Treatment of direct blending dye wastewater and recycling of dye sludge

A new sorbent material, barium sulfate-Direct Blending Yellow D-3RNL hybrid (BSD), was synthesized and characterized by various methods. Both the anionic dyes, Reactive Brilliant Red X-3B and Weak Acid Green GS were hardly adsorbed by the BSD material, while the sorption of Ethyl Violet (EV) and Victoria Blue B were extremely obvious. The sorption of cationic dyes obeyed the Langmuir isotherm model, which depended on the electric charge attraction. The saturation amount of EV adsorbed onto the BSD material approached to 39.36 mg/g. The sorption of EV changed little with pH from 3 to 12 while it increased with increasing levels of electrolyte. A dye wastewater sampled from Jinjiang Chemicals was treated, and the color removal rate was more than the COD removal rate. In addition, the cationic dye-BSD sludge was utilized as a colorant fill-in coating. The light stability and thermal stability of the colorant was measured and exhibited good features. This work provided a simple and eco-friendly method for dye wastewater treatment with recycling of waste.     

Effect of disperse dye structure on dye sorption onto PLA fiber

The effect of the structure of various disperse dyes on their percentage sorption onto polylactide (PLA) is explained using molecular modeling. The interaction energies between the dyes and PLA have been calculated, and a linear equation has been developed to predict the percentage sorption on PLA based on the dye-PLA interaction energy. The predicted percentage sorption for a dye is shown to agree with its experimentally obtained percentage sorption on commercial PLA fabric and on PLA fiber extruded in our laboratory. Within the dyes, the functional groups that form the strongest interactions with PLA are -N(C(2)H(4)OCOCH(3))(2), -(CO)(2)NC(3)H(6)OCH(3), -SO(2)NHC(6)H(5), -NO(2), -CN(NH)C(6)H(4), and -CH(CO)(2)C(6)H(4), and the groups that form the weakest interactions with PLA are -Br and -Cl.     

Thermodynamics of dye dimerization

The thermodynamic parameters for dimerization has been obtained for fluorescein and halo-fluorescein dyes. Results indicate an increasing contribution of hydrophobic bonding for more aggregating dyes.     

A swift dye uptake procedure for dye sensitized solar cells

Solar cells based on swift self-assembled sensitizer bis(tetrabutylammonium)-cis-di(thiocyanato)-N,N'-bis(4-carboxylato-4'-carboxylic acid-2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium(II) (N719) on double layers of 12 + 4 microm thick nanocrystalline TiO2 films exhibit the incident monochromatic photon-to-current conversion efficiency (IPCE) 90% and show a short circuit current density of 17 mA cm(-2), 750 mV open circuit potential and 0.72 fill factor yielding power conversion efficiencies over 9.18% under AM 1.5 sun. For the first time highest power conversion efficiencies are obtained for dye sensitized solar cells using a swift self-assembled procedure.     

Interaction of dye and polysaccharides

Summary The interactions between amylose, amylodextrine and Benzopurpurine 4 B were studied by spectral and equilibrium dialyses methods. From the binding constant of amylose and amylodextrine, the molar changes in entropy and enthalpy for binding of the dye were calculated. BothH° andS° were positive. The positive value ofS° may be explained by the increase of flexibility of the polymer chain with increasing temperature.

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Zusammenfassung Die Wechselwirkung zwischen Amylose, Amylodextrin und Benzopurpurin 4 B wurde mit den Methoden der Spektroskopie und der Gleichgewichtsdialyse untersucht. Die molare Änderung von Entropie und Enthalpie wurde aus der Bindungskonstante berechnet. H° und S° sind beide positiv. Sie sind damit zu erklären, daß die Kettenbeweglichkeit der Polymeren mit der Temperatur zunimmt.

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The authors acknowledge the help of Dr.T. Kamata (The Government Chemical Industrial Research Institute, Tokyo) with the measurement of the molecular weight of the amylose.     

A macrocyclic bis-cyanine dye

The bis-indocarbocyanine 1, the first dye of a “sandwich” type with parallel polymethine chains bonded by two ethylene links, is described. Its structure is proved with the help of visible spectra based upon the theory of chromophore interaction.     

Energy transfer distributed feedback dye laser using Rhodamine B-Acid blue 7 dye mixture

The characteristics of energy transfer distributed feedback dye laser (ETDFDL) are studied both theoretically and experimentally in a mixture of Rhodamine B and Acid blue 7 dyes pumped by 532 nm Nd:YAG laser. The behaviour of donor and acceptor DFDL, the dependence of their pulse width and output power on pump power and donor-acceptor concentrations are studied. Experimentally, the tunability is achieved over the spectral range 565-680 nm using a prism dye cell arrangement. The output energy of DFDL is measured at the emission peaks of donor and acceptor for different pump powers and donor-acceptor concentrations. The output pulse of DFDL is found to be as narrow as 40-ps duration, which is nearly 100-fold shorter than the pump pulse. The pulse linewidth is of the order of 0.1 A.     

