The project of wielding laser light as a versatile tool for sculpting branched Ag@Au bimetallic nanocrystals with mean size of ~50 nm has been developed in this work. The moderate overgrowth of Ag species with negligible damage effect on the branched Ag@Au nanostructures was achieved by laser-induced photo-oxidation. The final Ag@Au nanodendrites exhibit superior surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) activities with an enhancement factor up to ~1011 and a detection limit as low as ~10-14 M. The pronounced feature should be attributed to the noticeable small-sized branches (<10 nm) and unique pronounced inter-metallic synergies. Our results have a promising potential for developing SERS-based ultrasensitive probes in biomedical application.
The gearbox of a wind turbine involves multiple rotating components, each having a potential to be affected by a fault. Detecting weak faults of these components with traditional demodulation analysis is challenging. Multi-scale enveloping spectrogram (MuSEnS) decomposes a vibration signal into different frequency bands while simultaneously generating the corresponding envelope spectra. In this study, a MuSEnS-based diagnosis approach is applied to detect faults affecting the intermediate stage of a gearbox installed in an operating wind turbine. The MuSEnSs of 12 vibration channels have allowed to identify multiple fault features, including the weak fault of the big gear on the sun shaft. The effectiveness of the proposed fault diagnosis approach has been tested with industrial data and the faults themself have been confirmed with the disassembled gears.
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