Nanoscale morphology dependent hydrogen coverage of meso-porous silicon

Hydrogen coverage of the specific surface of meso-porous silicon nanostructures is studied by means of attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy. A strong correlation of silicon hydride bonds and of total amount of the adsorbed hydrogen to the nanoscale morphology parameters such as porosity, nanocrystallites dimensions and fractal-like specific surface is reported.     

Nanoscale capacitance: A quantum tight-binding model

Landauer–Buttiker formalism with the assumption of semi-infinite electrodes as reservoirs has been the standard approach in modeling steady electron transport through nanoscale devices. However, modeling dynamic electron transport properties, especially nanoscale capacitance, is a challenging problem because of dynamic contributions from electrodes, which is neglectable in modeling macroscopic capacitance and mesoscopic conductance. We implement a self-consistent quantum tight-binding model to calculate capacitance of a nano-gap system consisting of an electrode capacitance $C^{\prime }$ and an effective capacitance $C_d$ of the middle device. From the calculations on a nano-gap made of carbon nanotube with a buckyball therein, we show that when the electrode length increases, the electrode capacitance $C^{\prime }$ moves up while the effective capacitance $C_d$ converges to a value which is much smaller than the electrode capacitance $C^{\prime }$. Our results reveal the importance of electrodes in modeling nanoscale ac circuits, and indicate that the concepts of semi-infinite electrodes and reservoirs well-accepted in the steady electron transport theory may be not applicable in modeling dynamic transport properties.     

SrAl_2O_4∶Eu,Dy纳米材料与体材料的光电特性研究

用溶胶-凝胶自燃烧法和高温固相法分别制备了纳米和体相SrAl_2O_4:Eu,Dy长余辉磷光体.用X射线衍射对晶体结构进行了表征,用Keithley 2410对材料在有无光照条件下的电流-电压特性进行了分析,同时还测量了样品的真空紫外激发光谱.光照使材料的电流增强,说明至少有部分电子经光照后被激发到导带;纳米材料真空紫外激发光谱发生蓝移,说明纳米材料的禁带宽度要大于体材料的禁带宽度,相同电压下纳米材料的电流小于体材料的电流.     

Nanoscale NMR velocimetry by means of slowly diffusing tracer particles

The resolution of NMR velocimetry is inherently limited by random displacements due to molecular self-diffusion, and has so far not extended below a few tens of microns. We report here an extension to the nanoscale domain, a result achieved by the use of slowly diffusing, NMR-visible core-shell latex particles. These particles comprise an oil core surrounded by a solid polymer shell, making spheres of diameter 370 nm. Using these particles in the annulus of a concentric cylinder Couette cell, we have measured flow-induced displacements down to a few hundreds of nanometers, allowing the observation of the solid-to-liquid transition of a glassy system. We envisage new possibilities for NMR velocimetry as an experimental tool for colloidal chemistry and physics.     

Nanoscale deformation measurement by using the hybrid method of gray-level and holographic interferometry

This study extends the use of holographic interferometry to measure the nanoscale out-of-plane displacement with high surface resolution. It is noted that if the deformation is less than half of the optical wavelength, it is hard to find an obvious fringe pattern. Under such a situation, in general, the phase shift method is used. However, it needs to take more than 3 images for phase shifting and phase reconstruction In this paper, a more simple hybrid method of gray-level and holographic interferometry is used to extract fringe skeletons, in which it just needs to take one or two images for the normal deformation measurement directly, even if there exists no obvious fringe pattern. The displacement field with high surface resolution can also be obtained. The proposed method yielded a theoretical precision of 0.15 nm for out-of-plane displacement with a monochromatic CCD camera of 10-bit gray scale (1024 gray scales) sensitivity and microscale surface resolution for millimeter scale object with 640×480 pixels image resolution by an He–Ne LASER (632.8 nm wavelength) light source. The gray-level method is proposed to calculate the non-obvious interferometry fringe by traditional holographic interferometry hologram, and the result showed that this method works for this purpose.     

Nanoscale detection of faint machinery vibration using the NV center in diamond

We propose a novel method for detection of the faint machinery vibration at the nanometer resolution based on the spin magnetic resonant effect. A suspension magnet acts as a vibration sensor to transfer the vibration signals as the magnetic field fluctuation to excite the spin magnetic resonance. Due to the high sensitivity of the magnetic field of the nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond, the theoretical detection limit of mechanical vibration is as high as 5.7 nm, and the actual measurement resolution reached 12.8 nm, and proved the potential for further improvement to ∼pm resolution. The feasibility of this method is verified by dynamic tests. This method provides a novel approach for the detection of micro-mechanical vibrations.     

