Harvesting Air and Light Energy via “All-in-One” Polymer Cathodes for High-Capacity,Self-Chargeable,and Multimode-Switching Zinc Batteries

Aqueous rechargeable Zinc (Zn)–polymer batteries are promising alternatives to prevalent Li-ion cells in terms of cost, safety, and rate capability but they suffer from limited specific capacity in addition to poor environmental adaptability. Herein, air and light are successfully utilized from external environments in single near-neutral two-electrode Zn batteries to enable remarkably improved electrochemical performance, fast self-charging, and switchable multimode-operation from Zn–polymer to Zn–air cells. This system is enabled by a well-designed polyaniline-nanorod-array based “all-in-one” cathode combining reversible redox capability, oxygen reduction activity, and photothermal-responsiveness. The initiative design allows perfect integration of multiple energy harvesting from ambient “air” and light, energy conversion, and storage in one single cathode. Thus, it can act as an efficient light-assisted electrically-rechargeable Zn–polymer cell featuring the highest specific capacity of 430.0 mAh g⁻¹ among all existing polymer cathodes. Without external power sources, it can be self-charged to deliver a high discharging capacity of 363.1 mAh g⁻¹ by concurrently harvesting chemical energy from air and light energy for only 20 min. It can also switch to a light-responsive Zn–air battery mode to surmount the output capacity limit of Zn–polymer battery mode for continued electricity supply.     

Ferroelectric and electromechanical performance of diverse engineered states of Mn-doped 0.75Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O3-0.25PbTiO3 ceramics

The materials processing history has a great influence on their properties and finally determines their application effect. In this paper, the ferroelectric, polarization-switching current, and strain properties of Mn-doped 0.75Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-0.25PbTiO₃ ceramics were studied in fresh state, aged state, and poled state, respectively. Compared with the symmetric polarization-electric-field (P-E) hysteresis loops, current-density-electric-field (J-E) curves, and bipolar electric-field-induced strain (S-E) curves in fresh state samples, asymmetric P-E loops, J-E curves, and bipolar S-E curves were obtained in poled state samples. Well-aged-state samples exhibit double hysteresis P-E loop, four peaks J-E curves, and symmetric S-E curves without negative strain. The symmetry-conforming short-range order (SC-SRO) principle of point defects and internal electric field E_i is employed to clarify the different phenomenon of three states. Results indicated that randomly oriented defect polarization P_D in aged samples can reverse the spontaneous polarization P_S back and result in the double hysteresis P-E loop and four peaks J-E curves. The oriented P_D and resulting E_i in poled-state samples will lead to the asymmetric loops and strain memory effect.     

凌庄子水厂保水堰流量系数试验

凌庄子水厂蓄水池进水口处有一保水堰,为非标准薄壁堰,不能使用已有堰流公式对其过流量进行准确计算。为了得出较为精确的过流流量,按照重力相似准则制作几何比尺为1∶5的模型进行试验研究。在已有自由出流公式的基础上,对自由出流流量系数进行修正并对淹没情况下流量变化过程进行研究。对该非标准堰自由出流流量系数的实测值与经验值进行分析比较,发现堰板槽降低了实际自由出流过流能力。淹没出流的流量系数主要与下游尾水位有关,试验中形成的淹没式堰流受实际堰型尺寸影响,下游尾水位和堰上水位近似相等,不完全适用已有淹没出流流量公式,通过试验给出了修正淹没系数随h/p的变化关系。结果表明利用堰前、堰后水位初步计算过流流量是可行的,可为该工程提供参考,也可为实际工程中非标准矩形堰的流量计算提供思路。     

明代盔甲种类及制作工艺研究

本文通过盔甲的制作及材料,区分了非金属材料的皮甲、瓠子作甲、藤甲、绵甲、纸甲以及金属材料组成的齐腰甲、齐腰明甲、缉甲、布甲、铁甲、钢甲、铜甲、锡甲等类型,并对其制作方式等进行分析。结合不同材质盔甲的使用地区、战争方式进行研究,以对明代盔甲有一个整体性的认知。     

ε-聚赖氨酸-活性剂预混溶液的制备及在油浸食品中的抑菌活性

为解决ε-聚赖氨酸(ε-PL)的油难溶性以及由此导致抑菌性能差的问题，选取吐温80、司盘80作为表面活性剂，无水乙醇、丙三醇作为辅助剂，制备ε-PL与低浓度表面活性剂的预混溶液，探究其植物油溶性及其对油浸面制品中腐败微生物的抑制效果。结果表明，活性剂相与水相比例为1 ∶ 1.25，1 ∶ 1.5，1 ∶ 1.75配制的预混溶液(ETSG)均无底部凝胶沉淀，外观透明，流动性好。活性剂相与水相比例为1 ∶ 1.25的1% ETSG在葵花籽油和橄榄油中均可均匀分散且外观透明。ETSG能够显著抑制霉菌菌丝生长和孢子萌发，培养5 d后，0.1% ETSG处理的链格孢霉T5A和赭曲霉9F的菌落直径显著低于对照组83.44%和45.21%，4% ETSG处理的土曲霉YS-1-1的菌落直径显著低于对照组39.64%。0.1% ETSG使链格孢霉与赭曲霉的孢子萌发率分别从87.07%和85.01%降至1.91%和1.84%，4% ETSG处理使土曲霉的孢子萌发率从90.27%降至4.16%。此外，2%的ETSG可使面筋食品中的霉菌菌落总数显著下降62.5%。本研究为ε-PL作为天然防腐杀菌剂在油浸食品中的应用提供了理论依据。     

