家得宝目标——中国家居建材零售业魁首

全球最大的家居建材零售商——美国家得宝(The Home Depot)8月26日在北京宣布,对于去年12月13日从天津家世界家居建材超市有限公司(下称"家世界")收购而来的12家分店的整合工作已经完毕,家得宝由此正式进入中国市场。家得宝在中国     

布正伟新作八人谈——建筑创作多元化的理性概括：读布正伟先生《建筑视界论》有感

刚拿到这本书时．以为只是布正伟先生四十多年建筑创作生涯文论的汇总的集子．但稍静下来翻阅便发现，呈现给读者的《建筑视界论——现代建筑创作平台建构的理念与实践》为广大建筑师展示的是一幅将文化研析、城市体验、环境设计、职业修养融为一体的建筑创作理论的“风情画”．从而使国人关注的建筑创作的多元化理念得到尽情的阐发。     

Enzymatic biosensor for nitrite detection based on direct electron transfer by CPO-ILEMB/Au@MoS2/GC

Journal of Applied Electrochemistry - A novel nitrite electrochemical biosensor is constructed by glassy carbon electrodes (GC) coated by chloroperoxidase (CPO) -Au nanoparticles-MoS2 nanoflowers...     

Gas-Phase Treatment of Dump Tailings from Metallurgical Plants in Nitrating Media to Enhance Nickel Extraction

Theoretical Foundations of Chemical Engineering - A new approach to the processing of the dump waste product stored in the tailings dumps of the nickel production enterprise Punda Gourda (Cuba) has...     

Application of Granulometry for Rapid Assessment of the Performance Properties of Acid-Activated Sedimentary Rocks

Glass and Ceramics - The granulometric compositions of native and acid-activated rocks containing aluminosilicates are compared. It is shown that in water rocks gradually dissolve and the particle...     

Investigation of 12 – 15 Kev Electron Transmission Through Tapered Glass Capillaries

Glass and Ceramics - The results of experimental studies of the transmission of 12 and 15 keV electron beams through tapered glass macro-capillaries are presented. Measurements showed that there is...     

A Comparative Study on Open Circuit Voltage Models for Lithium-ion Batteries

The current research of state of charge(SoC) online estimation of lithium-ion battery(LiB) in electric vehicles(EVs)mainly focuses on adopting or improving of battery models and estimation filters. However, little attention has been paid to the accuracy of various open circuit voltage(OCV) models for correcting the SoC with aid of the ampere-hour counting method. This paper presents a comprehensive comparison study on eighteen OCV models which cover the majority of models used in literature. The low-current OCV tests are conducted on the typical commercial LiFePO_4/graphite(LFP) and LiNiMnCoO_2/graphite(NMC) cells to obtain the experimental OCV-SoC curves at different ambient temperature and aging stages. With selected OCV and SoC points from experimental OCV-SoC curves, the parameters of each OCV model are determined by curve fitting toolbox of MATLAB 2013. Then the fitting OCV-SoC curves based on diversified OCV models are also obtained. The indicator of root-mean-square error(RMSE) between the experimental data and fitted data is selected to evaluate the adaptabilities of these OCV models for their main features, advantages,and limitations. The sensitivities of OCV models to ambient temperatures, aging stages, numbers of data points,and SoC regions are studied for both NMC and LFP cells. Furthermore, the influences of these models on SoC estimation are discussed. Through a comprehensive comparison and analysis on OCV models, some recommendations in selecting OCV models for both NMC and LFP cells are given.     

Producing Polydicyclopentadiene from Lower-Grade Dicyclopentadiene

Russian Engineering Research - Polymer samples based on polydicyclopentadiene produced from Russian dicyclopentadiene are investigated by thermogravimetric analysis and differential scanning...     

Modified Pechini Synthesis of Proton‐Conducting Ba(Ce,Ti)O3 and Comparative Studies of the Effects of Acceptors on its Structure,Stability, Sinterability,and Conductivity

The phase structure, chemical stability, sinterability, and electrical performance of the proton‐conducting Ba(Ce,Ti)O₃ solid solution with a series of acceptors M (M = In, Y, Sm) synthesized by a modified Pechini method were systematically investigated. The substitution of cerium with titanium was proved as an effective way to improve the stability of BaCeO₃. Especially for the BaCe_0.95Ti_0.05O_3?δ sample doped with In, no change in the phase was found even after treatment in the atmosphere containing both CO₂ and H₂O at 700°C for 10 h. Thanks to the highly sinteractive powders with particle size of ~100 nm, dense ceramics were easily acquired. Moreover, compared with the undoped BaCe_0.95Ti_0.05O₃ sample, In, Y, and Sm dopants further improved the sinterability of the solid solution. In particular, In played a role of sintering aid and led to the largest linear shrinkage of the ceramics. As to the electrical performance, the transport properties of the samples under various atmospheres were analyzed and compared. The impedance tests demonstrated the best electrical performance of the Y‐doped samples.     

A New Ferroelectric Phase of YMnO3 Induced by Oxygen‐Vacancy Ordering

Manganese oxides are good candidates of strongly correlated electron materials due to the uniqueness of electronic structure of manganese and the mobility of oxygen among lattice sites under external impacts. Here, we used electron beam as the excitation source to explore the structural evolution of YMnO₃ and identified a new phase under the radiation of electron beam in the transmission electron microscope. Analyses of the electron energy‐loss spectra reveal that this phase originates from ordered oxygen vacancy. We applied the first principles calculation to pick out the optimized stable structure with a lower polarization, and verified its correctness by electron diffraction and image simulations. Analyses of density of states indicate that weak Y–O covalence is favorable for the existence of ferroelectricity, supporting the electrostatic nature of ferroelectricity in the YMnO₃.