Unraveling the atmospheric oxidation mechanism and kinetics of naphthalene: Insights from theoretical exploration.

Naphthalene, the most abundant polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in the atmosphere, significantly influences OH consumption and secondary organic aerosol (SOA) formation. Naphthoquinone (NQ) is a significant contributor to ring-retaining SOA from naphthalene degradation, impacting the redox properties and toxicity of ambient particles. However, inconsistencies persist regarding concentrations of its isomers, 1,2-NQ and 1,4-NQ.

Theoretical Kinetic Studies on Thermal Decomposition of Glycerol Trinitrate and Trimethylolethane Trinitrate in the Gas and Liquid Phases.

Glycerol trinitrate (NG) and trimethylolethane trinitrate (TMETN), as typical nitrate esters, are important energetic plasticizers in solid propellants. With the aid of high-precision quantum chemical calculations, the Rice-Ramsperger-Kassel-Marcus (RRKM)/master equation theory and the transition state theory have been employed to investigate the decomposition kinetics of NG and TMETN in the gas phase (over the temperature range of 300-1000 K and pressure range of 0.01-100 atm) and liquid phase (using water as the solvent).

Research on Educational Robot System Based on Vision Processing.

Aimed at the poor recognition effect of current educational robots on objects with complex shapes and colors and the single design of related experiments, this paper proposes a robot teaching instrument. The robot adopts a servo motor with an encoder, a drive, and a variety of sensors to realize a motor current loop, speed loop, position loop, and closed-loop control functions. Three experimental schemes were designed: a PID adjustment experiment, a robot obstacle avoidance and object-grasping program writing experiment, and a complex object recognition experiment based on cascade classifiers.

Combined experimental and theoretical study on photoionization cross sections of benzonitrile and o/m/p-cyanotoluene.

Photoionization cross sections (PICSs) for the products of the reaction from CN with toluene, including benzonitrile and o/m/p-cyanotoluene, were obtained at photon energies ranging from ionization thresholds to 14 eV by tunable synchrotron vacuum ultraviolet photoionization mass spectrometry (SVUV-PIMS). Theoretical calculations based on the frozen-core Hartree-Fock approximation and Franck-Condon simulations were carried out to cross-verify the measured PICS. The results show that the photoionization cross sections of benzonitrile and cyanotoluene isomers are similar.

Exploring the OH-initiated reactions of styrene in the atmosphere and the role of van der Waals complex.

Reacting with OH provides a major sink for styrene in the atmosphere, with three possible pathways including OH-addition, H-abstraction and addition-dissociation reactions. However, the total rate coefficients of styrene + OH were measured as 1.2-6.