电泳法制备的致密氧化锡薄膜及其在高稳定性钙钛矿太阳能电池中的应用

在平面型钙钛矿太阳能电池中常采用SnO₂作为电子传输层材料,相应的SnO₂薄膜常采用溶液旋涂法制备。但是由于前驱液中的纳米颗粒可能会发生部分团聚、基底和溶液难以完全避免灰尘等杂质颗粒混入,且最佳的SnO₂电子传输层的厚度通常仅有约20 nm,所以这种方法制备的电子传输层难以保证严格致密和无纳米针孔。在本工作中,我们报道了一种电泳沉积制备致密SnO₂薄膜的方法,并用其有效地提高了钙钛矿太阳能电池的光电转换效率和工况稳定性。通过电泳法,表面带负电荷的SnO₂纳米颗粒在电场的作用下沉积到氧化铟锡(ITO)阳极表面,这种方法得到的薄膜比旋涂法制备的更为致密。将其应用于n-i-p结构的钙钛矿太阳能电池中,能够使得暗电流降低并抑制载流子的非辐射复合,从而提高电池的短路电流和开路电压,进而实现更高的光电转换效率(从18.17%提高到19.52%),且能消除迟滞效应。更重要的是,长期工况稳定性测试表明基于电泳-旋涂法制备的器件在1个太阳的光照下、最大功率点处连续工作960 h后,仍然能够保持71%的初始效率;然而基于旋涂法制备的器件在工作100 h后即降低到初始效率的70%。本工作提供了一种全新的SnO₂电子传输层的制备方法,显著地提高了器件性能和工况稳定性,后续有望应用于制备大面积器件和电池模组。     

Reduced-order models for control of fluids using the eigensystem realization algorithm

As sensors and flow control actuators become smaller, cheaper, and more pervasive, the use of feedback control to manipulate the details of fluid flows becomes increasingly attractive. One of the challenges is to develop mathematical models that describe the fluid physics relevant to the task at hand, while neglecting irrelevant details of the flow in order to remain computationally tractable. A number of techniques are presently used to develop such reduced-order models, such as proper orthogonal decomposition (POD), and approximate snapshot-based balanced truncation, also known as balanced POD. Each method has its strengths and weaknesses: for instance, POD models can behave unpredictably and perform poorly, but they can be computed directly from experimental data; approximate balanced truncation often produces vastly superior models to POD, but requires data from adjoint simulations, and thus cannot be applied to experimental data. In this article, we show that using the Eigensystem Realization Algorithm (ERA) (Juang and Pappa, J Guid Control Dyn 8(5):620?C627, 1985) one can theoretically obtain exactly the same reduced-order models as by balanced POD. Moreover, the models can be obtained directly from experimental data, without the use of adjoint information. The algorithm can also substantially improve computational efficiency when forming reduced-order models from simulation data. If adjoint information is available, then balanced POD has some advantages over ERA: for instance, it produces modes that are useful for multiple purposes, and the method has been generalized to unstable systems. We also present a modified ERA procedure that produces modes without adjoint information, but for this procedure, the resulting models are not balanced, and do not perform as well in examples. We present a detailed comparison of the methods, and illustrate them on an example of the flow past an inclined flat plate at a low Reynolds number.     

钯合金膜分离纯化氢同位素的研究进展

钯合金膜因其具有优异的透氢性能及良好的化学和热稳定性,已被广泛应用于氢同位素的分离纯化领域。而PdAg和PdY合金膜在众多钯合金膜中透氢性能出色备受关注。本文比较了PdAg、PdY等多元钯合金膜的透氢性能及抗中毒情况,总结了PdAg复合膜的制备方法及透氢选择性,重点介绍了钯合金膜分离氢同位素的研究进展,并对钯合金膜的未来研究方向进行展望。     

Analysis of Glycocholic Acid in Human Plasma and Urine from Hepatocellular Carcinoma Patients

Glycocholic acid (GCA) has been identified as endogenous biomarker for hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). To dissolve protein and liberate GCA from protein, ionic liquids (ILs) that contain chaotropic ions were used for pretreatment of liquid biological samples. Coupling with solid-phase extraction (SPE) and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC), the novel sample pretreatment method was applied for quantitative determination of GCA in urine and plasma samples. Compared with the traditional organic solvents pretreatment of biological samples, the proposed method is “greener” and simpler, due to no use of volatile organic solvent, and avoiding centrifugation. Under the optimal conditions, when the GCA-free urine and plasma samples were spiked with GCA at 0.05–1.0 and 0.2–10 μmol L^?1, the recoveries of GCA ranged between 95.8–101.6 and 96.9–100.4%, respectively. These procedures only required 1 mL of urine and 3 mL of 3 mM ILs aqueous solution and 100 μL of plasma and 4 mL of 2 mM ILs aqueous solution, respectively. The proposed method has been successfully validated on a small sample size of 14 HCC patients and 14 healthy volunteers. For HCC patients, the mean concentration of GCA was 24.79 ± 6.86 and 31.98 ± 11.12 μmol L^?1 in urine and plasma samples, and was about 3 times and 24 times as much as in healthy people, respectively. The proposed method opens up a new possibility in early diagnosis of HCC.     

