Spin-singlet clusters in the ladder compound NaV2O5

The space group of alpha(')-NaV2O5 turns below T(c) = 34 K from Pmmn with all V sites equivalent, into Fmm2 with three independent vanadium sites per layer. This is incompatible with models of charge ordering into V4+ and V5+. Our structure determination indicates that the phase transition consists of a charge ordering with three distinct valence states, formally V4+, V4.5+, and V5+. The singlet formation is not associated with dimerization on the spin ladder, but with the formation of spin clusters. Finally, we ascribe the quadrupling of the c axis to the large polarizability of the V2O5 skeleton.     

NaYF4 微晶与纳米晶中晶相对Tb3+ -Er3+ 耦合对下转换的影响

实验研究了晶相对下转换的影响。Tb³⁺ -Er³⁺ 耦合对将一个紫外光子(Tb³⁺ 的⁷F₆→⁵L₁)294 nm 剪裁成800 nm (Er³⁺ 的⁴I_9/2→⁴I_15/2) 和467 nm (Tb³⁺ 的⁵D₄→⁷F₆) 两个都能被GaAs 太阳能电池吸收的低能光子。采用水热法制备了NaYF₄六角相微晶和立方相纳米晶粒子,六角相由于具有热力学稳定性和有序的排列结构而更有利于量子剪裁过程的发生,相反在立方相结构中没有发现量子剪裁现象。分别采用294 nm 和355 nm波长的光对六角相NaYF₄进行激发,从发射光谱可以看出,下转换的实现是通过一个交叉弛豫过程完成的。实验结果表明,与熔融法相比,用水热法制备的NaYF₄ 的量子产率明显降低。     

丙醇水溶液中Fe2+与Ga3+、Ru3+、Pd2+、W（Ⅵ）和V（Ⅴ）的析相萃取分离

研究了在抗坏血酸存在下邻二氮菲-正丙醇-水体系析相萃取分离和富集铁的行为及与一些金属离子分离的条件。结果表明,在一定条件下,该体系能使Fe2+与Ga3+、Ru3+、Pd2+、W(Ⅵ)和V(Ⅴ)分离。     

Photoacoustic and Fluorescence Spectroscopy of Metallomesogens Containing Lanthanide Ions

制备了稀土液晶配合物Ln(bta)3L2 (Ln3+：La3+,Eu3+,Ho3+;L：N-octadecyl-2-hydroxy-4-tetradec-yloxybenzaldimine;bta：benzoyltrifluoroacetonate), 所得配合物在室温下呈近晶相(SmA phase)．首次利用光声光谱对金属液晶配合物的光谱性质、弛豫过程和相变进行研究．在配体吸收处,光声强度依Eu(bta)3L2相似文献   

掺杂的标度性

所谓掺杂的标度性指的是：分子晶体，如ＮＨ４ＮＯ３晶体在其相变过程中，其所掺杂的离子如Ｎａ＋，Ｋ＋，Ａｇ＋，Ｐｂ２＋或Ｆ－，Ｃｌ－，Ｂｒ－等，会对相变有影响。影响的强度表现在掺杂离子间的间距ｄ对其质量的根号Ｍ的标度，即ｄ／Ｍ这个参数上。这意味着对不同的...     

Synthesis of Different TiO_2 Nanostructures and Their Physical Properties

Titanium dioxide(TiO_2) nanosheet, nanorod and nanotubes are synthesized using chemical vapor deposition(CVD) and anodizing processes. TiO_2 nanosheets are grown on Ti foil which is coated with Au catalyst in CVD,TiO_2 nanorods are synthesized on treated Ti foil with HCI by CVD, and TiO_2 nanotubes are prepared by the three-step anodization method. Scanning electron microscopy shows the final TiO_2 structures prepared using three processes with three different morphologies of nanosheet, nanorod and nanotube. X-ray diffraction verifies the presence of TiO_2. TiO_2 sheets and rods are crystalized in rutile phase, and TiO_2 tubes after annealing turn into the anatase crystal phase. The optical investigations carried out by diffuse reflection spectroscopy reveal that the morphology of TiO_2 nanostructures influencing their optical response and band gap energy of TiO_2 is changed for different TiO_2 nanostructures.     

