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I'm a 32 year old man I'm a truck driver working full-time. I'm very easy going kind hearted friendly person I'm clean and tidy. And i always help out with things. I'm more of a stay at home kinda guy having a few drinks and a bbq dinner.
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Cooperative, friendly, funny etc USQ grad, working as RN with QLD Health. 4+ yrs in Toowoomba.
Near New 2 year old unit fully set up with dishwasher and aircon other luxurys
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ROOM FOR RENT AT A FULLY FURNISHED SELF CONTAINED UNIT located within minutes walk to the University of Southern Queensland, Japanese Garden, Uni Plaza & Westridge Shopping Centre. Ideal for students. - with private ensuite for each room - all rooms with phone & t.v. outlet - unit with washing machine and dryer - private courtyard and bbq area - free access to swimming pool Please contact me ASAP. Thanks.
One bedroom furnished with private ensuite & toilet. Shared kitchen & lounge room, and swimming pool.
Probationary period of 1 month The room is available from the 1st of July and comes with a single bed. As we work relatively long hours, we ask that the house be quiet after 9:30pm. If you wish to watch movies, listen to music, etc. after 9:30pm, you can do so in your room. There will be a cleaning roster for the entire house. There is a washing machine and dishwasher for communal use. Cleaning up after yourself (especially in the kitchen) is vital. Limited visitation allowed including limited visitor numbers (no parties, etc.). No visitors after 9:30pm.
AVAILABLE!! IDEAL FOR USQ STUDENTS 1 BEDROOM STUDIO ENSUITED ROOM with own private entrance and car space in driveway! Kitchenette (microwave, tea/coffee facilites) with a spacious modern ensuite with inbuilt washing machine.. Room features a very comfortable new single / twin bed Large wall mounted Flat screen TV Room would be ideal for single or twin accomodation for international USQ across from japanese gardens (5min walk to usq) As this is currently in process of being built some design features may change slightly but will contain all features as stated!
Walking distance to USQ, 5 minutes walk to USQ One fully furnished Ensuited bedroom furnished with private bathroom & toilet. $130 per week for single or $170 per week for couple all inclusive( internet, electricity and water). This is a well kept home with 2 bedrooms 2 bathrooms, so only 3 to 4 people live in this home. Available from now, Don't hesitate to contact me. Hank
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I worked at John Hancock full-time (More than 5 years)
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The model Sitop PSU400M in the Sitop modular product range transforms high DC voltages in the especially wide input range from 200 to 900 volts extremely efficiently into a regulated 24 volt DC voltage. Sitop PSU400M is suitable for drive applications ranging from conventional plant automation through machine tools and textile machines up to wind turbines.
The power supply range from Siemens Industry Automation Division is being expanded with a DC converter that efficiently transforms voltages in the range of 200 V to 900 V into 24 V. Sitop PSU400M is suitable both for connection to the DC link circuit of drive systems and for connection to battery networks.
The output voltage can be set using a potentiometer to between 24 V and 28.8 V. At 24 V, the converter supplies a rated current of 20 A which, if required, can supply an additional 50 percent extra power over a period of five seconds. This 30 A current enables loads with high starting currents, such as capacitive loads, to be connected without any problems. The new device has a signalling contact for "24 V OK."
PSU 400M is, like all variants of the Sitop product series, designed for mounting on standard rails. The DC/DC converter is 90 mm wide and can be used at temperatures from minus 25 to plus 70 degrees Celsius. The rugged device in a metal enclosure is designed to withstand high levels of vibration and shock, so it can be mounted close to or directly in the machine. It is also characterized by a high level of electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) which is a particular requirement in the DC link circuits of drives. PSU400M offers special advantages when used with stored energy features based on capacitor technology. The wide input voltage range of 700 V means that, in comparison to conventional DC/DC converters, it is able to extract a larger amount of energy from capacitors. With DC voltage sources that are built up from several capacitors, PSU400M can extract the same amount of useful energy from fewer capacitors.
The new power supply from Siemens is suitable for a broad range of different applications. PSU400M can be used with frequency converters, for example, to provide an efficient, low-cost power failure concept in which the energy saved in the DC link of the converter is used for the 24 V supply required to coast down the machine in a safe and controlled manner.
The output voltage of 24 V can be maintained longer using the converter when a high level of kinetic energy of the drives is available for electrical feedback into the DC link. This is the case in machines with large rotating masses or rapidly rotating spindles. In machine tools, the energy can be used to separate the tool from the workpiece in a controlled path for the purposes of emergency retraction. This prevents a tool break or rejected workpieces, and lowers the risk of injury to operating personnel. Further application areas include textile machines in which a controlled spindle stop can prevent faulty lengths of material and thread breakage; and printing and paper machines in which paper webs must be prevented from tearing in the event of a power failure.
An example for use of the shock and vibration proof DC/DC converter with batteries is in controlling the blade angles of wind turbines. For safety reasons, the energy for supplying this so-called pitch controller is supplied independently of the public grid.
