SnO2 nanowires with a diameter of 25nm are synthesized at 550~C by Au-Ag catalyst assisted thermal evapora- tion of SnO powders. The room-temperature photoluminescence spectra (PL) of the prepared nanowires are meas...SnO2 nanowires with a diameter of 25nm are synthesized at 550~C by Au-Ag catalyst assisted thermal evapora- tion of SnO powders. The room-temperature photoluminescence spectra (PL) of the prepared nanowires are measured. Among the four PL peaks,the peak of 418nm is newly observed. This peak is caused by the plane defects of the twinned crystal nanowires. The formation of SnO2 nanowires at low temperature is pursued on the basis of the VLS mechanism and application of the reaction source of SnO. We suggest that the chemical reactions of the low temperature and low concen- tration of the vaporized species are responsible for the thinner size of the SnO2 nanowires.展开更多
The evolution of self organized Ge quantum dots structure is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy during annealing treatment up to 700℃ in an ultra high vacuum(UHV) system.When t...The evolution of self organized Ge quantum dots structure is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy during annealing treatment up to 700℃ in an ultra high vacuum(UHV) system.When the sample temperature rises to 630℃,a great amount of new dots emerge on the wetting layer,which are believed to be incoherent islands compared with the dislocation free coherent islands formed during molecular beam epitaxy growth.展开更多
Red-emission (Y0.95Eu0.05)2O3 submicron spheres and microplates were selectively obtained via hydrothermal precursor synthesis (150 °C, 12 h) followed by calcination at 1000 °C. Characterizations of the ...Red-emission (Y0.95Eu0.05)2O3 submicron spheres and microplates were selectively obtained via hydrothermal precursor synthesis (150 °C, 12 h) followed by calcination at 1000 °C. Characterizations of the products were carried out by combined means of XRD, FT-IR, FE-SEM and PL analysis. The precursors could be modulated from basic-carbonate submicron spheres to normal carbonate microplates by increasing the molar ratio of urea to Y+Eu from 10 to 40-100. The resultant oxides largely retain their respective precursor morphologies at 1000 °C, but morphology confined crystal growth was observed for the microplates, yielding more enhanced exposure of the (400) facets. Both the (Y0.95Eu0.05)2O3 spheres and microplates exhibit nearly identical positions of the PL bands and similar asymmetry factors of luminescence [I(5D0→7F2)/I(5D0→7F1), ~11] under 250 nm excitation, but the microplates show a significantly strong red emission at ~613 nm ( ~1.33 times that of the spheres) owing to their larger particle size and denser packing of primary phosphor crystallites.展开更多
Two kinds of Ag-graphite composites reinforced with spherical graphite(SG)and conventional flake graphite(FG)were prepared by powder metallurgy technology.The effect of graphite morphology on the tribological behavior...Two kinds of Ag-graphite composites reinforced with spherical graphite(SG)and conventional flake graphite(FG)were prepared by powder metallurgy technology.The effect of graphite morphology on the tribological behavior for the Ag-SG and Ag-FG under the dry sliding wear was investigated with a pin-on-disk tribometer at a load of 3.0 N in atmosphere condition.The results indicated that the minimum wear rate of 3.5×10^-5 mm^3/(N·m)for Ag-FG was achieved and it reduced by nearly an order of magnitude,reaching 1.6×10^-6 mm^3/(N·m)for the Ag-SG.The obviously different tribological behaviors between the Ag-SG and Ag-FG were closely related to the formation of cracks in the sub-surface.The stress concentration tended to generate at the edges of flake graphite during sliding process,which resulted in the cracks and severe delamination wear of Ag-FG.However,no cracks were found around the spherical graphite in Ag-SG.The spherical graphite can effectively inhibit the initiation and propagation of cracks,achieving high wear resistance.展开更多
