Nitric oxide(NO)is one of the most crucial products in the plasma-based nitrogen fixation process.In this work,in situ measurements were performed for quantifying the NO synthesis spatially in a warm air glow discharg...Nitric oxide(NO)is one of the most crucial products in the plasma-based nitrogen fixation process.In this work,in situ measurements were performed for quantifying the NO synthesis spatially in a warm air glow discharge,through the method of Mid-infrared quantum cascade laser absorption spectroscopy(QCL-AS).Two ro-vibrational transitions at 1900.076 cm^(-1) and 1900.517 cm^(-1) of the ground-state NO(X)were probed sensitively by the help of the wavelength modulation spectroscopy(WMS)approach to increase the signal/noise(S/N)level.The results show a decline trend of NO synthesis rate along the discharge channel from the cathode to the anode.However,from the point of energy efficiency,the cathode region is of significantly low energy efficiency of NO production.Severe disproportionality was found for the high energy consumption but low NO production in the region of cathode area,compared to that in the positive column zone.Further analysis demonstrates the high energy cost of NO production in the cathode region,is ascribed to the extremely high reduced electric field E/N therein not selectively preferable for the processes of vibrational excitation or dissociation of N_(2) and O_(2) molecules.This drags down the overall energy efficiency of NO synthesis by this typical warm air glow discharge,particularly for the ones with short electrode gaps.Limitations of further improving the energy cost of NO synthesis by variations of the discharge operation conditions,such as discharge current or airflow rate,imply other effective manners able to tune the energy delivery selectively to the NO formation process,are sorely needed.展开更多
Efficient nitrogen fixation through a reactive plasma process attracts intense interest due to the environmental issues induced by the conventional Haber–Bosch method. In this work, we present a direct and simple fix...Efficient nitrogen fixation through a reactive plasma process attracts intense interest due to the environmental issues induced by the conventional Haber–Bosch method. In this work, we present a direct and simple fixation routine without any catalysts for nitrogen in open air using an atmospheric-pressure pin-to-solution plasma electrolytic system. Nitrate, nitrite, and ammonia as the nitrogen-derived chemicals in solution were analyzed as indicators under various discharge conditions to estimate the energy efficiency of this process. The results show that the nitrogen fixation process was much more efficient by the pin-positive discharge compared to the negative one. N chemicals preferred to be formed when the solution was of negative polarity. It was also found that, with the help of solution circulation, the energy efficiency was enhanced compared to that of static liquid. However, an inverse trend was observed with the increase of the discharge current. Further study by optical emission spectroscopy indicates the important roles of active N2* and water vapour and their derived species near the plasma–water interface in the fixation process.展开更多
In this work,the super-hydrophobic(SH)surface was prepared through chemical vapor deposition process by an argon atmospheric pressure plasma jet source with HMDSN(hexamethyldisilazane)as the polymerization precursor.P...In this work,the super-hydrophobic(SH)surface was prepared through chemical vapor deposition process by an argon atmospheric pressure plasma jet source with HMDSN(hexamethyldisilazane)as the polymerization precursor.Plasma synthesized organosilicon(SiOxCyHz)thin films with water contact angle over 160°and sliding angle below 5°,were able to be achieved.FTIR and XPS analysis indicates a large number of hydrocarbon compositions were polymerized in the thin films enduing the latter very-low surface free energy.SEM shows the SH films display micro-nanostructure and with high degree of averaged surface roughness 190 nm evaluated by AFM analysis.From experiments under controlled low-temperature and moisture conditions,the prepared SH surface exhibits good anti-icing effects.Significantly prolonging freezing time was achievable on the SH thin films for both static and sliding water droplets.This investigation demonstrates the anti-icing potentials of SH surface prepared through low-cost simple atmospheric-pressure plasma polymerization process.展开更多
