探索依托单位科研管理新模式从源头提升科学基金资助效能——以山东大学为例

当前,国家自然科学基金委员会正推进科学基金系统性改革,构建新时代科学基金体系,支撑国家高水平科技自立自强。依托单位作为科学基金体系的中坚力量,肩负着落实科学基金深化改革系列举措,践行高质量申请倡议,从源头上提升科学基金资助效能的使命。本文以山东大学为例,简要介绍如何履行依托单位职责,发挥综合性大学独特的管理优势,从“学校—团队—个人”三个维度重构科研管理体系,创新科研组织管理模式,组建新型科研管理团队,提升项目科学问题质量,连续两年实现科学基金申请数量下降和获资助数量上升。

Clogging caused by coupled grain migration and compaction effect during groundwater recharge for unconsolidated sandstone reservoir in groundwater-source heat pump

In unconsolidated sandstone reservoirs,presence of numerous movable grains and a complex grain size composition necessitates a clear understanding of the physical clogging process for effective groundwater recharge in groundwater-source heat pump systems.To investigate this,a series of seepage experiments was conducted under in situ stress conditions using unconsolidated sandstone samples with varying grain compositions.The clogging phenomenon arises from the combined effects of grain migration and compaction,wherein the migration of both original and secondary crushed fine-grain particles blocks the seepage channels.Notably,grain composition influences the migration and transport properties of the grains.For samples composed of smaller grains,the apparent permeability demonstrates a transition from stability to decrease.In contrast,samples with larger grains experience a skip at the stability stage and directly enter the decrease stage,with a minor exception of a slight increase observed.Furthermore,a unique failure mode characterized by diameter shrinkage in the upper part of the sample is observed due to the combined effects of grain migration and in situ stress-induced compaction.These testing results contribute to a better understanding of the clogging mechanism caused by the coupled effects of grain migration and compaction during groundwater recharge in unconsolidated sandstone reservoirs used in groundwater-source heat pump systems.

Analysis of mechanical behavior of soft rocks and stability control in deep tunnels

Due to the weakness in mechanical properties of chlorite schist and the high in situ stress in Jinping II hydropower station, the rock mass surrounding the diversion tunnels located in chlorite schist was observed with extremely large deformations. This may significantly increase the risk of tunnel instability during excavation. In order to assess the stability of the diversion tunnels laboratory tests were carried out in association with the petrophysical properties, mechanical behaviors and waterlweakening properties of chlorite schist. The continuous deformation of surrounding rock mass, the destruction of the support structure and a large-scale collapse induced by the weak chlorite schist and high in situ stress were analyzed. The distributions of compressive deformation in the excavation zone with large deformations were also studied. In this regard, two reinforcement schemes for the excavation of diversion tunnel bottom section were proposed accordingly. This study could offer theoretical basis for deed tunnel construction in similar geological condition~

Recent Advances in the Tracer Technology Used for Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy in Breast Cancer

The high incidence of breast cancer poses one of the greatest risks to female health worldwide. Sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) is the standard of treatment for patients with axillary lymph node-negative early-stage breast cancer. Herein, the precise use of tracers is the key to ensuring the success of SLNB. However, owing to select-few limitations of traditional tracers, their clinical application is limited. New tracer techniques, such as the near-infrared fluorescent dye method (using indocyanine green), contrast-enhanced ultrasound, and superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles are being applied in clinical practice. In this paper, we review the recent progress in SLNB tracer technology.

A method to experimentally investigate injection-induced activation of fractures

Natural fractures are generally well developed in most hydrocarbon and geothermal reservoirs,which can produce complex fracture networks due to the activation of fractures during hydraulic stimulation.The present paper is devoted to developing a method to investigate the activation characteristics of fracture under injection-shearing coupled condition at laboratory scale.The fluid is injected into the single-fractured granite until the fracture is activated based on the triaxial direct shear tests.The results show that injection process can significantly influence the shear stress distribution field,resulting in release of shear stress and relative slip between the opposite sides of the fractured surface.The injectioninduced activation of fracture is strongly dependent on the stress states.When the normal stress increases,the injection-induced activation pressure increases,and the comparatively high normal stress can restrain the fracture activation.The fracture deformation mechanisms during fluid injection are also discussed preliminarily with the experimental data.The sensitivity of shear stress to fluid injection increases with increase of shear stress level,while it decreases under high normal stress.The results can facilitate our understanding of the natural fracture activation behavior during fluid pressure stimulation.

