Absolute Orientation of Molecules with Competing Hydrophilic Head Groups at the Air/Water Interface Probed with Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

和频振动光谱(SFG-VS)研究中由基团在界面上取向所引起的光谱增强或相消的干涉现象为研究分子在界面上的绝对取向提供了一种直接的测量方法. 这一方法比SFG实验中复杂的相位测量方法更为直接和简单可行. 以在空气/水界面取向已知的对羟基苯腈(PCP)分子的氰基(-CN)基团为相位参考来获得3,5-二甲基对羟基苯腈(35DMHBN)和2,6-二甲基对羟基苯腈(26DMHBN)分子在空气/水界面的取向信息. 通过对这三种分子的水溶液和它们两两混合溶液界面上-CN基团和频振动光谱强度的比较,发现在空气/水界面的3     

空气/甲醇界面和频振动光谱的定量偏振分析

对空气／甲醇液体界面的和频振动光谱进行了定量的理论分析．虽然甲醇的红外和Raman光谱中都具有明显的反对称伸缩振动峰,但该光谱峰在界面和频振动光谱中却从未被观测到．利用已知的甲醇液体的红外和Raman光谱对和频振动光谱的键极化模型进行了修正,从而对此实验现象进行了定量的解释．此修正可以广泛地应用于界面和频振动光谱的研究中．     

有序分子系统的线性与非线性光谱学的简化描述

通过对有序分子系统的线性与非线性光谱学的简化描述 ,帮助对有序分子体系光谱学进行研究的实验学家建立明确的物理图像和定量的研究工具 .这一描述是从最近对二阶非线性光学界面研究技术 ,即光学二次谐波 (SHG)和和频偏振振动光谱 (SFG VPS)的定量取向和偏振处理中推广出来的 .这一处理的方法关键在于简化线性和非线性光学中的有效极化率 ,构造出一个通用的取向泛函 ,并能通过实验参数清晰地计算出取向泛函的取向和强度因子 .同时还讨论了相干光谱技术在准确测量有序分子体系的取向和序的相比于非相干光谱方法的优点 .     

Vibrational Spectra and Adsorption of Trisiloxane Superspreading Surfactant at Air/Water Interface Studied with Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy

使用界面和频振动光谱(SFG-VS)测量了空气/水界面三甲基硅烷表面活性剂Silwet L-77的C-H伸缩振动光谱．这些光谱峰主要是在2905 cm-1附近属于-Si-CH3基团的对称伸缩(SS)振动,在2957 cm-1的主要是-Si-CH3基团反对称伸缩(AS)振动,以及明显较弱的在2880 cm-1附近的属于-O-CH2-基团的对称伸缩(SS)振动．通过比较低于和高于临界聚集或胶束浓度(CAC)的SFG-VS偏振光谱显示Silwet L-77分子的C-H基团取向在不同的界面密度下变化很小．SFG-VS测量的吸附等温线表明Silwet L-77分子在空气/水界面没有形成所谓的双层结构的迹象．Silwet L-77分子在空气/水界面的Gibbs吸附自由能为-42.2±0.8 kJ/mol,表明该分子具有很强的表面吸附能力．     

Quantitative Surface Chirality Detection with Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy: Twin Polarization Angle Approach

介绍了一种新的表面和频振动光谱方法: 定量手性检测中的双偏振角方法. 一般来讲表面光谱信号中非手性项贡献最强,而纯界面手性信号要比非手性信号弱两到三个数量级. 因此在和频振动光定量测量和分析界面手性的贡献问题上存在困难. 在和频振动光谱的双偏振角方法中,通过固定入射红外光偏振方向,并同时改变入射可见光和初涉和频信号光的偏振角进行测量. 这样所得到的偏振依赖的和频振动光谱信号能够直接给出界面手性贡献的特征,并 且能够用于准确测量界面的手性和非手性贡献. 对双偏振角方法进行了描述,并且通过S和R手性的柠檬烯空     

交叉传播构型的和频振动光谱

报道和频振动光谱在交叉传播的实验构型下的理论公式推导和实验结果. 在交叉传播的和频振动光谱实验室中,可见光和红外光通过相互垂直的入射面同时照射在界面上,从而避免了对使用同时能够透过可见和红外激光束的光学元件的要求. 这种交叉实验构型能够直接应用到封闭在真空或者压力腔体中的界面,使得在用远红外直接探测金属氧化物及其它低频界面振动模式实验的窗口材料有更多的选择. 这一交叉实验构型的潜在应用包括表面科学、材料科学、基础催化科学以及低温下的分子科学等方面.     

