Unconventional Flatband Line States in Photonic Lieb Lattices

Xia, Shiqi,Ramachandran, Ajith,Xia, Shiqiang,Li, Denghui,Liu, Xiuying,Tang, Liqin,Hu, Yi,Song, Daohong,Xu, Jingjun,Leykam, Daniel,Flach, Sergej,Chen, Zhigang American Physical Society 2018 Physical review letters Vol.121 No.26

Wettability and corrosion of molten sodium carbonate on aluminum-silicon refractory

Zhigang Xu,Yi Xia,Yizhao Mu 한양대학교 청정에너지연구소 2023 Journal of Ceramic Processing Research Vol.24 No.6

The corrosion and infiltration of refractory by chemical waste liquid rich in alkali ions such as potassium and sodiumare the main cause of material damage. Their service life varies with the material systems. In this work, threekinds of aluminum-silicon refractories were prepared by using alumina, mullite, andalusite and clay as raw materials. Staticcrucible method was used to carry out alkali corrosion test at 900 ℃, and Na2CO3 was used as corrosive agent. The phasesand microstructures of the residual crucibles were examined by means of X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electronmicroscope (SEM). The wetting process of molten Na2CO3 on refractory was detected by high temperature contact anglemeasurement system. The corrosion and infiltration resistance of refractories were discussed based on their wettability. Theresults show that corundum-mullite system has weak ability to resist corrosion and infiltration of the molten Na2CO3. Bycontrast, high-purity mullite system has better performance. The mullite transformed from andalusite can improve its infiltrationresistance. The infiltration of molten Na2CO3 into refractory is related to its wetting ability, they both determine thedamage degree of refractories.

Verification of neutronics and thermal-hydraulic coupled system with pin-by-pin calculation for PWR core

Li Zhigang,Pan Junjie,Xia Bangyang,Qiang Shenglong,Lu Wei,Li Qing 한국원자력학회 2023 Nuclear Engineering and Technology Vol.55 No.9

As an important part of the digital reactor, the pin-by-pin wise fine coupling calculation is a research hotspot in the field of nuclear engineering in recent years. It provides more precise and realistic simulation results for reactor design, operation and safety evaluation. CORCA-K a nodal code is redeveloped as a robust pin-by-pin wise neutronics and thermal-hydraulic coupled calculation code for pressurized water reactor (PWR) core. The nodal green's function method (NGFM) is used to solve the threedimensional space-time neutron dynamics equation, and the single-phase single channel model and one-dimensional heat conduction model are used to solve the fluid field and fuel temperature field. The mesh scale of reactor core simulation is raised from the nodal-wise to the pin-wise. It is verified by two benchmarks: NEACRP 3D PWR and PWR MOX/UO2. The results show that: 1) the pin-by-pin wise coupling calculation system has good accuracy and can accurately simulate the key parameters in steadystate and transient coupling conditions, which is in good agreement with the reference results; 2) Compared with the nodal-wise coupling calculation, the pin-by-pin wise coupling calculation improves the fuel peak temperature, the range of power distribution is expanded, and the lower limit is reduced more

Electrochemical properties of Bi-Ni and Bi-Ni-Mn composite-coated electrolytic manganese dioxide

Xiaofeng Li,Zhigang Huang,Tongchi Xia,Huichao Dong,Yanghua Song 한국화학공학회 2014 Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering Vol.31 No.6

The Bi-Ni and Bi-Ni-Mn composite is separately coated on the surface of commercial electrolytic manganesedioxide (EMD) by using a simple chemical precipitation/oxidation method. The results of X-ray diffractionshow that a structure of γ-MnO2 is kept for all the coated EMD, but the intensity of their diffraction peaks is lower thanuncoated one. Both the Bi0.5-Ni0.5 and Bi0.35-Ni0.35-Mn0.3 composite benefits the discharge capacity and high-power performanceof the EMD electrodes. On the other hand, the results of scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersivespectroscopy confirm the more uniform distribution of the Bi0.15-Ni0.55-Mn0.3 composite on the surface of EMD thanthe Bi0.5-Ni0.5 one, thereby resulting in better cyclability of the electrodes. After 50 cycles at a 1C rate, the capacity retentionrate of the Bi0.15-Ni0.55-Mn0.3 composite-coated electrode reaches to 80%, which is far larger than the un-coated(49%) and the Bi0.5-Ni0.5 composite-coated (63%) one.