The Siemens Industry Sector (Erlangen, Germany) is the worldwide leading supplier of environmentally friendly production, transportation, building and lighting technologies. With integrated automation technologies and comprehensive industry-specific solutions, Siemens increases the productivity, efficiency and flexibility of its customers in the fields of industry and infrastructure. The Sector consists of six divisions: Building Technologies, Drive Technologies, Industry Automation, Industry Solutions, Mobility and Osram. With around 204,000 employees worldwide (September 30), Siemens Industry achieved in fiscal year 2010 total sales of approximately €34.9 billion. http://www.siemens.com/industryThe Siemens Industry Automation Division (Nuremberg, Germany) is a worldwide leader in the fields of automation systems, industrial controls and industrial software. Its portfolio ranges from standard products for the manufacturing and process industries to solutions for whole industrial sectors that encompass the automation of entire automobile production facilities and chemical plants. As a leading software supplier, Industry Automation optimizes the entire value added chain of manufacturers – from product design and development to production, sales and a wide range of maintenance services. With around 33,000 employees worldwide (September 30), Siemens Industry Automation achieved sales of €6.2 billion in fiscal year 2010. http://www.siemens.com/industryautomation
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Nanocomposite hydrogels (NC gels) are considered to belong to the class of high strength hydrogels. Graphene oxide (GO), owing to its amphiphilic, mechanical, and optical properties, is widely used as a filler incorporated into different hosting materials (elastomers, plastics, and hydrogels) to improve their mechanical properties. In this work, we used in situ free radical polymerization to synthesize polyacrylamide (PAAm)/GO hybrid NC gels in the presence of GO nanosheets and a very small amount of chemical cross-linkers (N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide, MBA < 0.1 mol%). By optimizing GO and MBA concentrations, the resulting PAAm/GO gels can achieve an elastic modulus of 66 kPa, a fracture stress of 0.27 MPa, a fracture strain of 13.76 mm mm−1, deformed energy of 2.52 MJ m−3, and tearing energy of 964 J m−2. Due to the presence of physical interactions between PAAm and GO nanosheets, PAAm/GO gels demonstrate λ-dependent energy dissipation and Mullins self-recovery behaviors. The gels can rapidly recover their stiffness and toughness by 76% and 60%, respectively, after 30 min of resting at room temperature. The possible toughening mechanisms and Mullins effects of PAAm/GO gels were proposed and compared with those of filler rubbers and other high strength hydrogels. This work provides new viewpoints to develop tough hydrogels by the introduction of GO into other hydrogels with a good mechanical balance between strong chemical bonding and reversible physical bonding.
Among these tough hydrogels, the incorporation of different nanocomposites into the polymer networks of hydrogels (i.e. nanocomposite hydrogels or NC gels) is another fast-growing area of research, because nanocomposites have the advantages of chemical and structural-rich variations, easy synthesis and accessibility, high stability, large surface areas, and super electronic/thermal/mechanical properties.22 Specifically, graphene oxide (GO) is a well-known two-dimensional water-soluble nanomaterial consisting of a large number of hydrophilic oxygenated groups (e.g. hydroxyl, epoxide and carboxyl groups).23–27 Owing to a large number of hydrophilic groups in GO, GO can be easily exfoliated into monolayer nanosheets and stably dispersed in aqueous solution. Meanwhile, GO, due to its high stiffness, is considered as one of the best fillers to improve the mechanical properties of hydrogels. The introduction of stiff and hydrophilic GO as the hard phase into the hydrogels is expected to increase physical interactions between polymer chains and GO, which in turn bear larger stress and dissipate more energy and result in the improved mechanical properties of GO-based hydrogels.
A number of tough GO-based hydrogels have been developed. Ye et al. prepared GO-chemically cross-linked polyacrylamide (PAAm) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAAc) hydrogels. They found that both PAAm/GO and PAAc/GO gels exhibited better mechanical properties than pure polymer hydrogels.28,29 The fracture stress (σf) of PAAm/GO and PAAc/GO gels reached 32 kPa and 25 kPa, respectively, which was much better than that of pure PAAm and PAAc gels (<5 kPa). Yu et al. reported that GO can also be physically cross-linked with PAAm to form physical PAAm/GO gels,30 which exhibit excellent mechanical properties (σf of 385 kPa and εf of 3435%, εf present a fracture strain). Wang et al. used the peroxidized GO (GPO) as a polyfunctional initiating and cross-linking center to fabricate PAAm/GPO hydrogels.31 The PAAm/GPO gels showed high tensile strength (0.2–1.2 MPa) and strains (2000–5300%), as well as excellent self-healing properties at room temperature.32 Cong et al. fabricated a series of GO-based dual network hydrogels, consisting of a Ca2+ cross-linked GO network and a chemically-cross-linked PAAm network or a physically-cross-linked poly(N-acryloyl-6-aminocaproic acid) (PAACA) network, both of which possessed high tensile strength (60–500 kPa) and large elongation (200–1200%).33,34 Particularly, physical PAACA/GO gels also exhibited visual self-healing properties, but no tensile tests were reported on the self-healed gels.34 Shi et al. synthesized poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)/GO (PNIPAM/GO) NC gels, which showed a high strength of 700 kPa and a high extensibility of 3800%.35
All these GO-based hydrogels demonstrate that the incorporation of graphene sheets as nanoscale fillers enables enhancement of the interactions between polymer chains and GO sheets and consequently, improvement of the mechanical properties of host polymer hydrogels. On the other hand, the enhanced mechanical properties are still limited by the type and extent of cross-linkers. In general, physical crosslinks between GO sheets and polymer chains are not strong enough to largely improve the tensile strength of GO-based hydrogels, usually resulting in less than 80% mechanical improvement.31 On the other hand, the presence of excess chemical cross-linkers (>0.1 mol% of monomer) causes large stress concentrated on the shortest chains due to network heterogeneity, as evidenced by the fact that the fracture strains of PAAm/GO and PAAc/GO nanocomposite gels were all less than 700%.28,29 Thus, optimizing the combination of chemical and physical crosslinks is critical for developing tough GO-based hydrogels.36,37 Meanwhile, due to the similar network structure between polymer/GO nanocomposite gels and carbon black (CB) filled rubbers, it is expected that polymer/GO nanocomposite gels should show some behaviors of large hysteresis, mechanical recovery, and Mullins effects similar to that of CB filled rubbers. However, few studies, if any, have been reported that investigate the energy dissipation, Mullins effect and self-recovery mechanisms of GO-based NC hydrogels.
