碳化细菌纤维素包裹铜的制备及电化学催化性能的研究

以硫酸铜为铜源,细菌纤维素(BC)为碳源,通过原位还原和高温热解的方法制备了碳化细菌纤维素包裹铜纳米粒子(CBC/Cu)。利用扫描电镜(SEM)、透射电镜(TEM)、X射线衍射仪(XRD)、X光电子能谱(XPS)、拉曼光谱仪(Raman)对结构和微观形貌进行了表征。用CBC/Cu修饰的玻碳电极作为工作电极,用循环伏安法测试对硝基苯酚在碱性水溶液中的电化学行为,与裸玻碳电极相比较,结果表明该修饰电极具有良好的电化学催化性、高稳定性和重现性。     

Monitoring the Dynamic Process of Formation of Plasmonic Molecular Junctions during Single Nanoparticle Collisions

The capability to study the dynamic formation of plasmonic molecular junction is of fundamental importance, and it will provide new insights into molecular electronics/plasmonics, single‐entity electrochemistry, and nanooptoelectronics. Here, a facile method to form plasmonic molecular junctions is reported by utilizing single gold nanoparticle (NP) collision events at a highly curved gold nanoelectrode modified with a self‐assembled monolayer. By using time‐resolved electrochemical current measurement and surface‐enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy, the current changes and the evolution of interfacial chemical bonding are successfully observed in the newly formed molecular tunnel junctions during and after the gold NP “hit‐n‐stay” and “hit‐n‐run” collision events. The results lead to an in‐depth understanding of the single NP motion and the associated molecular level changes during the formation of the plasmonic molecular junctions in a single NP collision event. This method also provides a new platform to study molecular changes at the single molecule level during electron transport in a dynamic molecular tunnel junction.     

Ultraviolet Photoluminescence of Carbon Nanospheres and its Surface Plasmon‐Induced Enhancement

Ultraviolet (UV) light can be used in versatile applications ranging from photoelectronic devices to biomedical imaging. In the development of new UV light sources, in this study, stable UV emission at ≈350 nm is unprecedentedly obtained from carbon nanospheres (CNSs). The origin of the UV fluorescence is comprehensively investigated via various characterization methods, including Raman and Fourier transform infrared analyses, with comparison to the visible emission of carbon nanodots. Based on the density functional calculations, the UV fluorescence is assigned to the carbon nanostructures bonded to bridging O atoms and dangling –OH groups. Moreover, a twofold enhancement in the UV emission is acquired for Au‐carbon core‐shell nanospheres (Au‐CNSs). This remarkable modification of the UV emission is primarily ascribed to charge transfer between the CNSs and the Au surface.     

Effects of redox-active interlayer anions on the oxygen evolution reactivity of NiFe-layered double hydroxide nanosheets

Nickel-iron layered double hydroxide (NiFe-LDH) nanosheets have shown optimal oxygen evolution reaction (OER) performance; however, the role of the intercalated ions in the OER activity remains unclear. In this work, we show that the activity of the NiFe-LDHs can be tailored by the intercalated anions with different redox potentials. The intercalation of anions with low redox potential (high reducing ability), such as hypophosphites, leads to NiFe-LDHs with low OER overpotential of 240 mV and a small Tafel slope of 36.9 mV/dec, whereas NiFe-LDHs intercalated with anions of high redox potential (low reducing ability), such as fluorion, show a high overpotential of 370 mV and a Tafel slope of 80.8 mV/dec. The OER activity shows a surprising linear correlation with the standard redox potential. Density functional theory calculations and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis indicate that the intercalated anions alter the electronic structure of metal atoms which exposed at the surface. Anions with low standard redox potential and strong reducing ability transfer more electrons to the hydroxide layers. This increases the electron density of the surface metal sites and stabilizes their high-valence states, whose formation is known as the critical step prior to the OER process.