Objective:To explore the potential mechanism of Wumei Wan(WMW)in treating diabetes enteropathy(DE)basing on network pharmacology.Methods:The effective compound of WMW were collected by TCMSP,the potential target of WM...Objective:To explore the potential mechanism of Wumei Wan(WMW)in treating diabetes enteropathy(DE)basing on network pharmacology.Methods:The effective compound of WMW were collected by TCMSP,the potential target of WMW was obtained by means of PubChem and Swiss target prediction online tools,and the disease target of DE was obtained by Genecards,TTD and DisGeNET databases,Cytoscape 3.7.2 software was used to construct active ingredients of WMW-potential target-DE network,protein interaction network(PPI)was constructed by STRING database.In order to understanding the mechanism of WMW treating in DE,Omicshare platform was used for GO analysis and KEGG pathway enrichment analysis.The analysis results were verified through docking by Discovery Studio 2016.Results:Total of 128 active components and 139 targets of WMW were screened out from the ten drugs.A total of 714 disease targets were screened out from the disease databases.24 common targets were identified from both WMW and DE.AKT1,MMP9,SRC,PTGS2,PPARG,NOS2,etc.are potential major targets of WMW in the treatment of DE.61 entries(p<0.05)were enriched in GO biological process function related to fatty acid anabolism and ligand receptor binding,as unsaturated fatty acid metabolic process,icosanoid metabolic process,enzyme linked receptor protein signaling pathway,protein amino acid phosphorylation,cellular response to insulin stimulus.A total of 72 signaling pathways were obtained through KEGG pathway analysis(p<0.05).The signaling pathways closely related to DE are including relaxin signaling pathway,EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance,CLRs signaling pathway,and VEGF signaling pathway.Conclusion:This study preliminarily revealed the material basis and mechanism of WMW in the treatment of DE from the synergistic aspects of intestinal immune balance,gastrointestinal wall structure reconstruction,intestinal microvascular disorder and neuronal activity.展开更多
This paper proposes a machine-learning-based methodology to automatically classify different types of steel weld defects,including lack of the fusion,porosity,slag inclusion,and the qualified(no defects)cases.This met...This paper proposes a machine-learning-based methodology to automatically classify different types of steel weld defects,including lack of the fusion,porosity,slag inclusion,and the qualified(no defects)cases.This methodology solves the shortcomings of existing detection methods,such as expensive equipment,complicated operation and inability to detect internal defects.The study first collected percussed data from welded steel members with or without weld defects.Then,three methods,the Mel frequency cepstral coefficients,short-time Fourier transform(STFT),and continuous wavelet transform were implemented and compared to explore the most appropriate features for classification of weld statuses.Classic and convolutional neural network-enhanced algorithms were used to classify,the extracted features.Furthermore,experiments were designed and performed to validate the proposed method.Results showed that STFT achieved higher accuracies(up to 96.63%on average)in the weld status classification.The convolutional neural network-enhanced support vector machine(SVM)outperformed six other algorithms with an average accuracy of 95.8%.In addition,random forest and SVM were efficient approaches with a balanced trade-off between the accuracies and the computational efforts.展开更多
Chlorophyll fluorescence and antioxidative capability in detached leaves of the wild type Arabidopsis thaliana L. ecotype Landsberg erecta (Ler) and three mutants deficient in anthocyanins biosynthesis (tt3, tt4, a...Chlorophyll fluorescence and antioxidative capability in detached leaves of the wild type Arabidopsis thaliana L. ecotype Landsberg erecta (Ler) and three mutants deficient in anthocyanins biosynthesis (tt3, tt4, and tt3tt4) were investigated during treatment with temperatures ranging 25-45 ℃. In comparison with the wild type, chlorophyll fluorescence parameters Fv/Fm, φps,, electron transport rate (ETR), Fv/Fo and qP in three anthocyanin-deficient mutants showed a more rapidly decreasing rate when the temperature was over 35 ℃. Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) in these mutants was almost completely lost at 44 ℃, whereas the content of heat stable protein dropped and the rate of the membrane leakage increased. Fo-temperature curves were obtained by monitoring Fo levels with gradually elevated temperatures from 22 ℃ to 72 ℃ at 0.5 ℃/min. The inflexion temperatures of Fo were 45.8 ℃ in Ler, 45.1℃ in tt3, 44.1℃ in tt4 and 42.3 ℃ in tt3tt4, respectively. The temperatures of maximal Fo in three mutants were 1.9-3.8℃ lower than the wild type plants. Meanwhile, three mutants had lower activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) and an inferior scavenging capability to DPPH (1.1-diphenyl-2-picrylhy.drazyl) radical under heat stress, and in particular tt3tt4 had the lowest antioxidative potential. The results of the diaminobenzidine-H2O2 histochemical staining showed that H2O2 was accumulated in the leaf vein and mesophyll cells of mutants under treatment at 40 ℃, and it was significantly presented in leaf cells of tt3tt4. The sensitivity of Arabidopsis anthocyanins-deficient mutants to high temperatures has revealed that anthocyanins in normal plants might provide protection from high temperature injury, by enhancing its antioxidative capability under high temperature stress.展开更多
