Four new^(10)Be-^(26)Al isochron burial ages ranging from 4.4 to 2 Ma on ancestral Colorado River deposits in the lower Colorado River corridor(LCRC)help constrain the river’s evolution during the Pliocene and early ...Four new^(10)Be-^(26)Al isochron burial ages ranging from 4.4 to 2 Ma on ancestral Colorado River deposits in the lower Colorado River corridor(LCRC)help constrain the river’s evolution during the Pliocene and early Pleisto-cene.They help fill a gap between previous work that focused on older and younger deposits:Older dated deposits include the 5 Ma Bouse Formation,which records the integration of the Colorado River through a series of preexisting basins to the Gulf of California and the ca.4.5-3.5 Ma Bullhead Alluvium,a 200 to 300 m thick aggregational package that immediately followed integration.The much younger,100-70 ka,Chemehuevi Formation is another major aggrada-tion package mapped throughout the LCRC.The new burial ages on the facies of Santa Fe Railway(4.37±0.71 Ma),boulder conglomerate of Bat Cave Wash(2.12±0.26 and 2.05±0.31 Ma),and the Palo Verde alluvium(3.03±0.26 Ma)partially fill in a 3.5 M.y.gap between the deposition of the Bullhead Alluvium and the Chemeheuvi Formation and document the timescales over which the Colorado River was able to remove the Bullhead aggradational package and initiate newer and smaller aggradational pulses.展开更多
Magnetic refrigeration is a revolutionary, efficient, environmentally friendly cooling technology, which is on the threshold of commercialization. The magnetic rare earth materials are utilized as the magnetic refrige...Magnetic refrigeration is a revolutionary, efficient, environmentally friendly cooling technology, which is on the threshold of commercialization. The magnetic rare earth materials are utilized as the magnetic refrigerants in most cooling devices, and for many cooling application the Nd2Fe14B permanent magnets are employed as the source of the magnetic field. The status of the near room temperature magnetic cooling was reviewed.展开更多
The isothermal section of the Ho-Ni-Si system at 773 K was constructed by X-ray powder diffraction(XRD)in this work.The system contains sixteen known type structure compounds TiNiSi-type HoNiSi,BaAl4-type HoNi2Si2,CeN...The isothermal section of the Ho-Ni-Si system at 773 K was constructed by X-ray powder diffraction(XRD)in this work.The system contains sixteen known type structure compounds TiNiSi-type HoNiSi,BaAl4-type HoNi2Si2,CeNiSi2-type HoNiSi2,U1Co3Si5-type Ho2Ni3Si5,SmNiGe3-type HoNiSi3,Ce3 Ni6Si2-type Ho3Ni6Si2,ThMn12-type HoNi10Si2,YPd2Si-type HoNi2Si,YNi5Si3-type HoNi5Si3,YNi4Si-type HoNi4Si,Gd3NiSi2-type Ho3NiSi2,YNi6Si6-type HoNi6Si6.AlB2-type Ho2NiSi3,AlB2-type Ho3Ni2Si4,AlB2-type Ho4NiSi7,Gd3Ru4Al12-type Ho8Ni31Si11,and one unknown type structure compound Ho5Ni2Si3.At the same time,one unknown structure new phase Ho37Ni3Si60 was observed.In ternary compounds,Ho2NiSi3 and Ho4NiSi7 have the solid solution phenomena;the solid solution ranges are about Ho33.3Ni18.7-9.7Si-48.0-57.0 and Ho33.Ni-8.3-2.6Si-58.3-64.1,respectively.At the same time,quasi-binary solid solutions were detected at 773 K for Ho2Ni17,HoNi5,Ho2Ni7,HoNi3,HoNi2,HoNi,HoSi.Other binary compounds of the Ho-Ni-Si system do not show any visible solubility.The magnetic property studies show that Ho3NiSi2 compound has two successive magnetic phase transitions in a low field:a spinreorientation transition at TSR=10 K and a second order ferromagnetic(FM)-paramagnetic(PM)transition at Tc=37 K.展开更多
Fish oils are important substances in the field of food and drug delivery.Due to their unstable double bonds,fishy taste,and poor water solubility,it is pivotal to investigate novel dosage forms for fish oils,such as ...Fish oils are important substances in the field of food and drug delivery.Due to their unstable double bonds,fishy taste,and poor water solubility,it is pivotal to investigate novel dosage forms for fish oils,such as encapsulated droplets.In this work,we primarily prepared gelatin-stabilized fish oil-loaded traditional emulsions and investigated their emulsion forms,droplets,and storage stability under different preparation and storage conditions.Our results showed that higher gelatin solution pH,higher storage temperature in the range of 4–37℃,and increased storage time induced the emulsion form switch from a liquid form to a redispersible gel form of the fish oil emulsion.The droplets had core-shell microstructures and a trimodal size distribution,which decreases linearly with increasing gelatin solution pH and homogenizing time,but decreases exponentially with increasing homogenizing speed.In addition,storage temperature showed a notably different effect on traditional emulsion storage.This work provides a fundamental knowledge for the formation,microstructure,and properties of gelatin-based traditional emulsions.It also provides a promising new application for fish oil-loaded emulsions in food beverages,soft candy,and other food products.展开更多
