冲击加载下液态水的结构相变

在一级轻气炮上,利用冲击波加载技术结合光透射测量技术获得了水在1—1.6 GPa压力范围内的透射光谱.结果表明,透射光变化是由于在冲击压缩过程中,液态水结构在P=0.9 GPa左右存在的不连续引起的,与文献报道结果一致.结合热力学计算结果和水的相图表明,该变化可能是压力导致液态水由低密度到高密度态的转变所致.实验为在线研究液态水和其他分子液体的结构相变提供了新的途径和方法.     

冲击加载条件下融石英对水的凝固相变的诱导效应

利用轻气炮冲击加载手段和透光性在线测试技术研究了融石英对水的再冲击结冰相变过程的影响.实验结果表明,当再冲击压力为1.28 GPa时,与融石英直接接触的水会发生凝固相变,而与融石英不接触的水在约2 μs观测期间仍然保持液相,证实融石英对水的冲击凝固相变过程产生了明显的诱导作用.同时还给出了相变动力学的解释. 关键词： 冲击 水 相变     

动态加载过程中石英玻璃诱导水的快速结晶相变

在气炮加载试验中利用弹载光源原位测试技术,观测了夹于石英玻璃之间的水在动态压缩过程中的透光特性. 通过其光透射特性研究了水的冲击相变. 实验结果发现液态水在动态冲击压缩过程中, 其压力低于2 GPa 就出现透明性变差的现象,而且水的透明性下降与石英玻璃的存在有关,是一种石英诱导水的结晶相变现象.     

磁驱动准等熵加载下Z切石英晶体的折射率

基于CQ4脉冲功率实验装置开展了Z-切石英晶体在磁驱动准等熵加载下的窗口折射率修正关系研究. 实验中采用激光波长1550 nm的双源光外差测速仪测量获得了LiF窗口和Z-切石英晶体窗口与不同厚度极板界面的粒子速度. 利用反积分方法由实验测得的LiF窗口与极板界面粒子速度计算得到了极板的加载磁压力历史; 以获得的磁压力为输入条件, 采用LS-DYNA计算软件正向计算得到石英晶体窗口与极板界面的真实粒子速度历史. 由实验获得的Z-切石英晶体窗口/极板界面表观粒子速度和计算得到的真实粒子速度, 获得了Z-切石英晶体弹性极限内的连续的折射率修正关系, 将其折射率修正关系的适用压力范围拓宽至14.55 GPa. 表观粒子速度与真实粒子速度关系采用线性拟合时, 折射率修正关系为n=1.087 (± 0.008)+0.4408ρ/ρ₀, 与冲击数据拟合的结果一致. 由折射率实验数据对Z-切石英晶体的极化率分析认为, 在其弹性极限压力范围内加载路径和温度对折射率的影响可以忽略.     

铝的动态屈服强度测量及再加载弹性前驱波的形成机理分析

利用激光干涉测速技术(VISAR)测量LY12铝合金在20—34 GPa冲击压力下经历加载-卸载和加载-再加载过程的样品/窗口界面粒子速度剖面,采用AC方法确定了具有较高精度的动态屈服强度值.实验结果和文献发表的数据具有较好的一致性.通过以平面焊接方式制作组合飞片,克服了组合飞片在气炮发射过程中可能发生分离的技术困难,使铝的动态屈服强度测量压力范围从22 GPa扩展到了34 GPa.同时,根据对不同实验条件下的加载-再加载过程的比较,对再加载弹性前驱波的形成机理进行了讨论,认为位错是形成该现象的主要原因. 关键词： 动态屈服强度 AC方法 弹性前驱波 VISAR     

冲击加载过程中苯的液—固相转变

利用一级轻气炮加载技术和最近发展的一种透光性测量技术,在线观测到液态苯在多次冲击压缩过程中透光性随时间变化特征.分析表明,导致透光性下降的原因是局部发生液—固相变而引起的光散射效应,且散射特征反映了相变过程的时间弛豫和空间积累特性.结果澄清了苯在冲击条件下液—固相变是否发生的争论,对冲击相变动力学研究提供了重要实验依据. 关键词： 苯 多次冲击压缩 液—固相变 透光性     

