system that may release free Au NPs into the blood circulation in vivo. To overcome this shortcoming, two straightforward methods are used to engineer macrophages to obtain “half-dead” and “dead” macrophages. Although the efficiency of engineered macrophages for delivering sub-5 nm Au NPs to tumors is 2.2–3.8% lower than that of free Au NPs via the passive enhanced permeability and retention effect, this safe-by-design approach can dramatically reduce the accumulation of Au NPs in the brain by more than one order of magnitude. These promising approaches offer an opportunity to expand the immune cell- or stem cell-mediated delivery of ultrasmall NPs for the diagnosis and therapy of diseases in a safer way in the future.     

轴承转子系统的失稳监测

在现场条件下,用随机减量技术从运行机械中提取出对轴承转子系统稳定性敏感的模态参数（系统的最低阶自然频率和阻尼比）,用这些参数对系统的失稳实施监测,实际应用的结果表明,用这种方法可以及早地发现系统潜在的失稳．     

Study of delay-independent decentralized guaranteed cost control for large scale systems

This study introduces delay independent decentralized guaranteed cost control design method based on two controller structures for nonlinear uncertain interconnected large scale systems with time delays. First, a set of equivalent Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy models are extended to represent the systems. Then a decentralized state-feedback guaranteed cost performance controller is proposed for the fuzzy systems. Based on delay independent Lyapunov functional approach, some sufficient conditions for the existence of the controller can be cast into the feasible problem of LMIs irrespective of the sizes of the time delays so that the system can be asymptotically stabilized for all considered uncertainties whose sizes are not larger than their bounds. Finally, the minimizing approach is proposed to search the suboptimal upper bound value of guaranteed cost function. Moreover, the corresponding conditions are extended into the generalized dynamic output-feedback close-loop system. Finally, the better control performances of the proposed methods are shown by the simulation examples.     

基于FPGA与ARM单片机的CAN总线分析仪设计

针对CAN总线网络通信质量分析、测试和验证的需要,论证了一种基于ARM单片机与FPGA完成的CAN总线分析仪设计;该分析仪采用集成的CAN控制器与专用总线电平采样双通道信息采集硬件结构;采用单片机及基于FPGA的专用电路完成对CAN网络的实时通信数据的收集与监控;采用PC机完成数据分析与参考信息显示;文章详细讨论了分析仪硬件的具体设计;分析了CAN总线通信波特率的自动检测、总线故障的检测与定位方法;最后结合软件设计给出了所设计的CAN总线分析仪的实测试验结果,可实现总线报文的正常监测、总线状态分析与错误检测功能。