Idiom Comprehension of Chinese Patients With Aphasia: A Case Study

Previous studies on idiom comprehension of patients with aphasia(PWAs)mainly focused on Indo-European speakers,examining whether PWAs could correctly extract the target meaning of idioms,while among Chinese PWAs,idiom familiarity,context and other variables affecting idiom comprehension were rarely studied.Hence,this study aims to explore whether Chinese PWAs can correctly comprehend the target meaning of idioms,and further investigate the role of familiarity and context.For three Chinese PWAs,this study adopted the string-to-word matching task,taking Chinese four-character idioms as the experimental stimuli,and provided decoy words containing target meaning,literal meaning,unrelated abstract meaning and unrelated concrete meaning as the matching words of idiom items by manipulating the familiarity and contextual presence of idiom items.The results suggested that the PWAs could not correctly extract the target meaning of idioms and presented both the literal meaning tendency and the weak abstract meaning tendency,and the influence of familiarity on the comprehension of idioms was stronger than that of context.These results support the Graded Salience Hypothesis.

Ultrathin MXene-aramid nanofiber electromagnetic interference shielding films with tactile sensing ability withstanding harsh temperatures

Ultrathin and flexible electromagnetic shielding materials hold great potential in civil and military applications.Despite tremendous research efforts,the development of advanced shielding materials is still needed to provide additional functionalities for various artificial-intelligence-driven systems,such as tactile sensing ability.Herein,a layering design strategy is proposed to fabricate ultrathin Ti_(3)C_(2)T_(x)MXene-aramid nanofiber(MA)films by a layer-by-layer assembling process.Compared to that of randomly mixed films,the designed MA films exhibited a higher EMI shielding efficiency at an ultrathin thickness of 9 pm,which increased from 26.4 to 40.7 dB,owing to the additional multiple-interface scattering mechanism.Importantly,the novel MA films displayed strong EMI shielding ability even after heating/cooling treatments within a wide temperature range of-196 to 300℃.Moreover,the same material displayed a tensile strength of 124.1±2.7 MPa and a toughness of 6.3±1.1 MJ·m^(-3),which are approximately 9.1 times and 45 times higher than those of pure MXene films,respectively.The MA film is also capable of detecting tactile signals via the triboelectric effect.A 2×4 tactile sensor array was developed to achieve an accurate signal catching capability.Therefore,in addition to the shielding performance,the manifestation of tactile perception by the MA films offers exciting opportunities in the fields of soft robotics and human-machine interactions.

Role of boron in TiAl alloy development: a review

Boron was found to be a unique grain refiner in cast TiAl alloys in the beginning of 1990 s and has become an element in most of the TiAl alloys developed to date.Over the past 25 or so years,efforts to understand the role of boron in solidification,solid-phase transformation,thermal and thermomechanical processing and mechanical properties of TiAl alloys and the relevant mechanisms never ceased.As a result,abundant knowledge on boron in TiAl alloys has been accumulated but scattered in various research papers and conference proceedings.This review summarises the progress in understanding boron and its impacts on the TiAl alloy systems.

Effects of long term isolation on the emotion change of ‘‘Lunar Palace 365” crewmembers

The psychological health risk is one of the most serious and difficult risks to mitigate during manned deep space exploration[1].In a space capsule or station,the environment is isolated,and communication with the outside is limited to telephone or delayed video.The monotonous working schedule also aggravates loneliness and homesickness,which could trigger negative moods,such as depression and anxiety.Therefore,an astronaut’s unstable emotional state could be a threat to the safety and performance of a space mission.