Dipole-induced, first-order phase transitions of nano-rod monolayers

The isotropic-nematic transition of nano-rod monolayers with fore-aft symmetry is second order, in stark contrast to the first-order phase transition explained by Onsager [L. Onsager, Ann. (N.Y.) Acad. Sci. 51 (1949) 627] for rods in three dimensions. Here we show that the coupling of a dipole potential to excluded volume is sufficient to re-instate a first-order phase transition of rods confined to two dimensions.     

基于香豆酰肼的高选择性的铜离子荧光探针

设计合成了含有香豆酰肼官能团的铜离子荧光探针,N,N-二乙基氨基香豆素-3-酰肼吡啶醛(XB),该探针在水溶液中[V(CH3CN):V(H2O)=1:1]对铜离子识别和检测具有较高的灵敏度和选择性。碱金属和碱土金属离子K+、Na+、Mg2+、Ca2+以及过渡金属离子Cr3+、Mn2+、Fe3+、Co2+、Ni2+、Zn2+、Cd2+、Hg2+和Ag+等对Cu2+离子的识别无显著影响。光谱滴定和ESI-MS谱表明Cu2+离子与XB以1:2的化学计量比形成配合物。     

The statistical mechanics of granular systems composed of spheres and elongated grains

In this paper we will apply a statistical mechanical theory of granular materials to a system composed of a mixture of elongated rods and spheres (both mono- and polydisperse). We will show for a system of rods and spheres that the system's constituents do not completely phase segregate even at minimum close packing. The generalisation of this to packings of rods and bi-disperse spheres produces a similar result except that the two species of sphere do phase segregate at some particular packing.     

Spatiotemporal dispersion and waveguide properties of 2D-periodic metallic rod photonic crystals

The method of integral equations based on the Green function of periodically arranged sources with a given phase shift (a periodic Green function) is used to investigate periodic metamaterials in the form of the simplest metallic and dielectric inclusions into a rectangular and cubic lattice in a dielectric medium (matrix) with permittivity ?. Metallic rods with a radius of the order of tens of nanometers are described by a complex macroscopic permittivity \(\operatorname{Re} \tilde \varepsilon < 0\) . Waves in the terahertz and infrared ranges propagate along the rods virtually with the speed of light and with small losses weakly dependent on the transverse wave number, while those in the optical range, especially in its short-wavelength part, transform into slow waves of a dielectric waveguide.     

On the rotational diffusion of rod-like macromolecules in lyotropic-mesomorphic phases

The rotational diffusion of rod-like macromolecules, idealized as monodisperse rods, in concentrated solution is considered. The Doi-Edwards model is modified to explain the experimentally observed increase of the rotational relaxation time with increasing concentration in the lyotropic-nematic phase of rigid rod-like molecules in solution. Our approach consists in (i) reconsidering the original Doi-Edwards model to eliminate unphysical behaviour of the rotational relaxation time at the limit of perfect order, and (ii) including concentration effects on the translational diffusivity of rods in the Doi-Edwards model. Predictions of the corrected model are compared with steady flow viscosity data for poly(n-alkylisocyanates). In the lyotropic-nematic phase a very good qualitative agreement between the theory and experiment is observed. Additionally, the model applied to a highly concentrated isotropic phase explains in a natural way the viscosity behaviour as the concentration is increased towards the critical value for formation of the lyotropic-nematic phase.     

Microstructural evolutions of Pr13Fe80B7 alloys during solid HDDR process

Microstructural evolutions of Pr₁₃Fe₈₀B₇ alloys during solid hydrogenation disproportionation desorption recombination (HDDR) process is systematically investigated. The results show that the early-disproportionated products of Pr₁₃Fe₈₀B₇ alloys are mainly characteristic of rod-like morphology, and the rods are PrH₂ while the matrix is Fe. Moreover, all the PrH₂ rods have the same crystallographic orientation, and grow with a definite orientation related to the Fe matrix. However, it is notable that no iron boride phase except for NdH₂ and Fe is found. With the prolonged disproportionation time, the rod-like disproportionated products coarsen, and the Fe₂B come to form. When the disproportionation time is 17 h, the rod-like disproportionation morphology transforms into sphere, and a large amount of Fe₂B is found. Subsequent investigations for the recombination show that the recombination reactions start at the boundaries between PrH₂ rods and Fe matrix, and the rim-like Pr₂Fe₁₄B is formed on the PrH₂ rods. Moreover, the recombined PrFeB powder of the rod-like microstructure has strong magnetic anisotropy.     

