Piezoelectromagnetic waves guided by the surface of a ceramic cylinder

Summary The propagation of shear horizontal (SH) waves over the surface of a circular cylinder of polarized ceramics is studied from the three-dimensional equations of linear piezoelectromagnetism with full electromagnetic coupling. An exact solution is obtained.     

基于张量因子分解框架的航班延误模式分析

在空中交通管理和民航机场运营过程中,从过去的运营中获得的经验对于设计合理的策略至关重要.因此,本文使用大量时空飞行数据来识别相似的航空交通和延误模式,这对于更好地了解航空系统和制订管理决策至关重要.但是,由于数据集隐含了复杂的依赖关系以及高维时空之间的交互作用,因此挖掘数据中的重要特征和模式非常具有挑战性.本文提出了高...     

Internal OH? induced cascade quenching of upconversion luminescence in NaYF4:Yb/Er nanocrystals

Internal hydroxyl impurity is known as one of the main detrimental factors affecting the upconversion (UC) efficiency of upconversion luminescence (UCL) nanomat...     

The working mechanism of organic photovoltaic cell by using copper phthalocyanine as exciton blocking layer

We demonstrate the working mechanism of organic photovoltaic (OPV) cell with copper phthalocyanine (CuPc) as exciton blocking layer (EBL). The new EBL material CuPc, commonly has been used as electron donor in the organic solar cells due to its electron-donating and hole-transporting properties. But here we proves that the α-polymorph CuPc layer can transfer electrons to Al cathode through the half-filled b_1g level, this mechanism is different from that of general EBL material with larger band gap and electron-transporting property, which is based on damage states induced by the heat of evaporating Al.     

Synthesis and structure of cage-like mesoporous silica using different precursors

In this work the synthesis of cubic, FDU-1 type, ordered mesoporous silica (OMS) was developed from two types of silicon source, tetraethyl orthosilicate (TEOS) and a less expensive compound, sodium silicate (Na₂Si₃O₇), in the presence of a new triblock copolymer template Vorasurf 504 (EO₃₈BO₄₆EO₃₈). For both silicon precursors the synthesis temperature was evaluated. For TEOS the effect of polymer dissolution in methanol and the acid solution (HCl and HBr) on the material structure was analyzed. For Na₂Si₃O₇ the influence of the polymer mass and the hydrothermal treatment time were the explored experimental parameters. The samples were examined by Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and Nitrogen Sorption. For both precursors the decrease on the synthesis temperature from ambient, ?25 °C, to ?15 °C improved the ordered porous structure. For TEOS, the SAXS results showed that there is an optimum amount of hydrophobic methanol that contributed to dissolve the polymer but did not provoke structural disorder. The less electronegative Br^? ions, when compared to Cl^?, induced a more ordered porous structure, higher surface areas and larger lattice parameters. For Na₂Si₃O₇ the increase on the hydrothermal treatment time as well as the use of an optimized amount of polymer promoted a better ordered porous structure.     

Molecular dynamics study on nanotube-resonators with mass migration applicable to both frequency-tuner and data-storage-media

We investigated the cantilevered carbon-nanotube-resonator including electromigratively movable nanoparticle via classical molecular dynamics simulations and continuum model. The change of the effective mass value, which was closely correlated with the position change of the encapsulated nanoparticle, could be regressed by a power function, the resonance frequency of the carbon-nanotube-resonator could be tuned by controlling the nanoparticle’s position, and the possible frequency-shift-ranges then reached 18–85%. The suggested device could be served as a data-storage-media for electromechanical nonvolatile-memory as well as a frequency-tuner.     

Computational uncertainty analysis in multiresolution materials via stochastic constitutive theory

A stochastic constitutive theory is proposed in this work to propagate microstructure uncertainties in computational multiscale continuum models to bulk multiresolution material behavior. Ubiquitous fine resolution uncertainty sources influencing prediction of material properties based on their structures are categorized in detail, and this research transmits these uncertainties to coarser material resolutions by introducing a stochastic constitutive theory deduced from volume element simulations. To implement the stochastic upscaling process, two advanced uncertainty quantification methods are examined: statistical copula functions and random process polynomial chaos expansion. Both methods confront the mathematical difficulty in randomizing constitutive laws by capturing the marked correlation among constitutive parameters seen in complex materials, thus the results proffer a more accurate probabilistic estimation of constitutive material behavior. The contribution of this work is twofold: uncertainty is propagated from heterogeneous material “structure” to material “property” via the stochastic constitutive theory, and rigorous, data-driven mathematics are formalized to represent complicated dependence structures in multivariate statistical distributions. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first work in multiresolution mechanics that presents an approach to computationally derive correlation functions from numerical experiments, as opposed, for instance, to assuming one a priori. The method put forth in this research, though quite general, is applied to a mathematical example and plastic, high strength steel alloy for demonstration. Results include stochastic constitutive curve confidence intervals for the material stress–strain response and qualitative comparisons of the two stochastic methods detailed herein.