高效率钙钛矿发光二极管的研究进展

钙钛矿发光二极管(LED)由于高的发光色纯度、颜色连续可调、可溶液法制备和材料成本低等优势,被认为是下一代高清柔性显示和平面照明应用最有前景的候选材料之一,受到科学界和产业界的广泛关注。在过去的几年里,钙钛矿LED取得了快速的发展,发光颜色已经实现了从紫外光到近红外光的全覆盖,其中绿光、红光和近红外光的外量子效率均超过了20%。本文首先介绍了钙钛矿LED的基本知识,随后综述了本课题组近年来在高效率钙钛矿LED制备方面取得的研究进展,最后结合领域内的一些代表性工作,分析了领域发展中存在的不足,并对未来产业化应用的前景进行了展望。     

锡负载量对PtSn/Al2O3催化丙烷脱氢性能的影响

采用羰基合成-浸渍法制备了不同Pt/Sn摩尔比(3:1, 1:1, 1:2和1:3)的PtSn/Al₂O₃催化剂, 利用N₂吸附-脱附实验、 X射线衍射(XRD)、 透射电子显微镜(TEM)、 吡啶吸附红外光谱(Py-IR)和热重-差热分析(TG-DTA)等手段对其进行了表征, 研究了Sn负载量对PtSn/Al₂O₃的结构性质及催化丙烷脱氢性能的影响. 结果表明, 制备的PtSn/Al₂O₃具有较高的丙烯选择性和稳定性. 当Pt/Sn摩尔比为3:1和1:1时, 铂和锡在催化剂上主要以Pt₃Sn和PtSn合金形式存在, 合金的形成明显改善了催化剂的脱氢性能, 可抑制金属颗粒的高温烧结; 当Pt/Sn摩尔比为1:2和1:3时, 铂主要以金属形式存在. 随着Sn负载量的增加, 催化剂上L酸性位逐渐减少, 丙烷转化率降低, 丙烯选择性增加, 同时促使反应积炭从金属表面向载体迁移, 改善了催化剂的稳定性.     

The influence of nano-particle tracers on the slip length measurements by microPTV

Direct measurement of slip length is based on the measured fluid velocity near solid boundary. However, previous micro particle image velocimetry/particle tracking velocimetry (microPIV/PTV) measurements have reported surprisingly large measured near-wall velocities of pressure-driven flow in apparent contradiction with the no-slip hy-pothesis and experimental results from other techniques. To better interpret the measured results of the microPIV/PTV, we performed velocity profile measurements near a hy-drophilic wall (z = 0.25-1.5 μm) with two sizes of tracer particles (φ 50 nm and φ200 nm). The experimental results indicate that, at less than 1 μm from the wall, the deviations between the measured velocities and no-slip theoretical values obviously decrease from 93% of φ200 nm particles to 48% of φ50 nm particles. The Boltzmann-like exponential measured particle concentrations near wall were found. Based on the non linear Boltzmann distribution of particle concentration and the effective focus plane thickness, we illustrated the reason of the apparent velocity increase near wall and proposed a method to correct the measured velocity profile. By this method, the deviations between the corrected measured velocities and the no-slip theoretical velocity decrease from 45.8% to 10%, and the measured slip length on hy-drophilic glass is revised from 75 nm to 16 nm. These results indicated that the particle size and the biased particle concentration distribution can significantly affect near wall velocity measurement via microPIV/PTV, and result in larger measured velocity and slip length close to wall.     

An Alkynyl-Dangling Ru(II) Polypyridine Complex for Targeted Antimicrobial Photodynamic Therapy

To realize clinical application of antibacterial photodynamic therapy (aPDT), one of the most arduous challenges is how to render aPDT agents high selectivity against bacterial pathogens. In light of the fact that amino group-containing lipids are rich on the outer surfaces of Gram-positive bacteria, we herein constructed an alkynyl-dangling ruthenium(II) polypyridine complex (Ru2) to preferentially label Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) over mammalian cells via the amino-yne bio-orthogonal click reaction. Thanks to the strong singlet oxygen generation ability, Ru2 could photo-inactivate S. aureus and MRSA effectively and specifically. Phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) molecules also exist in mammalian cells but are not accessible for Ru2, leading to its poor binding/uptake and negligible cytotoxicity in the dark and upon irradiation towards mammalian cells as well as low hemolysis, all favorable for aPDT application.     

Raman spectroscopic analysis of apoptosis of single human gastric cancer cells

A drug (5-FU) was employed to treat the gastric carcinoma cells and induce apoptosis of the cancer cells. Raman spectra obtained from single gastric carcinoma cells and the induced apoptotic cells through scan-excitation mode were used to analyze the effectiveness of the treatment. The major difference of the apoptotic cells from the cancer cells are the reduction in intensities of vibration bands generated by cellular lipids, proteins and nucleic acids. In particular, large intensity reduction in nucleic vibrations at 782, 1092, 1320, 1340, and 1578 cm⁻¹ was observed upon apoptosis of the gastric carcinoma cells. Up to 45% reduction in the magnitude of the 782 cm⁻¹ peak in Raman spectra of the apoptotic cells was observed, which suggests the breakdown of phosphodiester bonds and DNA bases. We showed that the principal components analysis (PCA), a multivariate statistical tool, can be used to distinguish single apoptotic cells and gastric carcinoma cells based on their Raman spectra.