Ti-SBA-15 mesoporous materials were directly synthesized via a hydrothermal process and characterized by using nitrogen adsorption-desorption measurements, X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, diffuse reflectance ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, and infrared ray spectroscopy. The effect of synthesis temperatures on the structure and catalytic efficiency in epoxidation of cyclohexene was discussed in details. The results showed that the optimal temperature was 100 °C under the reaction conditions.

Ti-SBA-15 mesoporous materials with different Si/Ti molar ratios were synthesized via a hydrothermal process and characterized by using various techniques. The effect of Si/Ti molar ratios in the gels on the structure and catalytic efficiency in epoxidation of cyclohexene was discussed in details. The results showed that all the Ti-SBA-15 materials retained SBA-15 mesoporous structure and exhibited good catalytic activity. Furthermore,the sample prepared with Si/Ti =50 exhibited the best catalytic performance under the reaction conditions.

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A novel image encryption scheme comprising of one permutation process and one diffusion process is proposed. In the permutation process, the image sized is expanded to one sized by dividing the plain-image into two parts: one consisting of the higher 4bits and one consisting of the lower 4bits. The permutation operations are done row-by-row and column-by-column to increase the speed. The chaotic generalized Arnold map is utilized to generate chaotic sequence, which is quantized to shuffle the expanded image. The chaotic sequence for permutation process is dependent on plain-image and cipher keys, resulting in good key sensitivity and plain-image sensitivity. To achieve more avalanche effect and larger key space, Chinese Remainder Theorem is applied to diffuse the shuffled image. The key sensitivity and key space of the proposed image encryption have been analyzed as well. The experimental results suggest that the proposed image encryption scheme can be used for secure image and video communication applications.

This article describes the physical and chemical properties of EMR and the preparation of a new building material with it. The results show that the main components of EMR are gypsum and quartz, supplemented by a small amount of cement, appropriate siliceous material and quicklime in EMR could be prepared high performance EMR autoclaved brick.