Current nanoscience and nanoengineering at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering

The Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CeNSE) at the University of Kentucky is a multidisciplinary group of faculty, students, and staff, with a shared vision and cutting-edge research facilities to study and develop materials and devices at the nanoscale. Current research projects at CeNSE span a number of diverse nanoscience thrusts in bio-engineering and medicine (nanosensors and nanoelectrodes, nanoparticle-based drug delivery), electronics (nanolithography, molecular electronics, nanotube FETs), nanotemplates for electronics and gas sensors (functionalization of carbon nanotubes, aligned carbon nanotube structures for gate-keeping, e-beam lithography with nanoscale precision), and nano-optoelectronics (nanoscale photonics for laser communications, quantum confinement in photovoltaic devices, and nanostructured displays). This paper provides glimpses of this research and future directions.     

甲醇在纳米TiO2作用下进行光催化氧化反应的机理研究

以纳米TiO2 为催化剂 ,以主波长为 36 4nm的汞灯为光源 ,用气相色谱法分别考察了 0 .1mol/L的甲醇、甲醛和甲酸水溶液进行光催化氧化反应的动力学规律 .Langmuir Hinshelwood方程进行核算结果证明 ,该组反应均为零级反应 .用TEM、XRD、SSA和XPS对催化剂进行表征 .根据XPS的检测结果提出了甲醇光催化氧化的反应机理 .TiO2 光激发活化时间约为 30～ 6 0min ,生成物及剩余反应物浓度随时间变化的曲线表明 ,该反应速率为HCH2 OH 相似文献   

Effects of surface and interface energies on the bending behavior of nanoscale multilayered beams

A modified continuum model of the nanoscale multilayered beams is established by incorporating surface and interface energies. Through the principle of minimum potential energy, the governing equations and boundary conditions are obtained. The closed-form solutions are presented and the overall Young's modulus of the beam is studied. The surface and interface energies are found to have a major influence on the bending behavior and the overall Young's modulus of the beam. The effect of surface and interface energies on the overall Young's modulus depends on the boundary condition of the beam, the values of the surface/interface elasticity constants and the initial surface/interface energy of the system. The results can be used to guide the determinations of the surface/interface elasticity properties and the initial surface/interface energies of the nanoscale multilayered materials through nanoscale beam bending experiments.     

Atomically Precise Transformations and Millimeter‐Scale Patterning of Nanoscale Assemblies by Ambient Electrospray Deposition

The performance of semiconductor devices can be fine‐tuned through chemical transformation of their nanostructured components. Such transformations are often carried out in controlled conditions. Herein, the use of electrospray deposition of metal ions from solutions in air is reported, to bring about chemical transformations across mm²‐sized areas of nanostructures. This is illustrated with monolayer assemblies of ultrathin tellurium nanowires (NWs). The process does not require any reducing agent and can transform the NWs chemically, in the solid state itself, under ambient conditions. By using suitable masks, the beam of ions can be patterned to localize such transformations with nanometer precision to obtain aligned multiphasic NWs, containing atomically precise phase boundaries. By controlling the time of exposure of the spray, the scope of the process is further expanded to produce tellurium‐metal telluride core–shell NWs. The method described here represents a crucial step for ambient processing of nanostructured components, useful for applications such as semiconductor device fabrication.     

Nanoscale continuum calculation of basal dislocation core structures in graphite

In this work, we calculate the core structures of basal dislocations in graphite in a nanoscale continuum framework. The model consists of a stack of buffered Kirchhoff plates where the plates represent the covalent interactions within individual graphene sheets and the buffer layers represent the secondary interactions between them. In the mid-plane of the buffer layers, cohesive surfaces are introduced to account for the nonlinear deformations due to basal dislocations. The cohesive surface separation is governed by using an empirical 4-8 Lennard–Jones potential. Meanwhile, their relative shear sliding is governed by using a newly proposed empirical periodic stacking-fault potential. With these potentials, the core structures of full dislocations and partials are calculated and examined. It is shown that the full dislocations automatically split into partials that repel each other. The core sizes of individual partials, measured between peak stresses, are about 5?nm wide for the edge component and slightly narrower for the screw component. Since these sizes are about 10 times the lattice constant, they lend credence to our continuum model of basal dislocation cores in graphite. It is also shown that when the dislocations are densely packed on the same glide plane, i.e. in a pile-up, with spacing one to two times the core size, the split partials retain their individual identity with well-defined and well-separated stress peaks. Meanwhile, the membrane normal stresses in the graphene sheets rise considerably at the pile-up tips which, in turn, may provoke further deformation and damage modes such as kinking and delamination.     