Anion exchange membrane(AEM)fuel cells have gained great attention partially due to the advantage of using non-precious metal as catalysts.However,the reaction kinetics of hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR)is two orders...Anion exchange membrane(AEM)fuel cells have gained great attention partially due to the advantage of using non-precious metal as catalysts.However,the reaction kinetics of hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR)is two orders of magnitude slower in alkaline systems than in acid.To understand the slower kinetics of HOR in base,two major theories have been proposed,such as(1)pH dependent hydrogen binding energy as a major descriptor for HOR;and(2)bifunctional theory based on the contributions of both hydrogen and hydroxide adsorption for HOR in alkaline electrolyte.Here,we discuss the possible HOR mechanisms in alkaline electrolytes with the corresponding change in their Tafel behavior.Apart from the traditional Tafel-Volmer and Heyrovsky-Volmer HOR mechanisms,the recently proposed hydroxide adsorption step is also discussed to illustrate the difference in HOR mechanisms in acid and base.We further summarize the representative works of alkaline HOR catalyst design(e.g.,precious metals,alloy,intermetallic materials,Ni-based alloys,carbides,nitrides,etc.),and briefly describe their fundamental HOR reaction mechanism to emphasize the difference in elementary reaction steps in alkaline medium.The strategy of strengthening local interaction that facilitates both H2 desorption and Hads+OHads recombination is finally proposed for future HOR catalyst design in alkaline environment.展开更多
The production of chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass provides opportunities to synthesize chemicals with new functionalities and grow a more sustainable chemical industry. However, new challenges emerge as researc...The production of chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass provides opportunities to synthesize chemicals with new functionalities and grow a more sustainable chemical industry. However, new challenges emerge as research transitions from petrochemistry to biorenewable chemistry. Compared to petrochemisty, the selective conversion of biomass-derived carbohydrates requires most catalytic reactions to take place at low temperatures (< 300 °C) and in the condensed phase to prevent reactants and products from degrading. The stability of heterogeneous catalysts in liquid water above the normal boiling point represents one of the major challenges to overcome. Herein, we review some of the latest advances in the field with an emphasis on the role of carbon materials and carbon nanohybrids in addressing this challenge.展开更多
The isothermal section of the Ho-Fe-In system at 773 K has been constructed by X-ray powder diffraction.One known structure ternary compound Er_(12)Fe_(2) In_(3)-type Ho_(12)Fe_(2) In_(3) has been confirmed.At the sam...The isothermal section of the Ho-Fe-In system at 773 K has been constructed by X-ray powder diffraction.One known structure ternary compound Er_(12)Fe_(2) In_(3)-type Ho_(12)Fe_(2) In_(3) has been confirmed.At the same time,solid solutions are not detected in Ho-Fe-In system at 773 K.The magnetic transition and magnetocaloric effect of Ho_(12)Fe_(2.08)In_(2.92) alloy with Er_(12)Fe_(2) In_(3)-type structure were investigated by magnetic susceptibility and isothermal magnetization measurements.One normal antiferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition and another abnormal one are discovered at 18 and 76 K in ground state,respectively.Owing to a first-order field-induced metamagnetic transition(antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic) at/below the Neel temperature of 18 K),the negative entropy changes are observed at corresponding temperature.There is only a second-order ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition near Curie temperature(TC),the maximum entropy change(Δ_(Smax)) values are-6.14 J·kg^(-1)·K^(-1) at 3 K and 7.88 J·kg^(-1)·K^(-1) at 28 K in a field range of 0-7 T.The reversible relative cooling power corresponding to negative entropy change can reach about 600 J·kg^(-1) in an wide operating temperature region Δ_(Tcycl)=74 K from 16 to90 K,which suggests that Ho_(12)Fe_(2.08)In_(2.92) could be a potential material for magnetic refrigeration in the corresponding temperature range.展开更多