Herein, we present the formation of mechanically strong and tough hybrid PAAm/GO nanocomposite hydrogels using in situ free radical polymerization of AAm in the presence of GO nanosheets and chemical cross-linkers of N,N′-methylenebisacrylamide (MBA). The PAAm/GO hydrogels consist of a chemically cross-linked PAAm network and a physically cross-linked PAAm-GO network, where GO nanosheets are well dispersed in the PAAm network. We demonstrate that the incorporation and combination of both chemical and physical cross-linkers can effectively enhance the mechanical properties of PAAm/GO hydrogels. Under optimal conditions, PAAm/GO hybrid NC gels exhibited an elastic modulus of 66 kPa, fracture stress of 0.27 MPa, fracture strain of 13.76 mm mm−1, deformation energy of 2.52 MJ m−3, and tearing energy of 964 J m−2, similar to that of cartilage (102–103 J m−2), rubbers (102–103 J m−2) and double network hydrogels (102–104 J m−2). We further performed a series of tensile, cyclic loading-unloading, tearing tests and recovery experiments to better understand the toughening mechanisms of PAAm/GO hydrogels. It was found that when tuning MBA concentrations of <0.1 mol%, the elastic modulus and tearing energy of PAAm/GO gels increased as GO concentrations, indicating that PAAm/GO gels increase their stiffness and toughness simultaneously. More interestingly, PAAm/GO gels displayed λ-dependent energy dissipation behaviors, i.e. at λ ≤ 2, PAAm/GO gels showed excellent elasticity, but no hysteresis loop during loading–unloading cycles, while at λ > 2, the gels displayed large hysteresis to dissipate energy. The elastic modulus of PAAm/GO gels decreased at the maximum extension ratios, clearly indicating a typical "Mullins effect", which was also found in CB-filled rubbers. However, different from CB-filled rubbers, PAAm/GO gels can recover 76% stiffness and 62% toughness after 30 min resting at room temperature. This work not only adds a new gel system (i.e. PAAm/GO hydrogel) to the GO-based hydrogel family, but also offers a better understanding of the structure–property relationship of GO-based gels, which would help to design new tough nanocomposite hydrogels.
For hysteresis measurement, gel specimens were firstly stretched to a maximum extension ratio λmax of 3 and then unloaded. The dissipated energy (Uhys) was estimated from the area between the loading–unloading curves. For successive cyclic loading measurements, the gel specimen was firstly stretched to a maximum extension ratio λ1 and then unloaded at 100 mm min−1. The same gel specimen was reloaded and stretched to an increased extension ratio λ2 as the first loading cycle again. The loading–unloading cycles were repeatedly conducted on the same specimen with increased λ3, λ4, …, λn until the specimen fractured. λmax represents the extension ratio where the specimen deformed. The elastic modulus (E) at each λmax was estimated in the linear range from the loading curve. The dissipated energy (ΔUhys_n) during each loading cycle is calculated from the area between the nth loading–unloading curves. The total dissipated energy (Uhys_n) from the first loading to the nth loading is the sum of ΔUhys_i:
The work required to break the gel specimen at λn, Wn, is calculated by
For self-recovery tests, the gel specimens were firstly stretched to a maximum extension ratio λmax of 5 and then unloaded at 100 mm min−1. Then, after resting for various times (0 to 30 min) at room temperature, the same loading and unloading were performed again. The recovery rate (%) is defined as the ratio of dissipated energy (ΔUhys_t) or elastic modulus (Et) at various recovery times to that of the first loading cycle (ΔUhys_0 or E0). Cyclic loading at a maximum extension ratio λmax of 5 with a recovery time of 0 min was also conducted 6 times with the same gel specimen to investigate the Mullins effect of NC gels.
|Fig. 1 Preparation of PAAm/GO nanocomposite gel and illustration of its network structure with both chemically and physically cross-linked domains between PAAm and GO nanosheets.
As shown in Fig. 2, the GO and PAAm/GO gels were characterized by different methods. TEM images showed that the GO nanosheet was thin and flexible (Fig. 2a). Raman spectra showed that GO nanosheets exhibited a typical D band of 1350 cm−1 (an indicator of the defective structures of carbon materials) and G band of 1594 cm−1 (an indicator of the graphitization of carbon materials based on the E2g graphite mode40), while a PAAm single-network hydrogel exhibited vibrational stretching for O–H and N–H hydrogen bonding at 2920–3000 cm−1. Upon incorporation of GO nanosheets into the PAAm network, the Raman spectrum of PAAm/GO hydrogels also showed the D and G bands of GO nanosheets and O–H and N–H stretching of PAAm chains at the same locations (Fig. 2b). Moreover, both GO nanosheets and the PAAm/GO hydrogels retained a similar D/G intensity ratio (ID/IG) of 0.95, indicating that there is no clear reduction of GO during in situ polymerization. XRD analysis showed that the GO exhibited a sharp peak at 2θ = 10.2°, which corresponds to the average interlayer space of ∼0.81 nm between the stacked GO sheets (Fig. 2c). However, this XRD peak disappeared in the PAAm/GO hydrogels, and the disappearance of interlayer spacing in the GO is an indicator that upon incorporation and polymerization, the stacked GO nanosheets are disassembled and fully exfoliated in the PAAm network.
|Fig. 2 Characterization of PAAm/GO hydrogels. (a) TEM of GO nanosheet (scale bar = 500 nm); (b) Raman spectra and (c) XRD curves of GO, PAAm gel, and PAAm/GO nanocomposite gel.
|Fig. 3 (a) Original stretching, (b) twisted stretching, and (c) knotted stretching of PAAm/GO hybrid NC gels.
|Fig. 4 Effect of MBA concentrations on the tensile properties of PAAm/GO nanocomposite gels. GO concentration is fixed at 4 mg mL−1.
