Materials based on cellulose fabric and PVC with porous structures formed by jointed aza- and oxa-aza-crown macromolecules

A material with porous structures formed by jointed aza- and oxa-aza-crowns with peripheral OHgroups is synthesized on the basis of cellulose fabric and PVC transformed into hydroxyethylcyclam. Mesopores are mainly observed on the fiber surface. The specific surface of the material is 6 m²/g; the volume of free space is 0.112 cm³/g. Assuming the internal pores have a disk-like shape, their width is estimated at 2 nm. The material sorbs vapors of aliphatic and aromatic hydrocarbons, alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, amines, amides, nitriles, and sulfoxides. It also swells to a limited degree in organic solvents. When sulfuric acid or sodium hydroxide is sorbed in the pores, compounds of them with H⁺- and OH^–-conducting systems of hydrogen bonds are formed.     

Manifestation of oxygen desorption in photoluminescence spectra of ZnO

The influence of oxygen desorption on the photoluminescence of zinc oxide has been investigated. Photodesorption and thermal desorption of oxygen have been controlled using mass spectrometry. It has been found that the removal of oxygen from the ZnO surface leads to a manifold increase in the exciton photoluminescence intensity. The process has a reversible character. The mechanism of increase in the exciton luminescence intensity of ZnO during the oxygen desorption has been discussed.     

On estimates for the uniform norm of the Laplace operator of the best interpolants on a class of bounded interpolation data

We consider an interpolation problem with minimum value of the uniform norm of the Laplace operator of interpolants for a class of bounded interpolated sequences. The data are interpolated at nodes of the grid formed by points from ?² with integer coordinates. Two-sided estimates for the uniform norm of the best interpolant are found, which improve known estimates.     

Surface texture and density–density correlation in films of adamantane-containing polyimides and copolyimides

By means of electron microscopy, the spatial correlation of gold nanoparticles are studied, obtained by thermal vacuum sputtering of metal on a bromine-activated surface of films of adamantane-containing polyimides and copolyimides based on pyromellitic anhydride (PMDA), 4,4'-oxydianiline (ODA), and 1-aminoethyl-3-(4'-aminophenyl)adamantane (AEAPhA) or 3,4,3',4'-tetracarboxydiphenyloxide dianhydride (ODPA), ODA, and AEAPhA with varying ratio of ODA and AEAPhA fragments. It is shown that with increasing ratio of mole fractions [AEAPhA]/[ODA], the texture of the film surface, free volume, the correlation length, and the frequency of alternation of the particle distribution density change. The shortrange order decreases, while the long-range order increases in ensembles of particles. The supramolecular structure of the polymer is transformed similarly because of structural transitions in the amorphous state of ODPA–ODA–AEAPhA and the mesomorphic state of PMDA–ODA–AEAPhA.

     

Melamine–Barbiturate Supramolecular Assembly as a pH-Dependent Organic Radical Trap Material

In the last two decades, a large number of self-assembled materials were synthesized and they have already found their way into large-scale industry and science. Hydrogen-bond-based supramolecular adducts are found to have unique properties and to be perfect host structures for trapping target molecules or ions. Such chemical systems are believed to resemble living matter and can substitute a living cell in a number of cases. Herein, a report on an organic material based on supramolecular assembly of barbituric acid and melamine is presented. Surprisingly, the structure is found to host and stabilize radicals under mild conditions allowing its use for biological applications. The number of free radicals is found to be easily tuned by changing the pH of the environment and it increases when exposed to light up to a saturation level. We describe a preparation method as well as stability properties of melamine–barbiturate self-assembly, potentiometric titration, and hydrogen ions adsorption data and EPR spectra concerning the composite.     

Visible Luminescence of SiGe/Si Quantum Wells Under an External Anisotropic Deformation

We realize for the first time an experimental investigation of the IR and visible luminescence of SiGe/Si heterostructures with quantum well subjected to an external anisotropic deformation. We show that tensile strain along the [100] direction enhances the absolute and relative intensities of visible luminescence by a factor of 7/3 at a temperature of 5 K. This effect is absent for a tensile strain along the [110] direction. We explain the phenomenon observed in view of the model of single-photon biexciton recombination for the system in which the bottom of the conduction band is formed by only two opposite electronic valleys.