New laser dye based on the 3-styryl analog of the BODIPY dye PM567

We report the synthesis, photophysical properties and evaluation of laser dye of a new BODIPY dye with a 3-styryl substituent, PMS, and with the rest of the substituents as in the commercial dye PM567. PMS shows an emission band at 584 nm in methanol, i.e. displaced ca. 50 nm to longer wavelengths with regard to the green-emission band of PM567, as well as a high-fluorescence quantum yield (0.82) and also a high-molar absorption coefficient (10⁵ M⁻¹ cm⁻¹) in the same solvent. The laser action of the new dye has been analyzed under transversal pumping at 532 nm, 5.5 mJ pulse⁻¹ and up to 10 Hz repetition rate, in both liquid phase and incorporated into solid polymeric matrices of methyl methacrylate copolymerized with crosslinking or fluorinated monomers. Lasing emission at 602–610 nm, with maximum efficiencies of 18%, were reached in these media. In solid-fluorinated matrices, good lasing photostabilities were established, with 30% of the initial laser output remaining after 100,000 pump pulses at 10 Hz.     

Thermal decarboxylation of rose bengal dye

The xanthene dye rose bengal undergoes decarboxylation when heated in dimethylformamide or cyclohexanone.     

Interaction of surfactants and aminoindophenol dye

The interaction of dye and surfactants was studied by their spectroscopic and surface properties. Large bathochromic shift (15 nm) in the absorption spectrum was found for aminoindophenol dye at high pH in cationic surfactant, while there is no significant shift in anionic, zwitterionic and nonionic surfactant solutions. The static and dynamic surface properties show there is strong interaction in mixture of cationic surfactant and aminoindophenol dye. Interaction of dye and surfactants on surface and in solution is correlated to the intensity of dye deposition on fiber. The charge complex formation between cationic surfactant and aminoindophenolic dye delays the dye diffusion into keratin fiber. The stronger is the dye/surfactant interaction, the lower dye deposition and diffusion become.     

Luminescence properties of the mixed J-aggregate of oxacyanine dye and thiacyanine dye. Formation of a persistence-type aggregate

The monolayer assemblies incorporating the J-aggregates of oxacyanine dye, N,N'-dioctadecyloxacyanine perchlorate (S9), and thiacyanine dye, N,N'-dioctadecylthiacyanine perchlorate (S11), S9(J) + S11(J), have been fabricated by the Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique. The mole fraction X of S11, X = [S11]/([S9] + [S11]), was varied from 0 to 1. Steady-state absorption spectra, fluorescence spectra, and picosecond fluorescence decay curves of the monolayer assemblies have been measured. Spectroscopic properties of the monolayer assemblies incorporating the individual dye aggregates, S9 J-aggregate (S9(J), X = 0) or S11 J-aggregate (S11(J), X = 1), are characterized by a distinct J-band and resonance fluorescence at lambda(ab) = 403 nm and lambda(em) = 403 nm for S9(J) and lambda(ab) = 456 nm and lambda(em) = 463 nm for S11(J). On the other hand, absorption spectra of the S9(J) + S11(J) assemblies for X = 0.1-0.9 display two absorption bands, a shorter wavelength one and a longer wavelength one, whose peak positions are blue-shifted from those of the corresponding J-bands of the S9 J-aggregate and the S11 J-aggregate, respectively. Furthermore, fluorescence spectra are characterized by a single band (longer wavelength fluorescence) which is somewhat blue-shifted from the resonance fluorescence of the S11 J-aggregate. The fluorescence lifetimes of the S11 J-aggregate and isolated S11 molecules in LB films appear to be tau = 110 and 1900 ps, respectively, while the fluorescence lifetime of the longer wavelength fluorescence of the S9(J) + S11(J) assemblies takes practically a constant value of tau = 170-180 ps for X = 0.2-0.8. These observations would indicate that S9 and S11 molecules in the S9(J) + S11(J) assembly can form a specific mixed aggregate distinct from the individual S9 and S11 J-aggregates. From detailed considerations of the former works on luminescence properties of the S9 J-aggregate doped with isolated S11 molecules, as well as the mosaic-type mixed J-aggregate (M-aggregate) composed of a certain thiacyanine dye, 3,3'-disulfopropyl- 5,5'-dichlorothiacyanine sodium salt, and thiacarbocyanine dye, meso-substituted 3,3'-disulfopropyl-5,5'-dichlorothiacarbocyanine potassium salt, it is suggested that S9 and S11 can form a homogeneous aggregate of the persistence type (HP-aggregate). The HP-aggregate is distinguished from the M-aggregate because it is characterized by homogeneous mixing of two component dyes and persistence of two absorption bands.     

