功能性无机-晶态纳米纤维素复合材料的研究进展与展望

纤维素是自然界储藏量最大,可再生且可生物降解的生物高分子。晶态纳米纤维素是天然纤维素复合材料的结构支撑体,其多级孔道结构,手性液晶排列和活性羟基官能团赋予它优异的模板效应。本篇综述回顾了功能性无机-晶态纳米纤维素复合材料的研究进展。概述组装方法,侧重讨论静电纺丝法,细菌纤维素和纤维素气凝胶模板矿化法,凝胶-溶胶法,溶液浇铸法和静电层贴法的组装特点。扼要介绍了晶态纳米纤维素的形貌和晶体结构,提取方法,排列方式,化学修饰和溶剂等。天然复合材料的生物功能与其多级结构和多元组分的协同效应息息相关,文章以木质纤维素的刚性和海参表皮的化学感应性为例,浅谈晶态纳米纤维素微束的螺旋结构和纤维素复合体的多级结构在仿生组装功能性纤维素复合材料中的应用。最后,作者对晶态纳米纤维素在设计组装功能性复合材料领域的未来方向提出了一些设想,藉此综述抛砖引玉。     

纳米细菌纤维素膜的表征与生物相容性研究

利用木醋杆菌静态培养法制备的由纳米纤维组成的细菌纤维素膜具有超细的三维网络结构和适当的孔隙率. 利用光镜、扫描电镜和原子力显微镜对其进行结构表征发现, 细菌纤维素膜具有极为精细的纳米网络结构, 冻干膜的孔径约为0.6~2.8 μm; 纤维素带宽度约为50~80 nm. 采用湿重与浮重结合法测定烘干膜和冻干膜的孔隙率分别约为70%和90%. 由于细菌纤维素含有大量的羟基, 故烘干膜表现出极好的透湿性. 将细菌纤维素膜分别与成纤维细胞和软骨细胞进行复合培养, 并将成纤维细胞和细菌纤维素膜的复合物进行裸鼠皮下移植实验. 结果显示, 移植的复合物很好地融入了裸鼠正常皮肤, 成纤维细胞和软骨细胞在细菌纤维素表面形成连续的细胞层, 绿色荧光蛋白表达正常. 以上结果表明, 细菌纤维素膜非常适合细胞贴附和增殖, 表现出较好的生物相容性, 有望成为新型组织工程支架材料.     

圆偏振热活化延迟荧光材料及其器件的研究进展

圆偏振热活化延迟荧光材料具有分子结构易修饰、激子利用率高及圆偏振发光等特点,在光学信息存储、3D显示、发光器件和数据加密等领域具有广阔应用前景.利用此类材料作为发光层制备的圆偏振有机发光二极管,能够同时实现高发光不对称因子和理论上达100%的激子利用率,对发展低功耗和高性能有机发光二极管至关重要.近年来,通过不断的分子结构设计与优化,该类材料在有机发光二极管中的电致发光效率不断提高,但是仍然存在不对称因子低及效率滚降严重等问题.基于此,整理了目前已报道的圆偏振热活化延迟荧光化合物,重点讨论了其分子结构设计与光物理性质、圆偏振特性以及电致发光性能的关系规律,并对高性能圆偏振热活化延迟荧光材料的制备及其在有机发光二极管中的应用进行了展望.     

纳米纤维素晶须的表面醋酸酯化改性及复合材料的力学性能

采用硫酸水解法制备纳米纤维素晶须, 再以冰醋酸为分散介质, 浓硫酸为催化剂, 醋酸酐为酯化剂对纳米纤维素晶须进行不同程度醋酸酯化改性, 得到醋酸酯化的纳米纤维素. 采用红外光谱(FTIR)、 X射线光衍射(XRD)、 透射电子显微镜(TEM)和X射线光电子能谱(XPS)等手段对改性产物进行分析和表征. 结果表明, 改性纳米纤维素晶须中醋酸酯基的平均取代度过小或过大时均不适宜用作复合材料的增强相. 当改性纳米纤维素晶须中醋酸酯基的平均取代度为0.05时, 醋酸酯化反应只发生在纳米纤维素晶须的表面. 此时, 晶须能在丙酮中稳定悬浮, 表现出流动双折射现象, 并保持了改性前纳米纤维素晶须的棒状形态和高结晶度. 将这种改性后的纳米纤维素晶须作为增强相与醋酸纤维素通过溶液浇铸法制成纳米复合膜, 结果显示, 与空白醋酸纤维素膜相比, 添加改性纳米纤维素晶须后, 纳米复合膜的拉伸强度、 杨氏模量和断裂伸长率都得到了提高. 在玻璃化转变区间纳米复合膜储能模量的降低幅度小于空白膜.     

