Inorganic–organic hybrid materials are attracting a strong scientific interest mainly for their outstanding inherent mechanical and thermal properties, which can be traced back to the intimate coupling of both inorganic and organic components. By carefully choosing the experimental parameters used for their synthesis, chemically and thermally stable acrylate-based hybrid material embedding the zirconium oxocluster Zr4O4(OMc)12, where OMcCH2C(CH3)C(O)O, can be deposited as UV-cured films on aluminium alloys.
In particular, the molar ratios between the oxocluster and the monomer, the polymerisation time, the amount of photo-initiator and the deposition conditions, by using an home-made spray-coating equipment, were optimised in order to obtain the best performing layers in terms of transparency and hardness to coat aluminium alloy (AA1050, AA6060 and AA2024) sheets. Furthermore, it was also evaluated whether the hybrid coatings behave as barrier to corrosion.
Several coated samples were prepared and characterised. Environmental scanning electronic microscopy (ESEM) and scratch test were used to investigate the morphology of the films and to evaluate their scratch resistance, respectively. Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) was performed in order to evaluate if the coatings actually protect the metallic substrate from corrosion.
In order to measure shear storage modulus (G′) and loss modulus (G″) of the materials used for coatings, bulk samples were also obtained by UV-curing of the precursors solution. Dynamical mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA) was performed in shear mode on cured disks of both the hybrid materials and pristine polymer for comparison. The values of Tg were read off as the temperatures of peak of loss modulus. The length and mass of all the samples were measured before and after the DMTA analysis, so that the shrinkage of the materials in that temperature range was exactly evaluated. 相似文献
We report on a single‐layer organic memory device made of poly(N‐vinylcarbazole) embedded between an Al electrode and ITO modified with Ag nanodots (Ag‐NDs). Devices exhibit high ON/OFF switching ratios of 104. This level of performance could be achieved by modifying the ITO electrodes with some Ag‐NDs that act as trapping sites, reducing the current in the OFF state. Temperature dependence of the electrical characteristics suggest that the current of the low‐resistance state can be attributed to Schottky charge tunnelling through low‐resistance pathways of Al particles in the polymer layer and that the high‐resistance state can be controlled by charge trapping by the Al particles and Ag‐NDs. 相似文献
In this work, we study dynamic provisioning of multicast sessions in a wavelength-routed sparse splitting capable WDM network
with an arbitrary mesh topology where the network consists of nodes with full, partial, or no wavelength conversion capabilities
and a node can be a tap-and-continue (TaC) node or a splitting and delivery (SaD) node. The objectives are to minimize the
network resources in terms of wavelength-links used by each session and to reduce the multicast session blocking probability.
The problem is to route the multicast session from each source to the members of every multicast session, and to assign an
appropriate wavelength to each link used by the session. We propose an efficient online algorithm for dynamic multicast session
provisioning. To evaluate the proposed algorithm, we apply the integer linear programming (ILP) optimization tool on a per
multicast session basis to solve off-line the optimal routing and wavelength assignment given a multicast session and the
current network topology as well as its residual network resource information. We formulate the per session multicast routing
and wavelength assignment problem as an ILP. With this ILP formulation, the multicast session blocking probability or success
probability can then be estimated based on solving a series of ILPs off-line. We have evaluated the effectiveness of the proposed
online algorithm via simulation in terms of session blocking probability and network resources used by a session. Simulation
results indicate that our proposed computationally efficient online algorithm performs well even when a fraction of the nodes
are SaD nodes. 相似文献