Optoelectronic Synapses Based on MXene/Violet Phosphorus van der Waals Heterojunctions for Visual‑Olfactory Crossmodal Perception

The crossmodal interaction of different senses,which is an important basis for learning and memory in the human brain,is highly desired to be mimicked at the device level for developing neuromorphic crossmodal perception,but related researches are scarce.Here,we demonstrate an optoelectronic synapse for vision-olfactory crossmodal perception based on MXene/violet phosphorus(VP)van der Waals heterojunctions.Benefiting from the efficient separation and transport of photogenerated carriers facilitated by conductive MXene,the photoelectric responsivity of VP is dramatically enhanced by 7 orders of magnitude,reaching up to 7.7 A W^(−1).Excited by ultraviolet light,multiple synaptic functions,including excitatory postsynaptic currents,pairedpulse facilitation,short/long-term plasticity and“learning-experience”behavior,were demonstrated with a low power consumption.Furthermore,the proposed optoelectronic synapse exhibits distinct synaptic behaviors in different gas environments,enabling it to simulate the interaction of visual and olfactory information for crossmodal perception.This work demonstrates the great potential of VP in optoelectronics and provides a promising platform for applications such as virtual reality and neurorobotics.

Removal of Methyl Violet in Aqueous Solution on Activated Carbon Based on Saba senegalensis Shell Residues

Adsorption on activated carbon is one of the most widely used methods for the removal of dyes. The objective of this study is to valorize the shells of Saba senegalensis from local product in Senegal in the form of activated carbon and to test its effectiveness for the removal of methyl violet. The study was carried out in batch mode for a maximum duration of one hour with 100 mL of solution treated at 600 rpm. The results reveal that the granulometry 500 μm gives the best yield with an adsorption rate of 95%, a mass of adsorbent of 0.2 g gives an adsorption capacity of 20 mg/g, the contact time of one hour with a capacity of 5 mg/g. The study also showed that the adsorption process of methyl violet is described by the pseudo-second order kinetic model with correlation coefficient of 0.99. Two adsorption isotherms were studied, and the results revealed that the Freundlich model better describes the adsorption of methyl violet on Saba senegalensis shell residue-based activated carbon (SSSRAC). The results indicate that SSSRAC could be used as a low-cost alternative for the removal of textile dyes such as methyl violet.

Removal of Methyl Violet from aqueous solutions using poly (acrylic acid-co-acrylamide)/attapulgite composite

The adsorption of Methyl Violet （MV） cationic dye from aqueous solution was carried out by using crosslinked poly （acrylic acid-coacrylamide）/attapulgite （Poly（AA-co-AM）/ATP） composite as adsorbent. The factors influencing adsorption capacity of the composite such as pH, concentration of the dye, temperature, contact time, adsorbent dosage, ionic strength and surfactant were systematically investigated. The equilibrium data fitted very well to the Langmuir isotherm and the maximum adsorption capacity reached 1194 mg/g at 30℃. The thermodynamic parameters including △G0, △H0 and △S0 for the adsorption processes of MV on the composite were also calculated, and the negative △H0 and △G0 confirmed that the adsorption process was exothermicand spontaneous. The kinetic studies showed that the adsorption process was consistent with the pseudo second-order kinetic model and the desorption studies revealed that the regeneration of the composite adsorbent can be easily achieved.

The ultratrace detection of crystal violet using surface enhanced Raman scattering on colloidal Ag nanoparticles prepared by electrolysis

Highly active, stable and affordable surface enhanced Raman scattering （SERS） substrates were obtained by electrolyzing a mixture of AgNO3 （4 × 10^-4 mol/L） and Na3C6H5OTH2O （6 × 10^-5 mol/L） for 1, 2, 3 and 4 h at 7 V. With crystal violet （CV） as a test molecule, a portable Raman spectrometer with 785 nm laser excitation was employed to carry out the SERS detection. Colloidal Ag nanoparticles prepared by electrolyzing for 3 h with the particle size of （65 ±17） nm is a perfect SERS substrate for the ultratrace detection of CV, which displayed an enhancement factor of ca. 1.3 × 10^8 and the detection limit of CV is down to ca. 10-15 mol/L （ca. 10^-4 ppb） with 10^-1 mol/L KBr as aggregating agent. Thus, this SERS substrate will provide a hopeful foreground in ultratrace detection. Meanwhile, it will provide a possibility to bring Raman analysis out of the laboratory to process in situ, real-time detection and identification.

