可用于先进复合材料的一种中温固化环氧树脂

本文评价了一种可用于纤维缠绕先进复合材料的,以聚醚三胺进行固化的双酚F 环氧树脂。该树脂系统具有低粘度,长使用期,并能在中温下进行固化。使用这种树脂制造的复合材料,未发现明显的纤维微皱摺或分层现象,这意味着介于纤维和基体之间不同的热膨胀系数已不成为一个问题。该树脂系统浇注体典型力学性能(拉伸、压缩和剪切)已测得。拉伸:最大应力75.8兆帕(Mpa),最大应力下的应变为4.2%,模量为3171兆帕,断裂应力为71兆帕,断裂应变为5.8%。压缩:最大应力为87兆帕,最大应力下的应变为4.7%,模量为3150兆帕。剪切:断裂应力为52.2兆帕,冲击强度为32.6牛顿米/米。     

Biological potential of Martian hydrothermal systems

A source of energy to power metabolism may be a limiting factor in the abundance and spatial distribution of past or extant life on Mars. Although a global average of chemical energy available for microbial metabolism and biomass production on Mars has been estimated previously, issues of how the energy is distributed and which particular environments have the greatest potential to support life remain unresolved. We address these issues using geochemical models to evaluate the amounts of chemical energy available in one potential biological environment, Martian hydrothermal systems. In these models, host rock compositions are based upon the compositions of Martian meteorites, which are reacted at high temperature with one of three groundwater compositions. For each model, the values for Gibbs energy of reactions that are important for terrestrial chemosynthetic organisms and likely representative for putative Martian microbes are calculated. Our results indicate that substantial amounts of chemical energy may be available in these systems, depending most sensitively upon the composition of the host rock. From the standpoint of sources of metabolic energy, it is likely that suitable environments exist to support Martian life.