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Optical vortices (OVs), as eigenmodes of optical orbital angular momentum, have been widely used in particle micro-manipulation. Recently, perfect optical vortices (POVs), a subclass of OVs, are gaining increasing interest and becoming an indispensable tool in optical trapping due to their unique property of topological charge-independent vortex radius. Here, we expand the concept of POVs by proposing concentric ring optical traps (CROTs) and apply them to trapping and rotating particles. A CROT consists of a series of concentric rings, each being a vortex whose radius and topological charge can be controlled independently with respect to the other rings. Quantitative results show that the generated CROTs have weak sidelobes, good uniformity, and relatively high diffraction efficiency. In experiments, CROTs are observed to trap multiple dielectric particles simultaneously on different rings and rotate these particles with the direction and speed of rotation depending on the topological charge sign and value of each individual ring. In addition, gold particles are observed to be trapped and rotate in the dark region between two bright rings. As a novel tool, CROTs may find potential applications in fields like optical manipulation and microfluidic viscosity measurements.

This paper introduces the latest research on the application of the new dynamic network DEA method in the measurement of the operating efficiency of the banking industry, and measures the operating efficiency of 15 listed banks in China by using the directional distance function (DDF) and the new dynamic network DEA model combined with the Malmquist index. To effectively evaluate the impact of uncertain financial risks on the operating efficiency of banks, we respectively selected the measurement indicators of total assets, number of employees, deposits, and net profit to calculate the operating efficiency of banks in the process of medium and long-term investment. According to the actual situation of bank operation, the process of bank operation is divided into the input stage of capital and manpower, the profit stage of capital operation, and operation stage, and a two-stage DEA network model is constructed. By measuring the overall operating efficiency of China's 15 banks from 2017 to 2022, the results show that the new dynamic network DEA model can better distinguish the efficiency of China's banks from the single-stage DEA model. In the new dynamic network model, the total factor productivity of most banks in China is reduced to varying degrees, which is greatly affected by pure technical efficiency.

The nature of rigidity and low energy density of polypyrrole (PPy)‐based electrodes limits their wide application in flexible energy storage devices. In this study, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) wrapped polypyrrole (PPy)/oxidized carbon cloth (OCC) (rGO@PPy/OCC) is prepared by the polymerization of pyrrole using MnO2 as the oxidant on the surface of OCC followed by the adsorption and reduction of graphene oxide (GO). The prepared rGO@PPy/OCC electrode exhibits a high gravimetric specific capacitance of 547 F g−1 at a current density of 0.5 A g−1 and a high area specific capacitance of 1641 mF cm−2 at a current density of 1.5 mA cm−2. It nearly maintains the initial capacitance after 8000 cycles at a high scan rate of 200 mV s−1 and at a large current density of 10 A g−1. Moreover, the flexible rGO@PPy/OCC electrodes are used to construct flexible solid‐state supercapacitors (FSSC). The FSSC based on rGO@PPy/OCC exhibits a high energy density (33.89 Wh kg−1 and 101.81 µWh cm−2) and a capacitance retention of 95.10% after 1000 bending cycles, demonstrating the excellent cycling stability and flexibility. Therefore, it is potential for rGO@PPy/OCC as a flexible electrode to fabricate high‐performance FSSC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guide star assisted wavefront shaping techniques have been exploited for focusing and imaging through turbid media by addressing a scatter inverse pattern. However, the turbid medium is required to be steady before finding the proper correction pattern, which limits applications in focusing and imaging through dynamic media, such as turbid water or blood. This study proposes a holography-based dual-polarization computational wavefront shaping method for imaging objects at variant depths behind dynamic turbid media. The orthogonal polarized output speckles of a point source (considered as a guide star) and an object are simultaneously recorded in holograms in separate regions of a single CCD camera. The holograms of the point source and object are subjected to the same distortion regardless of whether the media is static or dynamic. The hologram of the point source is used to determine the correction phase pattern for the distortion, while that of the object is used to record the complex scattered wavefront of the object. To reconstruct a clear object image, the wavefront of the scattered object is digitally corrected using the correction phase pattern and is then transferred to the image plane by calculating the transmission of the angular spectrum. Benefiting from the autofocusing feature of digital holography, objects at different depths can be recovered from a single shot hologram pair. The potential applications of the proposed method in diverse dynamic scattering media are demonstrated by imaging through a moving diffuser, turbid water, and pig blood with optical depth beyond 10. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract Polpyrrole (PPy)/Ag nanocomposites were successfully synthesized at the interface of water and ionic liquid by one-step UV-induced polymerization. Highly dispersed PPy/Ag nanoparticles were obtained by controlling the experimental conditions. The results of Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy revealed that the UV-induced interface polymerization leaded to the formation of PPy incorporating silver nanoparticles. It was also found that the electrical conductivity of PPy/Ag nanocomposite was about 100 times higher than that of pure PPy.

Constructing a multi-dimensional education and teaching quality evaluation system is the key content of China’s higher education reform. In order to establish a quality evaluation system suitable for the portfolio assessment, we take the construction of “new engineering” and the certification goal of engineering education as the guiding ideology, taking the VALUE rubrics as the reference system and taking the cell engineering course as the object. The course assessment and evaluation structure and course assessment standards are reconstructed and refined, and a complete cell engineering course quality evaluation system suitable for portfolio assessment was constructed. The establishment of this course quality evaluation system can provide reference for the construction of other professional course quality evaluation systems of the same nature in colleges and universities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]