二氧化硅-十八烷基三氯硅烷界面的和频光谱相位测量及其测量精度分析

相位测量和频振动光谱（SFG）可以获得物质表面分子取向等信息,但在实验重复性、实验设计和界面分析等方面仍有一些关键问题没有解决。相位误差会引起光谱变化并误导界面结构分析,因此分析并准确控制误差是相位测量SFG的关键技术。使用z-切石英作为相位标准,测量了修饰在熔融石英基底上的十八烷基三氯硅烷（OTS）在C-H振动波段的和频振动光谱,对OTS的相位光谱进行了解析,结果表明OTS虚部光谱中,2 878和2 936 cm-1处的两个正峰分别是末端CH₃的对称振动（CH₃ss）和费米共振（CH₃FR）,2 960 cm-1处的负峰为CH₃的反对称伸缩振动（CH₃as）,这三个峰的光谱特征和指认与文献一致。2 910 cm-1附近的负峰为CH₂反对称伸缩（CH₂as）,与文献比较,约有20 cm-1的偏移,且在2 850 cm-1附近还观察到一个负峰,归属为CH₂对称伸缩（CH₂ss）,分析认为与文献的差异可能是因为样品制备时间影响了OTS的分子排列结构。通过建立OTS虚部谱与CH₃取向角的关系,发现CH₃的三种振动模式的c轴与表面法线的夹角均小于90°,其H更多为向上取向且排列有序,表明相位测量相较于强度测量可以获得更丰富的表面信息。同时,讨论了待测样品和参考样品位置的非一致性对相位测量精度的影响。通过测量OTS在三个不同位置（12.1,12.3和12.73 mm）的虚部谱,并与模拟相位误差的引入对虚部谱的影响对比,发现待测样品与参考样品测量位置间2.5 μm的位移对应于1°的相位误差,20°相位的偏移会导致零点位置移动约6 cm-1,从而引起振动峰位置和符号等的改变,导致对光谱的错误解析。为了获得界面分子稳定可靠的相位信息,需要严格控制两次样品测量位置一致。实验研究结果为提高和频振动光谱相位测量的精度与准确性提供了指导,为界面分子表面态的检测与分析、及微小信号的探测提供了有效手段。     

有序分子体系的三阶和四阶非线性光谱学的实验可观测量和宏观感应率及微观极化率张量元

对于线性和非线性光谱，有序的分子体系(如分子界面和分子膜)的取向分析可以通过对形式非常简单的广义取向泛函．对于二阶非线性光谱学，即光学二次谐波和和频振动光谱，这一简化描述对于理解分子界面和膜的光谱和取向的细节很有助益．为了将这一简化描述应用于更高阶的相干非线性光谱学，对于具有旋转对称性的界面或膜的三阶和四阶非线性光谱学的实验可观测量和宏观感应率及微观极化率张量元进行了计算并得到了具体表达式．这些通用的表达式将有助于典型的三、四阶非线性光谱学，即光学三次谐波、简并的相干反斯托克斯拉曼光谱、光学四次谐波和简并     

二氧化钛薄膜表面甲醇吸附的和频振动光谱

自行搭建了用于研究表面光催化的宽带红外和频振动光谱并可以原位紫外光激发的装置. 利用自制的结构紧凑小巧的高真空样品池,可以在10 kPa氧气氛围下经原位紫外光照除掉 射频磁控溅射制备的二氧化钛薄膜表面的有机污染物. 通过在室温下改变甲醇气压和指认吸附在薄膜表面的甲醇的和频振动光谱,发现薄膜表面有两种吸附的甲醇,分子形式吸附的甲醇(CH₃OH)和解离吸附的甲醇(CH₃O). 当甲醇的覆盖度由低变高时,分子形式吸附的甲醇的CH₃的对称伸缩振动和费米共振峰红移了6～8 cm^-1. 真空下,薄膜表面的甲氧基和表面的氢原子可以重新结合并以甲醇分子的形式脱附. 研究表明二氧化钛薄膜体系存在两个平衡：气相甲醇和表面吸附的甲醇分子之间,以及表面吸附的甲醇分子和甲氧基之间.     