基金partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.11975061,52111530088)the Technology Innovation and Application Development Project of Chongqing(No.cstc2019jscx-msxm X0041)+1 种基金the Construction Committee Project of Chongqing(No.2018-1-3-6)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(No.2019CDQYDQ034)。
文摘Nitric oxide(NO)is one of the most crucial products in the plasma-based nitrogen fixation process.In this work,in situ measurements were performed for quantifying the NO synthesis spatially in a warm air glow discharge,through the method of Mid-infrared quantum cascade laser absorption spectroscopy(QCL-AS).Two ro-vibrational transitions at 1900.076 cm^(-1) and 1900.517 cm^(-1) of the ground-state NO(X)were probed sensitively by the help of the wavelength modulation spectroscopy(WMS)approach to increase the signal/noise(S/N)level.The results show a decline trend of NO synthesis rate along the discharge channel from the cathode to the anode.However,from the point of energy efficiency,the cathode region is of significantly low energy efficiency of NO production.Severe disproportionality was found for the high energy consumption but low NO production in the region of cathode area,compared to that in the positive column zone.Further analysis demonstrates the high energy cost of NO production in the cathode region,is ascribed to the extremely high reduced electric field E/N therein not selectively preferable for the processes of vibrational excitation or dissociation of N_(2) and O_(2) molecules.This drags down the overall energy efficiency of NO synthesis by this typical warm air glow discharge,particularly for the ones with short electrode gaps.Limitations of further improving the energy cost of NO synthesis by variations of the discharge operation conditions,such as discharge current or airflow rate,imply other effective manners able to tune the energy delivery selectively to the NO formation process,are sorely needed.
基金partly supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 11975061)the Technology Innovation and Application Development Project of Chongqing (No. cstc2019jscx-msxmX0041)+1 种基金the Construction Committee Project of Chongqing (No. 2018-1-3-6)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (No. 2019CDQYDQ034)。
文摘Efficient nitrogen fixation through a reactive plasma process attracts intense interest due to the environmental issues induced by the conventional Haber–Bosch method. In this work, we present a direct and simple fixation routine without any catalysts for nitrogen in open air using an atmospheric-pressure pin-to-solution plasma electrolytic system. Nitrate, nitrite, and ammonia as the nitrogen-derived chemicals in solution were analyzed as indicators under various discharge conditions to estimate the energy efficiency of this process. The results show that the nitrogen fixation process was much more efficient by the pin-positive discharge compared to the negative one. N chemicals preferred to be formed when the solution was of negative polarity. It was also found that, with the help of solution circulation, the energy efficiency was enhanced compared to that of static liquid. However, an inverse trend was observed with the increase of the discharge current. Further study by optical emission spectroscopy indicates the important roles of active N2* and water vapour and their derived species near the plasma–water interface in the fixation process.
基金partly supported by the State Key Laboratory of Advanced Electromagnetic Engineering and Technology(No.AEET 2018KF003)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.51637002,11405144)+3 种基金the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(Nos.2018CDXYTW0031,20720150022)the Construction Committee of Chongqing(No.2018-1-3-6)the International Science&Technology Cooperation Program of China(No.2015DFR70390)the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(No.2018JJ3587)
文摘In this work,the super-hydrophobic(SH)surface was prepared through chemical vapor deposition process by an argon atmospheric pressure plasma jet source with HMDSN(hexamethyldisilazane)as the polymerization precursor.Plasma synthesized organosilicon(SiOxCyHz)thin films with water contact angle over 160°and sliding angle below 5°,were able to be achieved.FTIR and XPS analysis indicates a large number of hydrocarbon compositions were polymerized in the thin films enduing the latter very-low surface free energy.SEM shows the SH films display micro-nanostructure and with high degree of averaged surface roughness 190 nm evaluated by AFM analysis.From experiments under controlled low-temperature and moisture conditions,the prepared SH surface exhibits good anti-icing effects.Significantly prolonging freezing time was achievable on the SH thin films for both static and sliding water droplets.This investigation demonstrates the anti-icing potentials of SH surface prepared through low-cost simple atmospheric-pressure plasma polymerization process.