Degradation of crystal violet using nanometer TiO_2 under the synergistic action of H_2O_2 and ultrasonic wave

TiO_2 nanoparticles with different phases are prepared by hydrolysis oftitanium tetrabutoxide in the presence of HC1. The composition and microstructure of the resultingsamples are studied by XRD and TEM. These results show that the range of particle size of TiO_2 isfrom 20 to 30 nm. The mechanism of TiO_2 photocatalysis reaction has been discussed extensively.Photocatalytic activities of nanometer TiO_2 are also evaluated by degradation of the crystal violetsolution. Experimental results indicate that the synergistic action of H_2O_2 and ultrasonic wavegreatly enhances photo-catalytic reaction of TiO_2.

Room-temperature continuous-wave operation of GaN-based blue-violet laser diodes with a lifetime longer than 1000h

GaN-based continuous-wave operated blue-violet laser diodes(LDs) with long lifetime are demonstrated, which are grown on a c-plane GaN substrate by metal organic chemical vapor deposition with a 10 × 600 μm^2 ridge waveguide structure.The electrical and optical characteristics of a blue-violet LD are investigated under direct-current injection at room temperature(25 °C). The stimulated emission wavelength and peak optical power of the LD are around 413 nm and over 600 mW, respectively.In addition, the threshold current density and voltage are as small as 1.46 kA/cm^2 and 4.1 V, respectively. Moreover, the lifetime is longer than 1000 hours under room-temperature continuous-wave operation.

Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for Selective Extraction of Crystal Violet from Natural Seawater coupled with HighPerformance Liquid Chromatographic Determination

Molecularly imprinted polymers （MIPs） were prepared by the bulk polymerization using crystal violet as the template molecule, and the methacrylic acid and ethylene glycol dimetheacrylate as functional monomer and cross-linker, respectively. Sys- tematic investigations of synthetic conditions were conducted. The surface morphology and recognition mechanism of the obtained polymers were studied using scanning electron microscope and spectrophotometric analysis. MIPs showed high atTmity to template molecule and were successfully applied as special solid-phase extraction sorbent for selective extraction of crystal violet from natural seawater. An off-line molecularly imprinted solid-phase extraction （MISPE） method followed by high-performance liquid chroma- tography with diodearray detection for the analysis of crystal violet was also established. MISPE columns have good recoveries for crystal violet standard solutions and good linearity was obtained over the concentration range of 0-200 ~tg L-1 （R2 〉 0.99）. Finally, two natural seawater samples were investigated. The recoveries of spiked seawater on the MISPE columns were from 44.47% to 62.34%, the relative standard deviation （n=3） being in the range of 2.89%-5.96%.

Output light power of InGaN-based violet laser diodes improved by using a u-InGaN/GaN/AlGaN multiple upper waveguide

The upper waveguide （UWG） has direct influences on the optical and electrical characteristics of the violet laser diode （LD） by changing the optical field distribution or barrier of the electron blocking layer （EBL）. In this study, a series of InGaN-based violet LDs with different UWGs are investigated systematically with LASTIP software. It is found that the output light power （OLP） under an injecting current of 120 mA or the threshold current （Ith） is deteriorated when the UWG is u-In0.02Ga0.98N/GaN or u-In0.02Ga0.98N/AlxGa1-xN （0 ≤ x ≤ 0.1）, which should be attributed to small optical confinement factor （OCF） or severe electron leakage. Therefore, a new violet LD structure with u-In0.02Ga0.98N/GaN/Al0.05Ga0.95N multiple layer UWG is proposed to reduce the optical loss and increase the barrier of EBL. Finally, the output light power under an injecting current of 120 mA is improved to 176.4 mW.