The mechanism of ultrasonic vibration honing Nd-Fe-B has been briefly elaborated after the introduction of the strategic significance of processing Nd-Fe-B. Based on the formation principle of Scanning Electrtmic Micr...The mechanism of ultrasonic vibration honing Nd-Fe-B has been briefly elaborated after the introduction of the strategic significance of processing Nd-Fe-B. Based on the formation principle of Scanning Electrtmic Microscope (SEM), and at the examination with the aid of SEM to the ultrasonic vibration honing Nd-Fe-B material's superficial microscopic topography, the paper discusses the new processing nechanism according to the SEM examination picture. The research indicates that as a result of supersonic high frequency vibration, the path of the abrasion extends at the same time, and the supersonic cavitation effect forms the intense shock-wave, knpacting Nd-Fe-B material's intemal surface, providing the supersonic energy for the superticial abrasive dust's dimination, which directly explain that the honing processing efficiency is enhanced, and the processing surface roughness is high.展开更多
Ti Ni shape memory alloys(SMAs) have been normally used as the competent elements in large part of the industries due to outstanding properties, such as super elasticity and shape memory effects. However, traditiona...Ti Ni shape memory alloys(SMAs) have been normally used as the competent elements in large part of the industries due to outstanding properties, such as super elasticity and shape memory effects. However, traditional machining of SMAs is quite complex due to these properties. Hence, the wire electric discharge machining(WEDM) characteristics of Ti Ni SMA was studied. The experiments were planned as per L27 orthogonal array to minimize the experiments, each experiment was performed under different conditions of pulse duration, pulse off time, servo voltage, flushing pressure and wire speed. A multi-response optimization method using Taguchi design with utility concept has been proposed for simultaneous optimization. The analysis of means(ANOM) and analysis of variance(ANOVA) on signal to noise(S/N) ratio were performed for determining the optimal parameter levels. Taguchi analysis reveals that a combination of 1 μs pulse duration, 3.8 μs pulse off time, 40 V servo voltage, 1.8×105 Pa flushing pressure and 8 m/min wire speed is beneficial for simultaneously maximizing the material removal rate(MRR) and minimizing the surface roughness. The optimization results of WEDM of Ti Ni SMA also indicate that pulse duration significantly affects the material removal rate and surface roughness. The discharged craters, micro cracks and recast layer were observed on the machined surface at large pulse duration.展开更多
This paper aims to establish a 3D evaluation method for cutting surface topography of C/C composites. The cutting surface is measured by Talyscan 150, using 3D non-contact measurement. By evaluating 2D and 3D roughnes...This paper aims to establish a 3D evaluation method for cutting surface topography of C/C composites. The cutting surface is measured by Talyscan 150, using 3D non-contact measurement. By evaluating 2D and 3D roughness of C/C composite and Duralumin, the 2D evaluation method of the cutting surface topography of C/C composite loses a lot of information, and the characteristics of the surface topography of C/C composite can be comprehensively and authentically evaluated only by the 3D evaluation method. Furthermore, 3D amplitude and spatial parameters are adopted to evaluate the surface and the results show that: the topography of the C/C composite is anisotropy and there are no obvious feeding textures but abrupt peaks and valleys on surface of the C/C composite, which indicates that the machining mecha- nism is different from that of the metal. In conclusion, The C/C composite surface is evaluated using a 3D evaluation method, the roughness error is small, and the unique topography characteristics earl be au- thentically evaluated.展开更多
Li3VO4 shows great potential as an intercalation/de-intercalation type anode material for energy-storage devices. Morphology tailoring and surface modification are effective to enhance its lithium storage performance....Li3VO4 shows great potential as an intercalation/de-intercalation type anode material for energy-storage devices. Morphology tailoring and surface modification are effective to enhance its lithium storage performance. In this work, we fabricate carbon coated Li3VO4(C@LVO) rods by a facile morphology inheritance route. The as-prepared C@LVO rods are 400–800 nm in length and 200–400 nm in diameter,and orthorhombic phase with V5+. The unique core-shell rods structure greatly improves the transport ability of electrons and Li+. Such C@LVO submicron-rods as anode materials exhibit excellent rate capability(a reversible capability of 460,438, 416, 359 and 310 m A h g^-1 at 0.2, 1, 2, 5 and 10 C, respectively) and a high stable capacity of 440 and 313 m A h g^-1 up to 300 cycles at 0.2 and 5 C, respectively.展开更多