A THERMO-PLASTIC/VISCOPLASTIC DAMAGE MODEL FOR GEOMATERIALS

A thermo-plastic/viscoplastic damage coupled model was formulated to describe the time independent and time dependent behaviors of geomaterials under temperature effect. The plastic strain was divided into instantaneous plastic strain and creep plastic strain. To take temperature effect into acconnt, a temperature variable was introduced into the instantaneous and creep plastic behavior descriptions and damage characterization, and a linear thermal expansion law was used in constitutive equation formulation. According to the mechanical behavior of rock salt, a specific model was proposed based on the previous model and applied to Avery rock salt, in which the numerical results obtained from our model had a good agreement with the data from experiments.

Tribological and tribochemical properties of magnetite nanoflakes as additives in oil lubricants

This detailed the tribological and tribochemical properties of magnetite（Fe3O4） nanoflakes used as additives in #40 base oil in a four-ball tribo-tester.The average friction coefficient of the friction pair for lubricant containing the Fe3O4 nanoflakes of 1.5 wt%as a lubricant additive in the base oil is decreased by18.06%compared to that of solely base oil.The chemical composition of base oil with the Fe3O4 nanoflake additives did not change during the 48-h friction assessment.The decreased saturation magnetization and increased coercivity of magnetite nanoflakes occurred due to the distortion of the basal planes and the presence of hematite（α-Fe3O4） generated by the tribochemical reactions during the friction process.The multi-layer low-shear-stress tribochemical lubrication films on the surface of the friction pair could form because the nanoflake particles arrange and adhere onto the surface of the friction pair in an orderly manner,and the tribochemical reactions of the friction pair in the presence of the nanoflakes occur as Fe→FeO→Fe3O4→γ-FeOOH →γ-Fe2O3→α-Fe2O3.The formation of the films can improve the tribological properties.

A HYDRO-MECHANICAL-CHEMICAL COUPLING MODEL FOR GEOMATERIAL WITH BOTH MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL DAMAGES CONSIDERED

A general framework of hydro-mechanical-chemical coupling model is proposed for geomaterial subjected to the dual effects of mechanical loading and chemical degradation. Mechanical damage due to microcracks in solid matrix and chemical damage induced by the increase of porosity due to dissolution of matrix minerals as well as their interactions are considered. A special model is proposed for sandstone. The reaction rate is formulated within the framework of mineral reaction kinetics and can thus take into account different dissolution mechanisms of three main mineral compositions under different pH values. The increase of porosity is physically defined by the dissolution of mineral composition and the chemical damage is related to the increase of porosity. The mechanical behavior is characterized by unified plastic damage and viscoplastic damage modeling. The effective stress is used for describing the effect of pore pressure. The elastic parameters and plastic evolution as well as viscoplastic evolution are dependent on chemical damage. The advection, which is coupled with mechanical damage and chemical damage, is considered as the dominant mechanism of mass transfer. The application of model proposed is from decoupled experiments to fully coupled experiment. The model offers a convenient approach to describing the hydro-mechanical-chemical coupled behavior of geomaterial.

Weakly magnetic field-assisted synthesis of magnetite nano-particles in oxidative co-precipitation

This paper presents experimental results on weakly magnetic field-assisted synthesis of magnetite （Fe3O4） nano-particles in an oxidative co-precipitation method, in comparison to the case without magnetic induction. The XRD results show that a weakly magnetic induction below 220 Gs could accelerate the phase transformation from goethite （α-FeOOH） to magnetite （Fe3O4）, and affect the crystal structure, the particle size/morphology and magnetic response of the magnetite nano-particles synthesized. In addition, a higher concentration of the FeCl2 solution in the synthesis reaction led to finer particles, both with and without magnetic induction.

