Electrocatalytic Reduction of CO2 to Ethylene by Molecular Cu‐Complex Immobilized on Graphitized Mesoporous Carbon

The electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO₂) to hydrocarbons is a challenging task because of the issues in controlling the efficiency and selectivity of the products. Among the various transition metals, copper has attracted attention as it yields more reduced and C2 products even while using mononuclear copper center as catalysts. In addition, it is found that reversible formation of copper nanoparticle acts as the real catalytically active site for the conversion of CO₂ to reduced products. Here, it is demonstrated that the dinuclear molecular copper complex immobilized over graphitized mesoporous carbon can act as catalysts for the conversion of CO₂ to hydrocarbons (methane and ethylene) up to 60%. Interestingly, high selectivity toward C2 product (40% faradaic efficiency) is achieved by a molecular complex based hybrid material from CO₂ in 0.1 m KCl. In addition, the role of local pH, porous structure, and carbon support in limiting the mass transport to achieve the highly reduced products is demonstrated. Although the spectroscopic analysis of the catalysts exhibits molecular nature of the complex after 2 h bulk electrolysis, morphological study reveals that the newly generated copper cluster is the real active site during the catalytic reactions.     

Approximate cutting pattern optimization of frame-supported and pneumatic membrane structures

International Journal of Mechanics and Materials in Design - A simple iterative method is presented for cutting pattern optimization of frame-supported and pneumatic membrane structures for...     

Within-class multimodal classification

Multimedia Tools and Applications - In many real-world classification problems there exist multiple subclasses (or clusters) within a class; in other words, the underlying data distribution is...     

Creating the brain and interacting with the brain: an integrated approach to understanding the brain

In the past two decades, brain science and robotics have made gigantic advances in their own fields, and their interactions have generated several interdisciplinary research fields. First, in the ‘understanding the brain by creating the brain’ approach, computational neuroscience models have been applied to many robotics problems. Second, such brain-motivated fields as cognitive robotics and developmental robotics have emerged as interdisciplinary areas among robotics, neuroscience and cognitive science with special emphasis on humanoid robots. Third, in brain–machine interface research, a brain and a robot are mutually connected within a closed loop. In this paper, we review the theoretical backgrounds of these three interdisciplinary fields and their recent progress. Then, we introduce recent efforts to reintegrate these research fields into a coherent perspective and propose a new direction that integrates brain science and robotics where the decoding of information from the brain, robot control based on the decoded information and multimodal feedback to the brain from the robot are carried out in real time and in a closed loop.     

珐琅彩在现代中式家具设计中的应用

目前,我国家具的发展处于瓶颈阶段,市场需要多元化的产品来满足消费者日益增长的精神文化需求,当前的家具设计又缺乏创新,在国际市场上难以形成自我特色。中国古代工艺美术曾达到相当的高度,其中,珐琅彩盛名远播,工艺精湛,器形优美,值得我们进行深入研究和创新。本文通过对珐琅彩历史、工艺及图案装饰与色彩搭配方面的研究,提炼出珐琅彩适合现代家具设计的元素,以期为设计出能满足现代人们审美需要,又能实现具体功能,并适合现代市场的珐琅家具提供参考。     

人员行为对住宅建筑热负荷需求的影响研究

本文对西安市某居民住宅楼不同人员的作息规律和用能行为进行了调研测试,利用马尔可夫链模型和事件机制模拟了不同人员的在室情况,结合DeST软件对考虑人员在室情况和人员行为影响后的住宅建筑热负荷需求进行了模拟,并与传统负荷计算方法下得到的建筑热负荷需求进行比较.结果表明,人员行为对住宅建筑热负荷需求的影响较大,考虑人员行为影响因素后建筑的热负荷需求呈现显著地波动变化且供暖季近92％的时刻建筑的负荷率均不超过60％,上述结果可为供暖系统的设计和运行管理提供指导.     

某工业厂房主体结构安全性评定探讨

结构的安全性是结构防止破坏倒塌的能力,是结构工程重要的质量指标.老工业基地中的厂房主体结构安全性评价,对于厂房加固改造起到了关键性作用.文中通过对某工业厂房主体结构大量现场勘验、隐患排查及检测数据,结合结构验算,从承载能力、损伤等几方面对该老旧工业厂房的安全性进行了评价与分析,并详细介绍了检测鉴定的流程,为以后类似的老旧工业厂房的检测鉴定提供参考.