Perchlorate Reduction by Nanoscale Iron Particles

We report herein the near complete reduction of perchlorate (ClO ) to chloride by nanoscale iron particles. The nanoparticles also reduce chlorate (ClO ), chlorite (ClO ) and hypochlorite (ClO ) to chloride. No reaction was observed with microscale iron powder under identical conditions. The temperature sensitivity of the perchlorate-nanoparticle reaction is evidenced by progressively increasing rate constant values of 0.013, 0.10, 0.64 and 1.52 mg perchlorate per g nanoparticles per hour (mg-g^-1-hr^-1), respectively, at temperatures of 25, 40, 60 and 75°C. The activation energy of perchlorate-iron reaction was calculated to be 79.02 ± 7.75 kJ/mole. Despite favorable thermodynamics, the relatively large activation energy for this reaction suggests that perchlorate reduction is limited by the slow kinetics. The nanoscale iron particles may represent a potential treatment method for perchlorate-contaminated water.     

热质的运动和传递-最低热质能耗散原理和热质运动方程

过增元基于质能方程提出了热质的概念.在非平衡热力学中,存在最低能量耗散原理,根据该原理可以导出热传导,扩散及粘性流动等不可逆输运过程的方程式.当采用热质模型对传热现象进行描述时,发现热质的运动也满足最小作用量原理:最低热质能耗散原理,根据该原理可以推导得出热质运动的动量守恒方程。     

基于热质理论的Hamilton原理

基于热质理论,类比经典力学,给出了热质运动遵循的Hamilton原理以及相应的导热Lagrange方程.由于考虑了热质动能,热质运动的Hamilton原理有望应用于非Fourier效应的讨论,在忽略热质动能时,回归到Fourier热学.应用Lagrange方程对含内热源一维瞬态导热问题进行了近似求解,计算结果与解析解符合较好.从分析力学的角度对传热理论以及热学与力学的统一做了新的阐释,指出了现有文献中采用分析力学方法讨论导热问题时存在的某些不足,为导热问题的近似求解提供了新的思路,同时也说明了热质和热质能     

计算光在引力场中偏折的新方法

利用光的量子论,能量守恒及弱等效原理得出电磁波传播在几何近似下,光线在引力场中的偏转角和波矢的关系. 利用引力场中电磁波方程,在弱场近似下给出了一般的计算光线偏转角度的方法. 具体计算了Schwarzchild引力场中光线的偏折及Kerr-Newman引力场中光线的偏折. 关键词： 引力场 电磁波方程 能量守恒 弱场近似     

Nano- and Pico-Scale Transport Phenomena in Fluids

A new theoretical approach to describe pre-hydrodynamic stages of evolution in nonequilibrium fluids is presented. The local density, velocity, and temperature fields are expressed as integrals over Green's functions that depend on initial-state ensemble averages of dynamical quantities. For systems in which the initial states are nonuniform in only one spatial direction, explicit expressions for the Green's functions are derived in terms of initial-state ensemble averages of moments of particle displacements and products of particle velocities and particle displacements.     

Uncertainty principle and uncertainty relations: extension of a result of Uffink and Hilgevoord

A new four-space formulation of Dirac's equation motivates the extension of a result that expresses the uncertainty principle without using standard deviations.     

An approximate analytic solution of the heat conduction equation at nanoscale

The Adomian decomposition method (ADM) and the Adomian double decomposition method (ADDM) for solving the 3D non-Fourier heat conduction equation at nanoscale based on the dual-phase-lag framework are proposed. We show that the noise terms that appear in ADM solution can be removed, if the ADDM is employed.     

不同积分变分原理的统一

依据定量因果原理的数学表示，统一地导出了Lagrange量中含坐标关于时间一阶、二阶导数 的积分型的Hamilton原理、Voss原理、Hlder原理和Maupertuis-Lagrange原理等，给出了 这些原理的本质联系和统一描述.得出f₀=0并不是通常的保持Euler-Lagrange方 程不 变的结果，而是满足定量因果原理的结果.还得出Lagrange量的所有的积分型变分原理等价 地对应于两类满足定量因果原理的不变形式.同时发现所有积分型变分原理的运动方程都是E uler-Lagrange 方程，但不同条件的变分原理所对应的不同群Ｇ作用下的守恒量是不同 的.从而可对过去众多零散的积分型变分原理有一个系统和深入的理解，并使这些变分原理 自然地成为定量因果原理的推论. 关键词： 变分原理 因果原理 运动方程 对称性     

应用程函方法研究光线方程式和费马原理

首先推导出程函方程式，然后应用程函方法研究光线方程式和费马原理，并给出了应用实例