Direct Ion Beam Figuring Process and Rotational Measurement Method for Ultra-smooth Aspherical Surfaces of a 46.5 nm Telescope

This paper describes a fabrication process for the hyperboloidal concave mirror of a 46.5 nm telescope. The180 mm aperture hyperboloidal concave mirror and 70 mm aperture compensator are machined directly from chemical mechanical polishing of a spherical surface to a high-accuracy aspherical surface by ion beam figuring.The aspherical measurement method is the Dall null test. To minimize system errors in the measurement process,the rotational measurement method with six rotations is used in the null test. The results of the analysis for the ME(first solve the machined surface profile, then solve the system errors) and EM(first solve the system errors, then solve the machined surface profile) methods of calculation in the measurement are given. The ME method is a more accurate rotational test method, and the six rotations are appropriate for rotational measurements. After the figuring process, the hyperboloidal concave mirror surface profile reached 8.27 nm rms and the compensator surface profile is approximately 4 nm rms. The roughness of the hyperboloidal concave mirror is smooth to0.160 nm rms.

New tricks for an old dog: Visible light-driven hydrogen production from water catalyzed by fac-and mer-geometrical isomers of tris(thiosemicarbazide) cobalt(Ⅲ)

Increasing interest has been paid to the development of earth‐abundant metal complexes as promising surrogates of platinum for the electrocatalytically and photocatalytically driven hydrogen evolution reaction.In this work,we report on molecular H2‐evolving catalysts based on two octahedral complexes of cobalt thiosemicarbazide,fac‐[Co(Htsc)3]Cl3·3H2O(C1,Htsc=thiosemicarbazide)and mer‐[Co(Htsc)3]Cl3·4H2O(C2),which have facial(fac)and meridional(mer)geometry,respectively.Electrochemical studies confirmed that both C1and C2are active electrocatalysts in MeOH solution using acetic acid as the proton source,with the same overpotential of^640mV and TOF of^210s–1.The complex C1also exhibits electrocatalytic activity for hydrogen evolution reaction in aqueous media free of organic solvent with a moderate overpotential(560mV).Visible light‐driven hydrogen evolution experiments were carried out in combination with fluorescein as photosensitizer and triethylamine as sacrificial reductant in homogeneous environments.Our studies showed that both C1and C2can be used as efficient proton‐reduction catalysts in purely aqueous solution and have the same photocatalytic activities.A TOF of125h–1with a TON of900for photocatalytic H2generation using C1and C2in water were achieved for the noble‐metal‐free homogeneous system.It should be noted that this is the first reported study investigating the effect on the catalytic hydrogen production performance of using fac‐and mer‐isomers of molecular catalysts.