Hierarchical structures, in which structure is generated and controlled simultaneously at different size scales, have attracted increasing attention due to their potentials in both theoretical research and practical a...Hierarchical structures, in which structure is generated and controlled simultaneously at different size scales, have attracted increasing attention due to their potentials in both theoretical research and practical applications. In this review, a "non-classical crystallization" mechanism is discussed for their possibilities in morphology control of hierarchically-structured materials. Differently, this crystallization route is not based on the attaching and detaching of monomers as happened in the classical case, but through the self-organization of preformed building blocks as nanosized subunits, whose oriented attachment leads to mesocrystals with favorable morphology and texture. Representative materials including both inorganic and organic crystals are reported with possible mechanisms proposed. Synthetic protocols based on this mechanism provide unique inspirations for materials design and could be applied to morphological and structural control of new materials with optimized functions.展开更多
Flexible and wearable sensors have drawn ex-tensive concern due to their wide potential applications inwearable electronics and intelligent robots. Flexible sensorswith high sensRivity, good flexibility, and excellent...Flexible and wearable sensors have drawn ex-tensive concern due to their wide potential applications inwearable electronics and intelligent robots. Flexible sensorswith high sensRivity, good flexibility, and excellent stabilityare highly desirable for monitoring human biomedical signals,movements and the environment. The active materials and thedevice structures are the keys to achieve high performance.Carbon nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes (CNTs),graphene, carbon black and carbon nanofibers, are one of themost commonly used active materials for the fabrication ofhigh-performance flexible sensors due to their superiorproperties. Especially, CNTs and graphene can be assembledinto various multi-scaled macroscopic structures, includingone dimensional fibers, two dimensional films and three di-mensional architectures, endowing the facile design of flexiblesensors for wide practical applications. In addition, the hybridstructured carbon materials derived from natural bio-mate-rials also showed a bright prospect for applications in flexiblesensors. This review provides a comprehensive presentation offlexible and wearable sensors based on the above variouscarbon materials. Following a brief introduction of flexiblesensors and carbon materials, the fundamentals of typicalflexible sensors, such as strain sensors, pressure sensors,temperature sensors and humidity sensors, are presented.Then, the latest progress of flexible sensors based on carbonmaterials, including the fabrication processes, performanceand applications, are summarized. Finally, the remainingmajor challenges of carbon-based flexible electronics are dis-cussed and the future research directions are proposed.展开更多
文摘SnO2 nanowires with a diameter of 25nm are synthesized at 550~C by Au-Ag catalyst assisted thermal evapora- tion of SnO powders. The room-temperature photoluminescence spectra (PL) of the prepared nanowires are measured. Among the four PL peaks,the peak of 418nm is newly observed. This peak is caused by the plane defects of the twinned crystal nanowires. The formation of SnO2 nanowires at low temperature is pursued on the basis of the VLS mechanism and application of the reaction source of SnO. We suggest that the chemical reactions of the low temperature and low concen- tration of the vaporized species are responsible for the thinner size of the SnO2 nanowires.
文摘The evolution of self organized Ge quantum dots structure is investigated by scanning tunneling microscopy and atomic force microscopy during annealing treatment up to 700℃ in an ultra high vacuum(UHV) system.When the sample temperature rises to 630℃,a great amount of new dots emerge on the wetting layer,which are believed to be incoherent islands compared with the dislocation free coherent islands formed during molecular beam epitaxy growth.
