Nanjing University of Science and Technology

About: Nanjing University of Science and Technology is a education organization based out in Nanjing, China. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Catalysis & Computer science. The organization has 31581 authors who have published 36390 publications receiving 525474 citations. The organization is also known as: Nánjīng Lǐgōng Dàxué & Nánlǐgōng.

Acid and alkaline dual stimuli-responsive mechanized hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles as smart nanocontainers for intelligent anticorrosion coatings.

Abstract: The present paper introduces an intelligent anticorrosion coating, based on the mechanized hollow mesoporous silica nanoparticles (HMSs) as smart nanocontainers implanted into the self-assembled nanophase particles (SNAP) coating. As the key component, smart nanocontainers assembled by installing supramolecular nanovalves in the form of the bistable pseudorotaxanes on the external surface of HMSs realize pH-responsive controlled release for corrosion inhibitor, caffeine molecules. The smart nanocontainers encapsulate caffeine molecules at neutral pH, and release the molecules either under acidic or alkaline conditions, which make them spontaneously experience the pH excursions arisen from corrosion process and respond quickly. The intelligent anticorrosion coating was deposited on the surface of aluminum alloy AA2024 and investigated by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and scanning vibrating electrode technique (SVET). Compared with the pure SNAP coating, the well-dispersed smart nanocontainers not ...

Particle swarm optimization with adaptive population size and its application

Abstract: A particle swarm optimization (PSO) that uses an adaptive variable population size and periodic partial increasing or declining individuals in the form of ladder function is proposed in the paper. The aim is to enhance the overall performance of PSO. The proposed scheme adjusts the population size automatically according to the value of diversity of the population in ultimate time of current ladder. The processing of adding and declining the number of population is designed. The validity of the given algorithm is tested for a variety of benchmark problems and neural network training problems. The results of the proposed scheme are compared with the linearly decreasing inertia weight PSO (LDWPSO) and mutation PSO (MPSO), from which it is evident that the proposed scheme enhances the overall performance of PSO.

A molecular modeling approach to identify effective antiviral phytochemicals against the main protease of SARS-CoV-2.

Abstract: The main protease of SARS-CoV-2 is one of the important targets to design and develop antiviral drugs. In this study, we have selected 40 antiviral phytochemicals to find out the best candidates wh...

Hydrogenation of nitrophenols catalyzed by carbon black-supported nickel nanoparticles under mild conditions

Abstract: A carbon black (CB) supported nano-Ni catalyst is prepared by a facile method using nickel chloride as the nickel source and hydrazine hydrate as the reducing agent. TEM observation shows that Ni nanoparticles have a good dispersion with a narrow size distribution on the surface of carbon black. The catalyst exhibits significantly high catalytic activity for hydrogenation of nitrophenols even at 30 °C. The high performance obtained here can be attributed to the specific characteristics of the nanostructure of the catalyst and the synergistic effect of nano-Ni and carbon black, including plenty of oxygen-containing groups of carbon black for anchoring Ni atoms, strong adsorption ability for organic molecules and good conductivity for electron transfer from the carbon black to Ni nanoparticles. Moreover, the Ni-based catalyst is relatively cheap and magnetically separable, thus achieving a low-cost hydrogenation of nitrophenols to aminophenols.