钛酸钠纤维表面自组织生长SnO2纳米晶体

SnO2是重要的宽禁带半导体材料之一,禁带宽度为3.6 eV,在透明导电膜、气敏传感器、光催化、太阳能转换等有广泛的应用.纳米尺度SnO,材料存在许多优异的物理化学性能,受到特别的关注.合成SnO2纳米材料的方法有气相法、溶胶凝胶法、液相沉淀法、固相法、水热法等,其中水热法是在高压釜里的高温、高压反应环境中,采用水作为反应介质的结晶过程.     

圆偏振发光性质的热活化延迟荧光材料及电致发光器件

具有圆偏振发光性质的热活化延迟荧光(circularly polarized thermally activated delayed fluorescence,CP-TADF)材料,因其在数据存储、生物成像以及3D显示等领域的应用前景,受到学者们的广泛关注。基于此类材料所制备的圆偏振热活化延迟荧光器件展现出优异的器件性能。本文从圆偏振热活化延迟荧光材料的发光机理及分子设计策略出发,依据CP-TADF材料构筑方法的不同,概括了其结构设计策略,系统地综述了各种类型CP-TADF材料的分子结构和光电性能的关系及其在电致发光器件领域的应用,最后探讨了目前CP-TADF材料存在的问题,并展望了其未来发展前景及挑战。     

高透明纳米导电纸的制备及纸基电容器的构建

本文以TEMPO氧化法制备的纳米纤维素为基材,结合纳米银线,经真空抽滤后得到纳米膜。将制得的纳米膜浸泡在氯化胆碱-尿素水溶液中,干燥后得到具有较好电学性能和机械性能的高透明纳米导电纸。制得的纳米导电纸的可见光透过率可达90%以上,最大拉伸形变为17%,比纯纳米纤维素纸的拉伸性能提高10倍以上。将制得的高透明纳米导电纸应用于纸基电容器,进一步拓宽了纸基导电材料在柔性电子器件中的应用范围。     

纳米雄黄与脂质体仿生膜的相互作用研究

本工作以卵磷脂与胆固醇组成的磷脂小单层脂质体（small unilamelarvesicles,suv）作为仿生膜的简单模型,采用表面等离子共振技术（SPR）、荧光偏振、拉曼（Raman）光谱、核磁共振（NMR）及原子力显微镜（AFM）研究纳米雄黄与SUV仿生膜的相互作用,证实了磷脂是纳米雄黄作用的关键靶分子．随纳米雄黄结合,SUV仿生膜的相对粘度聃值增大,膜的流动性减小．Raman光谱数据计算表明,作用后膜的纵向有序性参数s。。及横向有序性参数Slat值增大,说明纳米雄黄的结合使磷脂膜的脂酰基链全反式构型比例上升,膜的流动性减小．由Raman光谱和引PNMR结果推测,磷脂极性头部是纳米雄黄与磷脂的主要结合位点。AFM实时观测,纳米雄黄通过在膜表面打“孔”或“洞”的方式,损坏磷脂膜．     

纳米纤维素的制备

在纳米尺寸范围操控纤维素分子及其超分子聚集体,结构设计并组装出稳定的多重花样,由此创制出具有优异功能的新纳米精细化工品、新纳米材料,是纤维素科学的前沿领域和热点。为了研究当前制备纳米纤维素的现状和发展方向,简述了纳米纤维素化学基础,介绍了三类纳米纤维素：纳米纤维素晶体（晶须）、纳米纤维素复合物和纳米纤维素纤维,重点综述了纳米纤维素的五种制备方法：化学法制备纳米纤维素晶体和晶须、生物法制备细菌纤维素、物理法制备微纤化纳米纤维素、人工合成纳米纤维素和静电纺丝制备纤维素纤维,讨论了各种制备方法的优点和缺点,指出开展纳米纤维素超分子的可控结构设计、立体与位向选择性控制与制备、分子识别与位点识别等自组装过程机理、多尺度结构效应的形成机理等基础理论性研究是主要研究基础,新型的、绿色、低能耗、快速、高效的制备方法是纳米纤维素制备方法的发展方向。     

