Structures and Hydrogen Bonding Interactions in Urea-water System Studied by All-atom MD Simulation and Chemical Shifts in NMR Spectrum

采用分子动力学模拟方法结合核磁共振化学位移和粘度对尿素水溶液在稀浓度范围内的结构和弱相互作用进行研究. 从径向分布函数(RDF)分析看出,尿素水溶液中存在着几种不同类型、不同氢键形成能力的传统氢键. 氢键网络分析发现尿素水溶液体系在水富集区域,水分子倾向于自身缔合形成稳定的分子簇结构,而随着尿素浓度的逐渐增加,水的有序结构受到破坏,水分子和尿素分子发生了交叉缔合作用形成氢键,尿素分子有形成自身缔合的趋势. 分子动力学统计的平均氢键数与核磁共振化学位移和粘度数据结果进行比较,发现它们的变化趋势一致,证明了实验和理论结果有很强的可靠性.     

All-atom Molecular Dynamic Simulations and NMR Spectra Study on Intermolecular Interactionsof N,N-dimethylacetamide-Water System

采用分子动力学模拟方法结合核磁共振化学位移系统研究了N,N-二甲基乙酰胺(DMA)水溶液体系全浓度范围的弱相互作用. 并对动力学模拟结果和核磁共振化学位移进行了比较. 径向分布函数表明体系中强氢键和C-H···O弱相互作用并存. 氢键网络分析体现了DMA水溶液结构中存在着不同的溶液结构区域. 随浓度和温度变化核磁共振化学位移值用于研究形成氢键的变化情况，并和模拟得到的结果进行比较，模拟和实验结果得到了较好的吻合.     

全原子分子动力学模拟结合核磁共振波谱研究N-甘氨酰甘氨酸水溶液的结构和弱相互作用

采用分子动力学模拟方法结合核磁共振化学位移系统研究了甘氨酰甘氨酸水溶液体系饱和溶解度范围的弱相互作用. 径向分布函数表明体系中不同类型的原子显示出形成氢键的不同能力. 氢键网络分析发现了不同氢键所能形成的分子簇结构. 随温度变化核磁共振化学位移值用于研究形成氢键的变化情况,并和模拟得到的结果进行比较,模拟和实验结果得到了较好的吻合.     

变温过程中二甲基亚砜与水之间氢键行为的拉曼光谱研究

测量了在降温过程中体积比为1∶1的二甲基亚砜(DMSO)水溶液的拉曼光谱,并对DMSO水溶液的拉曼光谱进行了归属。对实验数据进行分析发现:在降温过程中DMSO分子与水分子的分子间氢键、DMSO分子与DMSO分子和水分子与水分子间氢键的作用行为引起了DMSO的S-O双键和水分子的O—H键的拉曼谱带的变化。进一步分析表明:在27～-30℃降温过程DMSO与水之间氢键加强,-30～-60℃降温过程水与水之间氢键代替DMSO与水之间的氢键。这为丰富水溶液的氢键理论提供了实验依据。     

全原子分子动力学模拟研究丙氨酸二肽水溶液的结构和氢键作用

采用全原子分子动力学模拟研究了丙氨酸二肽分子在水溶液中的结构和氢键作用。径向分布函数和氢键统计用于分子动力学模拟的分析。从径向分布函数（RDF）发现不同类型的强氢键显示出不同的形成能力,而体系中的C−H•••O弱相互作用较为明显,也不能忽略。氢键统计分析的结果也证实了这一点。分子内距离、回转半径和骨架二面角用于表征丙氨酸二肽分子在水溶液中的构象变化。丙氨酸二肽分子在水溶液中的柔顺性较好,构象在折叠和伸展之间相互转换。     

Simulation Study on the Structure and Dynamics of Water in Sodium Tetrafluoroborate/Water

应用分子动力学模拟方法研究了室温条件下四氟硼酸钠(NaBF₄)/水混合体系中水分子的微观结构、IR光谱以及转动动力学. 考察了混合物体系中水分子的摩尔分数浓度分别为6.25%、25.0%、50.0%、75.0%、90.0% 和99.6%时体系的结构和动力学性质. 研究显示在不同水分子含量的混合物中水分子以自由分子存在,随着混合物中水分子摩尔分数的增加,水分子的转动和弯曲振动带红移,而O-H伸缩振动蓝移,混合物中水分子内和分子间的氢键和非谐性相互作用增强,分子平动和转动变得困难和缓慢,研究结果与实验观测一致.     

1,3,5-三氮杂苯－水簇氢键结构性质

在B3LYP/6-31 G**和MP2/6-31 G**水平上对1,3,5-三氮杂苯-(H2O)n(n=2,3)复合物的基态氢键结构进行几何优化和性质计算,结果表明复合物之间存在较强的氢键相互作用,所有稳定复合物结构中形成一个N…H-O氢键并终止于弱O…H-C氢键的氢键水链构型最稳定.氢键的形成是水分子中H-O键振动频率减小(红移).NBO分析表明,最稳定的1:2和1:3复合物发生分子问电荷转移总量分另q为0.02501 e和0.02777 e.     

