Raman investigation of hydration structure of iodide and iodate

In the troposphere,the destruction of ozone and the formation of new particles are closely related to the iodine content,which mainly comes from iodide(I^(-)) and iodate(IO_(3)^(-)) in the seawater.Therefore,understanding the interactions between I^(-),IO_(3)^(-)and water molecules plays a certain role in alleviating the destruction of the ozone layer.Raman spectroscopy is commonly used to obtain the information of the interaction between I^(-),IO_(3)^(-)and water molecules quickly and accurately.Herein,the effect of I^(-)and IO_(3)^(-)on the change in Raman band characteristics of water is investigated to reflect the associated intermolecular interactions change.With the addition of the two ions,the Raman band corresponding to OH stretching vibration moves towards the high wavenumber,indicating the formation of hydration structure.The narrowing of the Raman band from OH stretching vibration under weak hydrogen bond agrees well with the hydrogen bond variation,while the abnormal broadening of the Raman band from OH stretching vibration under strong hydrogen bond indicates the formation of H-down structure.With the increase of ions concentration,the frequency shift of the Raman band from OH stretching vibration under both weak and strong hydrogen bonds becomes more apparent.Meanwhile,the frequency shift of I^(-)is more obvious than that of IO_(3)^(-),which indicates that I^(-)is more likely to form the hydration structure with water than IO_(3)^(-).These results contribute to analyzing the different interactions between I^(-)-water and IO_(3)^(-)-water,then helping to prevent ozone depletion.

Fiber gas sensor-integrated smart face mask for roomtemperature distinguishing of target gases

Wearable gas sensors that are lightweight, portable, and inexpensive have great potential application in the real-time detection of human health and environmental monitoring. In this work, we fabricated flexible fiber gas sensors with single-walled carbon nanotube （SWCNT）, multi-walled carbon nanotube （MWCNT）, and ZnO quantum dot-decorated SWCNT （SWCNTs@ZnO） sensing elements. These flexible fiber gas sensors could be operated at room temperature to detect target gases with good sensitivity and recovery time. They also exhibited superior long-term stability, as well as good device mechanical bending ability and robustness. Integrating these flexible gas sensors into face masks, the fabricated wearable smart face masks could be used to selectively detect CaHsOH, HCHO, and NH3 by reading the corresponding LEDs with different colors. Such face masks have great potential application in the Internet of Things and wearable electronics.

Charge Carrier Dynamics in PDPP-F/PCBM Heterojunction Solar Cells

The morphology dependent of migration and recombination kinetics of charge carriers in the polymersolar cell based on poly {2,7′-9,9-dioctyfiuorene-alt-5-diethylhexyl-3,6-bis（5-bromothiophen-2-yl）pyrrolo[3,4-c]-pyrrole-1,4-dione}（PDPP-F） was investigated with photo-induced charge carrier extraction by linearly increasingvoltage technique. The recombination coefficient of charge carriers decreased and the mobility of charge carriersincreased, after the mass ratio of [6,6]-phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester（PCBM） increased from 3：2 to 2：1.Meanwhile, both of them were sensitive to the applied electric field and could be together responsible for theimprovement of voltage performance of polymer solar cell.