Hygroscopicity and optical properties of alkylaminium sulfates

The hygroscopicity and optical properties of alkylaminium sulfates （AASs） were investigated using a hygroscopicity tandem differential mobility analyzer coupled to a cavity ring-down spectrometer and a nephelometer. AAS particles do not exhibit a deliquescence phenomenon and show a monotonic increase in diameter as the relative humidity （RH） ascends. Hygroscopic growth factors （GFs） for 40, 100 and 150 nm alkylaminium sulfate particles do not show an apparent Kelvin effect when RH is less than 45%, whereas GFs of the salt aerosols increase with initial particle size when RH is higher than 45%. Calculation using the Zdanovskii-Stokes-Robinson mixing rule suggests that hygroscopic growth of triethylaminium sulfate-ammonium sulfate mixtures is non-deliquescent, occurring at very low RH, implying that the displacement of ammonia by amine will significantly enhance the hygroscopicity of （NH4）2SO4 aerosols. In addition, light extinction of AAS particles is a combined effect of both scattering and absorption under dry conditions, but is dominated by scattering under wet conditions.

Influences of characteristic parameters on starting-up process of an arcjet thruster

Arcjet thruster has been a widely used electrical propulsion technology on GEO satellites since 1993.In its long history of technical development and commercial application,lifetime verification of an arcjet thruster is always one of the most important and expensive tasks.Considering that the main life limitation of an arcjet thruster is electrode ablation and a significant share of the total ablation happens in its starting-up process,the starting-up process is studied with arc voltage signals.Through interpretation of arc voltage signals,the transfer process of the arc root on the anode surface is identified,and?T(the duration of the arc root transfer process)is suggested to be a characteristic parameter for fast evaluation of lifetime assessment and design optimization for an arcjet thruster.With this criterion,the influences of typical parameters on the starting-up process are established through comparison with a benchmark parameter.According to experimental results,an increase of the gas flow will obviously reduce?T,while a smaller swirl aperture and a longer throat channel do not have a remarkable correlation with?T.Moreover,with a sample of a smaller throat diameter to increase the flow velocity,a reduction of?T is achieved.Meanwhile,the modifications also affect the stability of arcjet thruster operation,which is also discussed.

Graphitic carbon nitride, a saturable absorber material for the visible waveband

For the first time to our knowledge, graphitic carbon nitride(g-C_3N_4) nanosheets are found to be an excellent saturable absorber material in the visible waveband. g-C_3N_4 exhibits much stronger saturable absorption in this region than in the near-infrared region, unlike other two-dimensional materials such as graphene and black phosphorus. By the Z-scan method, the nonlinear absorption coefficient β of the material is first measured at three visible wavelengths, and for g-C_3N_4 it is -2.05,-0.34, and -0.11 cm · GW^(-1) at 355, 532, and 650 nm,respectively. These are much larger than -0.06 cm · GW^(-1) at 1064 nm.

Exploring the impact of a coordinated variable speed limit control on congestion distribution in freeway

Over the past few decades, urban freeway congestion has been highly recognized as a serious and worsening traffic problem in the world. To relieve freeway congestion, several active traffic and demand management （ATDM） methods have been developed. Among them, variable speed limit （VSL） aims at regulating freeway mainline flow upstream to meet existing capacity and to harmonize vehicle speed. However, congestion may still be inevitable even with VSL implemented due to extremely high demand in actual practice. This study modified an existing VSL strategy by adding a new local constraint to suggest an achievable speed limit during the control period. As a queue is a product of the congestion phenomenon in freeway, the incentives of a queue build-up in the applied coordinated VSL control situation were analyzed. Considering a congestion occurrence （a queue build-up） characterized by a sudden and sharp speed drop, speed contours were utilized to demonstrate the congestion distribution over a whole freeway network in various sce- narios. Finally, congestion distributions found in both VSL control and non-VS control situations for various scenarios were investigated to explore the impact of the applied coordinated VSL control on the congestion distribution. An authentic stretch of V^hitemud Drive （I~~ID）, an urban freeway corridor in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, was employed to implement this modified coordinated VSL control strategy; and a calibrated micro-simu- lation VISSIM model （model functions） was applied as the substitute of the real-world traffic system to test the above mentioned performance. The exploration task in this study can lay the groundwork for future research on how to improve the presented VSL control strategy for achieving the congestion mitigation effect on freeway.