基于溶剂化效应的BDE-15分子振动光谱增强特征振动研究

利用密度泛函与自洽反应场理论在B3LYP/6-31+G(d)水平下分别计算气态及24种不同极性溶剂中4,4’-二溴二苯醚(4,4’-dibrominated diphenyl ethers, BDE-15)的分子振动光谱(红外光谱、拉曼光谱),以气态分子振动光谱为基准,筛选出对溶剂极性敏感的特征振动作为指标构建溶剂对BDE-15振动光谱溶剂化效应指标体系,探究溶剂对BDE-15分子振动频率、红外/拉曼峰强溶剂化效应及综合效应,并寻求显著增强BDE-15分子特征振动频移/强度的溶剂。研究表明：从分子振动频率角度,溶剂极性敏感的(频移>1 cm-1)分子特征振动均为伸缩振和面外弯曲振,但24种溶剂对BDE-15分子振动频率溶剂化效应并不显著;从分子振动峰强角度,24种溶剂对BDE-15分子振动光谱峰强的增强效应主要发生在红外光谱的中低频区及拉曼光谱的高频区,其中起显著增强(红外/拉曼效应指标值分别大于6与5)的溶剂为醇类、乙腈、二甲亚砜、硝基苯;不同极性溶剂对BDE-15拉曼峰强溶剂化效应及综合效应指标值均表现出随溶剂介电常数增长由线性到对数的增长趋势,而红外峰强只保留低介电常数溶剂时的线性关系。利用上述BDE-15分子振动光谱峰强增强方法对BDE-153,BDE-154和BDE-209进行验证,醇类、乙腈、二甲亚砜、硝基苯对三者的振动光谱红外/拉曼峰强的效应指标值分别大于6与5,且最大峰强增倍数皆大于33,说明所建BDE-15分子振动光谱增强特征振动方法有助于进一步开展基于分子振动光谱的PBDEs同系物间辨识研究。     

Molecular structure of polystyrene at Air/Polymer and Solid/Polymer interfaces

IR-visible sum-frequency generation (SFG) spectroscopy has been used in a total internal reflection geometry to study the molecular structure of polystyrene (PS) at PS/sapphire and PS/air interfaces, simultaneously. The symmetric vibrational modes of the phenyl rings dominate the SFG spectra at the PS/air interface as compared to the antisymmetric vibrational modes at the PS/sapphire interface. This indicates approximately parallel orientation of the phenyl rings at the PS/air interface while nearly perpendicular orientation at the PS/sapphire interface, with respect to the surface normal.     

Vibrational spectroscopy of ice interfaces

Vibrational spectroscopy via infrared-visible sum-frequency generation was used to probe interfaces of hexagonal ice(0001) with vapor, a hydrophobic solid, and a hydrophilic solid. The OH stretch vibrational modes for hydrogen-bonded and free dangling OH bonds were measured at various temperatures below bulk melting. At the vapor/ice interface, the dangling OH mode provided information about surface melting. Surface structural disordering appeared to set in at ∼200 K and increased dramatically with temperature. Received: 15 January 2002 / Published online: 11 June 2002     

Ultrafast reorientation of dangling OH groups at the air-water interface using femtosecond vibrational spectroscopy

We report the real-time measurement of the ultrafast reorientational motion of water molecules at the water-air interface, using femtosecond time- and polarization-resolved vibrational sum-frequency spectroscopy. Vibrational excitation of dangling OH bonds along a specific polarization axis induces a transient anisotropy that decays due to the reorientation of vibrationally excited OH groups. The reorientation of interfacial water is shown to occur on subpicosecond time scales, several times faster than in the bulk, which can be attributed to the lower degree of hydrogen bond coordination at the interface. Molecular dynamics simulations of interfacial water dynamics are in quantitative agreement with experimental observations and show that, unlike in bulk, the interfacial reorientation occurs in a largely diffusive manner.     

