Numerical and experimental investigation into the evolution of the shock wave when a muzzle jet impacts a constrained moving body

The gun-track launch system is a new special launch device that connects the track outside the muzzle.Because it is constrained by the track,the characteristics of development of the muzzle jet differ from those of the traditional muzzle jet.Specifically,it changes from freely developing to doing so in a constrained manner,where this results in an asymmetric direction of flow as well as spatio-temporal coupling-induced interference between various shock waves and the formation of vortices.In this background,the authors of this article formulate and consider the development and characteristics of evolution of the muzzle jet as it impacts a constrained moving body.We designed simulations to test the gun-track launch system,and established a numerical model based on the dynamic grid method to explore the development and characteristics of propagation of disturbances when the muzzle jet impacted a constrained moving body.We also considered models without a constrained track for the sake of comparison.The results showed that the muzzle jet assumed a circumferential asymmetric shape,and tended to develop in the area above the muzzle.Because the test platform was close to the ground,the muzzle jet was subjected to reflections from it that enhanced the development and evolution of various forms of shock waves and vortices in the muzzle jet to exacerbate its rate of distortion and asymmetric characteristics.This in turn led to significant differences in the changes in pressure at symmetric points that would otherwise have been identical.The results of a comparative analysis showed that the constrained track could hinder the influence of reflections from the ground on the muzzle jet to some extent,and could reduce the velocity of the shock waves inducing the motion of the muzzle as well as the Mach number of the moving body.The work here provides a theoretical basis and the requisite technical support for applications of the gun-track launch system.It also sheds light on the technical bottlenecks that need to be considered to recover high-value warheads.

Easily prepared and stable functionalized magnetic ordered mesoporous silica for efficient uranium extraction

Functionalized magnetic Fe_3O_4@SiO_2 composite nanoparticles were prepared by simply embedding iron oxide nanoparticles into MCM-41 through one-step synthesis process, followed by aminopropyls grafting on the mesopore channels, aiming to efficiently and conveniently uptake U(VI) from aqueous solution. The resultant material possesses highly ordered mesoporous structure with large surface area, uniform pore size, excellent thermal stability, quick magnetic response, and desirable acids resistance, confirmed by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR), scanning electron microscopy(SEM), N_2 adsorption/desorption experiments, powder X-ray diffraction(PXRD), and thermogravimetric analysis(TGA). Detailed U(VI) sorption test indicated that this material is indeed an effective U(VI) sorbent with fast sorption kinetics of less than 2 h, large sorption capacity of 160 mg/g at p H 5.0±0.1, and desirable selectivity towards U(VI) ions over a range of competing metal ions. The absorbed U(VI) can be easily desorbed by 0.01 mol/L or more concentrated HNO_3 solution, and the reclaimed sorbent can be reused with no obvious decrease of sorption capacity even after 4 sorption-desorption cycles. The present results suggest the vast opportunities of this kind of magnetic composite on the solid-phase extraction of U(VI).

Antioxidant-enriched autologous biogel promoted diabetic wound healing by remodeling inherent posttraumatic inflammatory patterning and restoring compromised microenvironment homeostasis

Successful wound healing depends on the reconstruction of proper tissue homeostasis,particularly in the posttraumatic inflammatory tissue microenvironment.Diabetes jeopardizes tissues’immune homeostasis in cutaneous wounds,causing persistent chronic inflammation and cytokine dysfunction.Previously,we developed an autologous regeneration factor(ARF)technology to extract the cytokine composite from autologous tissue to restore immune homeostasis and promote wound healing.However,treatment efficacy was significantly compromised in diabetic conditions.Therefore,we proposed that a combination of melatonin and ARF,which is beneficial for proper immune homeostasis reconstruction,could be an effective treatment for diabetic wounds.Our research showed that the utilization of melatonin-mediated ARF biogel(AM gel)promoted diabetic wound regeneration at a more rapid healing rate.RNA-Seq analysis showed that AM gel treatment could restore more favorable immune tissue homeostasis with unique inflammatory patterning as a result of the diminished intensity of acute and chronic inflammation.Currently,AM gel could be a novel and promising therapeutic strategy for diabetic wounds in clinical practice through favorable immune homeostatic reconstructions in the tissue microenvironment and proper posttraumatic inflammation patterning.