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超声背散射信息熵成像评价脂肪肝的新方法

提出超声背散射Tsallis信息熵成像评价脂肪肝的新方法。利用滑动窗口法,估算窗口内局部背散射包络信号的Tsallis信息熵参数值,对信息熵参数值矩阵进行扫描变换、颜色映射及感兴趣区域设置,叠加到超声B模式图像,实现Tsallis信息熵成像。分析72名肝脏捐献者和204名患者的超声背散射信号,参考标准分别为磁共振波谱测得的肝脏脂肪分数(Hepatic Fat Fraction, HFF)和肝活检组织学检查测得的脂肪肝程度。对于72名肝脏捐献者,Tsallis信息熵与lg(HFF)的相关系数r=0.67(P<0.000 1)。对于204名患者,受试者工作特征曲线下面积分别为0.82、0.88、0.89(≥轻度、≥中度、≥重度),而超声背散射零差K成像分别为0.76、0.82、0.82。超声背散射Tsallis信息熵成像可以直观定征并定量评价脂肪肝的严重程度,其诊断性能优于超声背散射零差K成像,可作为一种超声评价脂肪肝的新方法。     

基于运动补偿的机械扫描式高频超声成像技术

由于高频相控阵超声成像系统和多阵元高频超声探头工艺复杂,成本较高、实现难度大,单阵元的机械扫描式高频超声成像探头因其结构简单、实现方便、成本低的特点仍具有较高的理论研究和实际应用价值。但目前机械扫描式成像系统的机械扫描的非均匀性是阻碍其性能进一步提升的主要问题,因此文章设计了一种高精度运动补偿的机械扫描式高频超声成像探头和系统,通过理论计算分析、运动系统结构设计加工、扫描成像系统搭建实现了高精度的扫描成像。最后,线靶和仿体的成像实验结果显示,经运动补偿后,系统能够有效克服传统机械扫描成像的伪影和失真,实现的横向几何位置精度误差为1.34%,纵向几何位置精度误差为1.33%,面积测量精度误差为3.15%,为高精度、高频超声成像算法和系统研究提供了一种有效的手段。     

不同预冷温度对甜樱桃果实保鲜效果的影响

目的 探究不同预冷温度对采后甜樱桃果实生理品质的影响,找出最适宜的预冷温度,进而推动甜樱桃产业化发展。方法 本实验分别将采后甜樱桃分别预冷至15、12、9、6、3、0℃后回温至室温,以不进行预冷处理为对照组,比较6种处理方式果实预冷和回温过程中的温度变化,并分别测定回温前后果实的色差、呼吸强度及乙烯释放量、硬度、可溶性固形物(TSS)、风味、感官评价,总酚、类黄酮、花色苷、维生素C(Vc)、可溶性蛋白、丙二醛(MDA)含量以及超氧阴离子产生速率(O₂^-)。结果不同预冷温度均可较好地保持果实外观及风味,能够降低甜樱桃果实呼吸强度与乙烯释放量,抑制果实TSS、MDA含量和O₂^-产生速率的上升,延缓甜樱桃果实硬度的下降,从而保持甜樱桃果实的外观品质,且有利于维持甜樱桃果实中的Vc、可溶性蛋白和花色苷含量,以0℃预冷效果最佳,感官评分最高。结论 预冷能够有效维持甜樱桃果实采后的品质,达到增加甜樱桃果实经济价值的作用。     

A generic framework for median graph computation based on a recursive embedding approach

The median graph has been shown to be a good choice to obtain a representative of a set of graphs. However, its computation is a complex problem. Recently, graph embedding into vector spaces has been proposed to obtain approximations of the median graph. The problem with such an approach is how to go from a point in the vector space back to a graph in the graph space. The main contribution of this paper is the generalization of this previous method, proposing a generic recursive procedure that permits to recover the graph corresponding to a point in the vector space, introducing only the amount of approximation inherent to the use of graph matching algorithms. In order to evaluate the proposed method, we compare it with the set median and with the other state-of-the-art embedding-based methods for the median graph computation. The experiments are carried out using four different databases (one semi-artificial and three containing real-world data). Results show that with the proposed approach we can obtain better medians, in terms of the sum of distances to the training graphs, than with the previous existing methods.     

Examining working memory load and congruency effects on affordances and conventions

Although there is a debate about whether designers should draw a distinction between perceptual affordances and cultural conventions, there are few behavioral studies. We examined the impact of working memory load and expected button-to-action mapping congruency on affordances and conventions. The findings suggest both sides of the debate are correct. Learned conventions were found to structure responses towards expected actions, just like affordances, but affordance-based interactions were not affected by memory load while convention-based actions were. Therefore, designers ought to employ perceptual affordances when possible and when not feasible they ought to reuse established conventions. Additionally, evidence is presented that violating expected affordance-based and convention-based button-to-action mappings caused a similar performance cost. We believe that after the initial learning period, conventions play a critical role in the perception of a design’s available actions just as perceptual affordances do.