不同尺寸硅纳米球复合二聚体的荧光增强

在微纳光学中,利用具有独特光学性质的微纳结构来实现荧光物质的发光增强是一种较为普遍的方法。为了提高量子点(QDs)的发光效率,提出了一种由两个尺寸不同的硅纳米球组成的二聚体结构。通过时域有限差分法(FDTD),从量子产率增强和荧光激发率增强方面研究了硅纳米球二聚体对荧光的增强作用。结果表明,尺寸不同的两个硅纳米球组成的二聚体可以较大地提高CdSe量子点的发光强度。当两个硅纳米球具有较小的直径以及较小的间隔时,量子点的量子产率和荧光激发率都可以得到更大的增强。特别地,当两个硅纳米球的直径都是100 nm,间隔为10 nm时,CdSe量子点的荧光强度可以得到大约209倍的增强。研究结果对高性能量子点光致发光器件的设计和开发有一定的指导意义。

基于全电介质复合纳米天线荧光传感器的研究

为了增强量子点的定向发光强度,提出了一种由硅柱二聚体和二氧化钛圆盘组成的复合纳米天线结构。利用时域有限差分方法系统研究了硅柱二聚体的轴参数、截面类型以及复合纳米天线结构对量子点定向发光增强的影响。结果表明,对于中心波长为600nm的量子点,硅柱二聚体的轴参数对量子点的发光影响不大,椭圆形截面的硅柱二聚体可以实现较大的量子点发光增强。此外,在复合纳米天线的作用下,不仅可以获得较大的量子效率增强,还可以实现量子点高度定向的发射效果,量子效率增强约6倍,定向收集效率可以达到50%。

Rheological behavior of fumed silica suspension in polyethylene glycol

The rheological behavior of fumed silica suspensions in polyethylene glycol(PEG) was studied at steady and oscillatory shear stress using AR 2000 stress controlled rheometer. The systems show reversible shear thickening behavior and the shear-thickening behavior can be explained by the clustering mechanism. The viscosity and the degree of shear-thickening of the systems strongly depend on the mass fraction of the silica, the molecular weigh of PEG and the frequency used in the rheological measurement. The silica volume fraction of the systems is 1.16% 3.62%, corresponding to the mass fraction of 4%9%. The shear-thickening taking place in the low volume fraction may contribute to the fractal nature of the silica. At oscillatory shear stress, when the shear stress is less than the critical stress, the storage modulus decreases significantly, meanwhile the loss modulus and the complex viscosity almost remain unchanged; when the shear stress is larger than the critical stress, the storage modulus, the loss modulus and the complex viscosity increase with the increase of shear stress. The loss modulus is larger than the storage modulus in the range of stress studied and both moduli depend on frequency.

Imaging the Dissociation Dynamics of Si2+ via Two-Photon Excitation at 193 nm

In the one-color experiment at 193nm, we studied the photodissociation of Si2+ ions prepared by two-photon ionization using the time-sliced ion velocity map imaging method. The Si+ imaging study shows that Si2+ dissociation results in two distinct channels: Si(3Pg)+Si+(2Pu) and Si(1D2)+Si+(2Pu). The main channel Si(3Pg)+Si+(2Pu)) is produced by the dissociation of the Si2+ ions in more than one energetically available excited electronic state, which are from the ionization of Si2(v=0-5). Particularly, the dissociation from the vibrationally excited Si2(v=1) shows the strongest signal. In contrast, the minor Si(1D2)+Si+(2Pu) channel is due to an avoided crossing between the two 22Πg states in the same symmetry. It has also been observed the one-photon dissociation of Si2+(X4Σg-) into Si(1D2)+Si+(2Pu) products with a large kinetic energy release.