Evaluations of physico-chemical properties of TiO_(2)/clinoptilolite synthesized via three methods on photocatalytic degradation of crystal violet

Different preparation routes for TiO_(2)-supported natural and synthetic clinoptilolite(TiO_(2)/CP)composites were thoroughly investigated on the basis of sol-gel,hydrothermal,and in-situ hydrothermal methods.The micro-structural features and physicochemical properties of resultant TiO_(2)/CPs were characterized via X-ray diffraction patterns,scanning(transmission)electron microscope images,Fourier transform infrared spectra,inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry methods,BET-isotherms,UV-visible spectra,and surface charge potential distributions.The results showed that in-situ hydrothermal method led to well dispersions of loaded-TiO_(2) particles on the surface of leaf-like CP,while obviously aggregated TiO_(2) on a relatively distorted structure of CP was obtained using sol-gel and hydrothermal methods.Their adsorptive and photocatalytic efficiencies for removal of crystal violet(CV)dye in aqueous solution were also explored under UV-irradiations.The results demonstrated that TiO_(2)/CPs synthesized via sol-gel and in-situ hydrothermal methods presented the excellent performances with 98% removal efficiencies as compare to the bare commercial TiO_(2) which achieved 53%removal of CV dye.While,the in-situ hydrothermally synthesized TiO_(2)/CPs were the best due to their moderate energy cost,highest adsorption capacities and removal efficiencies.Particularly,the synthetic CPs as supports exhibited synergetic photocatalytic activities for the degradation of CV dye,which is attributed to their high surface areas,better adsorption capability,and fine dispersion of TiO_(2) particles.Adsorption and degradation kinetics of CV dye were found to follow the pseudo-second and pseudo-first order models,respectively.

Optical Limiting Performance of a Crystal Violet Cation Fulleride Salt

Optical limiting properties of a crystal violet cation fulleride salt dissolved in tetrahydrofuran have been studied by using 10 ns,532 nm laser pulses.The fluence-dependent transmissivity measurements were performed on the samples with the same concentration and different path lengths in a collimated optical set-up.For comparison,the fluence-dependent transmissivities of fullerene C_(60) and crystal violet solutions were also measured under the same linear transmissivity.The nonlinear optical limiting effect of the fulleride salt in tetrahydrofuran was even slightly stronger than that of C_(60) in toluene.

Preconcentration/separation and determination of mercury using microcrystalline phenolphthalein modified by ethyl violet

A novel method was developed for enrichment and separation of trace mercury using phenolphthalein modified by ethyl violet （EV）. The effects of different parameters, such as stirring time, various metal ions and salts, and the amounts of phenolphthalein, NH4SCN, and EV on the extraction rate of mercury were studied, to select the experimental conditions. Under optimum conditions, mercury can be adsorbed on the surface of microcrystalline phenolphthalein by the intermolecular acdon strength. The possible reaction mechanism for the enrichment of mercury was discussed in detail. Hg（Ⅱ） could be completely separated from Fe（Ⅱ）, Co（Ⅱ）, Ni（Ⅱ）, Mn（Ⅱ）, Cd（Ⅱ）, Cr（Ⅲ）, and Al（Ⅲ） in the solution. The proposed method has been successfully applied to the determination of trace mercury in industrial wastewater with the recoveries above 99%. The relative standard deviation for five replicate determinations of 0.04 μg·mL^-1 of Hg（Ⅱ） was found to be 1.4%, 1.1%, and 1.2%, respectively. The analytical results were very satisfactory.

