Fabrication of Robust Superhydrophobic Te@C-TiO2 Nanocomposites Coating for Application in Oil/Water Separation

Tao Wang,Aili Yan,Longgang Zhong,Sheng Wang 성균관대학교(자연과학캠퍼스) 성균나노과학기술원 2017 NANO Vol.12 No.10

The main issue limiting the widespread application of superhydrophobic coatings is their low surface robustness, which is closely related to surface roughness on the micro- or nanoscale, and is mechanically weak and easily gets abraded. This work uses Te nanowires as templates to support a carbon layer substrate for the growth of titanium dioxide nanoparticles; this forms hierarchical structures (Te@C-TiO2 nanocomposites). Modification with 1H, 1H, 2H, 2H - perfluoroalkyltriethoxysilane created a free-standing superhydrophobic coating. The optimal preparation conditions for the coating were identified after a systematic investigation of the reaction time of the carbon precursor and concentration of TiOSO4. The best anti-wetting performance was attained with 200 nm diameter Te@C and 15mL concentration of TiOSO4. Furthermore, due to their free-standing performance, the nanocomposites were easily loaded onto a polyester fabric to generate a robust superhydrophobic fabric. This fabric shows excellent mechanical durability and strong resistance to knife scratching, sandpaper abrasion, washing, as well as exposure to acid and alkali solutions. Moreover, the robust fabric is able to separate oil/water mixtures with high separation efficiency.

Effect of Mechanical Alloying and Sintering Behavior on the Microstructure and Properties of NbMoTaWRe Refractory High Entropy Alloy

Tao Gu,Li‑Min Wang,Qiang Hu,Xiu‑Bing Liang,Dong‑Xing Fu,Yong‑Xiong Chen,Xin‑Ming Zhao,Yan‑Wei Sheng 대한금속·재료학회 2022 METALS AND MATERIALS International Vol.28 No.11

An equiatomic refractory high-entropy alloy (RHEA) NbMoTaWRe is prepared by mechanical alloying (MA) and sparkplasma sintering (SPS). The effects of mechanical alloying and sintering behaviors on the microstructure and propertiesof the RHEA are investigated. After ball-milling for 30 h, the metastable and supersaturated MA powders with the bodycenteredcubic (BCC) structure are obtained. Then, the MA powders are sintered using the SPS method under the sinteringtemperature range of 1700–1900 °C, and the C atoms and WC introduced by the MA process reacts with the metastable andsupersaturated Ta/Nb phase of the MA powers to form the face-centered cubic (FCC) structure (Nb, Ta)C particles alongthe BCC matrix boundaries during the SPS process. The NbMoTaWRe alloy sintered at 1800 °C consisted of BCC matrixand FCC-type (Nb, Ta)C particles has high compactness (porosity fraction is 0.32%), fracture strength (2630 MPa), plasticstrain (6.82%), and hardness (992 ± 20 HV). These excellent properties of this RHEA are mainly attributed to the combinationof multi-effects, including sintering densification, grain refinement strengthening from the refined sizes (3.80 μm) BCCmatrix, precipitation strengthening from the (Nb, Ta)C particles, solid solution strengthening from multi-principal elementsand interstitial solid solution strengthening from C atoms dissolving into BCC matrix.

Tunable Bandgap of Monolayer Black Phosphorus by Using Vertical Electric Field: a DFT Study

Tao Wang,Yan Liu,Qing Guo,Bin Zhang,Kuang Sheng,Can Li,You Yin 한국물리학회 2015 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.66 No.6

Using a ab initio plane-wave ultrasoft pseudopotential method based on the generalized gradientapproximation (GGA), we investigate the bandgap tuning in monolayer black phosphorus byapplying external electric fields perpendicular to the layers. The bandgap continuously decreaseswith increasing applied electric fields, eventually rendering them metallic. We use the giant Starkeffect, which is essentially characterized by an interlayer spacing to explain the rate of change ofthe bandgap with the applied external field. The atomic distance and charges also contribute to thesemiconductor-to-metal transition. Our investigations show the bandgap change for the fabricationof novel electronic and photonic devices.

