Orientations of ZnO grown on GaN

On semipolar epitaxial ZnO grown by chemical vapor deposition consists of two distinct orientations as evidenced by transmission electron microscopy and X‐ray diffraction. The initially grown ZnO on GaN follows the GaN lattice with the epitaxial relationship of // and The other oriented ZnO domains then grow on faceted with and with good coherency with the ‐oriented grains. (© 2015 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

微弱日盲紫外电晕自动实时检测方法

针对目前商用日盲紫外/可见光双谱段电晕探测仪对故障的判定效率低且容易受噪声干扰问题,本文提出了一种微弱日盲紫外电晕自动实时检测方法。在分析电晕目标和噪声时间域统计特性的基础上,该方法利用电晕目标在时间域连续的特点,首先完成灰度图像二值化、形态学膨胀等预处理,其次将N帧连续图像累加后阈值化,最后进行特征提取,获取电晕位置、面积等特征信息,实现电晕的自动实时检测。在完成设备辐射标定的基础上,可立即回溯得到故障的光子计数参考值。建立了该方法的探测概率、虚警率数学模型。将其在高速数字处理平台TMS320DM642上实现并输入测试视频,结果表明:在典型参数情况下该方法单次检测虚警概率为2.85×10^-5,处理时间小于120 ms,可实现微弱日盲紫外电晕的实时检测。     

Measuring Positive Cooperativity Using the Direct ESI-MS Assay. Cholera Toxin B Subunit Homopentamer Binding to GM1 Pentasaccharide

Direct electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS) assay was used to investigate the stepwise binding of the GM1 pentasaccharide β-D-Galp-(1→3)-β-D-GalpNAc-(1→4)[α-D-Neu5Ac-(2→3)]-β-D-Galp-(1→4)-β-D-Glcp (GM1os) to the cholera toxin B subunit homopentamer (CTB₅) and to establish conclusively whether GM1os binding is cooperative. Apparent association constants were measured for the stepwise addition of one to five GM1os to CTB₅ at pH 6.9 and 22 °C. The intrinsic association constant, which was established from the apparent association constant for the addition of a single GM1os to CTB₅, was found to be (3.2 ± 0.2) × 10⁶ M^–1. This is in reasonable agreement with the reported value of (6.4 ± 0.3) × 10⁶ M^–1, which was measured at pH 7.4 and 25 °C using isothermal titration calorimetry (ITC). Analysis of the apparent association constants provides direct and unambiguous evidence that GM1os binding exhibits small positive cooperativity. Binding was found to be sensitive to the number of ligand-bound nearest neighbor subunits, with the affinities enhanced by a factor of 1.7 and 2.9 when binding occurs next to one or two ligand-bound subunits, respectively. These findings, which provide quantitative support for the binding model proposed by Homans and coworkers [14], highlight the unique strengths of the direct ESI-MS assay for measuring cooperative ligand binding.

Dilational rheology of spread and adsorbed layers of silica nanoparticles at the liquid-gas interface

This short review is devoted to recent achievements in studies of the dilational surface rheological properties of the systems containing complexes of silica nanoparticles with conventional surfactants. It is shown that there is a surfactant concentration range where the dynamic surface elasticity reaches extremely high values up to 1000 mN/m. This result can explain the formation of very stable foams and emulsions containing nanoparticles. In some surfactant concentration ranges the adsorption layer is characterized by a non-linear response to small compressions or expansions of the liquid surface. Possible causes of this behavior and the mechanism of main relaxation processes are briefly discussed.     

Influence of sodium polystyrene sulfonate on dynamic surface properties of bovine serum albumin solutions

Dynamic surface elasticity of solutions of bovine serum albumin (BSA)/sodium polystyrene sulfonate (PSS) complexes has been measured as depending on the age of a surface, polyelectrolyte concentration, and solution pH by the oscillating-ring method. At pH values below the isoelectric point of BSA, the rate of variations in the surface properties increases due to a decrease in the electrostatic adsorption barrier as a result of a reduction in the total charge of the protein/polyelectrolyte complex. Therewith, a local maximum arises in the kinetic dependences of the surface elasticity, this maximum indicating the onset of the breakage of the tertiary structure of the protein in the surface layer. In the pH range corresponding to like charges of the protein and polyelectrolyte, variations in the surface properties slow down. In this case, the BSA/PSS complex is also formed via the interaction of PSS with those domains of globule surface that carry a charge opposite to the total charge of a protein molecule. A higher negative charge of the complex than that of protein globules increases the electrostatic adsorption barrier and decelerates variations in the surface properties. At the same time, the dependences of the surface elasticity on the surface pressure coincide with the dependences for the protein solution. Hence, the polyelectrolyte-protein interaction affects only the adsorption kinetics, while the surface properties in the vicinity of equilibrium are governed by adsorbed protein globules.     

Synthesis of Cu vanadate nanorods for visible‐light photocatalytic degradation of gentian violet

Cu vanadate nanorods have been synthesized via the hydrothermal process using polymer polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) as the surfactant. X‐ray diffraction (XRD) shows that the nanorods are composed of monoclinic Cu₅V₂O₁₀ phase. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) observation shows that the diameter and length of the nanorods are 50–300 nm and 3 μm, respectively. PVP concentration, hydrothermal temperature and duration time play essential roles in the formation and sizes of the Cu vanadate nanorods. A PVP‐assisted nucleation and crystal‐growth process is proposed to explain the formation of the Cu vanadate nanorods. Gentian violet (GV) is used to evaluate the photocatalytic activities of the Cu vanadate nanorods under solar light. The GV concentration clearly decreases with increasing irradiation time, and content of the Cu vanadate nanorods. GV solution with the concentration of 10 mg L⁻¹ can be totally degraded under solar light irradiation for 4 h using 10 mg Cu vanadate nanorods. The Cu vanadate nanorods have good photocatalytic activities for the degradation of GV under solar light.     

氧化锌在ITO导电玻璃上电沉积生长过程研究

采用恒电流电解法,以0.1mol/LNH4NO3、0.01mol/LZn(CH3COO)2水溶液为电解液,成功将ZnO电沉积于ITO导电玻璃的表面。利用扫描电子显微镜(SEM)研究了ZnO晶核在ITO导电玻璃表面上的生长过程,对其生长取向、排列方式及微观形貌等方面发生的一系列变化的规律进行了研究和讨论。利用X射线衍射分析(XRD)研究了电沉积时间对ZnO结晶性的影响。结果表明:ZnO在ITO导电玻璃上的电沉积过程,经历了晶核生成、增长成片、片状组合、定向排列、团聚成花、团聚成块等连续过程;随着沉积时间的增长,沉积厚度增加,使得ZnO晶体的结晶性变差。