分子间相互作用对核酸碱基中17O屏蔽张量与四极耦合常数影响的理论计算研究

通过高精度量子化学理论计算的方法研究了分子间弱的非键相互作用对胸腺嘧啶、尿嘧啶、胞嘧啶和鸟嘌呤四种核酸碱基中~(17)O核的屏蔽张量(σO)和四极耦合常数(QCC)的影响.计算结果表明分子间强的氢键作用以及弱的范德华(vd W)相互作用都对~(17)O核的化学位移(δO)具有较大的影响.随着分子间氢键作用的逐渐增强,δO逐渐减小,当采用包含所有弱相互作用的周期性模型进行计算时,理论结果与实验值吻合.进一步的电荷分析显示,~(17)O核化学位移的减小主要是由于分子间氢键作用强度增加导致~(17)O原子的负电荷密度逐渐增加.此外,计算结果表明碱基中分子间氢键网络和弱的范德华作用对碱基~(17)O QCC也具有显著的影响.周期性模型下,碱基上氧原子的局域结构环境得到平衡,~(17)O QCC达到最小值,与实验结果最为接近.以核酸碱基为例,说明了分子间的氢键网络以及分子间弱的相互作用对于准确计算生物样品的核磁共振(NMR)参数非常重要,以小的团簇模型来计算生物体系的核磁参数将会产生较大的偏差.     

PAMAM树状大分子与5-氟尿嘧啶相互作用的NMR研究

本文利用多种核磁共振（NMR）技术研究了聚酰胺-胺树状大分子（PAMAM）与5-氟尿嘧啶（5-FU）在水溶液中的相互作用.¹H NMR化学位移滴定结果表明5-FU分子结合在PAMAM分子表面，¹³C NMR化学位移滴定分析结果表明5-FU分子通过氢键或疏水间相互作用进入到PAMAM的内部疏水空腔.¹H核和¹⁹F核自旋-晶格弛豫时间（T₁）的测定结果也说明了二者之间存在相互作用.NOESY实验进一步验证了5-FU分子进入到PAMAM分子的内部空腔.本研究为研究树状大分子和药物小分子的相互作用提供了系统的NMR分析方法.     

拉曼光谱法研究1,3-二甲基脲溶液中的相互作用

尿素类化合物在生命科学领域中有非常重要的作用,其独特的化学结构可与水等其他氢键给体材料形成氢键。氢键是生命分子体系中较常见和重要的分子间弱的相互作用,振动光谱方法为分子间氢键相互作用的研究提供有力的测量手段,其中拉曼光谱为研究水溶液中氢键形成和变化规律提供了可能。测得了1,3-二甲基脲(DMU)晶体的拉曼光谱,利用密度泛函理论(DFT)在B3LYP/6-311G**水平上对气态单体DMU进行结构的优化,并结合文献对拉曼光谱的谱线进行了归属认证。然后测得了1,3-DMU与水二元体系的拉曼光谱。相比与DMU晶体,当DMU分子溶于水后,水-DMU氢键相互作用将取代DMU-DMU分子间相互作用,导致氮原子杂化方式由sp2向sp3杂化转变。由此溶解过程中DMU分子的骨架从平面结构变成了非平面结构。     

Self-organization of five species in a cyclic competition game

Cyclic competition game models, particularly the “rock–paper–scissors” model, play important roles in exploring the problem of multi-species coexistence in spatially ecological systems. We propose an extended “rock–paper–scissors” game to model cyclic interactions among five species, and find that two of the five can coexistent when biodiversity disappears, which is different from the “rock–paper–scissors” game. As the number of fingers is five, we named the new model the “fingers” game, where the thumb, forefinger, middle finger, ring finger, and little finger cyclically dominate their subsequent species and are dominated by their former species. We investigate the “fingers” model in two ways: direct simulations and nonlinear partial differential equations. An important finding is that the number of species in a cyclic competition game has an influence on the emergence of biodiversity. To be specific, the “rock–paper–scissors” model is in favor of maintaining biodiversity in comparison with the “fingers” model when the variables (population size, reproduction rate, selection rate, and migration rate) are the same. It is also shown that the mobility and reproduction rate can promote or jeopardize biodiversity.     