Effect of Supplements Mn2+, Cu2+, and Aromatic Compounds and Penicillium decumbens on Lignocellulosic Enzyme Activity and Productivity of Catathelasma ventricosum

( Yun Tao Liu ),( Jun Sun ),( Zeyu Luo ),( Sheng Qi Rao ),( Yu Jie Su ),( Yan Jun Yang ) 한국미생물 · 생명공학회 2013 Journal of microbiology and biotechnology Vol.23 No.4

This is the first report on using Catathelasma ventricosum for production of fruiting body and lignocellulosic enzymes. To improve the laccase activity and productivity of mushroom, the substrate was added with different supplements (eight aromatic compounds, Mn2+, and Cu2+). Based on the results, all these supplements can improve the laccase activity and productivity of C. ventricosum, and it seems that there is a critical value of laccase activity that affects the productivity of C. ventricosum. In addition, when Penicillium decumbens was inoculated into the substrate that had been cultivated with C. ventricosum for 20 days, the highest values of laccase activity, FPA activity, and productivity of C. ventricosum were obtained. Moreover, the laccase activity showed a positive correlation with the productivity of C. ventricosum. Finally, the effect of Mn2+, Cu2+, and P. decumbens on laccase activity was investigated by response surface methodology (RSM).

A phase II trial of cytoreductive surgery combined with niraparib maintenance in platinum-sensitive, secondary recurrent ovarian cancer: SGOG SOC-3 study

Ting-Yan Shi,Sheng Yin,Jianqing Zhu,Ping Zhang,Jihong Liu,Libing Xiang,Yaping Zhu,Sufang Wu,Xiaojun Chen,Xipeng Wang,Yin-Cheng Teng,Tao Zhu,Aijun Yu,Yingli Zhang,Yanling Feng,He Huang,Wei Bao,Yanli Li 대한부인종양학회 2020 Journal of Gynecologic Oncology Vol.31 No.3

Background: In China, secondary cytoreductive surgery (SCR) has been widely used in ovarian cancer (OC) over the past two decades. Although Gynecologic Oncology Group-0213 trial did not show its overall survival benefit in first relapsed patients, the questions on patient selection and effect of subsequent targeting therapy are still open. The preliminary data from our pre-SOC1 phase II study showed that selected patients with second relapse who never received SCR at recurrence may still benefit from surgery. Moreover, poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase inhibitors (PARPi) maintenance now has been a standard care for platinum sensitive relapsed OC. To our knowledge, no published or ongoing trial is trying to answer the question if patient can benefit from a potentially complete resection combined with PARPi maintenance in OC patients with secondary recurrence. Methods: SOC-3 is a multi-center, open, randomized, controlled, phase II trial of SCR followed by chemotherapy and niraparib maintenance vs chemotherapy and niraparib maintenance in patients with platinum-sensitive second relapsed OC who never received SCR at recurrence. To guarantee surgical quality, if the sites had no experience of participating in any OC-related surgical trials, the number of recurrent lesions evaluated by central-reviewed positron emission tomography–computed tomography image shouldn't be more than 3. Eligible patients are randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either SCR followed by 6 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy and niraparib maintenance or 6 cycles of platinum-based chemotherapy and niraparib maintenance alone. Patients who undergo at least 4 cycles of chemotherapy and must be, in the opinion of the investigator, without disease progression, will be assigned niraparib maintenance. Major inclusion criteria are secondary relapsed OC with a platinum-free interval of no less than 6 months and a possibly complete resection. Major exclusion criteria are borderline tumors and non-epithelial ovarian malignancies, received debulking surgery at recurrence and impossible to complete resection. The sample size is 96 patients. Primary endpoint is 12-month non-progression rate. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT03983226

A Method for Building Naxi Language Dependency Treebank Based on Chinese-Naxi Language Relationship Alignment

Gao Sheng-Xiang,An Ming-Jia,Mao Cun-Li,Xian Yan-Tuan,Yu Zheng-Tao 보안공학연구지원센터 2015 International Journal of Database Theory and Appli Vol.8 No.2

Relative to Chinese, as to Naxi Language, its corpus is very rare, its annotation is also difficult, and these factors make its Syntactic Analysis much too difficult. Aiming to the problem, in the paper, it is proposed a method for building Naxi Language Dependency Treebank based on Chinese-Naxi Language relationship alignment. Firstly, the corresponding words of Chinese-Naxi sentence pairs are aligned; then, the dependency grammar on Chinese sentences; Finally, some characteristics and rules of Naxi Language in itself being considered, the generated Chinese Dependency Tree is mapped to Naxi Sentence by using Chinese-Naxi Languages relationship alignment, as a result, Naxi Dependency Parsing Tree is generated. Experimental results show that: This approach can simplify the process of manual collection and annotation of Naxi Treebank, and save manpower and time to build the dependency treebank of Naxi Language.