金属/水界面振动光谱的等离基元场增强

电化学反应在许多学科中扮演着很重要的角色. 对于化学分析来说,振动光谱是一门很好的原位测量技术,然而由于红外光在电极和电解质中强烈的衰减使得它在电化学反应中的应用受到了很大的限制. 本文中论证了在金属电极上结合适当的亚波长等离子体结构,在OH伸缩振动频段内,通过激发表面等离激元能够大大增强金属与液态水电化学界面的红外场强. 这对于原位振动光谱的研究,特别是当用到表面灵敏的光学混频技术时可产生很大的促进作用.     

Impact of intermolecular vibrational coupling effects on the sum-frequency generation spectra of the water/air interface

ABSTRACT

We have examined the impact of intermolecular vibrational coupling effects of the O-H stretch modes, as obtained by the surface-specific velocity-velocity correlation function approach, on the simulated sum-frequency generation spectra of the water/air interface. Our study shows that the inclusion of intermolecular coupling effects within the first three water layers, i.e. from the water/air interface up to a distance of 6?Å towards the bulk, is essential to reproduce the experimental SFG spectra. In particular, we find that these intermolecular vibrational contributions to the SFG spectra of the water/air interface are dominated by the coupling between the SFG active interfacial and SFG inactive bulk water molecules. Moreover, we find that most of the intermolecular vibrational contributions to the spectra originate from the coupling between double-donor water molecules only, whereas the remaining contributions originate mainly from the coupling between single-donor and double-donor water molecules.     

Novel surface vibrational spectroscopy: infrared-infrared-visible sum-frequency generation

A novel type of surface vibrational sum-frequency generation spectroscopy is presented that enables a highly specific measurement of the coupling of molecules on surfaces. With this doubly vibrationally resonant technique, two-dimensional vibrational spectroscopy of molecules on surfaces becomes possible. The technique is demonstrated for the C-O stretch vibration of CO on a ruthenium (001) surface. It allows for the determination of the intermolecular coupling strength of dipole-coupled CO molecules on the surface.     

Examining surface and bulk structures using combined nonlinear vibrational spectroscopies

We combined sum-frequency generation (SFG) vibrational spectroscopy with coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy in one system to examine both surface and bulk structures of materials with the same geometry and without the need to move the sample. Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and polystyrene (PS) thin films were tested before and after plasma treatment. The sensitivities of SFG and CARS were tested by varying polymer film thickness and using a lipid monolayer.     

Wavelength-tunable ultrashort-pulse output of a photonic-crystal fiber designed to resolve ultrafast molecular dynamics

Wavelength-tunable 100 fs pulses generated through the soliton self-frequency shift in a photonic-crystal fiber are employed to visualize femtosecond coherence and population relaxation dynamics in molecular aggregates by means of time-resolved sum-frequency generation. This technique reveals an ultrafast dephasing of coherent molecular excitations with a phase relaxation time of about 120 fs and resolves an ultrafast switching of the nonlinear-optical response of molecular aggregates.     

Quantum-chemistry simulations of second-harmonic and sum-frequency generation of organic layers

By using quantum-chemistry approaches, the second-order nonlinear optical responses of molecules and two-dimensional molecular arrays containing the p-nitroaniline chromophore are evaluated in order to highlight key features of the simulation of the second-harmonic and sum-frequency generation spectra of organic layers. For the electronic component, which dominates the second-harmonic generation response and which constitutes the weakly frequency-dependent background contribution to the vibrational sum-frequency generation phenomenon, the time-dependent Hartree–Fock scheme based on the semi-empirical AM1 parameterization is suitable for predicting the microscopic responses as well as for accounting for the surrounding effects within a simple multiplicative scheme. For the vibrational resonant part of the sum-frequency generation response, ab initio density functional theory approaches turn out to be necessary for locating the resonances and estimating their intensities. Received: 16 October 2001 / Published online: 29 May 2002