Entropy-driven triple point wetting in hard-rod mixtures

We theoretically study binary mixtures of thin and thick hard rods with diameter ratio more extreme than 1:4. The bulk phase diagram of these systems exhibits a triple point, where an isotropic (I) phase coexists with two nematic phases ( N1 and N2) of different composition. Using density functional theory, we predict that the I-N2 interface is completely wet by N1 upon approach of the the I-N1-N2 triple point. This entropic triple point wetting should be experimentally observable in colloidal suspensions of rodlike particles.     

A kinetic theory and benchmark predictions for polymer-dispersed, semi-flexible macromolecular rods or platelets

The goals of this paper are: to present a mean-field kinetic theory for the hydrodynamics of macromolecular high aspect ratio rods or platelets dispersed in a polymeric solvent; and, to apply the formalism to predict the impact due to a polymeric versus viscous solvent on the classical Onsager isotropic-nematic equilibrium phase diagram and on the monodomain response to imposed steady shear. The kinetic theory coupling between the nanoscale rods or platelets and the polymeric solvent is incorporated through a mean-field potential that reflects the enormous particle-polymer surface area and the particle-polymer interactions across this interfacial area. To determine predictions of this theory on the equilibrium and sheared monodomain phase diagrams, we present a reduction procedure which approximates the coupled Smoluchowski equations for the polymer chain probability distribution function (PDF) and the nano-particle orientational PDF in favor of a coupled system of equations for the rank 2 second-moment tensors for each PDF. The reduced model consists of an 11-dimensional dynamical system, which we solve using continuation software (AUTO) to predict the modified Onsager equilibrium phase diagram and the modified Doi-Hess shear phase diagram due to the physics of polymer-particle surface interactions.     

Possible new phase of antagonistic nematogens in a disorienting field

A simple model is proposed for nematogenic molecules that favor perpendicular orientations as well as parallel ones. (Charged rods, for example, show this antagonistic tendency.) When a small disorienting field is applied along z, a low-density phase N- of nematic order parameter S(z)<0 coexists with a dense biaxial nematic N(b). (At zero field, N- becomes isotropic and N(b) uniaxial.) But at stronger fields, a new phase N+4, invariant under pi/2 rotations around the field axis, appears in between N- and N(b). Prospects for finding the N+4 phase experimentally are briefly discussed.     

The Effect of Sphere Size on the Phase Behaviors in the Rod and Sphere Mixture System

The addition of polysaccharides, such as chondroitin sulfate (Chs), to the aqueous suspension of tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) results in the TMV aggregation at very dilute TMV concentration compared with the addition of polyethylene oxide (PEO). The Chs chain has a semirigid nature, whereas the PEO has a flexible nature. In this study, we investigated the effect of the size of spherical polymer coils on the phase behaviors in the mixtures of rods and spheres using Monte Carlo simulations. As a model for TMV, we used the spherocylinder particle. The Chs and PEO chains were simplified to spherical particles having different sizes. With the addition of large spherical particles, the system changed from miscible phase to isotropic–isotropic phase separation and then isotropic–nematic phase separation states, whereas with the addition of small spherical particles, the system transformed from miscible isotropic phase to miscible nematic phase. We found that the sphere size had an important influence on the phase behaviors in the mixtures of rods and spheres.     

Dielektrische Wellenleiter als Plasmasonden

A microwave interferometer is described, by which the electron density in a small volume inside of a plasma can be measured. By dielectric rods acting as waveguides the microwave is led to this volume. For a given electron density the phase shift is calculated for this volume and for the dielectric rods. By a suitable choice of the radius and the dielectric constant of the rods the phase shift along the rods can be surpressed. The influence of plasma sheaths is discussed. In a special application to the plasma of the negative glow these interferometric measurements are compared with Langmuir probe measurements.     

Isotropic-nematic phase transition in a system of slightly flexible long thin rods

On the basis of Onsager's formalism, the isotropic-nematic phase transition in a system of slightly flexible long thin rods are studied theoretically. The phase diagram and some other physical quantities are calculated and the effects of flexibility are clarified. In particular, it is shown that with increasing flexibility of the rods, the transition density increases and the metastable region of each phase becomes wide.