We propose and demonstrate a voltage-pulse-induced electromigration technique, in which electromigration in a gold nanowire is induced for a short period of about 10?μs by applying a voltage pulse. A local temperature analysis and a controlled electromigration experiment in the presence of voltage pulses indicate successful control of this voltage-pulsed-induced electromigration. We also measured the current-voltage characteristics of the nanowire after the application of each single voltage pulse to investigate the stochastic behavior of electromigration. A pulse duration shorter than the thermal relaxation time of the nanowire would allow us to separately control the local temperature and driving force for electromigration. 相似文献
Micro-dosing technology has been developed by the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT)
and its partners to help subsistence farmers in the Sahel improve inorganic fertilizer application. However, the ICRISAT's
recommendations regarding fertilizer application through this technology are only applicable at sowing and do not allow any
flexibility in terms of labor and/or capital management. In rural areas, fertilizer cannot always be applied at sowing due
to financial and labor constraints. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the timing of fertilizer application
on millet production. A 2-year on-station experiment and a 1-year on-farm field experiment were conducted in the western region
of Niger, West Africa. Even under the heterogeneous climatic conditions of the region during our experimental period, the
results showed that the trend was the same as observed in previous studies: millet production improved through fertilizer
application compared to the control (without fertilizer). The harvest index was also higher compared to that of the control.
This increased production was consistently the same for all application timings. The marginal value–cost ratio on the investment
calculated using a budgeting analysis for the on-farm experiment showed that – regardless of application timing – millet farmers
who fertilized their fields with inorganic fertilizer made more profit than those who did not (control). This was also true
for farmers who were unable to fertilize at sowing – delayed application was still the more profitable option relative to
the no fertilizer control. Our results indicate that small subsistence farmers can be offered more options for inorganic
fertilizer application timing using the micro-dosing technology. Delayed inorganic fertilizer application can help small farmers
who are often labor constrained at the sowing period improve their yields as well as their economic returns.
We report the use of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) for the bulk production (grams per day) of long, thin, and highly crystalline graphene ribbons (<20-30 microm in length) exhibiting widths of 20-300 nm and small thicknesses (2-40 layers). These layers usually exhibit perfect ABAB... stacking as in graphite crystals. The structure of the ribbons has been carefully characterized by several techniques and the electronic transport and gas adsorption properties have been measured. With this material available to researchers, it should be possible to develop new applications and physicochemical phenomena associated with layered graphene. 相似文献
In this study, we measured counter-current flow limitation (CCFL) characteristics in an inverted U-tube (18.4 mm diameter and 1.0 m straight-part length) simulating steam generator (SG) U-tubes under conditions of steam condensation at pressures of 0.1–0.14 MPa. Differential pressure ΔP between the top of the inverted U-tube and the lower tank was measured, and the flow patterns wave estimated by comparing the waveforms of ΔP with those in air–water experiments. As a result, we classified the flow patterns under CCFL conditions into CCFL-P, CCFL-L and CCFL-T. The falling water flow rate under CCFL conditions slightly increased as the pressure increased and the cooling water temperature decreased (subcooling of cooling water increased). In the case of CCFL-L, CCFL characteristics in the inverted U-tube were between those in air–water and saturated steam–water experiments at 0.1 MPa. Furthermore, we derived a Wallis type CCFL correlation and its uncertainty from CCFL data, including previously measured data, i.e., J*1/2G + 0.88JL*1/2 = 0.76 ± 0.05. 相似文献
Detritiation system of a nuclear fusion plant is mandatory to be designed and qualified taking carefully into consideration all the possible extraordinary situations in addition to that in a normal condition. We focused on the change in the efficiency of tritium oxidation of a catalytic reactor in an event of fire where the air accompanied with hydrocarbons, water vapor, and tritium is fed into a catalytic reactor at the same time. Our test results on the effect of these gases on the efficiency of tritium oxidation of the catalytic reactor indicated; (1) tritiated hydrocarbon produces significantly by reaction between tritium and hydrocarbons in a catalytic reactor; (2) there is little possibility of degradation in the detritiation performance because the tritiated hydrocarbons produced in the catalyst reactor are combusted; (3) there is no possibility of uncontrollable rise in the temperature of the catalytic reactor by heat of reactions; and (4) saturated water vapor could temporarily poison the catalyst and degrades the detritiation performance. Our investigation indicated a saturated water vapor condition without hydrocarbons would be the dominant scenario to determine the amount of catalyst for the design of catalytic reactor of the detritiation system. 相似文献
The asymmetric cross‐aldol reaction of dichloroacetaldehyde with aldehyde pronucleophiles proceeds in the presence of a trifluoromethyl‐substituted diarylprolinol to afford γ,γ‐dichloro‐β‐hydroxy aldehydes in good yield with excellent enantioselectivity. The obtained products are useful synthetic intermediates; they were successfully converted to form chiral alkynes and dichloroalkenes.
Spherical polyphenylsilsesquioxane (PhSiO(3/2)) particles, one of the inorganic-organic hybrid materials, were synthesized by a two-step acid-base catalyzed sol-gel process, and hollow particles were successfully prepared by washing the as-prepared particles with organic solvents. It was found that the inside and outside parts of the as-prepared particles were composed of PhSi03/2 species with relatively low and high molecular weight, respectively, i.e., the PhSiO(3/2) particles had a kind of "core-shell" structure. Because the core portion in the as-prepared particles was soluble in ethanol and tetrahydrofuran, hollow particles were obtained through washing the as-prepared PhSiO(3/2) particles with ethanol or tetrahydrofuran. Furthermore, the molecular weight of the as-prepared particles was varied by the concentration of phenyltriethoxysilane used as a starting alkoxide. As a result of the variation of the molecular weight, the hollow PhSiO(3/2) particles with different stabilities against organic solvents were formed. 相似文献