导电高聚物修饰纳米尺度TiO~2多孔膜电极的光电化学研究

用光电化学方法研究了用导电高聚物修饰的纳米晶TiO~2多孔膜电极在不含氧化还原对和含不同氧化还原对体系电解质溶液中的光电转换过程。TiO~2/导电高聚物多孔膜电极为双层n型半导体结构,内层TiO~2多孔膜的禁带宽度为3.26eV,外层聚吡咯(PPy)膜的禁带宽度为2.23eV,而聚苯胺(PAn)膜的禁带宽度为2.88eV。用导电高聚物修饰半导体电极能使其在可见光区的光吸收增加,光电流增强,且起始波长红移至>600nm,使宽禁带半导体电极的光电转换效率得到明显改善。     

不同取代位置的萘衍生两亲分子在气/液界面组装膜中的螺旋结构与圆偏振发光

Langmuir-Blodgett(LB)技术可在二维气/液界面上精确地控制分子之间的排列及堆积方式, 构建有序超薄膜及纳米组装体. 同时, 界面这一不对称环境也可有效放大组装体的手性信息, 实现超分子体系中的手性传递和手性放大. 本文研究了萘环取代位置不同的两种手性两亲分子——N,N′-双十八烷基-α-萘-L-氨基-谷氨酸二酰胺(1NLG)和N,N′-双十八烷基-β-萘-L-氨基-谷氨酸二酰胺(2NLG)在气/液界面的铺展及组装行为, 发现同分异构效应影响了两亲分子在界面的排列, 1NLG组装形成了均一的纳米带状结构, 而2NLG则形成了左手螺旋结构, 并且2NLG薄膜表现出圆偏振发光(CPL)性质, 其不对称因子(g_lum)比三维体相组装体(超分子凝胶)大23倍, 表明界面促进了超分子手性的放大.     

Endowing Zeolite LTA Superballs with the Ability to Manipulate Light in Multiple Ways

Advances in zeolites research emerging from interdisciplinary efforts have opened new opportunities beyond conventional applications. Colloids drive much current research owing to their distinct collective behaviors, but so far, using zeolites as a colloidal building block to construct ordered superstructures remains unexplored. Herein we show that self-assembly of colloidal zeolite LTA superball (ZAS) by tilted-angle sedimentation forms macroscopic films with micro-mesoporosity and 3D long-range periodicity featuring a photonic band gap (PBG) that is tunable through the superball geometry and responds reversibly to chemical vapors. Remarkably, self-assembly of ZAS at elevated temperature forms 3D chiral photonic crystals that enable negative circular dichroism, selective reflection of right-handed circularly polarized (CP) light and left-handed CP luminescence based on PBG. We present a novel class of functional colloids and zeolite-based photonic crystals with the ability to manipulate light in several ways.     

Circularly polarized luminescence induced by excimer based on pyrene-modified binaphthol

A new chiral bromobinaphthol-pyrene compound was developed to achieve a green circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) from its excimer with a dissymmetry factor (|g_lum|) value of 4.3×10^-3 and a high quantum yield Φ_{F, solid} up to 55.9%, while no CPL signals could be observed for the blue luminescence from unimolecule. Meanwhile, reversal CPL signals can be observed from both concentrated solution and solid.     

Induction of Strong and Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Nonchiral,Nonmetal, Low‐Molecular‐Weight Fluorophores Using Chiral Nanotemplates

A new strategy is described for generating strong circularly polarized luminescence with highly tunable emission bands through chiral induction in nonchiral, totally organic, low‐molecular‐weight fluorescent dyes by chiral nanotemplate systems. Our approach allows the first systematic investigation to clarify the correlation between the circular dichroism and circularly polarized luminescence intensities. As a result, a dilute solution system with the highest circularly polarized luminescence intensity achieved to date and a dissymmetry factor of over 0.1 was identified.     

Induction of Strong and Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescence of Nonchiral,Nonmetal, Low‐Molecular‐Weight Fluorophores Using Chiral Nanotemplates

A new strategy is described for generating strong circularly polarized luminescence with highly tunable emission bands through chiral induction in nonchiral, totally organic, low‐molecular‐weight fluorescent dyes by chiral nanotemplate systems. Our approach allows the first systematic investigation to clarify the correlation between the circular dichroism and circularly polarized luminescence intensities. As a result, a dilute solution system with the highest circularly polarized luminescence intensity achieved to date and a dissymmetry factor of over 0.1 was identified.     