Fig. 5a shows a similar mechanical enhancement (E, σf, εf and W) of PAAm/GO hydrogels as GO concentration increased, specifically, when GO increased from 0 to 4 mg mL−1, σf and W increased from 0.01 to 0.27 MPa and 0.01 to 2.52 MJ m−3, respectively, indicating that PAAm/GO gels are 27 times stronger and 251 times tougher than pure PAAm gels (Fig. 5b). Meanwhile, E and εf also increased from 27 to 66 kPa and 0.91 to 13.76 mm mm−1, indicating that PAAm/GO gels are also much stiffer (∼2.4 times) and more stretchable (∼15 times) than pure PAAm gels (Fig. 5c). To better analyze the stress–strain curves of PAAm/GO gels as per GO concentration, Fig. 5d shows the reduced stress (σr) of PAAm/GO gels as a function of 1/λ, where σr is defined by
|Fig. 5 Effect of GO concentrations on the tensile properties of PAAm/GO nanocomposite gels. (a) Stress–strain curves of PAAm/GO gels at different GO concentrations; (b) fracture stress and deformed energy and (c) elastic modulus and fracture strain as a function of GO concentrations; (d) reduced stress of PAAm/GO gels at different GO concentrations. MBA is fixed at 0.07 mol% of AAm.
It can be seen that σr was almost independent of 1/λ at GO concentrations of <2 mg mL−1. However, at GO > 2 mg mL−1, σr was also nearly independent of 1/λ at small strains (λ < 1.67 or 1/λ > 0.6), while strain hardening became significant at large strains (λ > 1.67 or 1/λ < 0.6). This indicates the existence of weak physical interactions in PAAm/GO gels so that the uniaxial deformation can be well described by the rubber elasticity model. Since σr is nearly constant within the Hookean regime, we assume the constant σr is equal to the equilibrium shear modulus (Ge), which can be used to estimate the effective network chain density (N) in hydrogels by Ge = NRT, where R and T are the gas constant and absolute temperature, respectively. The estimated N of PAAm/GO gels increased from 5.37, 5.85, 6.13, 7.38, to 11.62 mol m−3 as GO increased from 0, 0.5, 1, 2, to 4 mg mL−1, suggesting that the crosslinking density in PAAm/GO gels increases as per GO concentrations. Swelling tests in Fig. S1† further showed that upon swelling, the pure PAAm gels increased their sizes significantly, while the PAAm/GO gels reduced their swollen size with the increase of GO concentrations. This confirms that GO nanosheets act as multifunctional cross-linkers in the PAAm/GO gels. Taken together, considering that a very small amount of GO (∼1.67 wt%) was used to prepare the PAAm/GO gels, it is clear that GO nanosheets are very effective nanofillers and cross-linkers to improve the mechanical properties of host hydrogels.
We found that PAAm/GO hybrid hydrogels achieved not only high strength but also high toughness in the presence of a very small amount of MBA (<0.1 mol%). However, if MBA = 0.1 mol%, the tensile properties of the PAAm/GO gel decreased clearly, i.e., to σf of 0.19 MPa, εf of 4.28 mm mm−1, and W of 0.71 MJ m−3, which is much weaker than that of the gel with MBA = 0.07 mol% (σf of 0.27 MPa, εf of 13.76 mm mm−1, and W of 2.52 MJ m−3). The decreased mechanical properties of PAAm/GO hybrid hydrogels as MBA concentration could be due to several factors. First, the introduction of a small amount of chemical cross-linkers (<0.1 mol%) can increase the effective elastic chains in the gels, leading to an increase of the elastic modulus (E) of the gels. As shown in Fig. 4 and Table S1,† the E of the gels increased from 49.7 to 93.3 kPa as the MBA increased from 0.01 to 0.1 mol%. Second, the introduction of a small amount of chemical cross-linkers (<0.1 mol%) can also enhance the stress transfer in the network. Finally, if MBA ≥ 0.1 mol%, too many cross-linkings are introduced in the network, which will cause stress to mainly concentrate on the shortest chains. So, during the fracture process, the shortest chains will be the first, and easily, broken before the peeling-off of the PAAm chains from the GO nanosheets. As a result, the PAAm/GO gel linked by 0.1 mol% of MBA showed a weaker strength (0.19 MPa) and small deformation energy (0.71 MJ m−3).