Energy-proportional computing is one of the foremost constraints in the design of next generation exascale systems. These systems must have a very high FLOP-per-watt ratio to be sustainable, which requires tremendous ...Energy-proportional computing is one of the foremost constraints in the design of next generation exascale systems. These systems must have a very high FLOP-per-watt ratio to be sustainable, which requires tremendous improvements in power efficiency for modern computing systems. This paper focuses on the processor—as still the biggest contributor to the power usage—by considering both its core and uncore power subsystems. The uncore describes those processor functions that are not handled by the core, such as L3 cache and on-chip interconnect, and contributes significantly to the total system power. The uncore frequency scaling (UFS) capability has been available to the user since the Intel Haswell processor generation. In this paper, performance and power models are proposed to use both the UFS and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) to reduce the energy consumption in parallel applications. Then, these models are incorporated into a runtime strategy that performs processor frequency scaling during parallel application execution. The strategy can be implemented at the kernel/firmware level, which makes it suitable for improving the energy efficiency of exascale design. Experiments on a 20-core Haswell-EP machine using the quantum chemistry application GAMESS and NAS benchmark resulted in up to 24% energy savings with as little as 2% performance loss.展开更多
The properties of Pbn（n=2―30） clusters including binding energies,second differences in energy,and HOMO-LUMO gaps,especially fragmentation energies and ionization potentials,have been studied by ab initio calculati...The properties of Pbn（n=2―30） clusters including binding energies,second differences in energy,and HOMO-LUMO gaps,especially fragmentation energies and ionization potentials,have been studied by ab initio calculation.The main fragmentation products of Pbn＋ are shown to be Pb＋Pbn-1＋ for n≤14 and two small cluster fragments for larger ones with n14.The Pb13＋ appears frequently as the products in the fragmentations of large clusters.Also,the calculated ionization potentials of the clusters are consistent with the experiment data.展开更多
A new rare-earth magnet recycling process developed by researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) dissolves magnets in an acid-free solution and recovers high purity rare earth elements. For shredded magnet...A new rare-earth magnet recycling process developed by researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) dissolves magnets in an acid-free solution and recovers high purity rare earth elements. For shredded magnet-containing electronic wastes, the process does not require pre-processing such as pre-sorting or demagnetization of the electronic waste.展开更多
文摘Four new^(10)Be-^(26)Al isochron burial ages ranging from 4.4 to 2 Ma on ancestral Colorado River deposits in the lower Colorado River corridor(LCRC)help constrain the river’s evolution during the Pliocene and early Pleisto-cene.They help fill a gap between previous work that focused on older and younger deposits:Older dated deposits include the 5 Ma Bouse Formation,which records the integration of the Colorado River through a series of preexisting basins to the Gulf of California and the ca.4.5-3.5 Ma Bullhead Alluvium,a 200 to 300 m thick aggregational package that immediately followed integration.The much younger,100-70 ka,Chemehuevi Formation is another major aggrada-tion package mapped throughout the LCRC.The new burial ages on the facies of Santa Fe Railway(4.37±0.71 Ma),boulder conglomerate of Bat Cave Wash(2.12±0.26 and 2.05±0.31 Ma),and the Palo Verde alluvium(3.03±0.26 Ma)partially fill in a 3.5 M.y.gap between the deposition of the Bullhead Alluvium and the Chemeheuvi Formation and document the timescales over which the Colorado River was able to remove the Bullhead aggradational package and initiate newer and smaller aggradational pulses.
基金Project supported bythe U.S .Department of Energy ,Office of Basic Energy Sciences , Materials Science and Engineering Division and Astronautics Corporation of America , Milwaukee , Wisconsin
文摘Magnetic refrigeration is a revolutionary, efficient, environmentally friendly cooling technology, which is on the threshold of commercialization. The magnetic rare earth materials are utilized as the magnetic refrigerants in most cooling devices, and for many cooling application the Nd2Fe14B permanent magnets are employed as the source of the magnetic field. The status of the near room temperature magnetic cooling was reviewed.