Lasing from an Organic Micro-Helix

Organic solid-state semiconductor lasers are attracting ever-increasing interest for their potential application in future photonic circuits. Despite the great progress made in recent years, an organic laser from 3D chiral structures has not been achieved. Now, the first example of an organic nano-laser from the micro-helix structure of an achiral molecule is presented. Highly regular micro-helixes with left/right-handed helicity from a distyrylbenzene derivative (HM-DSB) were fabricated and characterized under microscope spectrometers. These chiral micro-helixes exhibit unique photonic properties, including helicity-dependent circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), periodic optical waveguiding, and length-dependent amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) behavior. The successful observation of laser behavior from the organic micro-helix extends our understanding to morphology chirality of organic photonic materials and provides a new design strategy towards chiral photonic circuits.     

Lasing from an Organic Micro‐Helix

Organic solid‐state semiconductor lasers are attracting ever‐increasing interest for their potential application in future photonic circuits. Despite the great progress made in recent years, an organic laser from 3D chiral structures has not been achieved. Now, the first example of an organic nano‐laser from the micro‐helix structure of an achiral molecule is presented. Highly regular micro‐helixes with left/right‐handed helicity from a distyrylbenzene derivative (HM‐DSB) were fabricated and characterized under microscope spectrometers. These chiral micro‐helixes exhibit unique photonic properties, including helicity‐dependent circularly polarized luminescence (CPL), periodic optical waveguiding, and length‐dependent amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) behavior. The successful observation of laser behavior from the organic micro‐helix extends our understanding to morphology chirality of organic photonic materials and provides a new design strategy towards chiral photonic circuits.     

Biomimetic Chiral Photonic Crystals

Although it is well known that the amazing iridescent colors of the cuticle of beetles reflect the intricate nanoscale organization of bio‐fibers, artificial inorganic materials with comparable optical responses have not yet been synthesized from abiotic nanoscale building blocks. Such materials could find broad applications, including in circular polarizers, to generate circularly polarized luminescence, or in lasers. Herein, we describe a general method for the fabrication of biomimetic chiral photonic crystals by Langmuir–Schaefer assembly of colloidal inorganic nanowires. We not only reproduced the intricate helical structure and circularly polarized color reflection observed in beetles, but also achieved the highest chiroptical activity with a dissymmetry factor of ?1.6 ever reported for chiral inorganic nanostructures. More importantly, the programmable structural control based on the precise interlayer arrangement endows us with unprecedented freedom to manipulate the optical activity of as‐fabricated chiral photonic crystals.     

CIRCULAR POLARIZATION OF FLUORESCENCE EMITTED BY AN OPTICALLY ACTIVE COMPOUND

C hiral compounds absorb circularly polarized light of opposite sense to different extents. This property, commonly known as circular dichroism, CD, is closely related to the optical rotatory dispersion of the compound under study, and has been extensively applied to the study of chiral compounds[1, 2]. On the other hand, very little information is available concerning the preferential emission of circularly polarized light of one sense over that of the opposite sense from chiral luminescent compounds. The scarcity of data about circularly polarized luminescence, CPL, is probably due to lack of suitable instrumentation for the measurement of small amounts of circularly polarized light present in a large background of unpolarized luminescence. Indeed, the only CPL data available are of a few substances which exhibit an exceptionally high degree of circular polarization in their emitted light [3, 4].     

Chiroptical Amplification of Induced Circularly Polarized Luminescence in Nucleotide-Templated Supramolecular Polymer

Efficient circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) from purely organic molecules holds great promise for applications in displays, sensing, and bioimaging. However, achieving high dissymmetry values (g_lum) from organic chromophores remains a significant challenge. Herein, we present a bioinspired approach using adenosine triphosphate (ATP)-triggered supramolecular polymerization of a naphthalene diimide-derived monomer ( ANSG ) to induce CPL with a remarkable g_lum value of 1.1×10⁻². The ANSG molecules undergo a templated, chiral self-assembly through a cooperative growth mechanism in the presence of ATP, resulting in scrolled nanotubes with aggregation-induced enhanced emission (AIEE) and induced CPL. Furthermore, we demonstrate the concept of chiroptical amplification of induced CPL by efficiently amplifying asymmetry using a mixture of chiral ATP and achiral pyrophosphate. This innovative approach opens numerous opportunities in the emerging field of circularly polarized luminescence.