Ultranarrow Bandwidth Organic Photodiodes by Exchange Narrowing in Merocyanine H‐ and J‐Aggregate Excitonic Systems

Ultranarrowband organic photodiodes (OPDs) are demonstrated for thin film solid state materials composed of tightly packed dipolar merocyanine dyes. For these dyes the packing arrangement can be controlled by the bulkiness of the donor substituent, leading to either strong H‐ or strong J‐type exciton coupling in the interesting blue (H‐aggregate) and NIR (J‐aggregate) spectral ranges. Both bands are shown to arise from one single exciton band according to fluorescence measurements and are not just a mere consequence of different polymorphs within the same thin film. By fabrication of organic thin‐film transistors, these dyes are demonstrated to exhibit hole transport behavior in spin‐coated thin films. Moreover, when used as organic photodiodes in planar heterojunctions with C₆₀ fullerene, they show wavelength‐selective photocurrents in the solid state with maximum external quantum efficiencies of up to 11% and ultranarrow bandwidths down to 30 nm. Thereby, narrowing the linewidths of optoelectronic functional materials by exciton coupling provides a powerful approach to produce ultranarrowband organic photodiodes.     

基于双重金字塔网络的视频目标分割方法

针对复杂视频场景中难以分割特定目标的问题，提出一种基于双重金字塔网络（DPN）的视频目标分割方法。首先，通过调制网络的单向传递让分割模型适应特定目标的外观。具体而言，从给定目标的视觉和空间信息中学习一种调制器，并通过调制器调节分割网络的中间层以适应特定目标的外观变化。然后，通过基于不同区域的上下文聚合的方法，在分割网络的最后一层中聚合全局上下文信息。最后，通过横向连接的自左而右结构，在所有尺度中构建高阶语义特征图。所提出的视频目标分割方法是一个可以端到端训练的分割网络。大量实验结果表明，所提方法在DAVIS2016数据集上的性能与较先进的使用在线微调的方法相比，可达到相竞争的结果，且在DAVIS2017数据集上性能较优。     

Cost Optimization of Partial Computation Offloading and Pricing in Vehicular Networks

Journal of Signal Processing Systems - For vehicles with limited computation resources offloading their computational tasks to a mobile edge computing (MEC) server has been studied in the past as...     

Synthesis,aggregation and adsorption behaviour of a thermoresponsive pentablock copolymer

Poly(ethylene oxide)–poly(propylene oxide)–poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO–PPO–PEO) triblock copolymer (Pluronic F127) was modified by introducing poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) at both the PEO ends, and the pentablock copolymer (PNIPAM₄₁–F127–PNIPAM₄₁, PN41) so prepared was characterized using gel permeation chromatography and ¹H NMR spectroscopy. The degree of polymerization of NIPAM blocks at the two ends was 41. The solution behaviour and microstructure of PN41 aggregates in water were examined using UV–visible spectroscopy, micro‐differential scanning calorimetry and small‐angle neutron scattering (SANS) and compared with F127. Two lower critical solution temperatures (LCSTs) were observed for the pentablock copolymer, corresponding to PPO and PNIPAM blocks, respectively. The adsorption of PN41 on thiol‐grafted hydrophobic gold surfaces at various temperatures was investigated using a quartz crystal microbalance. It was found that the adsorption behaviour and mechanism of PN41 were mainly determined by the interactions of the pentablock copolymers with different chain conformations in dilute aqueous solutions at various temperatures. SANS measurements were used to determine the temperature‐dependent structural evolution of polymer micelles in aqueous solution. A NOESY study revealed that above the LSCT of PNIPAM, the interaction of PPO and PNIPAM protons increases and the distance between PPO and PNIPAM decreases. © 2019 Society of Chemical Industry     

Synthesis of Ti(C,O, N) from ilmenite at low temperature by a novel reducing and carbonitriding approach

The clean and effective utilization of titanium-bearing minerals has challenged the titanium industry all over the world. In order to realize the high-efficiency, clean, and high value-added comprehensive utilization of ilmenite concentrate, a novel process has been proposed in this study by reducing and carbonitriding ilmenite with the CH₄-N₂-H₂ gas mixture at low temperature. Carbonitride performance and mechanism have been investigated experimentally and theoretically. The obtained results showed that the reaction process could be divided into three stages: formation of metallic iron, reduction of titanium oxide to titanium suboxides, and formation of Ti(C, O, N). The metallic iron congregated at the first two stages, but dispersed once the Ti(C, O, N) formed. The effects of both reaction temperature and preoxidation treatment on the reaction have been studied as well. It was found that the increase of temperature was conducive to the formation of Ti(C,O), and the ilmenite could be reduced completely to Ti(C,O) at 1170°C for 8 hours. The preoxidation treatment could improve the kinetics of reduction. At 1170°C, the introduction of N₂ could apparently increase the reduction rate, with the complete reduction time decreasing from 8 hours in CH₄-H₂ gas mixture to 3 hours in CH₄-N₂-H₂ gas mixture. The proposed novel process has been assessed and it showed many potential advantages and feasibility.     

