Bending‐Tolerant Anodes for Lithium‐Metal Batteries

Bendable energy‐storage systems with high energy density are demanded for conformal electronics. Lithium‐metal batteries including lithium–sulfur and lithium–oxygen cells have much higher theoretical energy density than lithium‐ion batteries. Reckoned as the ideal anode, however, Li has many challenges when directly used, especially its tendency to form dendrite. Under bending conditions, the Li‐dendrite growth can be further aggravated due to bending‐induced local plastic deformation and Li‐filaments pulverization. Here, the Li‐metal anodes are made bending tolerant by integrating Li into bendable scaffolds such as reduced graphene oxide (r‐GO) films. In the composites, the bending stress is largely dissipated by the scaffolds. The scaffolds have increased available surface for homogeneous Li plating and minimize volume fluctuation of Li electrodes during cycling. Significantly improved cycling performance under bending conditions is achieved. With the bending‐tolerant r‐GO/Li‐metal anode, bendable lithium–sulfur and lithium–oxygen batteries with long cycling stability are realized. A bendable integrated solar cell–battery system charged by light with stable output and a series connected bendable battery pack with higher voltage is also demonstrated. It is anticipated that this bending‐tolerant anode can be combined with further electrolytes and cathodes to develop new bendable energy systems.     

High‐Performance Integrated Enzyme Cascade Bioplatform Based on Protein–BiPt Nanochain@Graphene Oxide Hybrid Guided One‐Pot Self‐Assembly Strategy

Nanozymes provide new opportunities for facilitating next generation artificial enzyme cascade platforms. However, the fabrication of high‐performance integrated artificial enzyme cascade (IAEC) bioplatforms based on nanozymes remains a great challenge. A facile and effective self‐assembly strategy for constructing an IAEC system based on an inorganic/protein hybrid nanozyme, β‐casein‐BiPt nanochain@GO (CA‐BiPtNC@GO) nanohybrid with unique physicochemical surface properties and hierarchical structures, is introduced here. Due to the synergetic effect of the protein, GO, and Bi³⁺, the hybrid acts as highly adaptable building blocks to immobilize natural enzymes directly and noncovalently without the loss of enzyme activity. Simultaneously, the CA‐BiPtNC@GO nanohybrid exhibits outstanding peroxidase‐mimicking activity and works well with natural oxidases, resulting in prominent activity in catalyzing cascade reactions. As a result, the proposed IAEC bioplatform exhibits excellent sensitivity with a wide linear range of 0.5 × 10^‐6 to 100 × 10^‐6 m and a detection limit of 0.05 × 10^‐6 m for glucose. Meticulous design of ingenious hierarchically nanostructured nanozymes with unique physicochemical surface properties can provide a facile and efficient way to immobilize and stabilize nature enzymes using self‐assembly instead of chemical processes, and fill the gap in developing robust nanozyme–triggered IAEC systems with applications in the environment, sensing, and synthetic biology.     

双侧公差限产品的合格概率计算方法

为了定量分析产品的合格性,在正态分布假设前提下,考虑参数测量结果测量不确定度的影响,建立了双侧公差限产品的合格概率计算模型,为批量产品和单件产品合格概率的定量计算提供了理论依据,同时给出了测量分析计算实例。结果表明:产品合格概率的定量计算结果,对于分析产品质量问题成因和提高产品质量具有重要的指导意义,给出的方法对单侧公差限设计要求的产品合格概率的计算同样具有参考价值。     

Experimental characterisation of a CuAg alloy for thermo‐mechanical applications. Part 2: Design strain‐life curves estimated via statistical analysis

Strain‐life fatigue data on copper alloys, especially type CuAg, are seldom available in the literature. This work fills this gap by estimating the strain‐life curves of a CuAg alloy used for thermo‐mechanical applications, from isothermal low‐cycle fatigue tests at 3 temperatures (room temperature, 250°C, 300°C). Regression analysis is used to estimate the median fatigue curves at 50% survival probability. The comparison of median curves with the Universal Slopes Equation model, calibrated on monotonic tensile properties, shows a fairly good agreement. Design strain‐life curves with a lower failure probability and given confidence are estimated by several approximate statistical methods (“Equivalent Prediction Interval,” univariate tolerance interval, Owen's tolerance interval for regression). When higher survival probabilities are considered, the results show a marked decrease in the allowable design strain at a prescribed fatigue life. The suggested procedure thus improves the durability analysis of components loaded thermo‐mechanically.     