Experimental study on downstep in Chinese intonation

Downstep in pitch contour of Chinese Putonghua is examined using subtly designed sentences by controlling tone combinations. The results show both automatic and nonautomatic downstep phenomena exist in Chinese. In non-automatic downstep, low tones compress downwards the pitch range of the following syllables. and the main influence of downstep is on topline. Low tone not only lower the topline behind it, but also raise the high tones before it, the effects are compatible with each other. In automatic downstep, the topline of pitch contour in intonational phrase is presented as a linear downtrend, but it differs among speakers due to the effect of personal stress practice. In comparison with downstep phenomenon in other tone or non-tone languages, the downstep ratio in Chinese is not constant, and the domain of downstep is not limited within the adjacent tones.     

Contrastive analysis on tone between Putonghua and Taiwan Mandarin

The differences of the pitch and duration of Chinese syllables between Putonghua （PTH） and Taiwan Mandarin （TM） were studied. The speech materials to be used are not only isolated syllables, but also sentences. The results reveal that： For the isolated syllables, T1 and T2 in TM are influenced by Minnan dialect, therefore their pitch are lower than those in PTH. T3 is fall-rise in PTH, while it is fall in TM. Moreover, the syllable duration sequence for different tone is T3〉T2〉T1〉T4 in PTH, while it is T1〉T2〉T3〉T4 in TM. For the syllables in sentences, T2 is mid-rise in PTH, while it is mid-level in TM. And the T3 is longer than T4 but shorter than T1 or T2 in PTH, while it is the shortest in TM. Furthermore the effects of prosodic phrase boundary on duration for different tones are almost the same in PTH, but the lengthening part of T1 or T2 is longer than that of T3 or T4 in TM.     

Abelian-Higgs phase of SU(2) QCD and glueball energy

It is shown that SU(2) QCD admits an dual Abelian-Higgs phase, with a Higgs vacuum of a type-Ⅱ superconductor. This is done by using a connection decomposition for the gluon field and the random-direction approximation. Using a bag picture with soft wall, we presented a calculational procedure for the glueball energy based on the recent proof for wall-vortices [Nucl. Phys. B 741(2006)1].     

High efficiency filtering using two-dimensional photonic crystal coupled cavity structures

Transmission spectra of coupled cavity structures (CCSs) in two-dimensional (2D) photonic crystals (PCs) are investigated using a coupled mode theory, and an optical filter based on CCS is proposed. The performance of the filter is investigated using finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, and the results show that within a very short coupling distance of about 3λ, where λ is the wavelength of signal in vacuum, the incident signals with different frequencies are separated into different channels with a contrast ratio of 20 dB. The advantages of this kind of filter are small size and easily tunable operation frequencies.     

Signal generation in an isotropic medium in scanning electron acoustic microscope

Based on the research in Ref. [5][Materials Science and Engineering, 1989; A122： 57 63], an improved model of heat source is set up, the different modes of Lamb wave in an isotropic sample generated by a chopped electron beam at frequency f are obtained with integral transform and normal function expansion method, and the output signal of PZT coupled at the back surface of the sample is found out. The generation mechanism of SEAM （Scanning Electron Acoustic Microscopy） signal is discussed. It shows that the SEAM is a near field imaging technique with high spatial resolution and its best lateral spatial resolution is about 2√2α （α is the radius of the focused electron beam）. Some of experimental results of SEAM images are presented in the paper and it shows that the spatial resolution of SEAM is better than 0.5 μm and smaller than the thermal diffusion length of the sample. Therefore the character of near field imaging in SEAM is also proved experimentally.     

Real-time restoration of rotational blurred image using gradient-loading

The key to the restoration of rotational motion blurred image is how to restore the image under a low cost and to correct the irreversibility of the degradation function matrix.Based on the special qualities of degradation function matrix and precise deduction in space-domain, we present a new approach using gradient-loading for restoration of rotational blurred image.By easily adding a gradient operator, the irreversibility of the original matrix is corrected and can be applied for inverse filtering then.Gradientloading is the optimized approach which combines the advantages of both the approaches using constrained least square filtering and traditional diagonal-loading.Compared with the approach using least square filtering, its peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR) is improved from 3.18 to 6.46dB, while the computing time is reduced to 1/2-1/3.Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness, noise-resistibility, robustness, and low complexity of this approach, which make it more suitable for real-time environment.     

All-Optical Logic Device Using Bent Nonlinear Tapered Y-Junction Waveguide Structure

We propose an all-optical logic device made of a bent tapered Y-junction waveguide with a Kerr-type nonlinear interface. It could provide an AND gate, OR gate, and exclusive-OR (XOR) gate. We could obtain different transmission results by adjusting the bending angle. The numerical simulation results show that the device functions as AND, OR, and XOR gates.     

Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz imaging by a pyroelectric camera

Real-time, continuous-wave terahertz (THz) imaging is demonstrated. A 1.89-THz optically-pumped farinfrared laser is used as the illumination source, and a 124 × 124 element room-temperature pyroelectric camera is adopted as the detector. With this setup, THz images through various wrapping materials are shown. The results show that this imaging system has the potential applications in real-time mail and security inspection.