Determination of arsenic and antimony in seawater by voltammetric and chronopotentiometric stripping using a vibrated gold microwire electrode

The oxidation potentials of As⁰/As^III and Sb⁰/Sb^III on the gold electrode are very close to each other due to their similar chemistry. Arsenic concentration in seawater is low (10–20 nM), Sb occurring at ∼0.1 time that of As. Methods are shown here for the electroanalytical speciation of inorganic arsenic and inorganic antimony in seawater using a solid gold microwire electrode. Anodic stripping voltammetry (ASV) and chronopotentiometry (ASC) are used at pH ≤ 2 and pH 8, using a vibrating gold microwire electrode. Under vibrations, the diffusion layer size at a 5 μm diameter wire is 0.7 μm. The detection limits for the As^III and Sb^III are below 0.1 nM using 2 min and 10 min deposition times respectively. As^III and Sb^III can be determined in acidic conditions (after addition of hydrazine) or at neutral pH. In the latter case, oxidation of As⁰ to As^III was found to proceed through a transient As^III species. Adsorption of this species on the gold electrode at potentials where Sb^III diffused away is used for selective deposition of As^III. Addition of EDTA removes the interfering effect of manganese when analysing As^III. Imposition of a desorption step for Sb^III analysis is required. Total inorganic arsenic (iAs = As^V + As^III) can be determined without interference from Sb nor mono-methyl arsenious acid (MMA) at 1.6 < pH < 2 using E_dep = −1 V. Total inorganic antimony (iSb = Sb^V + Sb^III) is determined at pH 1 using E_dep = −1.8 V without interference by As.     

弯曲氧化锌微米线微腔中的回音壁模

本文用微区共聚焦荧光光学显微镜在垂直于氧化锌微米线c轴的方向测量微米线上不同位置的光谱,通过对比直的和弯曲的微米线上TE和TM偏振的光谱,观察到了弯曲氧化锌微米线中不同位置的回音壁模式的移动,其机理是在弯曲应力作用下激子能级发生了移动,带边附近的介电常数也随之变化,导致微腔中的回音壁模式发生移动.     

Study of domain structure and magnetization reversal after thermal treatments in Fe40Co38Mo4B18 microwires

We have studied the effect of thermal treatment on the magnetic domain structure and magnetic reversal process of amorphous and nanocrystalline Fe₄₀Co₃₈Mo₄B₁₈ microwires. The domain structure and the magnetization reversal of amorphous FeCoMoB microwires reflect the complex stress distribution introduced by the glass coating. Hence, the thickness of radial domain structure decreases with temperature and the temperature dependence of the switching field presents a discontinuous behavior. After nanocrystallization, the domain structure of FeCoMoB microwire is almost constant within the temperature range 10-400 K and the switching field decreases almost linearly with temperature mostly because of the decrease of saturation magnetization.     

Simultaneous Anodic Stripping Voltammetric Determination of Pb and Cd,Using a Vibrating Gold Microwire Electrode,Assisted by Chemometric Techniques

Simultaneous anodic stripping voltammetric determination of Pb and Cd is restricted on gold electrodes as a result of the overlapping of these two peaks. This work describes the quantitative determination of a binary mixture system of Pb and Cd, at low concentration levels (up to 15.0 and 10.0 µg L^?1 for Pb and Cd, respectively) by differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV; deposition time of 30 s), using a green electrode (vibrating gold microwire electrode) without purging in a chloride medium (0.5 M NaCl) under moderate acidic conditions (HCl 1.0 mM), assisted by chemometric tools. The application of multivariate curve resolution alternating least squares (MCR‐ALS) for the resolution and quantification of both metals is shown. The optimized MCR‐ALS models showed good prediction ability with concentration prediction errors of 12.4 and 11.4 % for Pb and Cd, respectively. The quantitative results obtained by MCR‐ALS were compared to those obtained with partial least squares (PLS) and classical least squares (CLS) regression methods. For both metals, PLS and MCR‐ALS results are comparable and superior to CLS. For Cd, as a result of the peak shift problem, the application of CLS was unsuitable. MCR‐ALS provides additional advantage compared to PLS since it estimates the pure response of the analytes signal. Finally, the built up multivariate calibration models, based either in MCR‐ALS or PLS regression, allowed to quantify concentrations of Pb and Cd in surface river water samples, with satisfactory results.     

Manipulating the magnetoimpedance by dc bias current in amorphous microwire

We have studied the effect of the internal circumferential magnetic field H_B created by the dc bias current I_B on longitudinal and off-diagonal magnetoimpedance (MI) in amorphous microwire with helical anisotropy and experimentally demonstrated that by changing the dc current I_B it is possible to considerably change the MI dependencies. The bias current applied to such microwire transforms the symmetric and hysteretic MI curve to asymmetrical and anhysteretic. The minimum of longitudinal MI curve shifts from the zero-field point. Reversing the bias current causes reversal of the bias field direction and results in a mirroring of the MI curves. It is proposed to apply a cross-checking of two MI curves with I_B of different polarity for magnetic field sensing. In particular, this method allows to overcome the drawbacks usually associated with longitudinal MI—namely the impossibility to determine the direction of an external axial magnetic field H_E and the low sensitivity near the zero-field point. Moreover, the operating range of the longitudinal MI sensor, in contrast to the off-diagonal one, can be much extended as it exhibits a quite high sensitivity in the field range up to one order of magnitude higher than the anisotropy field.     

