Cascaded quasi-zero stiffness nonlinear low-frequency vibration isolator inspired by human spine

Human motion induced vibration has very low frequency,ranging from 2 Hz to 5 Hz.Traditional vibration isolators are not effective in low-frequency regions due to the trade-off between the low natural frequency and the high load capacity.In this paper,inspired by the human spine,we propose a novel bionic human spine inspired quasi-zero stiffness(QZS)vibration isolator which consists of a cascaded multi-stage negative stiffness structure.The force and stiffness characteristics are investigated first,the dynamic model is established by Newton’s second law,and the isolation performance is analyzed by the harmonic balance method(HBM).Numerical results show that the bionic isolator can obtain better low-frequency isolation performance by increasing the number of negative structure stages,and reducing the damping values and external force values can obtain better low-frequency isolation performance.In comparison with the linear structure and existing traditional QZS isolator,the bionic spine isolator has better vibration isolation performance in low-frequency regions.It paves the way for the design of bionic ultra-low-frequency isolators and shows potential in many engineering applications.

Highly Stable Molecular Borromean Rings

series of Cp＊Rh-based molecular Borromean rings （BRs） are prepared from naphthazarine or metallaligand. Some of as-synthesized BRs display high stability and are formed in high yields in solution. The reason is related to the length ratio of the long-arm linker and short-arm linker, where smaller aspect ratios of the metallarectangles promote improved stability and yields of the BRs in solution, increasing the width of the metallaligand or pyridyl ligand hinders the formation of BRs and leads to unoccupied monomeric rectangles, which were further used as catalysts for the acyl transfer reaction between N-acetylimidazole and （4-（pyridin-4-yl）phenyl） methanol.

Half-sandwich rhodium poly-chalcogenide complexes and a carbon insertion into Te-Te bond

Treatment of CptRh(PMe3)Cl2(1) (Cpt=5η-tBu2C5H3) with [Et4N]2Se6 in DMF solution leads to the for-mation of cyclo-tetraselenido half-sandwich rhodium com-plexes CptRh(PMe3)(Se4) (2). The elimination of 2 with ex-cess of nBu3P results in cyclo-diselenido rhodium complex CptRh(PMe3)(Se2) (3). 1 reacts with [nBu4N]2Te5 in DMF solution to yield cyclo-ditellurido rhodium complex CptRh (PMe3)(Te2) (4) in which carbon atom from CH2C12 can be inserted into Te-Te bond to form CptRh(PMe3)(TeCH2Te) (5). The new complexes 2-5 have been characterized by their IR, EI-MS, and 1H, 13C, 31P, 103Rh NMR spectra as well as ele-mental analysis.