铝的动态屈服强度测量及再加载弹性前驱波的形成机理分析

利用激光干涉测速技术(VISAR)测量LY12铝合金在20—34 GPa冲击压力下经历加载-卸载和加载-再加载过程的样品/窗口界面粒子速度剖面，采用AC方法确定了具有较高精度的动态屈服强度值.实验结果和文献发表的数据具有较好的一致性.通过以平面焊接方式制作组合飞片，克服了组合飞片在气炮发射过程中可能发生分离的技术困难，使铝的动态屈服强度测量压力范围从22 GPa扩展到了34 GPa.同时，根据对不同实验条件下的加载-再加载过程的比较，对再加载弹性前驱波的形成机理进行了讨论，认为位错是形成该现象的主要原因.     

蛋白质跨膜传输的飞秒和频振动光谱快速实时监测（英文）

精确表征界面蛋白质结构与动力学行为是理解生物大分子功能及其与界面相互作用机制的核心.而其关键在于发展同时具有足够结构与时间分辨度的技术来捕捉界面蛋白质的动态结构变化.本文利用本小组最近发展的飞秒和频振动光谱系统来实时研究蛋白质跨膜传输过程.该系统实现目前文献报导中最快的和频光谱采谱速度.通过实时监控WALP23与DMPG双层膜作用过程中酰胺I和酰胺A的和频信号,发现WALP23最初以无规则卷曲结构吸附在凝胶相的DPMG双层膜表面.DMPG膜表面上WALP23的吸附,会导致膜表面电荷发生反转,从而改变膜界面水分子的取向.通过加热使DMPG由凝胶相转变为流动相后,WALP23以N端插入的方式实现跨膜过程.在跨膜过程中,WALP23结构由无规则卷曲转变为α-螺旋/回环混合结构,最后形成纯α-螺旋结构,同时引起DMPG膜的去水合作用.此系统可直接应用到其他界面快过程的表征工作,将有助于深入理解各种界面现象的本质.     

冲击压缩下金属钯的结构相变

钯作为典型高压标定材料,研究其在极端条件下的结构变化以及热力学性质具有广泛需求并充满了挑战,特别是冲击加载下钯的固-固相变过程研究仍然匮乏.本文基于嵌入原子势,使用经典分子动力学方法从原子角度揭示了冲击载荷加载下钯的结构相变路径,在0—375 GPa的压力区间观察到一系列复杂的结构转变特征,从初始的面心立方(FCC)结构,至带密排六方(HCP)结构的层错体心立方(BCC)结构,直至完全熔化.在沿<100>晶向冲击下,在70.0 GPa发现了FCC-BCC相变过程,远低于之前研究中静高压的结果.此外,还发现了冲击方向依赖的相变点,在沿着<110>及<111>晶向冲击时FCC-BCC相变压力分别增加至135.8和165.4 GPa,同时相比完美晶体,引入缺陷会使FCC-BCC相变压强值有20—30 GPa的增幅,并通过势能分布的分析予以验证.本文发现冲击加载下钯的FCC-BCC相变压力大大降低的特殊现象,为钯在高压实验等极端条件下的应用提供了新的理论认识.     

周期性铜线密排结构的冲击压缩特性研究

对铜线密排结构材料开展了一维平面应变冲击压缩实验与数值模拟研究。利用激光位移干涉仪测量了样品/窗口界面速度剖面,获取了有效的结构冲击压缩实验数据。从样品界面速度曲线可以推断,密排结构冲击压缩时没有形成致密结构,在卸载过程中发生了分层。应用光滑粒子流体动力学方法(SPH)建立了平面铜线密排结构的三维计算模型,计算得到样品冲击加载下的压缩特性,实验和数值模拟得到的界面速度和压力结果吻合较好,为后续开展柱面铜线密排结构的冲击压缩过程研究奠定了基础。     

Real-space visualization of intercalated water phases at the hydrophobic graphene interface with atomic force microscopy

