Magnetocontrollable Droplet and Bubble Manipulation on a Stable Amphibious Slippery Gel Surface

Smart manipulation of liquid/bubble transport has garnered widespread attention due to its potential applications in many fields. Designing a responsive surface has emerged as an effective strategy for achieving controllable transport of liquids/bubbles. However, it is still challenging to fabricate stable amphibious responsive surfaces that can be used for the smart manipulation of liquid in air and bubbles underwater. Here, amphibious slippery surfaces are fabricated using magnetically responsive soft poly(dimethylsiloxane) doped with iron powder and silicone oil. The slippery gel surface retains its magnetic responsiveness and demonstrates strong affinity for bubbles underwater but shows small and switching resistance forces with the water droplets in air and bubbles underwater, which is the key factor for achieving the controllable transport of liquids/bubbles. On the slippery gel surface, the sliding behaviors of water droplets and bubbles can be reversibly controlled by alternately applying/removing an external magnetic field. Notably, compared with slippery liquid‐infused porous surfaces, the slippery gel surface demonstrates outstanding stability, whether in air or underwater, even after 100 cycles of alternately applying/removing the magnetic field. This surface shows potential applications in gas/liquid microreactors, gas–liquid mixed fluid transportation, bubble/droplet manipulation, etc.     

SDN/NFV技术在宽带IP城域网中的应用

针对传统宽带IP城域网面临的挑战和问题,基于软件定义和虚拟化等技术,文章提出宽带IP城域网络需要从简单的连接型网络向智能的功能型网络演进的思路和架构,并给出新形势下的应用场景,从而满足其智能化运营的发展需求。     

Transition‐Metal‐Free Magnesium‐Based Batteries Activated by Anionic Insertion into Fluorinated Graphene Nanosheets

Considering resource abundance, high volumetric energy density, and safer anodic electroplating, the Mg‐based battery is thought to be one of the most promising systems beyond current Li‐ion batteries. However, the development of Mg batteries is hindered by the narrow electrochemical window of electrolytes as well as by inapplicable cathode frameworks. In this work, it is proposed, for the first time, to utilize a fast surface redox process to replace sluggish lattice migration for improving the kinetics of Mg batteries. Taking fluorinated graphene nanosheets (FGSs) as model material, a reversible capacity higher than 100 mAh g^?1 is achieved in a pseudocapacitance behavior from 2.75 to 0.5 V. Different from traditional storage mechanisms, this proof‐of‐concept Mg/FGS system is activated by a prior anionic process followed by reversible cationic storage. The dilution of charge density by forming large‐sized monovalent complex cations and the easy access to surface redox sites are responsible for the negligible voltage polarization without an evident MgF₂ nucleation phenomenon.     

Phase correcting zonal reflector incorporating rings

An array of conducting elements printed on a grounded dielectric substrate functions as an electromagnetic phase shifter. With a fixed substrate and a given operating frequency, the phase shift is determined by the array parameters. In the paper, the spectral domain moment method model for analyzing homogeneous reflective phase shifters with conducting rings as elements is presented, and numerical and experimental results are given. A novel phase correcting Fresnel zonal reflector based on this model is reported. A 43% maximum antenna efficiency and -22 dB sidelobe level were measured in X-band. The bandwidth of the reflector is estimated to be greater than 10%     

光折变多量子阱的电吸收栅和电折变栅

在光折变多量子阱中，通过Ｆｒａｎｚ－Ｋｅｌｄｙｓｈ效应可写入电吸收栅和电折变栅。基于二波耦合理论，精确求解了由这两种光栅引起的光强耦合方程，近似计算了Ｒａｍａｎ－Ｎａｔｈ高阶衍射光强。     

双相位共轭镜的工作条件参数分析

本文讨论了纯扩散机制的光折变晶体用作单作用区的双相位共轭镜（ＤＰＣＭ）时的阈值耦合强度和允许的输入光强比范围，并与双作用区的情况进行比较后，给出了在输入光强比远离１的条件下，双相位共轭镜的正常工作的条件参数。     

Rolling Friction Enhanced Free‐Standing Triboelectric Nanogenerators and their Applications in Self‐Powered Electrochemical Recovery Systems

Heavy metals contained in wastewater are one of the most serious pollutions in natural resources. A self‐powered electrochemical recovery system for collecting Cu ions in wastewater by incorporating a rolling friction enhanced freestanding triboelectric nanogenerator (RF‐TENG) is developed here. The RF‐TENG utilizes integrated cylindrical surfaces using the conjunction of rolling electrification and freestanding electrostatic induction, which shows outstanding output performance and ultrarobust stability. By using the kinetic energy of flowing water, a collection efficiency of up to 80% for Cu²⁺ ions in wastewater has been achieved. Self‐powered electrochemical systems are one of the most promising applications of TENGs for independent and sustainable driving of electrochemical reactions without the need for any additional power supply. This research is a substantial advancement towards the practical applications of triboelectric nanogenerators and self‐powered electrochemical systems.     

3-state BTL closed-loop PWM Class D amplifiers

One of the shortcomings of a number of Class D amplifiers (CDAs) designs is their susceptibility to supply noise, quantified by Power Supply Rejection Ratio (PSRR). Reported investigations thereto to-date remain incomplete/over-simplified, particularly the assumption that the AC ground is noise-less and a simplified fully-differential integrator model. In this paper, the effect of supply noise in the AC ground to PSRR is analytically investigated, and the associated analytical expressions derived. Of specific interest, the analysis is applied to the ubiquitous 3-state Bridge-tied-load (BTL) closed-loop PWM CDA, taking into consideration not only the effect of the non-ideal AC ground, but also the effect of the resistor and capacitor mismatch based on a realistic fully-differential integrator model. Further, the PSRR analysis of 3-state BTL closed-loop CDAs has to date been limited to the single-feedback topology and in this paper, extended to the double-feedback topology. These analyses and derived equations herein are useful as they provide valuable insights to CDA designers into the PSRR mechanisms—for example, the counter-intuitive observation that the CDA with 1st-order integrators provides similar or better PSRR than the CDA with 2nd-order integrators if both CDAs are designed to the same carrier attenuation—including the effect of various circuit parameters, and ensuing trade-offs. The derived analytical expressions are verified by means of HSPICE simulations and on the basis of practical measurements on discretely-realized CDAs.