(E)-1-{4-[Bis(4-fluoro­phen­yl)meth­yl]piperazin-1-yl}-3-(4-eth­oxy­phen­yl)prop-2-en-1-one

In the title mol­ecule, C28H28F2N2O2, the ethene bond exhibits an E conformation and the piperazine ring adopts a chair conformation. The amide-N atom of the piperazine ring is almost planar (bond-angle sum = 358.8°) whereas the other N atom is clearly pyramidal (bond-angle sum = 330.5°). The dihedral angle between the fluoro­benzene rings is 76.36 (17)°. In the crystal, inversion dimers linked by pairs of C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds generate R 2 2(22) loops

Evolving Optical Networks for Latency-Sensitive Smart-Grid Communications via Optical Time Slice Switching (OTSS) Technologies

In this paper, we proposed a novel OTSS-assisted optical network architecture for smart-grid communication networks, which has unique requirements for low-latency connections. Illustrative results show that, OTSS can provide extremely better performance in latency and blocking probability than conventional flexi-grid optical networks.Comment: IEEE Photonics Society 1st Place Best Poster Award, on CLEO-PR/OECC/PGC 201

Study on Variable Action Value Standard for Harbor Infrastructures

To meet with different levels of requirements from proprietors and users and to offer a basis for variable action value to the designers, associated with the standards, this dissertation studied the value standard of load effect and environmental effect. For load effect, on the foundation of analyzing variable load effect model, we used equal exceeding probability principle to calculate the load adjustment coefficient for the cargo loading in harbor and river port under different designing service life. For environmental effect, according to the ranks of marine chloride environment in standards GB/T 50476-2008, after analyzing and comparing the research achievements on surface chloride concentration at home and abroad, we obtained the value standard of chloride ion loading in different ranks of chloride environment

(E)-1-{4-[Bis(4-meth­oxy­phen­yl)meth­yl]piperazin-1-yl}-3-(3,4-dieth­oxy­phen­yl)prop-2-en-1-one ethanol disolvate

The asymmetric unit of the title compound, C32H38N2O5·2C2H6O, contains one main mol­ecule and two solvent mol­ecules, which inter­act via inter­molecular O—H⋯O hydrogen bonds. The piperazine ring adopts a chair conformation. The crystal packing exhibits weak inter­molecular C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds and voids of 31 Å3

On QoS-assured degraded provisioning in service-differentiated multi-layer elastic optical networks

The emergence of new network applications is driving network operators to not only fulfill dynamic bandwidth requirements, but offer various grades of service. Degraded provisioning provides an effective solution to flexibly allocate resources in various dimensions to reduce blocking for differentiated demands when network congestion occurs. In this work, we investigate the novel problem of online degraded provisioning in service-differentiated multi-layer networks with optical elasticity. Quality of Service (QoS) is assured by service-holding-time prolongation and immediate access as soon as the service arrives without set-up delay. We decompose the problem into degraded routing and degraded resource allocation stages, and design polynomial-time algorithms with the enhanced multi-layer architecture to increase the network flexibility in temporal and spectral dimensions. Illustrative results verify that we can achieve significant reduction of network service failures, especially for requests with higher priorities. The results also indicate that degradation in optical layer can increase the network capacity, while the degradation in electric layer provides flexible time-bandwidth exchange.Comment: accepted by IEEE GLOBECOM 201

(E)-1-{4-[Bis(4-bromo­phen­yl)meth­yl]piperazin-1-yl}-3-(4-eth­oxy­phen­yl)prop-2-en-1-one

In the title compound, C28H28Br2N2O2, the C=C double bond has an E configuration and the piperazine ring has a chair conformation, with the N—C bonds in equatorial orientations. The dihedral angle between the bromo­benzene rings is 83.1 (4)°. In the crystal, mol­ecules are linked by C—H⋯O and C—H⋯Br hydrogen bonds

(E)-1-(4-Benzhydrylpiperazin-1-yl)-3-(2-eth­oxy­phen­yl)prop-2-en-1-one

In the title mol­ecule, C28H30N2O2, the piperazine ring adopts a chair conformation and the C=C bond exhibits an E conformation. The dihedral angle between the terminal phenyl rings is 71.4 (2). In the crystal, mol­ecules are linked by C—H⋯O hydrogen bonds, forming [010] chains

High-topological-number skyrmions and phase transition in two-dimensional frustrated J1J_1-J2J_2 magnets

With the rapidly expanded field of two-dimensional(2D) magnetic materials, the frustrated magnetic skyrmions are attracting growing interest recently. Here, based on hexagonal close-packed (HCP) lattice of $J_1$-$J_2$ Heisenberg spins model, we systematically investigate the frustrated skyrmions and phase transition by micromagnetic simulations and first-principles calculations. The results show that four spin phases of antiferromagnetic, labyrinth domain, skyrmion and ferromagnetic textures are determined by the identified ranges of $J_1$-$J_2$. Importantly, skyrmion phase with an increasing topological number ($Q$) covers a wider $J_1$-$J_2$ area. Then, the diameter of skyrmions can be tuned by the frustration strength ($|J_2/J_1|$) or external magnetic field. Besides, a phase transition from N$\acute{e}$el to Bloch type skyrmion is observed due to the change of the helicity with the variation of $|J_2/J_1|$. Furthermore, as increasing magnetic field, the skyrmions with high $Q$ ($\ge 3$) tend to split into the ones with $Q=1$, thereby achieving a lower systematic energy. Additionally, we find that the CoCl$_2$ monolayer satisfies the requirement of the frustrated $J_1$-$J_2$ magnet, and the related magnetic behaviors agree with the above conclusions. The frustration-induced skyrmions are stable without the manipulation of temperature and magnetic field. Our results may open a possible way toward spintronic applications based on High-topological-number and nanoscale topological spin textures of skyrmions.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figure

Flutter Characteristic Study of Composite Sandwich Panel with Functionally Graded Foam Core

This paper attempts to investigate the flutter characteristic of sandwich panel composed of laminated facesheets and a functionally graded foam core. The macroscopic properties of the foam core change continuously along this direction parallel to the facesheet lamina. The model used in the study is a simple sandwich panel-wing clamped at the root, with three simple types of grading strategies for FGM core: (1) linear grading strategy in the chord-wise direction, (2) linear grading strategy in the span-wise direction, and (3) bilinear grading of properties of foam core across the panel. The results show that use of FGM core has the potential to increase the flutter speed of the sandwich panel. Finally, a minimum weight design of composite sandwich panel with lamination parameters of facesheet and density distribution of foam core as design variables is conducted using particle swarm optimization (PSO)