Comparative Raman studies of molecular interactions at a dye/polymer and a dye/glass interface

Integrated optical techniques and resonance Raman spectroscopy have been combined to investigate the intermolecular interactions at dye/polymer and dye/glass interfaces. Frequency shifts and intensity changes of bands assigned to the stretching vibrations of the bridged quinoline rings of the cyanine dye chromophore have been utilized to gain insight into the relative strength of adhesive forces at the surface. Polarized Raman measurements were made to determine the orientation of the chromophores on a poly(vinyl alcohol) surface. This was done to assess the possibility of hydrogen bond formation between the ring nitrogen atoms and the polar hydroxyl groups at the surface.     

Monolayers of a novel ionoselective butadienyl dye

The novel amphiphilic benzodithia-18-crown-6 butadienyl dye (1) forms relatively stable insoluble monolayers on distilled water (collapse pressure of 41 mN/m) and on aqueous subphases containing alkali metal or heavy metal salts (collapse pressures in the range of 27-38 mN/m, respectively). The dye 1 monolayer organization depends on chromophore association and interactions (especially complex formation) with heavy and alkali metal ions as deduced from surface pressure-area and surface potential-area isotherms as well as reflection spectra and Brewster angle microscopy observations. Dye 1 undergoes specific interactions with Hg(2+) and Ag(+), respectively (formation of different complexes). Nonspecific interactions have been observed with other salts, such as KClO(4) or Pb(ClO(4))(2). Further, dye 1 monolayers on 1 mM Hg(ClO(4))(2) solution undergo reversible photoisomerization, in contrast to monolayers on water and other aqueous salt subphases.     

Investigation of near-infrared laser dye albumin complexes

Near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy is used to investigate the properties of the NIR laser dye albumin complexes. The binding sites on albumins are probed using four structurally very similar NIR laser dyes, the DTTCI, DOTCI, DTDCI and DODCI. The pronounced differences observed in the NIR spectra of these dyes indicate that specific binding may occur since differences in the microenvironment of the binding area does not alone explain these changes. The DTTCI complexes with albumins showed a significant decrease in the NIR absorption while the other three dyes did not. These results suggest that the presence of the S heteroatoms as well as their distance from each other are determining factors in the observed specific binding. Dissimilarities in the NIR spectra of different albumin complexes indicate a difference in the structure of the microenvironment surrounding the NIR laser dye binding sites.     

Absorption spectroscopic investigation of rhodamine dye vapors

The dyes rhodamine 6G and rhodamine 19 are investigated. The dye stability versus temperature and time is studied. Bulk dye stuff is found to be less stable than dye adsorbed to the stainless steel cell walls and in the vapor phase. Rhodamine 6G converts to rhodamine 19 before evaporation. Adsorbed rhodamine 19 and rhodamine 19 vapor disintegrate most likely into 2,7-dimethylrhodamine 110 at elevated temperatures (> 320°C). For rhodamine 19 vapor the absorption spectrum, the saturated vapor density and the latent heat of evaporation are determined. The vapor absorption spectra of rhodamine 19 and 2,7-dimethylrhodamine 110 are compared with solution spectra.     

Effect of pressure on viscosity-dependent dye fluorescence

The fluorescence of the dyes crystal violet, auramine-O and eosin-Y has been studied as a function of pressure in glycerol and polyvinylalcohol at room temperature. The strong pressure sensitivity observed for the substituted methane dyes is related to the viscosity change of the fluid medium.     

Gamma radiolysis of anthraquinone dye aqueous solution

The decoloration of Acid Blue 62 in aqueous solution was mainly attributed to the attack of the e _aq ^– and OH radicals on the dye molecule. The mechanisms of these reactions were investigated in detail including the influence of pH, dose rate and oxygen.     

Reduced fluorescence quenching of cyclodextrin-acetylene dye rotaxanes

An acetylene dye rotaxane with alpha-CD has been synthesized using the Heck-Cassar-Sonogashira-Hagihara-type reaction in aqueous solution. Free dye with tetracarboxylic acids is found to be highly sensitive to various metal ions, showing high Stern-Volmer constants, KSV. As CD encapsulation protects and stabilizes the threaded chromophore against an outside quencher, metal-insensitive biological tags are an obvious application for this class of molecules.     

Photophysical and photochemical effects of dye binding

Abstract— A discussion is given of the photophysical and photochemical consequences of the binding of dyes and of pigments of biological importance to polymeric substrates. The modification of the photochemical properties induced by dye binding can in large part be ascribed to the known changes in photophysical properties of dyes engendered by such interactions. Principally, these involve enhanced formation of metastable species of dye molecules and decreased opportunity for self-quenching. In photochemical terms, dye binding thus enhances susceptibility to photoreduction, causes an increase in the quantum yield of photoreduction with increasing concentration of bound dye, and induces enhanced ability to act as a sensi-tizer in photoreduction. Paradoxically, dye binding decreases the ability of the bound dye to act as a sensitizer in photoxidation.