Nucleophilic difluoromethylation of primary alkyl halides using difluoromethyl phenyl sulfone as a difluoromethyl anion equivalent

A facile and efficient nucleophilic difluoromethylation of primary alkyl halides has been disclosed through a novel nucleophilic substitution-reductive desulfonylation strategy, using difluoromethyl phenyl sulfone as a difluoromethyl anion ("CF(2)H(-)") equivalent.     

中国能源强度与经济结构变化特征研究

中国经济持续增长伴随着能源强度下降的特征引起部分学者对中国经济增长和能源消费数据真实性的怀疑,因此,对中国能源强度变化特征进行研究具有重要的现实意义。迄今为止,对中国经济结构变动如何影响能源强度变化仍然缺少定量研究。本文分析了中国能源强度的变化趋势,说明其前后趋势基本上是一致、合理的。以此为基础,将能源强度变化分解为结构份额和效率份额,提出了结构份额和效率份额的计算方法,对我国能源强度变化中的结构份额和效率份额进行了定量分析,结构表明:1998-2000年间,我国能源强度下降的主要动力来自于各产业能源利用效率的提高,其中工业能源强度下降是总体能源强度下降的主要原因。     

Development of a laser photothermoacoustic frequency-swept system for subsurface imaging: theory and experiment

In conventional biomedical photoacoustic imaging systems, a pulsed laser is used to generate time-of-flight acoustic information of the subsurface features. This paper reports the theoretical and experimental development of a new frequency-domain (FD) photo-thermo-acoustic (PTA) principle featuring frequency sweep (chirp) and heterodyne modulation and lock-in detection of a continuous-wave laser source at 1064 nm wavelength. PTA imaging is a promising new technique which is being developed to detect tumor masses in turbid biological tissue. Owing to the linear relationship between the depth of acoustic signal generation and the delay time of signal arrival to the transducer, information specific to a particular depth can be associated with a particular frequency in the chirp signal. Scanning laser modulation with a linear frequency sweep method preserves the depth-to-delay time linearity and recovers FD-PTA signals from a range of depths. Preliminary results performed on rubber samples and solid tissue phantoms indicate that the FD-PTA technique has the potential to be a reliable tool for biomedical depth-profilometric imaging.     

Ultraslow bright and dark optical solitons in a cold three-state medium

We show the formation of ultraslow bright and dark optical solitons in a lifetime-broadened three-state atomic system under Raman excitation. We also discuss why such ultraslow optical solitons may not exist under the conditions of the usual electromagnetically induced transparency configuration where zero one- and two-photon detunings are required.     

Eigenstates and eigenenergies of four-wave-mixing models

We present explicit analytical expressions of all the eigenenergies and eigenstates for two different kinds of four-wave-mixing model in terms of a parameter lambda without the so-called Bethe ansatz assumption. The parameter lambda is shown to be determined by the roots of a simple polynomial. We also obtain the exact explicit analytical expressions of infinite eigenstates and energies without any unknown parameter.     

Red luminescent polymeric cuprous organosulfide generated by solvothermal redox reaction

A new polymeric metal organosulfide [Cu(I)3(pymt)3]n(pymt = pyrimidine-2-thiolate) with strong red photoluminescence was synthesized through solvothermal redox reaction, and crystallographically characterized to be a one-dimensional chiral structure containing metal-metal interactions.     

Circumferential resonance modes of solid elastic cylinders excited by obliquely incident acoustic waves

When an immersed solid elastic cylinder is insonified by an obliquely incident plane acoustic wave, some of the resonance modes of the cylinder are excited. These modes are directly related to the incidence angle of the insonifying wave. In this paper, the circumferential resonance modes of such immersed elastic cylinders are studied over a large range of incidence angles and frequencies and physical explanations are presented for singular features of the frequency-incidence angle plots. These features include the pairing of one axially guided mode with each transverse whispering gallery mode, the appearance of an anomalous pseudo-Rayleigh in the cylinder at incidence angles greater than the Rayleigh angle, and distortional effects of the longitudinal whispering gallery modes on the entire resonance spectrum of the cylinder. The physical explanations are derived from Resonance Scattering Theory (RST), which is employed to determine the interior displacement field of the cylinder and its dependence on insonification angle.     

Recoil-limited laser cooling of 87Sr atoms near the Fermi temperature

A dynamic magneto-optical trap, which relies on the rapid randomization of population in Zeeman substates, has been demonstrated for fermionic strontium atoms on the 1S0-3P1 intercombination transition. The obtained sample, 1x10(6) atoms at a temperature of 2 microK in the trap, was further Doppler cooled and polarized in a far-off resonant optical lattice to achieve 2 times the Fermi temperature.     

Multicolor luminescence patterning by photoactivation of semiconductor nanoparticle films

Indiscriminate adsorption of nanoparticles (NPs) significantly complicates the preparation of mesoscale NP patterns considered as enabling technology for many devices and processes. Instead of selected chemical functionalization of the substrate surface prior to the assembly of nanocolloids, the required optical properties - in our case, high quantum yield luminescence - are imparted to the layer-by-layer assembled films by spatially selected photoactivation. The films are made by sequential adsorption of a positively charged polyelectrolyte and a negatively charged CdSe/CdS aqueous dispersion with an initial quantum yield of 0.5-2%. The photoactivation process takes place in the presence of oxygen and may be accompanied by photoetching. A 50-500-fold increase in the luminescence intensity of CdSe/CdS citrate-stabilized particles (quantum yield 25-45%) after visible light illumination provides excellent pattern contrast. Micron scale luminescence patterns were produced from NPs of various CdSe core diameters with red, yellow, and green emission. It was also demonstrated that different emission colors such as orange and green can be combined in one image by taking advantage of spatially selective photoetching. The presented optical patterning technique significantly simplifies the preparation of luminescence patterns as compared to conventional methods. The high signal-to-noise ratio associated with it is essential for optical devices, information processing, and biophotonics. The most immediate use of this approach is expected in cryptography and cell monitoring.