基金Projects (50172030, 50972025, 50990303, 51172038) supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject supported by the Liaoning BaiQianWan Talents Program, China+1 种基金Projects (N110802001, N100702001) supported by the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities, ChinaProject supported by the China Scholarship Council
文摘Red-emission (Y0.95Eu0.05)2O3 submicron spheres and microplates were selectively obtained via hydrothermal precursor synthesis (150 °C, 12 h) followed by calcination at 1000 °C. Characterizations of the products were carried out by combined means of XRD, FT-IR, FE-SEM and PL analysis. The precursors could be modulated from basic-carbonate submicron spheres to normal carbonate microplates by increasing the molar ratio of urea to Y+Eu from 10 to 40-100. The resultant oxides largely retain their respective precursor morphologies at 1000 °C, but morphology confined crystal growth was observed for the microplates, yielding more enhanced exposure of the (400) facets. Both the (Y0.95Eu0.05)2O3 spheres and microplates exhibit nearly identical positions of the PL bands and similar asymmetry factors of luminescence [I(5D0→7F2)/I(5D0→7F1), ~11] under 250 nm excitation, but the microplates show a significantly strong red emission at ~613 nm ( ~1.33 times that of the spheres) owing to their larger particle size and denser packing of primary phosphor crystallites.
基金Project(51674304)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2018JJ3677)supported by Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province,China。
文摘Two kinds of Ag-graphite composites reinforced with spherical graphite(SG)and conventional flake graphite(FG)were prepared by powder metallurgy technology.The effect of graphite morphology on the tribological behavior for the Ag-SG and Ag-FG under the dry sliding wear was investigated with a pin-on-disk tribometer at a load of 3.0 N in atmosphere condition.The results indicated that the minimum wear rate of 3.5×10^-5 mm^3/(N·m)for Ag-FG was achieved and it reduced by nearly an order of magnitude,reaching 1.6×10^-6 mm^3/(N·m)for the Ag-SG.The obviously different tribological behaviors between the Ag-SG and Ag-FG were closely related to the formation of cracks in the sub-surface.The stress concentration tended to generate at the edges of flake graphite during sliding process,which resulted in the cracks and severe delamination wear of Ag-FG.However,no cracks were found around the spherical graphite in Ag-SG.The spherical graphite can effectively inhibit the initiation and propagation of cracks,achieving high wear resistance.
基金supported by The Natural Science Foundation of China(50975265)The Natural Science Foundation of Shanxi Province of China(2007011071)Program for the Top Young Academic Leaders of Higher Learning Institutions of Shanxi(20080205ZX)
文摘The mechanism of ultrasonic vibration honing Nd-Fe-B has been briefly elaborated after the introduction of the strategic significance of processing Nd-Fe-B. Based on the formation principle of Scanning Electrtmic Microscope (SEM), and at the examination with the aid of SEM to the ultrasonic vibration honing Nd-Fe-B material's superficial microscopic topography, the paper discusses the new processing nechanism according to the SEM examination picture. The research indicates that as a result of supersonic high frequency vibration, the path of the abrasion extends at the same time, and the supersonic cavitation effect forms the intense shock-wave, knpacting Nd-Fe-B material's intemal surface, providing the supersonic energy for the superticial abrasive dust's dimination, which directly explain that the honing processing efficiency is enhanced, and the processing surface roughness is high.