Continuous production of glass-coated microwires and the applications for broadband noise suppression composite sheets

A system and a method were developed for continuous production of glass-coated microwires with controllable glass thickness and metallic core diameter. Fe-Si-Al flakes were fabricated by planetary ball milling using ethanol as a dispersant. A composite noise suppression sheet was prepared with glass-coated microwires combined with Fe-Si-Al flakes. The characteristics of the conduction noise suppression of the composite sheet were evaluated on a microstrip line in gigahertz frequencies. The conduction electromagnetic noise was effectively suppressed by the composite sheet in broad-band frequency region; the power loss is greater than 70% in the frequency range from 0.7 to 8.5 GHz.     

Nematic Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Grating and Microwire Fabricated by Micro‐Molding in Capillaries

A new approach is developed to fabricate highly oriented mono‐domain LCE nano/microstructures through micro‐molding in capillaries. Gratings and microwires as two typical examples are fabricated and characterized by polarizing optical microscopy, optical microscopy, and scanning electron microscopy. The gratings with precisely controlled sizes and smooth surface are obtained by filling the channels with a nematic monomer mixture followed by the photo‐crosslinking. After peeling off the gratings from the substrate, the free‐standing microwires are obtained. A uniform orientation of the mesogenic units is observed for the molds with channel width less than 20 μm. Reversible thermomechanical effect is demonstrated by using the microwires obtained through this approach.     

AC-current-induced magnetization switching in amorphous microwires

We studied the influence of AC current flowing through microwires, on magnetization dynamics. We used a previously developed Sixtus-Tonks modified setup to evaluate the domain wall (DW) velocity within the microwire. However, instead of a magnetizing solenoid, we used a current flowing through the microwire. We observed that the AC current flowing through the annealed Co-rich microwire leads to remagnetization by fast domain wall propagation. The estimated DW velocity was approximately 4.5 km/s, which is similar to and even higher than that reported for the magnetic-field-driven domain wall propagation in Fe- and Co-rich microwires. We measured the DW velocity under tensile stress, and found that the DW velocity decreases under applied stress. An observed DW propagation induced by the current flowing through the microwire is explained considering the influence of an Oersted magnetic field on the outer domain shell. This field has a circular easy magnetization direction and magnetostatic interaction between the outer circumferentially magnetized shell and the inner axially magnetized core.     

Co基金属纤维不对称巨磁阻抗效应

以直径32 μm的熔体抽拉Co基非晶金属纤维为研究对象, 分析了该纤维不同激励条件下的巨磁阻抗(giant magneto impedance, GMI)效应. 实验结果表明: 这类纤维的GMI效应具有不对称性特点, 即 AGMI (asymmetric GMI)效应. 同时, 发现AGMI效应随激励条件不同而变化, 随交流频率或者激励幅值升高而逐渐增强; 当存在一定偏置电压时, AGMI效应大幅增强. 通过研究纤维的磁化过程, 分析了Co基金属纤维的AGMI效应. 由于Co基熔体抽拉纤维具有螺旋各向异性以及磁滞的存在使得GMI效应具有不对称性, 频率升高或者激励电流幅值增加有利于壳层畴环向磁化, AGMI增强. 当在纤维两端施加偏置电压时, 偏置电流诱发环向磁场增强了环向磁化, AGMI效应提高; 偏置电压较低时磁场响应灵敏度提高, 同时磁化翻转向高场移动, 阻抗线性变化对应的直流磁场区间增大. 这一方面拓宽了GMI传感器工作区间及灵敏度, 另一方面不利于获得更大的磁场响应灵敏度. 10 MHz (5 mA)激励时, 施加1 V强度的偏置电压后, 对应的磁场灵敏度从616 V/T 提高至5687 V/T; 偏置电压为2 V时, 灵敏度降低到4525 V/T. 因此, 可以通过适当提高环向磁场的方法获得大的磁场响应灵敏度及阻抗变化线性区域.     

Simultaneous electrochemical determination of arsenic, copper, lead and mercury in unpolluted fresh waters using a vibrating gold microwire electrode

In this work, a simple, rapid, reliable and low cost method for simultaneous electrochemical determination of As, Cu, Hg and Pb ions, on a vibrating gold microwire electrode combined with stripping voltammetry, is described for the first time.The multi-element detection was performed in the presence of oxygen by differential pulse anodic stripping voltammetry (DPASV) in HCl 0.1 M with NaCl 0.5 M. This media was found optimum in terms of peak resolution, peak shape and sensitivities, and has a composition similar to seawater to which the method could potentially be applied. The gold microwire electrode presented well defined, undistorted, sharp and reproducible peaks for trace concentrations of Cu, Hg and Pb and As presented a reproducible peak with a small shoulder. Using a gold vibrating microwire electrode of 25 μm diameter and 30 s deposition time, the detection limits of As, Cu, Hg and Pb were 0.07, 0.4, 0.07 and 0.2 μg L⁻¹, respectively. Possible effects of Al, Cd, Cr, Fe, Mn, Ni, Sb and Zn were investigated but did not cause any significant interferences.Finally, the method was applied for the simultaneous determination of these four metals in unpolluted river water samples and the results were validated by Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy with Electrothermal Atomization (AAS-EA) or by Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (ICP-MS).