基金Project supported by the Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province in China(2017JY0181)。
文摘The isothermal section of the Ho-Ni-Si system at 773 K was constructed by X-ray powder diffraction(XRD)in this work.The system contains sixteen known type structure compounds TiNiSi-type HoNiSi,BaAl4-type HoNi2Si2,CeNiSi2-type HoNiSi2,U1Co3Si5-type Ho2Ni3Si5,SmNiGe3-type HoNiSi3,Ce3 Ni6Si2-type Ho3Ni6Si2,ThMn12-type HoNi10Si2,YPd2Si-type HoNi2Si,YNi5Si3-type HoNi5Si3,YNi4Si-type HoNi4Si,Gd3NiSi2-type Ho3NiSi2,YNi6Si6-type HoNi6Si6.AlB2-type Ho2NiSi3,AlB2-type Ho3Ni2Si4,AlB2-type Ho4NiSi7,Gd3Ru4Al12-type Ho8Ni31Si11,and one unknown type structure compound Ho5Ni2Si3.At the same time,one unknown structure new phase Ho37Ni3Si60 was observed.In ternary compounds,Ho2NiSi3 and Ho4NiSi7 have the solid solution phenomena;the solid solution ranges are about Ho33.3Ni18.7-9.7Si-48.0-57.0 and Ho33.Ni-8.3-2.6Si-58.3-64.1,respectively.At the same time,quasi-binary solid solutions were detected at 773 K for Ho2Ni17,HoNi5,Ho2Ni7,HoNi3,HoNi2,HoNi,HoSi.Other binary compounds of the Ho-Ni-Si system do not show any visible solubility.The magnetic property studies show that Ho3NiSi2 compound has two successive magnetic phase transitions in a low field:a spinreorientation transition at TSR=10 K and a second order ferromagnetic(FM)-paramagnetic(PM)transition at Tc=37 K.
基金This research has been supported by research grants from the National Key R&D Program of China(No.2019YFD0902003-2)and Shanghai Municipal Education Commission-Gaoyuan Discipline of Food Science&Technology Grant Support(Shanghai Ocean University).
文摘Fish oils are important substances in the field of food and drug delivery.Due to their unstable double bonds,fishy taste,and poor water solubility,it is pivotal to investigate novel dosage forms for fish oils,such as encapsulated droplets.In this work,we primarily prepared gelatin-stabilized fish oil-loaded traditional emulsions and investigated their emulsion forms,droplets,and storage stability under different preparation and storage conditions.Our results showed that higher gelatin solution pH,higher storage temperature in the range of 4–37℃,and increased storage time induced the emulsion form switch from a liquid form to a redispersible gel form of the fish oil emulsion.The droplets had core-shell microstructures and a trimodal size distribution,which decreases linearly with increasing gelatin solution pH and homogenizing time,but decreases exponentially with increasing homogenizing speed.In addition,storage temperature showed a notably different effect on traditional emulsion storage.This work provides a fundamental knowledge for the formation,microstructure,and properties of gelatin-based traditional emulsions.It also provides a promising new application for fish oil-loaded emulsions in food beverages,soft candy,and other food products.
文摘Anion exchange membrane(AEM)fuel cells have gained great attention partially due to the advantage of using non-precious metal as catalysts.However,the reaction kinetics of hydrogen oxidation reaction(HOR)is two orders of magnitude slower in alkaline systems than in acid.To understand the slower kinetics of HOR in base,two major theories have been proposed,such as(1)pH dependent hydrogen binding energy as a major descriptor for HOR;and(2)bifunctional theory based on the contributions of both hydrogen and hydroxide adsorption for HOR in alkaline electrolyte.Here,we discuss the possible HOR mechanisms in alkaline electrolytes with the corresponding change in their Tafel behavior.Apart from the traditional Tafel-Volmer and Heyrovsky-Volmer HOR mechanisms,the recently proposed hydroxide adsorption step is also discussed to illustrate the difference in HOR mechanisms in acid and base.We further summarize the representative works of alkaline HOR catalyst design(e.g.,precious metals,alloy,intermetallic materials,Ni-based alloys,carbides,nitrides,etc.),and briefly describe their fundamental HOR reaction mechanism to emphasize the difference in elementary reaction steps in alkaline medium.The strategy of strengthening local interaction that facilitates both H2 desorption and Hads+OHads recombination is finally proposed for future HOR catalyst design in alkaline environment.