基金National natural science foundation of China(No.81673869)。
文摘Objective:To explore the potential mechanism of Wumei Wan(WMW)in treating diabetes enteropathy(DE)basing on network pharmacology.Methods:The effective compound of WMW were collected by TCMSP,the potential target of WMW was obtained by means of PubChem and Swiss target prediction online tools,and the disease target of DE was obtained by Genecards,TTD and DisGeNET databases,Cytoscape 3.7.2 software was used to construct active ingredients of WMW-potential target-DE network,protein interaction network(PPI)was constructed by STRING database.In order to understanding the mechanism of WMW treating in DE,Omicshare platform was used for GO analysis and KEGG pathway enrichment analysis.The analysis results were verified through docking by Discovery Studio 2016.Results:Total of 128 active components and 139 targets of WMW were screened out from the ten drugs.A total of 714 disease targets were screened out from the disease databases.24 common targets were identified from both WMW and DE.AKT1,MMP9,SRC,PTGS2,PPARG,NOS2,etc.are potential major targets of WMW in the treatment of DE.61 entries(p<0.05)were enriched in GO biological process function related to fatty acid anabolism and ligand receptor binding,as unsaturated fatty acid metabolic process,icosanoid metabolic process,enzyme linked receptor protein signaling pathway,protein amino acid phosphorylation,cellular response to insulin stimulus.A total of 72 signaling pathways were obtained through KEGG pathway analysis(p<0.05).The signaling pathways closely related to DE are including relaxin signaling pathway,EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance,CLRs signaling pathway,and VEGF signaling pathway.Conclusion:This study preliminarily revealed the material basis and mechanism of WMW in the treatment of DE from the synergistic aspects of intestinal immune balance,gastrointestinal wall structure reconstruction,intestinal microvascular disorder and neuronal activity.
基金support of Shanghai Pinlan Data Technology Co.,Ltd.,and Open Fund of Shanghai Key Laboratory of Engineering Structure Safety,SRIBS(No.2021-KF-06).
文摘This paper proposes a machine-learning-based methodology to automatically classify different types of steel weld defects,including lack of the fusion,porosity,slag inclusion,and the qualified(no defects)cases.This methodology solves the shortcomings of existing detection methods,such as expensive equipment,complicated operation and inability to detect internal defects.The study first collected percussed data from welded steel members with or without weld defects.Then,three methods,the Mel frequency cepstral coefficients,short-time Fourier transform(STFT),and continuous wavelet transform were implemented and compared to explore the most appropriate features for classification of weld statuses.Classic and convolutional neural network-enhanced algorithms were used to classify,the extracted features.Furthermore,experiments were designed and performed to validate the proposed method.Results showed that STFT achieved higher accuracies(up to 96.63%on average)in the weld status classification.The convolutional neural network-enhanced support vector machine(SVM)outperformed six other algorithms with an average accuracy of 95.8%.In addition,random forest and SVM were efficient approaches with a balanced trade-off between the accuracies and the computational efforts.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(30470282).
文摘Chlorophyll fluorescence and antioxidative capability in detached leaves of the wild type Arabidopsis thaliana L. ecotype Landsberg erecta (Ler) and three mutants deficient in anthocyanins biosynthesis (tt3, tt4, and tt3tt4) were investigated during treatment with temperatures ranging 25-45 ℃. In comparison with the wild type, chlorophyll fluorescence parameters Fv/Fm, φps,, electron transport rate (ETR), Fv/Fo and qP in three anthocyanin-deficient mutants showed a more rapidly decreasing rate when the temperature was over 35 ℃. Non-photochemical quenching (NPQ) in these mutants was almost completely lost at 44 ℃, whereas the content of heat stable protein dropped and the rate of the membrane leakage increased. Fo-temperature curves were obtained by monitoring Fo levels with gradually elevated temperatures from 22 ℃ to 72 ℃ at 0.5 ℃/min. The inflexion temperatures of Fo were 45.8 ℃ in Ler, 45.1℃ in tt3, 44.1℃ in tt4 and 42.3 ℃ in tt3tt4, respectively. The temperatures of maximal Fo in three mutants were 1.9-3.8℃ lower than the wild type plants. Meanwhile, three mutants had lower activities of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and ascorbate peroxidase (APX) and an inferior scavenging capability to DPPH (1.1-diphenyl-2-picrylhy.drazyl) radical under heat stress, and in particular tt3tt4 had the lowest antioxidative potential. The results of the diaminobenzidine-H2O2 histochemical staining showed that H2O2 was accumulated in the leaf vein and mesophyll cells of mutants under treatment at 40 ℃, and it was significantly presented in leaf cells of tt3tt4. The sensitivity of Arabidopsis anthocyanins-deficient mutants to high temperatures has revealed that anthocyanins in normal plants might provide protection from high temperature injury, by enhancing its antioxidative capability under high temperature stress.