Tearing tests were performed to quantify the toughness of PAAm/GO nanocomposite gels. As shown in Fig. 6a, the tearing energies (T) of the PAAm/GO gels were 341, 344, 577, and 964 J m−2 at GO of 0.5, 1, 2, and 4 mg mL−1, respectively, showing that the gel toughness increases with the GO concentration. In particular, for GO of 4 mg mL−1, the PAAm/GO gel exhibited high toughness (964 J m−2), comparable to cartilage (102–103 J m−2), rubber (102–103 J m−2), and double-network hydrogels (102–104 J m−2). We also examined the crack propagation of the notched PAAm/GO gel prepared with GO of 4 mg mL−1. In Fig. 6b, when PAAm/GO gel with a cut notch (∼10 mm) was stretched up to 3 times, the notch was dramatically blunted and remained stable, indicating that no stress concentrates in the front of the notch tip. It was reported that strong blunting behavior occurs at a σf/E of 2 or higher, while weak blunting behavior occurs at 0.4 < σf/E < 2.41,42 So, our PAAm/GO gel prepared with GO of 4 mg mL−1 showed a high σf/E of 4 (E of 66 kPa and σf of 0.27 MPa) and a similar blunting behavior to polyampholyte hydrogels,41 PDGI/PAAm gels43 and Agar/PAAm gels.44 Both tearing and crack propagation data confirm that PAAm/GO hybrid NC gels are also tough hydrogels.
|Fig. 6 (a) Tearing energies of PAAm/GO gels as a function of GO concentrations and (b) crack propagation by stretching a notched PAAm/GO gel.
It is generally accepted that the stiffness and toughness of conventional materials are two opposite mechanical parameters. Interestingly, our PAAm/GO gels can simultaneously increase both stiffness and toughness with increasing GO concentration. This could be attributed to hybrid physical and chemical cross-linkings in the PAAm/GO gels. Since GO nanosheets act as multifunctional cross-linkers, the physical interactions between PAAm chains and GO nanosheets are enhanced with the increase of GO concentration. The increase in the elastic modulus (indicator of the stiffness) of PAAm/GO NC gels is attributed to the increase in elastically effective PAAm chains, as identified by the increase of effective network chain density (N) of NC gels from 5.37 to 11.62 mol m−3 as GO increased from 0 to 4 mg mL−1. The rupture (or peeling) of physically adsorbed PAAm chains from GO nanosheets is accompanied by energy dissipation, which consequently improves the crack resistance and tearing energies (indicator of the toughness) of PAAm/GO NC gels. In addition, as more PAAm chains are adsorbed on GO nanosheets, more energy is dissipated. Therefore, the toughness of PAAm/GO NC gels continues to increase with GO concentration. Simultaneous enhancement of stiffness and toughness has also been reported in other hybrid hydrogels. Lin et al.45 reported that poly(dimethylacrylamide)(PDMA)/silica hybrid NC gel increased its elastic modulus and tearing energies with the increase in silica content. Chen et al.44 and Li et al.46 also observed the same phenomenon in agar/PAAm hybrid double network (DN) gels and Ca2+-alginate/PAAm hybrid gels, respectively. These results indicate that the combination of physical and chemical cross-linkings in hydrogels is a feasible strategy to simultaneously achieve high stiffness and toughness of hydrogels.
|Fig. 7 (a) Loading–unloading curves and (b) the corresponding dissipated energies of PAAm/GO nanocomposite gels prepared at different GO concentrations; (c) cyclic loading curves and (d) the corresponding dissipated energies of PAAm/GO gels (GO = 4 mg mL−1) at different maximum stretching ratios (λmax). Inset image in (c) is performed at λmax = 2.
PAAm/GO gels also showed strain-rate dependent tensile properties. In Fig. 8a, σf, εf, and W all increased as the strain rate increased from 0.006 to 0.06 s−1, however, these properties decreased at a strain rate of >0.06 s−1 (Fig. 8b and Table S2†). A too fast or too slow stretching rate seems to compromise the mechanical properties of PAAm/GO gels, and only at an optimal stretching rate of 0.06 s−1 can the PAAm/GO gel achieve the best tensile properties (E of 68 kPa, σf of 0.27 MPa, εf of 17.58 mm mm−1, and W of 2.99 MJ m−3). Consistently, the PAAm/GO gels also exhibited stretching rate-dependent energy dissipation behavior. In Fig. 8c, all different strain rates led to large hysteresis loops. At 0.06 s−1, the gel showed the largest hysteresis loop and dissipated the highest energy of Uhys = 48.5 kJ m−3. However, when the strain rates were smaller or larger than 0.06, the gels dissipated the smaller energy in between 29.0–34.8 kJ m−3. The rate-dependent tensile and energy dissipation behaviors of PAAm/GO gels further indicate the existence and importance of physical interactions between PAAm and GO nanosheets.
|Fig. 8 (a) Tensile stress–strain curves and (b) the corresponding fracture stress (E) and deformed energy (W) of PAAm/GO gels as a function of strain rates from 0.006 to 0.244 s−1; (c) loading–unloading curves and (b) the corresponding dissipated energy (Uhys) of PAAm/GO gels (GO = 4 mg mL−1) as a function of strain rates from 0.006 to 0.275 s−1.
|Fig. 9 (a) Successive six times loading–unloading curves of the same PAAm/GO gel at λ = 5 without resting between two cycles; (b) elastic modulus of the PAAm/GO gel at different loading cycles.
Furthermore, we continued to challenge the same PAAm/GO gel using successive loading–unloading experiments at different maximum extension ratios (λmax) without applying resting between two loadings. Different from Fig. 9, Fig. 10a showed that the PAAm/GO gels exhibited a distinct hysteresis loop at each loading cycle, particularly when λmax > 2, the pronounced hysteresis loops showed the continuously increased stress with applied strains up to 16. Additionally, E gradually decreased from 66 kPa at λmax = 2 to 20 kPa at λmax = 16, leading to the loss of ∼85% of the initial elastic modulus (Fig. 10b). Furthermore, the energy dissipation (Uhys) of the PAAm/GO gels showed an exponential increase as λmax with an R2 value of 0.9999, indicating a gradual fracture process of the gel network during deformation (Fig. 10c). Energy dissipation efficiency (Uhys/W) is often used to quantify the energy dissipation ability of tough gels. Fig. 10d shows that Uhys/W also increased as λmax and the highest Uhys/W was only ∼38%, which is smaller than that of vulcanized rubbers (59–67%),49 Agar/PAAm DN gels (50–60%)38 and PAMPS/PAAm DN gels (∼85%).49 Overall, different loading–unloading tests clearly reveal the softening phenomenon of the PAAm/GO gels, together with a significant loss of hysteresis and elastic modulus, similar to the "Mullins effect" observed in the nanofilled rubbers and some hydrogels with strong elastic characteristics.