基金supported by the National Science Foundation under NSF Grant Number EEC-0813570the Iowa Energy Center under IEC Grant Number 13-01supported by the U.S. Department of Energy-Laboratory Royalty Revenue through Contract No. DE-AC02-07CH11358.
文摘The production of chemicals from lignocellulosic biomass provides opportunities to synthesize chemicals with new functionalities and grow a more sustainable chemical industry. However, new challenges emerge as research transitions from petrochemistry to biorenewable chemistry. Compared to petrochemisty, the selective conversion of biomass-derived carbohydrates requires most catalytic reactions to take place at low temperatures (< 300 °C) and in the condensed phase to prevent reactants and products from degrading. The stability of heterogeneous catalysts in liquid water above the normal boiling point represents one of the major challenges to overcome. Herein, we review some of the latest advances in the field with an emphasis on the role of carbon materials and carbon nanohybrids in addressing this challenge.
基金financially supported by the Department of Science and Technology of Sichuan Province in China(No.2017JY0181)。
文摘The isothermal section of the Ho-Fe-In system at 773 K has been constructed by X-ray powder diffraction.One known structure ternary compound Er_(12)Fe_(2) In_(3)-type Ho_(12)Fe_(2) In_(3) has been confirmed.At the same time,solid solutions are not detected in Ho-Fe-In system at 773 K.The magnetic transition and magnetocaloric effect of Ho_(12)Fe_(2.08)In_(2.92) alloy with Er_(12)Fe_(2) In_(3)-type structure were investigated by magnetic susceptibility and isothermal magnetization measurements.One normal antiferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition and another abnormal one are discovered at 18 and 76 K in ground state,respectively.Owing to a first-order field-induced metamagnetic transition(antiferromagnetic-ferromagnetic) at/below the Neel temperature of 18 K),the negative entropy changes are observed at corresponding temperature.There is only a second-order ferromagnetic-paramagnetic transition near Curie temperature(TC),the maximum entropy change(Δ_(Smax)) values are-6.14 J·kg^(-1)·K^(-1) at 3 K and 7.88 J·kg^(-1)·K^(-1) at 28 K in a field range of 0-7 T.The reversible relative cooling power corresponding to negative entropy change can reach about 600 J·kg^(-1) in an wide operating temperature region Δ_(Tcycl)=74 K from 16 to90 K,which suggests that Ho_(12)Fe_(2.08)In_(2.92) could be a potential material for magnetic refrigeration in the corresponding temperature range.
文摘Energy-proportional computing is one of the foremost constraints in the design of next generation exascale systems. These systems must have a very high FLOP-per-watt ratio to be sustainable, which requires tremendous improvements in power efficiency for modern computing systems. This paper focuses on the processor—as still the biggest contributor to the power usage—by considering both its core and uncore power subsystems. The uncore describes those processor functions that are not handled by the core, such as L3 cache and on-chip interconnect, and contributes significantly to the total system power. The uncore frequency scaling (UFS) capability has been available to the user since the Intel Haswell processor generation. In this paper, performance and power models are proposed to use both the UFS and dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) to reduce the energy consumption in parallel applications. Then, these models are incorporated into a runtime strategy that performs processor frequency scaling during parallel application execution. The strategy can be implemented at the kernel/firmware level, which makes it suitable for improving the energy efficiency of exascale design. Experiments on a 20-core Haswell-EP machine using the quantum chemistry application GAMESS and NAS benchmark resulted in up to 24% energy savings with as little as 2% performance loss.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.20773047 and 21043001)
文摘The properties of Pbn（n=2―30） clusters including binding energies,second differences in energy,and HOMO-LUMO gaps,especially fragmentation energies and ionization potentials,have been studied by ab initio calculation.The main fragmentation products of Pbn＋ are shown to be Pb＋Pbn-1＋ for n≤14 and two small cluster fragments for larger ones with n14.The Pb13＋ appears frequently as the products in the fragmentations of large clusters.Also,the calculated ionization potentials of the clusters are consistent with the experiment data.
文摘A new rare-earth magnet recycling process developed by researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI) dissolves magnets in an acid-free solution and recovers high purity rare earth elements. For shredded magnet-containing electronic wastes, the process does not require pre-processing such as pre-sorting or demagnetization of the electronic waste.