文摘Ti Ni shape memory alloys(SMAs) have been normally used as the competent elements in large part of the industries due to outstanding properties, such as super elasticity and shape memory effects. However, traditional machining of SMAs is quite complex due to these properties. Hence, the wire electric discharge machining(WEDM) characteristics of Ti Ni SMA was studied. The experiments were planned as per L27 orthogonal array to minimize the experiments, each experiment was performed under different conditions of pulse duration, pulse off time, servo voltage, flushing pressure and wire speed. A multi-response optimization method using Taguchi design with utility concept has been proposed for simultaneous optimization. The analysis of means(ANOM) and analysis of variance(ANOVA) on signal to noise(S/N) ratio were performed for determining the optimal parameter levels. Taguchi analysis reveals that a combination of 1 μs pulse duration, 3.8 μs pulse off time, 40 V servo voltage, 1.8×105 Pa flushing pressure and 8 m/min wire speed is beneficial for simultaneously maximizing the material removal rate(MRR) and minimizing the surface roughness. The optimization results of WEDM of Ti Ni SMA also indicate that pulse duration significantly affects the material removal rate and surface roughness. The discharged craters, micro cracks and recast layer were observed on the machined surface at large pulse duration.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50875036)
文摘This paper aims to establish a 3D evaluation method for cutting surface topography of C/C composites. The cutting surface is measured by Talyscan 150, using 3D non-contact measurement. By evaluating 2D and 3D roughness of C/C composite and Duralumin, the 2D evaluation method of the cutting surface topography of C/C composite loses a lot of information, and the characteristics of the surface topography of C/C composite can be comprehensively and authentically evaluated only by the 3D evaluation method. Furthermore, 3D amplitude and spatial parameters are adopted to evaluate the surface and the results show that: the topography of the C/C composite is anisotropy and there are no obvious feeding textures but abrupt peaks and valleys on surface of the C/C composite, which indicates that the machining mecha- nism is different from that of the metal. In conclusion, The C/C composite surface is evaluated using a 3D evaluation method, the roughness error is small, and the unique topography characteristics earl be au- thentically evaluated.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21476019 and 21676017)
文摘Li3VO4 shows great potential as an intercalation/de-intercalation type anode material for energy-storage devices. Morphology tailoring and surface modification are effective to enhance its lithium storage performance. In this work, we fabricate carbon coated Li3VO4(C@LVO) rods by a facile morphology inheritance route. The as-prepared C@LVO rods are 400–800 nm in length and 200–400 nm in diameter,and orthorhombic phase with V5+. The unique core-shell rods structure greatly improves the transport ability of electrons and Li+. Such C@LVO submicron-rods as anode materials exhibit excellent rate capability(a reversible capability of 460,438, 416, 359 and 310 m A h g^-1 at 0.2, 1, 2, 5 and 10 C, respectively) and a high stable capacity of 440 and 313 m A h g^-1 up to 300 cycles at 0.2 and 5 C, respectively.
文摘Hierarchical structures, in which structure is generated and controlled simultaneously at different size scales, have attracted increasing attention due to their potentials in both theoretical research and practical applications. In this review, a "non-classical crystallization" mechanism is discussed for their possibilities in morphology control of hierarchically-structured materials. Differently, this crystallization route is not based on the attaching and detaching of monomers as happened in the classical case, but through the self-organization of preformed building blocks as nanosized subunits, whose oriented attachment leads to mesocrystals with favorable morphology and texture. Representative materials including both inorganic and organic crystals are reported with possible mechanisms proposed. Synthetic protocols based on this mechanism provide unique inspirations for materials design and could be applied to morphological and structural control of new materials with optimized functions.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51672153,51422204 and 51372132)National Key Basic Research and Development Program(2016YFA0200103 and 2013CB228506)
文摘Flexible and wearable sensors have drawn ex-tensive concern due to their wide potential applications inwearable electronics and intelligent robots. Flexible sensorswith high sensRivity, good flexibility, and excellent stabilityare highly desirable for monitoring human biomedical signals,movements and the environment. The active materials and thedevice structures are the keys to achieve high performance.Carbon nanomaterials, including carbon nanotubes (CNTs),graphene, carbon black and carbon nanofibers, are one of themost commonly used active materials for the fabrication ofhigh-performance flexible sensors due to their superiorproperties. Especially, CNTs and graphene can be assembledinto various multi-scaled macroscopic structures, includingone dimensional fibers, two dimensional films and three di-mensional architectures, endowing the facile design of flexiblesensors for wide practical applications. In addition, the hybridstructured carbon materials derived from natural bio-mate-rials also showed a bright prospect for applications in flexiblesensors. This review provides a comprehensive presentation offlexible and wearable sensors based on the above variouscarbon materials. Following a brief introduction of flexiblesensors and carbon materials, the fundamentals of typicalflexible sensors, such as strain sensors, pressure sensors,temperature sensors and humidity sensors, are presented.Then, the latest progress of flexible sensors based on carbonmaterials, including the fabrication processes, performanceand applications, are summarized. Finally, the remainingmajor challenges of carbon-based flexible electronics are dis-cussed and the future research directions are proposed.