小晶粒β沸石表观聚结作用及机理研究

采用聚沉剂对小晶粒β沸石胶体体系的表观聚结作用及其机理进行了研究。通过分析小晶粒β沸石在过滤体系中的存在状态,得到强碱性的胶态体系中小晶粒β沸石的胶团结构,并分析了反离子挤压Stern双电层时Zeta电势的变化,解释了小晶粒β沸石聚沉作用发生的原因。通过实验发现,当聚沉剂NS/小晶粒β沸石大于或等于30%(质量比)时,即发生常温聚沉,能大大提高过滤效率。聚沉后β沸石样品的相对结晶度有少许下降,同时能大幅度地降低样品的Na2O含量。经轻油微反评价其活性,说明聚沉后的β沸石仍是优良的烃类流化催化裂化(FCC)催化剂的活性添加组分。

Isothermal Crystallization Kinetics of Microencapsulated Polyethylene Glycol Particles

The microenapsulated polyethylene glycol （PEG） with different molecular weight by a fluidized coating method has been prepared and the crystallization behaviors of PEG particles in three-dimensional confined vohume were investigated by using differential scanning calorimetry （DSC） measurement. The results showed that the width of the crystallization peak of PEG increases and its height gradually diminishes in case that the PEG particles are microencapsulated. Compared with the non-microencapsulated PEG particles, the proportion of the first crystallization peak of microencapsulated PEG particle increases, and that of the second one decreases. The reason for the difference maybe is that the crystallization process of microencapsulated PEG particles is uniform and the crystallization ends when the spherulites touch the wall, thus the opportunity of producing the second crystallization peak was relatively reduced.

Structure Analysis of Polyacrylonitrile Polymerized in Ionic Liquids

Polyacrylonitriles （PANs） ware synthesized both by atom transfer radical polymerization （ATRP） anti free radical polymerization in ionic liquid 1 - buty - 3 - methylimidazolium chloride （[bmim]Cl）. [bmim]Cl demonstrates to be a preferable solvent for ATRP of acrylonitrile （AN）. The polymerization maintains the usual advantages of ATRP with molecular weight agrees well with theoretical value and low polydispersity （PDI = 1.15）. It is also shown the higher conversion and lower molecular weight dispersion in ionic liquid than in dimethylformamide （DMF）. From FTIR and NMR analysis, it is confirmed that the chemical structures of PANs synthesized in [bmim]Cl were identical with that obtained in DMF. In atom transfer radical polymerization, the methine and cyan carbon atoms in isotactic configuration for PAN produced in [bmim] Cl have a configuration consisting of about 55.5% isotactic diads. It is higher than that obtained in DMF which is 52.2%. So, ionic liquid has effect on the stereostructure of PANs. Further analysis of ^13C NMR spectra indicated that the isotacticity of PAN synthesized by free radical polymerization was lower than that of PAN prepared by ATRP, although both of them were random in stereoregularity. Besides the pentad tacticities of PANs also suggested that the sequence distributions of them all obey Bernoulli statistics.

Coalescence Behaviors of Drop Swarms on Liquid-Liquid Interface

The trajectory model of dispersed phase drops and distribution model of drop diameters were derived.By numerical simulation,the analytical results indicate that a large number of dispersed phase drops accumulate on the upper plate in different directions and form a hydrodynamic area with the stream-wise location in the range of 0—0.4m,where the flow of trickling film obtains kinetic drive from flowing field.The flowing field of trickling film exhibits an unstable state if the stream-wise location is less than 0.02m,and a stable state otherwise.Moreover,different velocity vectors of drops in the x-y plane result in different interactions between the trickling film and drops.For the non-uniform distribution of drop diameters,there is a stronger interaction between the trickling film and drop if the stream-wise location is less than 0.02m,because the amplitudes of velocity vectors are higher than those in the range of 0.02—1.0m.The result reveals a complexity and diversity of stratified two-phase flowing field.On the other hand,both the basic flowing field and distributions of drop diameters have a great influence on the distributions of comparable kinetic energy of drops.The complicated motions of larger drops are helpful to coalescence because they will consume much more kinetic energy on the trickling film than those of smaller drops.The change of comparable kinetic energy of smaller drops is continuous and steady.The smaller drops are easily entrained by the liquid-liquid flowing field.

Influence of Integral Instability of Kramers-Kronig Transformation on Photoabsorption Cross Sections

The photoabsorption cross sections of condensed atoms and molecules have proven to be dependent not only on the imaginary parts but also on the real parts of the polarizabilities due to the strong interatomie interactions in condensed environment. The real parts of the polarizabilities calculated usually by using the famous Kramers-Kronig transformation （KKT） from the photoabsorption cross sections of the isolated atoms are very sensitive to the accuracy of the implementation method of the infinite integral in the KKT. The influence of the integral instability of the KKT and the real part of the polarizability on the variation of the photoabsorption cross sections with the number density and the structure of the condensed matter has been studied in the present work for the first time. The conclusion is that the integration method with interpolation has given more reasonable results than the direct truncation method if some appropriate interpolation functions have been used. Some notes and conclusions have also been given for the applications of the alternative coupled expressions of photoabsorption cross sections.

Direct observation of Pt nanocrystal coalescence induced by electron-excitation-enhanced van der Waals interactions

Nanocrystal coalescence has attracted paramount attention in nanostructure fabrication in the past decades. Tremendous endeavor and progress have been made in understanding its mechanisms, benefiting from the development of transmission electron microscopy. However, many mechanisms still remain unclear, especially for nanocrystals that lack a permanent dipole moment standing on a solid substrate. Here, we report an in situ coalescence of Pt nanocrystals on an amorphous carbon substrate induced by electron-excitation- enhanced van der Waals interactions studied by transmission electron microscopy and first principles calculations. It is found that the electron-beam-induced excitation can significantly enhance the van der Waals interaction between Pt nanocrystals and reduce the binding energy between Pt nanocrystals and the carbon substrate, both of which promote the coalescence. This work extends our understanding of the nanocrystal coalescence observed in a transmission electron microscope and sheds light on a potential pathway toward practical electron- beam-controlled nanofabrication.

Magnetic lattices for ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases

We review recent developments in the use of magnetic lattices as a complementary tool to optical lattices for trapping periodic arrays of ultracold atoms and degenerate quantum gases. Recent advances include the realisation of Bose–Einstein condensation in multiple sites of a magnetic lattice of one-dimensional microtraps, the trapping of ultracold atoms in square and triangular magnetic lattices,and the fabrication of magnetic lattice structures with submicron period suitable for quantum tunnelling experiments.Finally, we describe a proposal to utilise long-range interacting Rydberg atoms in a large spacing magnetic lattice to create interactions between atoms on neighbouring sites.