A coke deposition self-removal TBCC thermal management with multi-catalyst coating

How to mitigate coke and improve heat sink is the critical factor for thermal management system of turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC). A novel thermal management method using multi-stage coating structure to mitigate coke and improve heat sink is developed in this study. The multi-stage coating structure includes catalytic steam reforming (CSR) and catalytic steam gasification (CSG) catalyst coatings. Coke is removed by CSG, which provides coke self-removal. In addition, the CSG is a strong endothermic reaction, which enables the increase of the chemical heat sink. The numerical study for the multi-stage coating structure was conducted using a heated channel. Results indicate that the multi-stage coating structure can reduce coke by 50% and increase chemical heat sink by 50%, when the mass ratio of secondary steam injection is 2%. In addition, it is found by a comparative study that the increase of secondary steam addition is helpful to remove coke and increase chemical heat sink. Both coke production and chemical heat sink are significantly affected by the rate distribution of CSG. The optimal performance of multi-stage coating structure can be obtained by properly regulating rate distribution of CSG.     

Synthesis and experimental study of novel double perovskite Ba2NixCo2−xO6 as promising oxygen carrier materials for CO2 capture application

Novel oxygen-deficient double-perovskite type oxide Ba₂Ni_xCo_2−xO₆ was applied to produce O₂/CO₂ mixed stream gas for oxyfuel combustion application. A series of different Co concentration substituted Ba₂Ni_xCo_2−xO₆ was synthesized by an EDTA-citrate sol-gel combustion method. The oxygen carriers, Ba₂Ni_0.25Co_1.75O_6, Ba₂Ni_0.45Co_1.55O₆, Ba₂Ni_0.65Co_1.35O₆ and Ba₂Ni_0.85Co_1.15O₆ were c\characterized by scanning electron microscopy and cyclic oxygen adsorption/desorption experiments. The results showed that the capacity of provided O₂ was improved by the partial substitution of Ni by Co. In addition, the synthesized perovskites exhibit good regeneration ability. The optimal degree of Co substitution was x = 0.25 for Ba₂Ni_xCo_2−xO₆ with consideration of oxygen desorption ability. Therefore, Ba₂Ni_0.25Co_1.75O₆ was selected to examine the influence of the operating parameters on the oxygen release performance. It was found that the desorption temperature and CO₂ partial pressure are the two main operating parameters for the oxygen desorption performance. Further, the proposed novel double perovskite Ba₂Ni_0.25Co_1.75O₆ provided excellent performance, the O₂ production of Ba₂Ni_0.25Co_1.75O₆ can still reach 120 mg/g after 10 cycles.     

钚及其化合物表面腐蚀的研究进展

为了解掌握钚（Pu）及其化合物表面氧化腐蚀机理和探索能够有效缓解钚材料氧化腐蚀的环境体系，对国内外开展钚及其化合物表面化学的研究进行了综述，加深了对钚及其化合物在空气中的腐蚀行为的认识；对H₂、O₂、CO、CO₂等活性气体和Xe等稀有气体在钚及其化合物不同表面的吸附行为进行了对比分析，得到一些有益的结论。研究表明，Pu与各种活性气体和稀有气体的相互作用中伴随着电荷的转移，作用机理主要是气体原子分子的不同杂化轨道和Pu7s、Pu6p、Pu6d、Pu5f等杂化轨道相互作用生成了新的化学键，从而导致了相关反应和现象的产生。本研究还从改善研究方法、开展不同相的钚原子的不同表面吸附行为研究和探索防护钚材料氧化腐蚀新体系3个方面对钚及其化合物表面腐蚀研究工作进行了展望。     

均质围岩灌浆锚杆应力的近似解析解

灌浆锚杆与岩体介质的耦合机理和支护效果的解析评估，目前尚处于研究进展阶段。本文对全长处于均质围岩塑性屈服区的弹性锚杆，按围岩弹-脆-塑性应力应变关系和Mohr-Coulomb屈服准则，给出了锚杆的应力、位移和介质交界面屈服长度的解析表达式。这一解析模型考虑了锚杆切应力 对围岩的剪切抑制作用。把它应用于Kielder试验洞，计算和实测结果吻合尚好。对Kielder洞探讨了加大杆长的效益，计算表明，加大杆长的效益并不显著，该洞采用1.8 m的杆长是合适的。所提出的解析模型可用于非轴对称地下洞室，是一个较简明的解答，有利于工程初步设计阶段的参数识别，支护荷载及其效果的评估。