|Fig. 10 (a) Cyclic loading–unloading curves, (b) elastic modulus (inset is the successive loading curve at λmax = 2), (c) dissipated energy, and (d) energy dissipation efficiency of the same PAAm/GO hybrid gel specimen at different λmax without resting between two cycles.
|Fig. 11 (a) Loading–unloading curves and (b) the corresponding toughness and stiffness recovery rates of the PAAm/GO gel at different resting times and at room temperature.
We also have tested the self-healing of PAAm/GO gels. Unfortunately, PAAm/GO gels did not show distinct self-healing properties. When we physically place two cut gels in contact with each other, the gels can be healed into one gel, but the healed gel cannot withstand even very gentle stretching, and will break very easily. Thus, we did not include the self-healing data in this manuscript. The lack of self-healing properties could be attributed to the covalent cross-linking in the PAAm network by a chemical cross-linker (MBA). The presence of covalent cross-linking will slow down the diffusion ability of polymer chains to the fracture interface, leading to the negligible self-healing of PAAm-GO hydrogels. Consistently, in our previous work,37 we have found that after introducing a very small amount of MBA (0.7 mol%) to PAAm/LAPONITE® NC gels, the self-healing efficiency of the NC gels significantly decreased. These results show a general observation that the presence of covalent cross-linking (even at a very small amount) would greatly compromise the self-healing of nanocomposite hydrogels.
The PAAm/GO gels exhibit λ-dependent energy dissipation behaviors which have not been reported in the GO-based hydrogels. The possible energy dissipation mechanism was shown in Fig. 12. At λ ≤ 2, there was no hysteresis loop observed during the loading–unloading cycle, indicating that the PAAm/GO hybrid NC gels showed excellent resilience. At small strain, the adsorbed polymer chains on the GO nanosheets were only highly stretched but not peeled off. However, at λ > 2, the NC gels displayed distinct hysteresis loops, indicating that the adsorbed PAAm chains were partially peeled off from the GO nanosheets. The dissipated energies (Uhys) also increased with the increase of the maximum extension ratio (λmax), which means that the peeled off PAAm chains became more and more as the λmax increased. At a fixed λ of 5, successive loading of the same gel specimen without recovery demonstrated an obvious hysteresis loop at the first loading cycle but a negligible hysteresis loop at the following five times loading cycle (Fig. 9a). Moreover, successive loading experiments at various λmax also showed that, if there were no recovery time for NC gels, the sequential loading curve would be overlapped with the unloading curve of the former ones as the λ wasn't larger than the former λmax. At the same time, the NC gels became softer after the first loading cycle and were even much softer at larger λmax (Fig. 9b and 10b). The results elucidated that our PAAm/GO hybrid NC gels exhibited a "Mullins effect" phenomenon which is commonly detected in filled rubbers. The mechanisms of the Mullins effect in our PAAm/GO hybrid NC gels can be interpreted by a "bond rupture" model which has been proposed by Blanchard and Parkinson in filled rubbers (Fig. 12). Since GO nanosheets were acted as multi-functional cross-linkers in our PAAm/GO hybrid NC gels, the rupture of physical or chemical bonds, i.e. peeling off of PAAm chains from the surface of GO nanosheets, will cause the elastically effective chains to become smaller, which leads to a decrease in the elastic modulus after pre-strain. The absence of hysteresis loops at the second loading cycle indicated that the re-adsorption of PAAm chains onto the surface of GO nanosheets cannot occur immediately. However, after recovery at room temperature for only 5 min, the stiffness and toughness of the PAAm/GO hybrid NC gel could reach recovery rates of 64% and 46%, respectively. The time-dependent recovery of stiffness and toughness suggested that our NC gels also demonstrated self-recovery properties (i.e. Mullins recovery) at room temperature. The Mullins recovery in our NC gels can be explained by the re-adsorption process of PAAm chains. Owing to the strong interactions between the GO nanosheets and PAAm chains, the peeled off PAAm chains trend to be re-adsorbed onto the surface of GO nanosheets. As the recovery time was within 5 min, the initial re-adsorption process was rapid, however, the recovery was slowed down by the steric effect of re-adsorbed PAAm chains (Fig. 11b). Moreover, it is believed that only physical adsorption can be reformed but the ruptured chemical adsorption cannot be recovered.
|Fig. 12 Illustration of λ-dependent energy dissipation behaviors and mechanisms of PAAm/GO hybrid NC gels.
|† Electronic supplementary information (ESI) available. See DOI: 10.1039/c7py01068k
|‡ Equivalent contribution.
|This journal is © The Royal Society of Chemistry 2017


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I have searched far and wide, even google. I ordered my MSI NX8800GT OC from BUY.COM on 10/29. The DAY of release. And I am going on my 4th week of waiting (next week). I have read of people ordering today 11/15 and receiving a tracking number? What gives? I'm currently e-mailing BUY.COM for some answers. Does anyone know of a global restock date? I'm very close to dumping Nvidia over what should never have been an issue. When you know you product is going to sell very well, like the 8800GTX did etc. why would you make so few units? What is the logic behind making a supposed 40,000 units? Did the author of Harry Potter only make 40k books after her first book was a hit? NO, they made a bunch and sold all of them, and made tons of money. I hope Nvidia realizes how much money they have lost because of their weak attempt of releasing their product with so little numbers. Anyways, does anyone know of a restock date of any site anywhere? I thought it was supposed to be this week.