The phase behavior of water is a topic of perpetual interest due to its reinai kable anomalous properties and importance to biology,material science,geoscience,nanoscience,etc.It is predicted confined water at interface can exist in large amounts of crystalline or amorphous states.However,the experimental evidence of coexistence of liquid water phases at interface is still insufficient.Here,a special folding few-layers graphene film was elaborate prepared to form a hydrophobic/hydrophobic interface,which can provide a suited platform to study the structure and properties of confined liquid water.The real-space visualization of intercalated water layers phases at the folding interface is obtained using advanced atomic force microscopy(AFM).The folding graphene interface displays complicated internal interfacial characteristics.The intercalated water molecules present themselves as two phases,low-density liquid(LDL,solid-like)and high-density liquid(HDL,liquid-like),according to their specific mechanical properties taken in two multifrequency-AFM(MF-AFM)modes.Furthermore,the water molecules structural evolution is demonstrated in a series of continuous MF-AFM measurements.The work preliminary confirms the existence of two liquid phases of water in real space and will inspire further experimental work to deeply understanding their liquid dynamics behavior.     

New information on water interfacial structure revealed by phase-sensitive surface spectroscopy

A phase-sensitive sum-frequency vibrational spectroscopic technique is developed to study interfacial water structure of water/quartz interfaces. Measurements allow deduction of both real and imaginary parts of the surface nonlinear spectral response, revealing an unprecedentedly detailed picture of the net polar orientations of the water species at the interface. The orientations of the icelike and liquidlike species appear to respond very differently to the bulk pH change indicating the existence of different surface sites on quartz with different deprotonation pK values.     

Effect of polymer adsorption on the water structure at the quartz/water interface studied by optical sum frequency generation

The effect of polymers weakly adsorbed on a quartz surface on the structure of the interfacial water molecules was investigated by optical sum frequency (SF) spectroscopy. As polymers, poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG), poly(propylene glycol) (PPG), and two types of tri-block copolymer of Pluronic L64 and 17R-4 were used. SF intensity spectra of OH stretching mode of water molecules at the interface between a quartz substrate and aqueous solutions of the polymers were measured. The total SF intensity of the interfacial water of the L64 aqueous solution was smaller than those of other solutions. This result indicates that the L64 aqueous solution has smaller number of oriented interfacial water molecules. It is suggested that the rapid motion of hydrophilic parts of the adsorbed L64 disturbs the average orientation of the interfacial water molecules. On the other hand, the SF intensity from the interfacial water molecules of aqueous solutions with high ion strength did not depend on the species of the polymers in the solutions. The latter result suggests that the hydration of ions determines the structure of the interfacial water molecules.     

A molecular level study of liquid water with a flexible water model

The structural properties of water at different temperatures and pressures have been investigated by using a flexible water model and the inherent structure mechanism. The presence of 60$^\circ$ peak in the O--O--O angle distribution function and the behaviours of the hydrogen bonds in the first shell indicate that some water molecules in the second shell move toward the central molecules through the bending (not breaking) of hydrogen bonds and even become first-shell molecules of the central molecule on the basis of the O--O cutoff distance but not first-shell molecules by means of the hydrogen-bond criterion. The inherent-structure analysis of the O--O radial distribution functions at different pressures shows that the first peak is almost independent of the pressure; the position of second peak moves from 0.45 to 0.32nm as the pressure increases from $1\times 10^5$Pa to $1\times 10^9$Pa. This particularly evident pressure effect, i.e. the constant nearest-neighbours and the transformation of outer-neighbours on the basis of O--O distance, together with the results at different temperatures, gives a positive evidence for the two-state outer-neighbour mixture model: liquid water is a mixture of Ice-Ih-type-bonding and Ice-II-type bonding structures.     

Thermodynamic discontinuity between low-density amorphous ice and supercooled water

A combination of reverse Monte Carlo, molecular dynamics, and lattice dynamics simulations were used to obtain structural and thermodynamic data for low-density amorphous ice. A thermodynamically discontinuous transformation to a phase with properties and a structure consistent with supercooled liquid water is found to occur at approximately 130 K. Quantum corrections have a profound effect on thermodynamic properties and the location of important thermodynamic points in the water phase diagram.     