Combining molybdenum carbide with ceria overlayers to boost Mo/CeO2 catalyzed ammonia synthesis

The design of an efficient non-noble metal catalyst is of burgeoning interest for ammonia synthesis. Herein, we report a Mo₂C/CeO₂ catalyst that is superior in ammonia synthesis activity. In this catalyst, molybdenum carbide coexisted with the ceria overlayers which is from the ceria support as the strong metal–support interaction. There is a high proportion of low-valent Mo species, as well as high concentration of Ce³⁺ and surface oxygen species. The presence of Mo₂C and CeO₂ overlayers not only leads to enhancement of hydrogen and nitrogen adsorption, but also facilitates the desorption and exchange of adsorbed species with the gaseous reagents. Compared with the Mo/CeO₂ catalyst prepared without carbonization, the Mo₂C/CeO₂ catalyst is more than sevenfold higher in ammonia synthesis rate. This work not only presents an explicit example of designing Mo-based catalyst that is highly efficient for ammonia synthesis by tuning the adsorption and desorption properties of the reactant gases, but opens a perspective for other elements in ammonia synthesis.     

基于(积)耗散理论的烟气-水接触式换热优化

天然气作为供热能源在北方城市得以广泛应用,其燃烧产生的烟气中含有大量余热,采用接触式换热可实现对其高效回收.本文基于(积)耗散理论,研究如何减少接触式换热中的(积)耗散以提高换热效率.本文推导了烟气-水接触式换热表达式,从而得到烟气-水换热曲线方程,并对一段喷淋中的烟气-水换热流程进行了改进,分析了烟气-水换热产生的(积)耗散及本文的优化方向:如何减少烟气露点温度以下的烟气-水换热(积)耗散.研究了在两段喷淋方式下,如何选择分段点可使得(积)耗散最小,并以设计排烟温度30℃为例进行了具体计算,进而得到了不同典型热源在不同排烟温度下对应的喷淋水分段点温度.当设计排烟温度为30℃时,对于典型燃气锅炉和热电厂,相对于一段喷淋,两段喷淋下的(积)耗散可分别减少58％和29％以上.     

The dispersed SiO2 microspheres supported Ru catalyst with enhanced activity for ammonia decomposition

Ru nanoparticles supported on SiO₂ microspheres (Ru/SiO₂-GUS) were prepared by the glucose-urea-metallic salt method and applied in the decomposition of ammonia. In the glucose-urea-metallic salt method, glucose as the carbon template plays a significant role in the formation of diffusion-beneficial structural properties of Ru/SiO₂-GUS, and also induceds the modification of the electronic state of Ru. Ru/SiO₂-GUS exhibited higher catalytic activity compared with the catalyst prepared with the impregnation method. The catalytic performance of Ru/SiO₂-GUS was further enhanced with the addition of either K or Cs——the addition order and amount strongly affecting the catalytic performance. When the ratio of K/Cs to Ru is 2, the alkali metal (KOH/CsOH) solution is added in the homogeneous solution of glucose, urea, RuCl₃ and the colloidal silica, the promotion effect of K/Cs is the strongest, particularly under lower reaction temperatures. However, the promotion effects of K and Cs are different as reveled by the combined results of H₂-TPR, XPS and NH₃-TPSR. More NH₃ can be absorbed on K–Ru/SiO₂-GUS and the electron density of Ru decreased. By contrast, more metallic Ru formed on Cs–Ru/SiO₂-GUS, facilitating N₂ recombination.     

Nonlinear dynamic characteristics and bifurcation analysis of Ti–Zr–Ni quasicrystal as hydrogen storage material

In this article, the nonlinear dynamic characteristics and bifurcation of a Ti–Zr–Ni quasicrystal impacted by hydrogen atoms are studied. New nonlinear damping terms are proposed to express the delay characteristics of Ti–Zr–Ni quasicrystal, and the accurate natural frequency is obtained by the harmonic balance method. A new method based on the developed largest Lyapunov exponent is proposed to analyze the local stability of any point in the system, and the system's global stability is determined. Finally, a new way to realize the switch between hydrogen storage and release based on stochastic Hopf bifurcation is proposed. The results of theoretical analysis and numerical simulation show that the system's motion can be switched between a periodic orbit and a balanced point near the bifurcation boundary with little energy consumption, which is helpful for hydrogen storage and release.