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cruiseoveride said:i think the 8800gt was just nvidia's way of clearing out the factories for the 9x cards or the dual core cards
Doubtful. As much as I'd like to see a new card, 8800GT and the enhanced 8800GTS (coming soon) are as good as we are gona get for quite some time =,(
If NV fails to get large batches of these cards out soon, ATI is going to be quite happy this Q4 season.
Another update NewEgg does have 8800GT's in stock, but not my MSI one here:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127311
Problem is the prices are INSANE compared to MSRP's. What I REALLY don't understand, and REALLY makes me very BENT is the fact that Since I payed on 10/29 day of release, I only payed $240 yet overtime the prices quickly rose to neweggs $300 price point and how the hell did the reviewers at newegg pay the later increased premium price and received theirs first, while im stuck on the this damn island although technically I'm ordering form a different place (buy.com) I was first in line. I literally could not have ordered the thing any quicker.
If they arent getting any in 2weeks Ill cancel and wait for 8800GTS to come out again.. the 65nm one..
Meant to be getting mine on monday they had got 23 in stock on friday or so they said.
I snapped, couldn't take it, how could I waste a beautiful 4 day weekend coming up with a 9800 pro. I actually bought a BFG 8800GT OC from BB. (Do a little bit of 4x4 action, some mountain biking, big feast, then relax to some high quality graphics)It was $279.99. But.....I had a $40 dollar gift card from a year ago laying around bringing my total to $256.00 w/tax As far as my MSI NX8800GT, what would you guys recommend? Stick with it, when it comes in, ebay it (maybe even make a little profit off of it, I only payed $240 with a $50 credit=$190). Or should I just cancel it. Im leaning with keeping and selling when it comes in. I'm sure it would do good on ebay, or if anyone else would be interested in it.
i just got my 8800gt a day back.here in bombay,where i stay ,the shops have a healthy stock of 8800gt cards -from these brands:xfx,galaxy,gigabyte & asus.
i got a galaxy 8800gt with all the characteristics of a reference card.i got it for 12500INR(250US$x50--actually its 38INR to a $ but they add taxes and import duties here in india)the costs are comparable to the 250 US $ as specified by nvidia but unlike what newegg.com has priced the 8800gt for.i'm very very happy with this card and its the perfect replacement for my old xfx 6600gt 256mb card.but the card runs really hot and i've posted the pictures on these following links,do have a look.will post the benchmarks soon.
as you can see the card when idle runs at 58 degrees and after an hour of medal of honor airborne it went upto 82 degrees-the cpu was running @ 48degrees and the chipset temperature was 39 degrees-this makes me uneasy-bcoz i would want to overclock my 8800gt.i am looking for some good 3rd party cooling solutions for this card.anyone know of any good vga cooler??
sunny27 said:turn up my fan???how d'you do that??
i use the whql driver v.169.02
got the 169.04 beta drivers too.
any idea about thermalright 8800gt vga solutions??
Get Riva Tuner 2.06. You'l be able to adjust the shader freq. also.
@Sunny. Nothing wrong with those temps, infact they are lower than some to compare. 51c idle - 79c load here. I seem to have bough a lucky card or it's because my case opens to the right side, exposing the motherboard "upside down", in effect, turns the card right side up - fan pushing the heat upwards. Is this your case?
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Made-It Monday
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I've made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you've made in the last week (ish; let's say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we've collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome! 🙂
Well, I haven't made much lately that's really 'arty' since my 'spare time' has mostly been consumed with book edits and formatting and such like. And whatever energy is left over after all of that has to be devoted to food, because I'm on an extremely strict elimination diet and finding ways to eat the same 20 foods for every meal without going mad is pretty much using up any leftover creativity. Ha.
So today, for Made It Monday, you get book formatting. These are some of the opening pages of Liana Brooks' forthcoming novel, Bodies In Motion; you can read the draft chapters on her website for free – they're releasing two per week and I think at present we are about 2/3rds of the way through the book.
The novel comes out on Sept 19 (20 in Aus) and you can preorder through all the usual suspects – or if you want to preorder a print copy and you live in the US, you can do that here.
Yay! Pages!
What have you made this week? (It doesn't have to be fancy!!) Don't forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂
Oh Golly It Works Just As Well In Reverse
And now I'm wondering how many other Disney songs fit this exact pattern and could be overlaid……. Probably all of them. I mean, stories have plot structures and most movies use the same plot structure, so why shouldn't all key Disney songs have the same structure? Makes sense, really.
General Updateriness, New Releases, That Sort of Thing
It's been a while since I did a generic 'HEY HERE'S AN UPDATE ON ME AND LIFE' kind of post (it's been a while since I did any sort of content-heavy post, shh) so HA, that is what we are having today. And I'm probably going to ramble, because the brain, she is rambley today.
So. If you are following my books with rabid fervour (ha) note that it will be harder than usual to track a print copy of Where Shadows Rise in the next six weeks, because the files were updated with a bunch of typos corrected. (I just typed 'typos correctly'. Clearly this was a Necessary Thing. >.< Oy, and also vey.) Amazon should have the update by the end of the week, and you can always grab a copy through Inkprint Press immediately (in the US) or from my site here (for Aus).