High-Sensitivity Ozone Sensing Using 280 nm Deep Ultraviolet Light-Emitting Diode for Detection of Natural Hazard Ozone

Recently ozone is one of natural hazards which comes from cars, industry using ozone for sterilization of organic and inorganic materials and for water purification. So, ozone sensing becomes very important, and convenient and accurate ozone sensor is required. A new high sensitivity ozone sensing system using an deep ultra-violet light emitting diode (DUV-LED) operated at the wavelength of 280 nm has been successfully constructed. The fabrication of diode operated at 280 nm is much easier than that of DUV-LED operated at Hg lamp wavelength of 254 nm. The system is compact and possible to sense the ozone concentration less than 0.1 ppm with an accuracy of 0.5% easily with low power DUV-LED of around 200 micro Watts operated at 280 nm without any data processing circuit.

Performance Improvement of GaN-Based Violet Laser Diodes

The influences of InGaN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs) and AlGaN electron-blocking layers (EBL) on the performance of GaN-based violet laser diodes are investigated. Compared with the InGaN/GaN MQWs grown at two different temperatures, the same-temperature growth of InGaN well and GaN barrier layers has a positive effect on the threshold current and slope efficiency of laser diodes, indicating that the quality of MQWs is improved. In addition, the performance of GaN laser diodes could be further improved by increasing Al content in the AlGaN EBL due to the fact that the electron leakage current could be reduced by properly increasing the barrier height of AlGaN EBL. The violet laser diode with a peak output power of 20 W is obtained.

Infrared-to-visible and infrared-to-violet upconversion fluorescence of rare earth doped LaF_3 nanocrystals

This paper reports that hexagonal-phase LaF3：Yb0.20^3＋,Er0.02^3＋ and LaF3：Yb0.20^3＋, Tm0.02^3＋ nanocrystals （NCs） were synthesized via a hydrothermal method. The transmission electron microscopy, selected area electron diffraction, powder x-ray diffraction, and thermogravimetric analysis are used to characterize the NCs. Under 980 nm excitation, the Yb^3＋/Er^3＋ and Yb^3＋/Tm^3＋ codoped NCs colloidal solutions present bright green and blue upconversion fluorescence, respectively. These NCs show efficient infrared-to-violet and infrared-to-visible upconversion. The upconversion fluo- rescence mechanisms of LaF2：Yb0.20^3＋, Er0.02^3＋ and LaF3：Yb0.20^3＋,Tm0.02^3＋ NCs are investigated with a 980-nm diode laser as excitation source.

Material Properties and Mold Folded Core Based on Ultra-violet Cured Resins

Ultra-violet(UV)curing is an efficient method for composite molding.Firstly,thermophysical properties of UV cured glass-fiber reinforced plastics are conducted.Material properties are studied for various kinds of postcuring modes.Then the UV curing method is suggested in manufacturing V-crimp folded core for sandwich panels.Two kinds of processing schemes for V-crimp folded core manufacturing using UV curing are presented.Finally,the effect of post-curing on the mechanical properties of folded core sandwiches is experimentally studied,and optimum modes of post-curing are determined.The experimental results show that the ultimate compressive strength of the folded sandwiches is increased by 60% after post-curing with the optimum post-curing mode.

Generation of purple-violet chrysanthemums via anthocyanin B-ring hydroxylation and glucosylation introduced from Osteospermum hybrid F3'5'H and Clitoria ternatea A3'5'GT