The complete mitochondrial genome of the Common Red Apollo, Parnassius epaphus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Parnassiinae)

Yun-liangWang,Yan-hong Chen,Chen-chen Xia,Xue-qin Xia,Rui-song Tao,Jia-sheng Hao 한국응용곤충학회 2015 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.18 No.2

The complete mitochondrial genome of Parnassius epaphus (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae: Parnassiinae) was 15, 458 bp in length, harboring typical 13 protein-coding genes (PCGs), 22 transferRNA genes (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs) and a non-coding control region (AT-rich region), with an 81.4% A + T content. The gene orientation and arrangement are the same as those of other sequenced lepidopterans. All PCGs startwith the typical ATN codon, with the exception of the COI gene that utilizes CGA as its initial codon. In addition, all PCGs terminate at the common stop codon TAA or TAG, except for the COII genewhich uses single T as its stop codon. All tRNAs possess the typical clover-leaf structure, except for tRNAser(AGN), inwhich the dihydrouridine (DHU) arm forms a simple loop. The predicted lrRNA and srRNA secondary structures harbor six domainswith 49 helices and three domains with 33 helices, respectively. In total, P. epaphus mitogenome harbors 12 intergenic spacers. The 122 bp longest one located between tRNAser(AGN) and tRNAGlu is characterized by the multiple duplications of TTTTTCTTTTT and TTTATCTATTTCTTTmotifs, and this sequence is the largest intergenic spacer among all butterflies detected to date. The 496 bp AT-rich region is located between srRNA and tRNAMet, containing some conserved structural characteristic of lepidopterans, such as the motif ATAGA followed by an 18-bp poly-T stretch, a microsatellite-like (AT)9 element preceded by the ATTTA motif. Moreover, two tRNA-like sequences (tRNATrp-like, tRNALeu(UUR)-like) and two sequence stretches potential to form stem-loop structures are also found in the AT-rich region.

The Effect of h-BN Buffer Layers in Bilayer Graphene on Co (111)

Can Li,Yan Liu,Bin Zhang,Tao Wang,Qing Guo,Kuang Sheng,You Yin 한국물리학회 2015 THE JOURNAL OF THE KOREAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY Vol.66 No.10

Understanding of the interface of Co/graphene is essential for applications of graphene-based devices, as well as in the process of graphene synthesis. In this paper, the Co/graphene interface, including five structures of bilayer graphene (BLG) on Co (111) surface with bilayer or monolayer BN buffer sheets, is investigated by using density functional theory calculations. The corresponding atomic and electronic structures and Mulliken charge populations are also analyzed. The bilayer BN sheets are found to be the thinnest insulator for the backside Co metal gate, which shields BLG from Co substrate pining, decreases the charges influenced by the substrate, and improves BLG transport mobility.

Scaled Consensus of Disturbed Multi-agent Systems with Output Saturation

Heng Lei,Tao Han,Xi-Sheng Zhan,Jie Wu,Huaicheng Yan 제어·로봇·시스템학회 2022 International Journal of Control, Automation, and Vol.20 No.10

This paper studies the problem of scaled consensus with output saturation under exogenous disturbances, that is, under exogenous disturbances the state of the agent reaches an assigned proportion, rather than a common value. The main contribution of this work is to propose a new nonlinear protocol, which attenuates the exogenous disturbances by designing a disturbance observer, so that the states of all agents will be proportional to each other. In addition, with the help of integral Lyapunov function, a sufficient condition for the multi-agent system to achieve the scaled consensus with output saturation under exogenous disturbances is obtained under the directed strong connection graph. Finally, a simulation example is given to verify the validity of the results of this work.

Study on Crystallization Kinetics of Dynamically-Vulcanized PP/EPDM Blends

Bin Yang,Yan-Li Deng,Xia Ru,Ji-Bin Miao,Ming Cao,Jia-Sheng Qian,Li-Fen Su,Peng Chen,Jing-Wang Liu,La-Xia Wu,Tao Pang 한국고분자학회 2016 폴리머 Vol.40 No.4

Two types of β nucleating agents (β-NAs), aryl dicarboxylic acid amide (TMB-5) and diphenyl phthalate diamine (NT-C), were adopted to modify the polypropylene (PP)/ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) blends, which were prepared by dynamic-vulcanization technology. Wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were used to study the crystallization kinetics of PP. Our results showed that the addition of β-NAs can considerably increase the crystallization temperature, and significantly decrease the spherulite size of β-PP (L300). The Jeziorny analysis showed there were ~82% and ~89% of relative crystallinity generated from the primary crystallization in the composites containing TMB-5 and NT-C, respectively. The crystallization half time (t0.5) showed that NT-C improved the overall crystallization rate more effectively than TMB-5. In addition, the peaks of the relative crystallization rate curves were shifted towards higher temperature by 14 and 9℃ with the addition of TMB-5 and NT-C, respectively.