In more exciting news, Book 2 in the Sanctuary series (Through Roads Between) is up for pre-order!! You'll get to know more about both the magics of Sanctuary/the Valley, AND about Scott in this book – which I know a lot of people will be excited about :o) You can pre-order the ebook anywhere pre-orders are had, and you can pre-order the print copy here in the US and here in Australia – and buying through me or Inkprint entitles you to the ebooks in BOTH mobi AND epub for FREE! Woohoo.
ALSO in related news (and speaking of related LOOK THERE ARE TWO MATCHING BOOKS SITTING TOGETHER LOOK THEY ARE SO PRETTY), I'll promo this more in the coming weeks BUT there will be a giveaway for anyone who has left a review of Where Shadows Rise to win one of multiple ebook copies of book 2, or one copy of the print book. Reviews on GoodReads, Amazon, or any other book retail site all count, you can probably have multiple entries for posting your review in multiple places, it's open international, and your review doesn't have to be 5 star, just fair 😉
And also coming soonish is a novella about tigers, religious prohibitions, eating people, and inter-species war – but mostly it's about redemption, and how no matter how much you think you've screwed up, you're worth redeeming. More details on this in a month or two – it should be releasing around late October/early November, all things going well*, so keep an eye out.
* All things not going well it'll be out Q1 next year 😉
I think that's about all the updating my brain can handle right now. I'm doing this super-stringent elimination diet because Health Reasons, and I'm in the middle of withdrawal funk, and although the fog is clearing slowly, I'm really, really sick of the approximately twelve foods I'm allowed to eat 😛
Yay books! Woohoo!
Made It Monday: Party Garland
Welcome to #MadeItMonday, where I post something I've made in the previous week, and where you can join in and post something you made too! The rules are easy: post a pic somewhere of something you've made in the last week (ish; let's say in the last month as the hard-and-fast) and tag it. Sit back and enjoy scrolling through all the beautiful things we've collectively created, and celebrate the fact that humans can be awesome! 🙂
Shockingly enough, the only thing I've made recently is – yep, you guessed it – more cake. Unfortunately, I finished it late at night and forgot to take a photo of it before leaving for work the next morning, and Husband didn't know I wanted a pic so didn't take one before he and his workmates devoured it.
I hear it was tasty.
So instead of cake (again), you get a party garland that, yes, technically I made several weeks ago, but NEVER MIND 😛 😀 This party banner was great – so easy to make. I bought 40cm each of green and pink broadcloth (or whatever was the cheapest fabric – it cost me about $5 total for the fabric, maybe less) and a roll of cotton rope from the hardware store (about $5 again, but I only used a third of it). I tore the coloured fabric into strips about an inch wide (yes, tore, not cut, this is all about efficiencies) and then, starting from the middle of the cord, did a simple loop/hitch knot thing to tie the strips on*, alternating colours. I'd been planning to put some cow print fabric in there too, but I couldn't find any for less than $15/metre, and I wasn't willing to pay that for a cheap party decoration.
* Fold the strip in half, lay it over the cord, loop the two loose ends under the cord and up through the folded bit of the strip itself, and pull tight.
It took about half an hour from start to finish, and the kids think it's pretty cool because it also doubles as a wrap-around tie-up grass-style skirt for dress-ups 😀
But since we pretty much never close that small window above the dining table, they can't use it for dress-ups at the moment, because it's still up 😉 😀
What have you made this week? (It doesn't have to be fancy!!) Don't forget to tag your contribution, or even better, leave a link in the comments!! I love seeing what inspiring things other people have made 🙂 🙂 🙂
That Perfect Girl Is Gone (But We Have THE BEST Disney Mashup To Console Us)
I love this so much. Every six months or so I dig it out for some occasion or another and rewatch, just for the glory of Zac Effron letting it go… 😀 You've probably seen this one before, but go on. Watch it again. 😉
When Famous Paintings Come To Life (Dust My Shoulders Off – Jane Zhang)
So this is a super cool thing I found because someone had gif'ed the "The Scream" portion of this music video and it is SUPER, and then someone in the thread linked to the full video and YAY! Such a happy song! So cheery and determined! And what an AWESOME music vid, with all the famous paintings coming to life! There's some serious hard work gone into some of the scenes in particular and wow, yay, much happy.
Here. Enjoy and be happy for a little over three minutes 🙂
Dying of the Cute
I have a board on my Pinterest account called Dying of the Cute and I tell you what, some days it's a lifesaver. Today, I thought I'd share a sampling 🙂
If Disney Princess Were Real
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Dealing With The Blues
Extract from a random conversation with Liana Brooks on learning to live with negative emotions – sharing because…?? I don't know? Someone else might find it useful? My brain is a weird place and I feel you deserve full disclosure of that? Something. 😀
this is different
it's not bottling
i know bottling
i come from a long hereditary line of bottling
this is just… acknowledging that the feelings are there but that that doesn't mean they have to be in charge, right
yes, okay, i'm feeling blue
it's kind of a light summery aqua, not a navy, so it's easier
but it's like
there is blue
this does not actually change anything
yay blue
hi blue
blue is fine
blue is not in charge
red is not in charge
purple is not in charge
blue is not in charge not because it's blue, but because it's a feeling, and feelings don't get to be in charge
they get to help
they get to advise
but they only get to be in charge when I decide they are in charge
and right now, nope, not in charge
yes, i see you blue
you are there, and you are blue
and you can go and sit in your little blue corner and be blue, and that is fine
but while you do that, i'm just going to be over here being competent
and you can join me when you're done, m'kay?


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