Adsorption of surface functionalized silica nanoparticles onto mineral surfaces and decane/water interface

The adsorption of silica nanoparticles onto representative mineral surfaces and at the decane/water interface was studied. The effects of particle size (the mean diameters from 5 to 75?nm), concentration and surface type on the adsorption were studied in detail. Silica nanoparticles with four different surfaces [unmodified, surface modified with anionic (sulfonate), cationic (quaternary ammonium (quat)) or nonionic (polyethylene glycol (PEG)) surfactant] were used. The zeta potential of these silica nanoparticles ranges from ?79.8 to 15.3?mV. The shape of silica particles examined by a Hitachi-S5500 scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) is quite spherical. The adsorption of all the nanoparticles (unmodified or surface modified) on quartz and calcite surfaces was found to be insignificant. We used interfacial tension (IFT) measurements to investigate the adsorption of silica nanoparticles at the decane/water interface. Unmodified nanoparticles or surface modified ones with sulfonate or quat do not significantly affect the IFT of the decane/water interface. It also does not appear that the particle size or concentration influences the IFT. However, the presence of PEG as a surface modifying material significantly reduces the IFT. The PEG surface modifier alone in an aqueous solution, without the nanoparticles, yields the same IFT reduction for an equivalent PEG concentration as that used for modifying the surface of nanoparticles. Contact angle measurements of a decane droplet on quartz or calcite plate immersed in water (or aqueous nanoparticle dispersion) showed a slight change in the contact angle in the presence of the studied nanoparticles. The results of contact angle measurements are in good agreement with experiments of adsorption of nanoparticles on mineral surfaces or decane/water interface. This study brings new insights into the understanding and modeling of the adsorption of surface-modified silica nanoparticles onto mineral surfaces and water/decane interface.     

Comparative assessment of the ELBA coarse-grained model for water

The ELBA force field for water consists of a single spherical site embedded with a point dipole. This coarse-grained model is assessed here through the calculation of fundamental properties of bulk liquid water and the water–vapour interface. Accuracy and efficiency are evaluated and compared against simulations of standard three- and four-site atomistic models. For bulk liquid systems, ELBA reproduces accurately most of the investigated properties. However, the radial distribution function deviates from atomistic and experimental data, indicating a loss of local structure. The water–vapour interface, simulated over a range of temperatures from 300 to 600 K, is captured realistically in terms of its density distribution, and the accuracy in reproducing the experimental surface tension is as high as that of the best atomistic model. The critical temperature of ELBA is also found to be in excellent agreement with experiment. However, the interfacial electric field and surface potential are missing. The computational speed-up of ELBA compared to traditional atomistic models is estimated to be between one and two orders of magnitude.     

Reflection of structural waves at a solid/liquid interface

This paper investigates the reflection characteristics of structural or guided waves in rods at a solid/liquid interface. Structural waves, whose wavelengths are much larger than the diameter of the rod, are described in a first approximation by classical one-dimensional wave theory. The reflection characteristics of such waves at a solid/liquid (melting) interface has been reported by two different ultrasonic measurement techniques: first, measuring the fast regression rate of a melting interface during the burning of metal rod samples in an oxygen-enriched environment, and second, monitoring the propagation of the solid/liquid interface during the slow melting and solidification of a rod sample in a furnace. The second work clearly shows that the major reflection occurs from the solid/liquid interface and not the liquid/gas interface as predicted by plane longitudinal wave reflectivity theory. The present work confirms this observation by reporting on the results of some specially designed experiments to identify the main interface of reflection for structural waves in rods. Hence, it helps in explaining the fundamental discrepancy between the reflection characteristics at a solid/liquid interface between low frequency structural waves and high frequency bulk waves, and confirms that the detected echo within a burning metallic rod clearly represents a reflection from the solid/liquid interface.     

Surface crystallization of amorphous solid water

We demonstrate that the crystallization of thin, supported amorphous solid water layers is initiated at the water surface. This is concluded from the observation of sequential crystallization of amorphous water at the surface, in the bulk, and at the water-support interface. A surface nucleation model quantitatively reproduces the observed transformation kinetics at the three sites.