青年发明家何寒:研制保水剂 成就大事业

[一] "农民一向都很现实,也有很强的模仿欲,在他接受新鲜事物时,往往看它能否给自己带来实惠和明显的效益,而一旦周围的人用上什么好东西,他们就会纷纷效仿……"在一间不算宽敞的办公室里,何寒侃侃而谈.

添加剂对焦粉型焦性能的影响

分析了热压成型及冷压成型方法的优劣。选择增强剂、固化防水剂等添加剂对水玻璃粘合剂进行改性,研究了添加剂对型焦性能的影响。实验结果表明,焦粉成型添加剂加入量为:水玻璃粘合剂12%,增强剂0.2%,固化防水剂0.3%,成型焦球生(干)型焦落下强度、生(干)型焦压缩强度、耐水性、热稳定性、反应活性等性能可满足工业生产的工艺要求。

Rainwater quality assessment of a solidified soil cistern using new construction technology

A plastic mixture construction technology using MBER （material becoming earth into rock） soil stabilizer is introduced and the water quality of a solidified soil cistern using the technology is analyzed. Rainwater was harvested in July, 2012. Water quality of runoff and cistern water after storage was measured, including turbidity, chemical oxygen demand （COD）, total nitrogen, nitrate, and ammonia. Results show that pollutant concentrations in runoff decreased with time, indicating that runoff in the early time should be removed. Nitrate concentrations in cistern water increased after storage, while the remaining parameters decreased. Measured pollutant concentrations did not exceed the limit according to the standard for drinking water in China. It can be concluded that the solidified soil cistern with plastic mixture construction technology can provide available water for domestic use.

Recent developments in the use of single-atom catalysts for water splitting

Electrochemical water splitting is regarded as the most promising approach to produce hydrogen.However,the sluggish electrochemical reactions occurring at the anode and cathode,namely,the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)and the hydrogen evolution reaction(HER),respectively,consume a tremendous amount of energy,seriously hampering its wide application.Recently,single-atom catalysts(SACs)have been proposed to effectively enhance the kinetics of these two reactions.In this minireview,we focus on the recent progress in SACs for OER and HER applications.Three classes of SACs have been reviewed,i.e.,alloy-based SACs,carbon-based SACs and SACs supported on other compounds.Different factors affecting the activities of SACs are also highlighted,including the inherent element property,the coordination environment,the geometric structure and the loading amount of metal atoms.Finally,we summarize the current problems and directions for future development in SACs.

Asymmetric Synthesis of (-)-1-Trimethylsilyl-ethanol with Immobilized Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Cells in Water/Organic Solvent Diphasic System

Asymmetric synthesis of (-)-1-trimethylsilyl-ethanol with immobilized Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells in water/organic solvent biphasic system was studied. The effects of shake speed, hydrophobicity of organic solvent, volume ratio of water phase to organic phase, pH value of aqueous phase and reaction temperature on the initial reaction rate, maximum yield and enantiomeric excess (ee) of the product were systematically explored. All the above-mentioned factors had significant influence on the reaction. n-Hexane was found to be the best organic solvent for the reaction. The optimum shake speed, volume ratio of water phase to organic phase, pH value and reaction temperature were 150 r.min-1, 1/2, 8 and 30 ℃ respectively, under which the maximum yield and enantiomeric excess of the product were as high as 96.8% and 95.7%, which are 15% and 16% higher than those of the corresponding reaction performed in aqueous phase. To our best knowledge, this is the most satisfactory result obtained.

Removal of cadmium from aqueous solution by immobilized Microcystis aeruginosa:Isotherms,kinetics and thermodynamics

The Microcystis aeruginosa(MA) was immobilized on sodium alginate and used as biosorbent for removal of Cd(Ⅱ) ions from aqueous solution.The biosorption process is pH dependent,and the optimum biosorption was observed at pH 6.0 with the biosorption capacity of 98.38 mg/g.Among Langmuir,Freundlich and Temkin isotherm models,the Freundlich and the Temkin isotherm fit well with the experimental data.Cd(Ⅱ) ions biosorption follows the pseudo-second-order kinetic model.The rate controlling mechanism study reveals that film diffusion is the rate-limiting step and intraparticle diffusion is also involved in biosorption.Thermodynamic parameters,such as Gibbs free energy(ΔG°),the enthalpy(ΔH°) and entropy(ΔS°) were calculated,and revealed that the biosorption process is spontaneous,exothermic and random.Furthermore,the immobilized MA can be regenerated using 0.1 mol/L HCl solutions.

Advances in Application of New Catalytic Materials in Petroleum Refining and Petrochemicals Production

This article introduces the solid acid catalyst for isobutene/butylenes alkylation, the HTS Ti/Si zeolite for ammonoxidation of cyclohexanone and the noncrystalline alloy catalyst and magnetically stabi- lized bed for hydrofining of caprolactam that were developed recently by SINOPEC Research Institute of Petroleum Processing (RIPP).

Effect of Curing Temperature on Mortar Based on Sustainable Concrete Material＇s and Poly-Carboxylate Superplasticizer

Nowadays, technologies in construction field have offered several kinds of chemical admixtures, which offer different behaviors at the fresh state of the batch and by consequence, it is resulted with different mechanical behaviors at the solid state of the mix. This study focused on the behavior of a new kind of admixture at fresh and solid states. Currently, the concrete material has become a very expensive material because the high price mostly of aggregates, representing the three quarters of the concrete components. By consequence, it costs money and on the other hand, it produces a lot of wastes. The main aspect which guides this study is to make a kind of concrete based mainly on local material and sustainable concrete material （SCM or waste material）, which is one very abundant material in quality and quantity, under the current tendency the results obtained in this study summarize up the importance of the temperature during the development of the mechanical characteristics of mortar, mainly on compressive strength at age of 28 days. This is in the case of the addition of limestone crushed additive by percentage of substitution.

Preparation of Rapid Hardening Mortars Using Ultrafine Portland Cement

During the hydration process, the Ultra-fine Cements present specific physical and chemical characteristics; they are, very short setting time and high heat release. For special applications, such as rapid hardening and early high strength mortars or concretes, these characteristics can be considered advantageous. Some commercial products used for concrete reinforcement and repairs are the Rapid Hardening Mortars, these mortars must develop a time of setting up to 3 h and an initial compressive strength of about 3.5 MPa once the hardening of the paste is reached. The objective of the present research work is to use Ultra-fine Cement for the preparation of a series of different Rapid Hardening Mortars （with different percentages of Ultra-fine Cement）, these mortars required the addition of a polycarboxylate-base specification F Superplasticizer. It was observed that the optimum water/cement （W/C） ratio for the hydration of the Ultra-fine Cements is W/C = 0.385. The Ultra-fine Cements were obtained by the High Energy Ball-milling technique at laboratory scale, 90% of the Particle Size Distribution is below 11 μm and the Blaine Specific Surface Area is over 9000 cm^2/g.

Progress in the studies of low-molecular mass gelators with unusual properties

This article is intended to provide an overview of recent progress in the studies of cholesterol-based low-molecular mass gelators (LMMGs) with unusual properties,in particular,gelation and selective gelation at room temperature,gel emulsions and gel film formation,etc.Potential applications of the LMMGs in spilled oil collection and water purification are briefly presented.