The superhydrophobicity of polymer surfaces: Recent developments

Superhydrophobicity is the extreme water repellence of highly textured surfaces. The field of superhydrophobicity research has reached a stage where huge numbers of candidate treatments have been proposed and jumps have been made in theoretically describing them. There now seems to be a move to more practical concerns and to considering the demands of individual applications instead of more general cases. With these developments, polymeric surfaces with their huge variety of properties have come to the fore and are fast becoming the material of choice for designing, developing, and producing superhydrophobic surfaces. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part B: Polym Phys 49: 1203–1217, 2011     

Synthesis and properties of side-chain liquid crystalline polymers grafted with chiral dimers containing cholesteryl groups

ABSTRACT

Two series of novel side-chain liquid crystal (LC) polysiloxanes grafted with chiral liquid crystalline dimers containing cholesteryl mesogens were synthesised. The chemical structure and LC properties of comonomers and polymers were characterised by FTIR, ¹H-NMR, DSC, TGA, POM and XRD. M₁ and M₂ were chiral nematic (N*) dimers, and M₃ was an achiral LC monomer displaying nematic mesophase in a narrow mesomorphic temperature range, while the copolymers exhibited N* mesophase whose mesomorphic temperature ranges were much wider than those of the comonomers. Moreover, the glass transition temperatures and isotropization temperatures of the polymers all decreased with decreasing the dimer components. Reflection spectra showed that P_a series tend to attain wide-band selective reflection at long wavelengths, while P_b series were more potential at short wavelengths with narrow bandwidths. Decreasing the dimer components led the wavelength of the selective reflection to blue shift, which was an abnormal phenomenon in chiral mixture system.     

冷原子介质中基于相干诱导高反射带和高透射带的全光路由控制

以相干诱导光子带隙结构为工作基础,提出了一种可对两个弱光信号的传播路径同时进行动态调控的新型全光路由控制方案。利用描述光波在空间周期介质中相干散射的传输矩阵理论,结合描述单频激光与多能级原子共振相互作用的密度矩阵方程,计算了作为控制媒介的相干驱动超冷原子系综的稳态反射光谱和稳态透射光谱。结果表明,通过改变两个较强相干激光的空间模式、强度和频率等参数,可在探测跃迁共振频率附近建立反射率约为95%或者透射率约为95%的两个特殊频带。对这样的相干诱导高反射带和高透射带进行了实时动态调控,可根据需要引导两个不同频率的弱光信号进入指定的网络通道。该方案很好地满足了在量子信息处理领域对弱光信号进行全光路由控制时的低损耗和低形变要求。     

基于经典光学方法的物体表面微观结构的三维成像

设计了基于经典光学方法的物体表面微观结构的三维成像实验装置以及相应计算程序,从记录不同角度平行光照射下的物体表面照度出发,经图片处理后得到物体表面的三维立体结构.     

On edge star sets in trees

Let A be a Hermitian matrix whose graph is G (i.e. there is an edge between the vertices i and j in G if and only if the (i,j) entry of A is non-zero). Let λ be an eigenvalue of A with multiplicity m_A(λ). An edge e=ij is said to be Parter (resp., neutral, downer) for λ,A if m_A(λ)−m_A−e(λ) is negative (resp., 0, positive ), where A−e is the matrix resulting from making the (i,j) and (j,i) entries of A zero. For a tree T with adjacency matrix A a subset S of the edge set of G is called an edge star set for an eigenvalue λ of A, if |S|=m_A(λ) and A−S has no eigenvalue λ. In this paper the existence of downer edges and edge star sets for non-zero eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of a tree is proved. We prove that neutral edges always exist for eigenvalues of multiplicity more than 1. It is also proved that an edge e=uv is a downer edge for λ,A if and only if u and v are both downer vertices for λ,A; and e=uv is a neutral edge if u and v are neutral vertices. Among other results, it is shown that any edge star set for each eigenvalue of a tree is a matching.     

On optimizing edge connectivity of product graphs

This work studies the super edge connectivity and super restricted edge connectivity of direct product graphs, Cartesian product graphs, strong product graphs and lexicographic product graphs. As a result, sufficient conditions for optimizing the edge connectivity and restricted edge connectivity of these graphs are presented.     

A possible origin of room temperature ferromagnetism in Indium-Tin oxide thin film: Surface spin polarization and ferromagnetism

Room temperature ferromagnetism in both transition-metals doped and undoped semiconductor thin films and nanostructures challenges our understanding of the magnetism in solids. In this report, we performed the magnetic measurement and Andreev reflection spectroscopy study on undoped Indium-Tin oxide (ITO) thin films and bulk samples. The magnetic measurement results of thin films show that the total magnetization/cm² is thickness independent. Prominent ferromagnetism signal was also discovered in bulk samples. Spin polarized electron transports were probed on ITO thin film/superconductor interface and bulk samples surface/superconductor interface. Based on the magnetic measurement results and spin polarization measurement data, we propose that the ferromagnetism in this material originates from the surface spin polarization and this surface polarization may also explain the room temperature ferromagnetism discovered in other undoped oxide semiconductor thin films and nanostructures.     

A parallel-multipoint fiber-optic temperature sensor based on Fresnel reflection

A parallel-multipoint fiber-optic temperature sensor for monitoring ambient temperature with a measured temperature resolution of approximately 0.03 °C is presented. The sensor relies on the temperature-dependent Fresnel reflection from each interface between a sensing fiber tip and a thermo-optic medium. An arrayed waveguide grating is used to achieve wavelength-division multiplexed-multipoint sensing. Applying the relative-intensity technique, the errors resulting from fluctuation of the light source and other influences of the environment are eliminated, and the stability for long time measurement can be improved.     

An effusion-evaporation model for image edge detection

A novel quasi-physical edge detection model is presented. The model, referred to as the effusion-evaporation model (EEM), is inspired by the natural phenomenon that the water effusing from the ground evaporates in the sunshine and leaves a wire like water stain on the ground surface, which reflects the physiognomy of the terrain. Based on the simulation of water effusing and evaporating, an EEM regards the complement of gradient magnitude image as a three-dimensional terrain, and the concave regions, which contain the residual water in the evolution final state, are used to determine the edges. Subjective and objective comparisons are performed on the proposed algorithm and two conventional edge detectors, namely Canny and LoG. The comparison results show that the proposed method outperforms Canny and LoG detectors for the real images and the standard test images with Gaussian noise.     

基于相变原理模拟红色顶发射有机电致发光器件的出光性能

研究了有机发光器件(organic light emitting diodes, 简记为OLED)半透明电极上形成的反射相移对OLED光谱产生调制现象.以红色微腔结构顶发射OLED(top emitting OLED,TOLED)为例,基于微腔理论和传输矩阵理论建立物理模型,采用计算机数值模拟方法,得出结果表明器件发光光谱的调制作用不只局限于有机层厚度,也和反射相移有关.通过改变覆盖到顶电极表面的有机层厚度的简单方法,可以实现对顶电极反射相移的调节,从而改变TOLED光学性能.这一结果为进一步改善器件的性 关键词： 反射相移模拟 红色微腔 顶发射有机发光