How to extract traditional cultural design elements from a set of images of cultural relics based on F-AHP and entropy

Multimedia Tools and Applications - The creative cultural product design, relating to both typical regional cultures and traditional cultural elements, is a hot issue in recent years. However,...     

Designing amino-based ionic liquids for improved carbon capture: One amine binds two CO2

Generally, amine group captures CO₂ according to 2:1 or 1:1 stoichiometry. Here, we report a kind of improved carbon capture using amino-functionalized ionic liquids (ILs) through 1:2 stoichiometry. A serial of amino-functionalized ILs various with basicity and steric hindrance of anion were designed, prepared, and applied in CO₂ capture. Through a combination of absorption experiment, quantum chemical calculation, spectroscopic investigation and calorimetric method, the results indicated that one amine group could bind two CO₂ through proton transfer (PT) process and intramolecular hydrogen bond formation, which leading to enhanced capacity that breaks through equimolar. The basicity and steric hindrance of anion play a significant role in promoting amine group to capture two CO₂. [P₆₆₆₁₄]₂[Asp] with dual anion was further designed and synthesized to promote PT process, which showed high capacity of 1.96 mol/mol IL at 30°C and 1 atm as well as excellent reversibility. © 2018 American Institute of Chemical Engineers AIChE J, 65: 230–238, 2019     

Detecting computer generated images based on local ternary count

Local binary patterns was used to distinguish the Photorealistic Computer Graphics and Photographic Images, however the dimension of the extracted features is too high. Accordingly, the Local Ternary Count based on the Local Ternary Patterns and the Local Binary Count was developed in this study. Furthermore, a novel algorithm is presented based on the Local Ternary Count to classify photorealistic Computer Graphics and Photographic images. The experiment results show that the proposed algorithm effectively reduces the dimension of the classification features and maintains a good classification performance.     

Release properties of cinnamaldehyde loaded by montmorillonite in chitosan-based antibacterial food packaging

This work aimed to prepare a controlled-release antibacterial food packaging film by solvent volatilisation using chitosan (CS) and acidified modified montmorillonite (MMt) loaded with CIN (acid-MMt-CIN). MMt was successfully acidified and CIN was successfully loaded into acid-MMt, which had been confirmed by X-ray diffraction. The coordination of acid-MMt-CIN significantly increased the barrier properties of CS film to water vapour, as well as the rigidity and ductility of the film. Furthermore, the CS/acid-MMt-CIN film could significantly improve their UV resistance. It was found that the CIN release time of CS/acid-MMt-CIN film in isooctane (simulated fatty food) could reach 168 h, which was 72 h longer than that of CS/CIN film. The addition of acid-MMt-CIN had a significant inhibitory effect on Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. In short, CS/acid-MMt-CIN film could potentially be used as an antibacterial active food packaging film.     

Comprehending the role of the S-phase on the corrosion behavior of austenitic stainless steel exposed to H2S/CO2-saturated liquid and vapor environments

The corrosion behavior of austenitic stainless steel after low-temperature liquid oxy-nitriding (LON) was investigated by exposing in H₂S/CO₂-saturated liquid and vapor environments up to 720 h at 60 °C. The corrosion rates before and after LON were compared by the weightlessness method, and the microstructure as well as the corrosion scales were characterized using surface analysis methods. The results indicated that the composite S-phase layer with the outer Fe₃O₄ layer and the inner nitrogen-rich sublayer could improve the corrosion performance in H₂S/CO₂-saturated environment. The base material (BM) suffered local corrosion first, which then transformed into uniform corrosion. As a comparison, The LON sample, covered with a thin corrosion product layer, indicated slight local corrosion. The excellent corrosion resistance of the S-phase should be attributed to the blocking effect of the continuous Fe₃O₄ film as well as the suppression of the atomic mobility by the nitrogen-containing supersaturated solid solution.     

A new hybrid finite element approach for plane piezoelectricity with defects

In this paper, a new type of hybrid fundamental solution-based finite element method (HFS-FEM) is developed for analyzing plane piezoelectric problems with defects by employing fundamental solutions (or Green’s functions) as internal interpolation functions. The hybrid method is formulated based on two independent assumptions: an intra-element field covering the element domain and an inter-element frame field along the element boundary. Both general elements and a special element with a central elliptical hole or crack are developed in this work. The fundamental solutions of piezoelectricity derived from the elegant Stroh formalism are employed to approximate the intra-element displacement field of the elements, while the polynomial shape functions used in traditional FEM are utilized to interpolate the frame field. By using Stroh formalism, the computation and implementation of the method are considerably simplified in comparison with methods using Lekhnitskii’s formalism. The special-purpose hole element developed in this work can be used efficiently to model defects such as voids or cracks embedded in piezoelectric materials. Numerical examples are presented to assess the performance of the new method by comparing it with analytical or numerical results from the literature.