Effect of solids on pulp and froth properties in flotation

Froth flotation is a widely used process of particle separation exploiting differences in surface properties. It is important to point out that overall flotation performance(grade and recovery) is a consequence of the quality and quantity of the solid particles collected from the pulp phase, transported into the froth phase, and surviving as bubble-particle aggregates into the overflow. This work will focus on studying these phenomena and will incorporate the effects of particle hydrophobicities in the 3-phase system. Solids are classed as either hydrophilic non-sulphide gangue(e.g. silica, talc), hydrophilic sulphide(e.g. pyrite), or hydrophobic sulphide(e.g. sphalerite). Talc is a surface-active species of gangue that has been shown to behave differently from silica(frother adsorbs on the surface of talc particles). Both are common components of ores and will be studied in detail. The focus of this work is to investigate the role of solids on pulp hydrodynamics, froth bubble coalescence intensity, water overflow rate with solids present, and in particular, the interactions between solids, frother and gas on the gas dispersion parameters. The results show that in the pulp zone there is no effect of solids on bubble size and gas holdup; in the froth zone, although hydrophilic particles solely do not effect on the water overflow rate, hydrophobic particles produce higher intensity of rates on water overflow and bubble coalescence, and many be attributed to the water reattachment.

PVDMS-Al2O3 Composite Hollow Fibre Membranes for Chloroform Recovery from Gas Streams

Sorption isotherm of chloroform in polyvinyl dimethylsiloxane (PVDMS) polymer film was measured via the gravimetric method, and this film was confirmed experimentally to be good membrane material to recover chloroform from gas stream with high sorption capacity. A new PVDMS-Al2O3 composite hollow fibre membrane was further prepared by coating a PVDMS film on the outer surface of Al2O3 hollow fibre porpous substrate prepared by a dry/wet phase inversion method. Microstructure of the composite membranes was examined by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), indicating the PVDMS coating layer was uniform, free of defects, and around 15μm thick. Performance of the PVDMS-Al2O3 composite hollow fibre membranes for chloroform recovery was investigated. By comparing the experimental data that derived from a mathematical model, the permeabilities of chloroform and nitrogen in the PVDMS polymer membrane were obtained. The effects of temperature and feed flow rate on the chloroform recovery and permeate concentration were investigated both experimentally and theoretically.

Permeation Characteristics of Light Hydrocarbons Through Poly（amide-6-β-ethylene oxide） Multilayer Composite Membranes

In this paper, poly(amide-6-β-ethylene oxide) (PEBA1657) copolymer was used to prepare multilayer polyetherimide (PEI)/polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)/PEBA1657/PDMS composite membranes by dip-coating method. Permeation behaviors of ethylene, ethane, propylene, propane, n-butane, methane and nitrogen through the multilayer composite membranes were investigated over a range of operating temperature and pressure. The permeances of light hydrocarbons through PEI/PDMS/PEBA1657/PDMS composite membranes increase with their increasing condensability, and the olefins are more permeable than their corresponding paraffins. For light hydrocarbons, the gas permeances increase significantly as temperature increasing. When the transmembrane pressure difference increases, the gas permeance increases moderately due to plasticization effect, while their apparent activation energies for permeation decrease.

Microfluidic Immunoprecipitation for Post-Translational Modified Protein Purification

In this paper, we report an antibody functionalized microimmunopreci- pitation （IX IP） method used for enrich lowabundant post-translational modified （PT~ proteins. The device is fabricated by inert, nontoxic and disposable polydimethylsiloxane （PDMS） using a silane-based chemical modification protocol, which yield antibody- terminated PDMS surfaces. In this study, the IX IP device is specifically designed for the purification of carbonylated protein, a representative example here to illustrate the potential applications for any other PTMs, which could be immuno-tagged by specific antibodies. The test model in vitro oxidized bovine serum albumin （BSA） was first derivitized by dinitrophenylhydrazide （DNPH） and then captured by the anti-DNP immobilized on this Ix lP device. The surface functional group mapping was systematically analyzed and validated by fluorescence microscopy. Quantitative study of DNP-derivatized carbonylated protein capture recovery and elution efficiency of the device was also studied. We also envision that this proteome enrichment Ix IP device can be assembled with other lab-on-a-chip components, such as microelectrophoresis or micro-chromatographic devices for follow-up protein analysis. This selective enrichment of modified proteins greatly facilitates the study of low abundant protein biomarkers discovery.