Chrysanthemums possess no metabolic pathway to synthesize delphinidin because of the lack of endogenous F3'5'H gene encoding the key enzyme in its biosynthetic pathway;therefore,there are no blue or blue-purple chrysanthemums occurring naturally.Currently,the introduction of exogenous F3'5'H into chrysanthemums is an efficient method for breeding bluish chrysanthemums.In this study,we explored the effects of the introduction of mutant CmF3'H(generated via site-directed mutagenesis,T485S,CmF3'Hm)and exogenous Osteospermum hybrid F3'5'H(OhF3'5'H)genes combined with Clitoria ternatea A3'5'GT(CtA3'5'GT)on delphinidin synthesis in chrysanthemum.Among the F3'5'H transgenic lines,those overexpressing endogenous CmF3'Hm could not generate blue flower color,although red color was changed to light pink due to CtA3'5'GT function.Meanwhile,OhF3'5'H introduction promoted the accumulation of delphinidin and its derivatives in chrysanthemum,changing the flower color from red-purple to purple-violet.These results indicate the applicability of exogenous OhF3'5'H and CtA3'5'GT transformation for promoting delphinidin synthesis during the molecular breeding of violet/blue chrysanthemums.

Indirect Differential Pulse Voltammetric Determination of Aluminum by a Pyrocatechol Violet-Modified Electrode

A PCV-modified electrode was simply prepared by dip-coating a pyrolytic graphite electrode in a NaAc-HAc buffer solution of PCV. The peak currents of differential pulse voltammograms (DPV) decrease with the addition of Al and the peak potentials remain the same. The decreasing of Delta i(p) is linear with Al concentration in the range of 1 x 10(-8) similar to 1 x 10(-7) mol/L. The detection limit is 5 x 10(-9) mol/L and the relative standard deviation for 4 x 10(-8) mol/L Al is 2.9% (n=8). No serious interference was found. The determination of Al in water samples is reported.

Study on the supramolecular systems of two basic violets with cyclodextrins by MWNTs/Nafion modified glassy carbon electrode

Abstract The electrochemical properties of two basic violets （methyl violet and ethyl violet） at the MWNTs/Nafion modified glassy carbon electrode were investigated. The redox of the basic violets is two-electron and two-proton process, and methyl violet presents stronger electron transfer capacity than ethyl violet. Meanwhile, the inclusion constants of the two basic violets with five CDs were determined by differential pulse voltammetry （DPV）. The two basic violets and CDs can form 1：1 complexes, The inclusion capacities of the two basic violets follow the same order： CM-β-CD 〉 HP-β-CD 〉 TM-β-CD 〉 DM-β- CD 〉 β-CD. ？2009 Yu Jing Guo. Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of Chinese Chemical Society. All rights reserved.

Extraction-spectrophotometric Determination of Dicyanoaurate(Ⅰ) with Crystal Violet

Extraction spectrophotometric determination of dicyanoaurate (Ⅰ) with Crystal Violet is described. At pH 2.6～10.7, dicyanoaurate (Ⅰ) can react with Crystal Violet and form a complex which can be extracted into isoamylacetate. The apparent molar absorptivity is 8.37×10 4 L·mol -1 ·cm -1 at 605 nm. Beer′s law is obeyed for 0～15 μg of Au(Ⅰ) per 5 ml of isoamylacetate. The interference from Ag(Ⅰ) and Cu(Ⅱ) can be eliminated with thiourea and EDTA. The method is applied to the determination of dicyanoaurate (Ⅰ) in sample solution with satisfactory results.

Energy transfer in solid-state dye lasers based on methyl methacrylate co-doped with sulforhodamine B and crystal violet

Laser action in methyl methacrylate （MMA） co-doped with sulforhodamine B and crystal violet dyes was investi- gated. The dye mixture was incorporated into a solid polymeric matrix and was pumped by a 532-nm Nd：YAG laser. Distributed feedback dye laser （DFDL） action was induced in the dye mixture using a prism arrangement both in the donor and acceptor regions by an energy transfer mechanism. Theoretically, the characteristics of acceptor and donor DFDLs, and the dependence of their pulse widths and output powers on acceptor-donor concentrations and pump power, were studied. Experimentally, the output energy of DFDL was measured at the emission peaks of donor and acceptor dyes for different pump powers and different acceptor-donor concentrations. Tuning of the output wavelength was achieved by varying the period of the gain modulation of the laser medium. The laser wavelength showed continuous tunability from 563 nm to 648 nm.