Important Role of Immunological Responses to Environmental Exposure in the Development of Allergic Asthma

Xinliu Lin,Xia Ren,Xiaojun Xiao,Zhaowei Yang,Siyang Yao,Gary WK Wong,Zhigang Liu,Charles Wang,Zhong Su,Jing Li 대한천식알레르기학회 2020 Allergy, Asthma & Immunology Research Vol.12 No.6

Allergic asthma is a public health problem that affects human health and socioeconomic development. Studies have found that the prevalence of asthma has significantly increased in recent years, which has become particularly pronounced in developed countries. With rapid urbanization in China in the last 3 decades, the prevalence of asthma has increased significantly in urban areas. As changes in genetic backgrounds of human populations are limited, environmental exposure may be a major factor that is responsible for the increased prevalence of asthma. This review focuses on environmental components of farms and rural areas that may have protective effects in reducing the development of asthma. Farm and rural related microorganism- and pathogen-associated molecular patterns are considered to be important environmental factors that modulate host's innate and adaptive immune system to induce protection effects later in life. Environmental microbial-related immunotherapy will also be discussed as the future research direction for the prevention of allergic asthma.

A Cloud-Edge Collaborative Computing Task Scheduling and Resource Allocation Algorithm for Energy Internet Environment

( Xin Song ),( Yue Wang ),( Zhigang Xie ),( Lin Xia ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2021 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.15 No.6

To solve the problems of heavy computing load and system transmission pressure in energy internet (EI), we establish a three-tier cloud-edge integrated EI network based on a cloud-edge collaborative computing to achieve the tradeoff between energy consumption and the system delay. A joint optimization problem for resource allocation and task offloading in the three-tier cloud-edge integrated EI network is formulated to minimize the total system cost under the constraints of the task scheduling binary variables of each sensor node, the maximum uplink transmit power of each sensor node, the limited computation capability of the sensor node and the maximum computation resource of each edge server, which is a Mixed Integer Non-linear Programming (MINLP) problem. To solve the problem, we propose a joint task offloading and resource allocation algorithm (JTOARA), which is decomposed into three subproblems including the uplink transmission power allocation sub-problem, the computation resource allocation sub-problem, and the offloading scheme selection sub-problem. Then, the power allocation of each sensor node is achieved by bisection search algorithm, which has a fast convergence. While the computation resource allocation is derived by line optimization method and convex optimization theory. Finally, to achieve the optimal task offloading, we propose a cloud-edge collaborative computation offloading schemes based on game theory and prove the existence of Nash Equilibrium. The simulation results demonstrate that our proposed algorithm can improve output performance as comparing with the conventional algorithms, and its performance is close to the that of the enumerative algorithm.

Energy Efficiency Maximization for Energy Harvesting Bidirectional Cooperative Sensor Networks with AF Mode

( Siyang Xu ),( Xin Song ),( Lin Xia ),( Zhigang Xie ) 한국인터넷정보학회 2020 KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Syst Vol.14 No.6

This paper investigates the energy efficiency of energy harvesting (EH) bidirectional cooperative sensor networks, in which the considered system model enables the uplink information transmission from the sensor (SN) to access point (AP) and the energy supply for the amplify-and-forward (AF) relay and SN using power-splitting (PS) or time-switching (TS) protocol. Considering the minimum EH activation constraint and quality of service (QoS) requirement, energy efficiency is maximized by jointly optimizing the resource division ratio and transmission power. To cope with the non-convexity of the optimizations, we propose the low complexity iterative algorithm based on fractional programming and alternative search method (FAS). The key idea of the proposed algorithm first transforms the objective function into the parameterized polynomial subtractive form. Then we decompose the optimization into two convex sub-problems, which can be solved by conventional convex programming. Simulation results validate that the proposed schemes have better output performance and the iterative algorithm has a fast convergence rate.