共价有机框架稳定性提高及其在放射性核素分离中的应用

共价有机框架(Covalent Organic Frameworks,COFs)是一类通过可逆反应制备的具有长程有序结构的晶态有机多孔聚合物,因其良好的耐辐照性、结构可设计性及可功能化特点有望在放射性核素高效吸附及作用机理探讨中发挥作用。但连接键可逆性降低了COFs的化学稳定性,本文系统地综述了COFs化学稳定性提高(包括连接键可逆性的降低、合成后可逆连接键向不可逆转化及连接键周围疏水环境构建)、晶型调控(包括合成条件、二维COFs层内共平面及层间堆叠作用力的影响及无定形聚合物结晶化)、功能化方法和其在放射性核素分离富集方面中的应用。通过增强COFs骨架的强度,引入特殊的功能化官能团或改变单体大小通过尺寸匹配效应来增强放射性核素离子与COFs的相互作用,并就COFs在该领域应用前景和研究方向进行了展望。

Corrigendum to‘Fabrication of a bio-instructive scaffold conferred with a favorable microenvironment allowing for superior implant osseointegration and accelerated in situ vascularized bone regeneration via type H vessel formation’[Bioactive Materials,Volume 9(March 2022)Page 491-507]

The authors regret a mistake of funding numbers in the Acknowledgment Section failed to be corrected during proofreading.Below is the corrected funding statement in ACKNOWLEDGMENT SECTION:This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC)(Nos.82072415,81772354,81902189),Clinical Innovation Research Program of Guangzhou Regenerative Medicine and Health Guangdong Laboratory(2018GZR0201002),Science Technology Project of Guangzhou City(2019ZD15).

Fabrication of a bio-instructive scaffold conferred with a favorable microenvironment allowing for superior implant osseointegration and accelerated in situ vascularized bone regeneration via type H vessel formation

The potential translation of bio-inert polymer scaffolds as bone substitutes is limited by the lack of neovascularization upon implantation and subsequently diminished ingrowth of host bone,most likely resulted from the inability to replicate appropriate endogenous crosstalk between cells.Human umbilical vein endothelial cell-derived decellularized extracellular matrix(HdECM),which contains a collection of angiocrine biomolecules,has recently been demonstrated to mediate endothelial cells(ECs)-osteoprogenitors(OPs)crosstalk.We employed the HdECM to create a PCL(polycaprolactone)/fibrin/HdECM(PFE)hybrid scaffold.We hypothesized PFE scaffold could reconstitute a bio-instructive microenvironment that reintroduces the crosstalk,resulting in vascularized bone regeneration.Following implantation in a rat femoral bone defect,the PFE scaffold demonstrated early vascular infiltration and enhanced bone regeneration by microangiography(μ-AG)and micro-computational tomography(μ-CT).Based on the immunofluorescence studies,PFE mediated the endogenous angiogenesis and osteogenesis with a substantial number of type H vessels and osteoprogenitors.In addition,superior osseointegration was observed by a direct host bone-PCL interface,which was likely attributed to the formation of type H vessels.The bio-instructive microenvironment created by our innovative PFE scaffold made possible superior osseointegration and type H vessel-related bone regeneration.It could become an alternative solution of improving the osseointegration of bone substitutes with the help of induced type H vessels,which could compensate for the inherent biological inertness of synthetic polymers.

Performance comparison of ghost imaging versus conventional imaging in photon shot noise cases

The performances of ghost imaging and conventional imaging in photon shot noise cases are investigated. We define an imaging signal-to-noise ratio called SNRtranwhere only the object’s transmission region is used to evaluate the imaging quality and it can be applied to ghost imaging(GI) with any random pattern. Both the values SNRtran GIof GI and SNRtran CIof conventional imaging in photon shot noise cases are deduced from a simple statistical analysis. The analytical results, which are backed up by numerical simulations, demonstrate that the value SNRtran GIis related to the ratio between the object’s transmission area Aoand the number density of photons illuminating the object plane Io, which is similar to the theoretical results based on the first principle of GI with a Gaussian speckle field deduced by B. I. Erkmen and J. H. Shapiro [in Adv. Opt. Photonics 2, 405–450(2010)]. In addition, we also show that the value SNRtran CIwill be larger than SNRtran GIwhen Ao is beyond a threshold value.