Meeting overall reliability requirements for heats of steel: A case study

ABSTRACT

In this case study, we examine the reliability of a device whose material was produced over several heats, where the quality metric of the material is the content of a certain element in the material. The analyses revealed a number of issues, including rounded data values as well as periodicity and tilting in the two dimensions of the production process. Novel analysis features include non-standard estimation of certain variance components, and combining several tolerance intervals based on optimization criteria. The results of the analysis were useful to both the customer and supplier of the material.     

光触发增强葡萄糖氧化酶催化活性的等离子体囊泡用于程序化光热-饥饿疗法

在肿瘤的饥饿治疗及协同治疗中,基于葡萄糖氧化酶(GOx)的纳米诊疗剂展现出具大的应用前景.自组装等离子体金囊泡(GV),由于具有独特的光学性能、巨大空腔和强局域表面等离子体共振等特性,可作为协同治疗的多功能纳米载体.本文中,我们开发了一种装载GOx的GV(GV-GOx)用于光触发释放GOx,同时增强GOx的催化活性,从而实现程序化光热-饥饿治疗.在近红外激光照射下,由于GV具有等离子体耦合效应, GV-GOx可以产生很强的局部高热,引起封装的GOx释放,同时高热可提高GOx催化活性,从而增强肿瘤的饥饿效应.此外,高光热效应可促进细胞对GV-GOx的摄取,并可通过活体光声/光热双模态成像对协同治疗进行有效监测.令人印象深刻的是,协同光热/饥饿疗法能完全消融4T1荷瘤小鼠的肿瘤,抗肿瘤效果明显优于单一疗法,且没有明显的系统毒性.本工作展示了一种光触发的纳米平台,可用于癌症协同治疗.     

Mechanical Tolerance of Cascade Bioreactions via Adaptive Curvature Engineering for Epidermal Bioelectronics

Epidermal bioelectronics that can monitor human health status non-invasively and in real time are core to wearable healthcare equipment. Achieving mechanically tolerant surface bioreactions that convert biochemical information to detectable signals is crucial for obtaining high sensing fidelity. In this work, by combining simulations and experiments, a typical epidermal biosensor system is investigated based on a redox enzyme cascade reaction (RECR) comprising glucose oxidase/lactate oxidase enzymes and Prussian blue nanoparticles. Simulations reveal that strain-induced change in surface reactant flux is the key to the performance drop in traditional flat bioelectrodes. In contrast, wavy bioelectrodes capable of curvature adaptation maintain the reactant flux under strain, which preserves sensing fidelity. This rationale is experimentally proven by bioelectrodes with flat/wavy geometry under both static strain and dynamic stretching. When exposed to 50% strain, the signal fluctuations for wavy bioelectrodes are only 7.0% (4.9%) in detecting glucose (lactate), which are significantly lower than the 40.3% (51.8%) in flat bioelectrodes. Based on this wavy bioelectrode, a stable human epidermal metabolite biosensor insensitive to human gestures is further demonstrated. This mechanically tolerant biosensor based on adaptive curvature engineering provides a reliable bio/chemical-information monitoring platform for soft healthcare bioelectronics.     