Mechanism of Synergetic Growth of Flexibility and Strength of Biomimetic Nanocomposite Fibre

Xiangyu Duan,Pan Li,Jingyu Ouyang,Zichen Gao,Jiaxin Liu,Jie Wang,Zhigang Xia,Weilin Xu 한국섬유공학회 2022 Fibers and polymers Vol.23 No.3

Nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can combine the stiffness and multi-functionality of carbonnanotubes with the advantages of high toughness and processability of polymers giving rise to properties different from thatof general composites. However, when the content of CNTs increases gradually, the flexibility of the composite fibre canreduce. In this paper, we propose a simple method of softening the composite fibre via dimensional helical deformation offibre inner macromolecule bundles to avoid the deterioration of fibre flexibility. The theoretical simulations were conductedto predict proper helical deformations of the single fibre to increase fibre softness, followed by practical softening of thepolyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF)/CNTs composite by tensional twisting of the single fibres. The fibres with and withouttensional twisting were tested by Fourier-transformed infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray diffractionand mechanical drawing. Results showed the reinforcement of the PVDF/multi-walled CNTs composite fibres (tensilestrength enhanced from 4.71 to 5.19 cN/dtex) with an evident softness reduction (initial modulus increased from 16.8 to20.52 cN/dtex) as the CNTs content increased from 0 to 1.5 wt%. After the tensional twisting, the initial modulus of thecomposite fibre was reduced by 62.5 % while the fibre strength remained reinforced because biomimetic helix formationimproved the internal structure deformation ability of the fibre.

Facile Synthesis of Ag/ZnO Hollow Microspheres with Enhanced Photocatalytic Performance under Simulated Sunlight Irradiation

Lifeng Cui,Qiulin Zhang,Chaochuang Yin,Shifei Kang,Zhigang Ge,Qineng Xia,Yangang Wang,Xi Li 성균관대학교(자연과학캠퍼스) 성균나노과학기술원 2019 NANO Vol.14 No.3

Water pollution caused by intensive use of organic dyes has become an increasingly serious problem recently. Green and efficient processes are desperately needed to remove persistent organic pollutants from waste waters. Herein, Ag nanoparticles loaded ZnO hollow microspheres were synthesized through a simple solvothermal method and used as a photocatalyst for dye degradation. The calculated band gap of Ag/ZnO — 5% (2.97 eV) is much narrower than that of pure ZnO (3.37 eV). The obtained Ag/ZnO samples show a remarkable photocatalytic activity in photodegradation of Rhodamine B (RhB) under simulated sunlight irradiation. The degradation efficiency of RhB for Ag/ZnO — 5% is 98.8% after 100 min irradiation while only 52.8% degradation rate is obtained over pure ZnO. The enhancement is attributed to the exposed active ZnO (001) plane and the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) effect of Ag nanoparticles that promote the separation of photogeneated electrons and holes.

Short-Term Outcomes and Safety of Computed Tomography-Guided Percutaneous Microwave Ablation of Solitary Adrenal Metastasis from Lung Cancer: A Multi-Center Retrospective Study

Min Men,Xin Ye,Weijun Fan,Kaixian Zhang,Jingwang Bi,Xia Yang,Aimin Zheng,Guanghui Huang,Zhigang Wei 대한영상의학회 2016 Korean Journal of Radiology Vol.17 No.6

Objective: To retrospectively evaluate the short-term outcomes and safety of computed tomography (CT)-guided percutaneous microwave ablation (MWA) of solitary adrenal metastasis from lung cancer. Materials and Methods: From May 2010 to April 2014, 31 patients with unilateral adrenal metastasis from lung cancer who were treated with CT-guided percutaneous MWA were enrolled. This study was conducted with approval from local Institutional Review Board. Clinical outcomes and complications of MWA were assessed. Results: Their tumors ranged from 1.5 to 5.4 cm in diameter. After a median follow-up period of 11.1 months, primary efficacy rate was 90.3% (28/31). Local tumor progression was detected in 7 (22.6%) of 31 cases. Their median overall survival time was 12 months. The 1-year overall survival rate was 44.3%. Median local tumor progression-free survival time was 9 months. Local tumor progression-free survival rate was 77.4%. Of 36 MWA sessions, two (5.6%) had major complications (hypertensive crisis). Conclusion: CT-guided percutaneous MWA may be fairly safe and effective for treating solitary adrenal metastasis from lung cancer.