葡萄糖碳化物/海泡石复合材料制备工艺及响应面法优化

以葡萄糖和天然海泡石为原材料,利用水热碳化法制备了新型葡萄糖碳化物/海泡石复合材料,冷冻真空干燥法干燥样品。利用X射线衍射分析(XRD)、红外吸收光谱(IR)、扫描电镜(SEM)、比表面积(BET)对样品进行了表征,选择亚甲基蓝作为吸附质考察其吸附性能,并通过单因素和响应面法优化了材料制备的工艺。实验结果表明,复合材料制备最优工艺条件为:葡萄糖与海泡石质量比为1.49∶1.0、碳化时间为7.33 h(440 min);碳化温度为175℃,对亚甲基蓝的最优吸附量为45.22 mg/g;各因素对复合材料吸附亚甲基蓝性能的影响顺序为:碳化时间>碳化温度>葡萄糖与海泡石质量比。     

鱼类在TDG过饱和含沙水体中的耐受性

为探讨高坝泄洪引起的总溶解气体(TDG)过饱和含沙水体对鱼类的影响,以岩原鲤和鲢鱼为研究对象,开展TDG过饱和含沙水体对不同鱼类的急性暴露试验,根据鱼类受TDG过饱和含沙水体胁迫后的异常行为和死亡率、半致死时间等指标来分析不同鱼类受胁迫后的耐受性和差异性。试验结果表明:试验初期,试验用鱼出现较明显异常行为和气泡病症状,且岩原鲤早于鲢鱼;相同TDG饱和度下,随着含沙量的增加,试验用鱼半致死时间缩短,且岩原鲤半致死时间短于鲢鱼,表明鲢鱼比岩原鲤具有更强的适应能力和耐受能力;当TDG饱和度较高时,即使含沙量低,也会造成试验用鱼的大量死亡;过饱和TDG是导致试验用鱼死亡的主要原因,但不能忽略泥沙对试验用鱼死亡的促进作用。     

一种混合局部恢复码及Hitchhiker码的存储策略

我们正处于一个大数据的时代.如今一个分布式存储系统需要存放PB数量级数据的情况越来越常见.这些系统一般由普通商用组件构成,其出错率相对较高.由此,分布式存储系统需要保证数据的可靠性和可用性.多副本和纠删码是现在最为常用的技术.相比多副本技术,采用纠删码能在同等容错能力下大幅降低存储开销.然而,在进行数据恢复时,使用传统的纠删码(如Reed-Solomon码)会导致系统中产生大量的网络带宽消耗及磁盘读写操作,进而导致退化读延迟过高.注意到在系统中数据的访问频率呈Zipf分布,大多数数据访问只涉及到少量数据,而绝大多数数据的被访频率很低.根据这种数据访问的偏斜性,本文提出如下存储策略以解决采用纠删码的系统退化读延迟过高的问题:对被访频率高的热数据采用低恢复延迟的纠删码(如局部恢复码Local Reconstruction Code,LRC)进行编码,而对被访频率低的冷数据采用保证最小存储开销的纠删码(如Hitchhiker码)进行编码.由于热数据占据了绝大多数的数据访问,因此绝大多数的退化读也将应用在这些热数据上,这样这一策略就能在整个系统的角度获取低恢复开销的优势.同时,冷数据占据了系统绝大多数的数据量,且冷数据由保证最小存储开销的编码进行存储,因此这一策略的存储开销会很低.然而,对于混合存储策略而言,热数据可能会变冷,而冷数据也可能会变热,因此它需要配置一种编码切换过程.一个不恰当的编码切换过程会引起巨大的数据传输量,这是难以让人接受的.为了避免这一缺陷,本文提出了一种LRC和Hitchhiker码之间的高效切换算法.这一算法可以避免上述策略在部署时因冷热数据的转换出现系统瓶颈.在精心选取了两种编码并提出它们之间的高效切换算法后,本文提出的混合存储策略避免了现阶段其余混合存储策略的主要缺点.通过实验验证,此存储策略相较传统的Reed-Solomon码在退化读延迟方面降低了55.8%.在编码切换方面,切换延迟能分别降低为重新编码算法用时的13.4%及33.1%,且当数据从LRC切换为Hitchhiker码时(更为频繁出现的情况)的数据传输量能降至10%.