氢气在多层球壳中扩散过程的模拟计算

从Fick第二定律出发,推导了氢气在多层球壳中,扩散过程的浓度分布表达式,即氢气浓度与扩散时间和扩散距离的关系。每层中,在一定的扩散时间内,一定量的氢气的扩散浓度与扩散深度之间近似为抛物线关系,说明渗透物沿着聚合物链段膨胀的方向进行扩散。在同一位置,一定量氢气的浓度,随着时间的延长而增加,说明渗透物使聚合物链段发生膨胀,自由体积增大,扩散路径增多,扩散系数随着浓度的增加而增大。     

氢气在多层球壳中扩散过程的模拟计算

 从Fick第二定律出发,推导了氢气在多层球壳中,扩散过程的浓度分布表达式,即氢气浓度与扩散时间和扩散距离的关系。每层中,在一定的扩散时间内,一定量的氢气的扩散浓度与扩散深度之间近似为抛物线关系,说明渗透物沿着聚合物链段膨胀的方向进行扩散。在同一位置,一定量氢气的浓度,随着时间的延长而增加,说明渗透物使聚合物链段发生膨胀,自由体积增大,扩散路径增多,扩散系数随着浓度的增加而增大。     

应用MRI研究CO2在癸烷中的扩散

应用核磁共振成像(MRI)技术可视化研究CO₂在癸烷中的扩散,在MRI系统采集图像的同时,应用双室压力衰减法（PVT法）监测压力,通过对MRI图像进行信号强度分析,可得到CO₂的无量纲浓度分布,然后基于菲克定律应用有限体积法可计算得出与扩散距离和扩散时间有关的扩散系数,并可得到任意扩散时间范围内的整体平均扩散系数,MRI方法得出的扩散平衡时间范围内的整体平均扩散系数与PVT法相比较误差为2.7%,并且与相似条件下的前人实验结论具有相同的数量级(10^–9)．根据实验结果得出,扩散系数沿扩散方向下降且随时间以指数形式降低,整体平均扩散系数随扩散时间的增加而减小．     

用激光微细加工制作平面型InGaAs/InP PIN 光探测器

 采用激光微细加工技术来制作单片集成光接收机的探测器,在制作过程中,用固态杂质源10.6 μm激光诱导Zn扩散工艺来进行探测器的p-区掺杂。制作出平面型顶部入射的InGaAs/InP PIN 光探测器,响应度为0.21 A/W。分析了激光诱导扩散中影响探测器性能的因素,因此提出了扩散温度自动控制、扩散区温度分布均匀化及激光焦斑与扩散区精确对准等相应的改进方法。     

Diffusion of nickel in single- and polycrystalline Cr2O3

Chromia protective layers are formed on many industrial alloys to prevent corrosion by oxidation. Their role is to limit the inward diffusion of oxygen and the outward diffusion of cations. A number of chromia-forming alloys contain nickel as a component, such as steels, FeNiCr and NiCr alloys. To ascertain if chromia is a barrier to outward diffusion, nickel diffusion in chromia was studied in both single crystals and polycrystals in the temperature range 900–1100°C at an oxygen pressure of 10^?4 atm (argon + 100 ppm O₂). A nickel film of ～35 nm thick was deposited on the chromia surface and, after diffusing treatment, nickel penetration profiles were established by secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS). Two diffusion domains appear in polycrystals, the first domain is assigned to bulk diffusion and the second is due to diffusion along grain boundaries. For the bulk diffusion domain and diffusion in single crystals, using a solution of Fick's second law for diffusion from a thick film, bulk diffusion coefficients were determined at 900 and 1000°C. At the higher temperature, a solution of Fick's second law for diffusion from a thin film could be used. For the second domain in polycrystals, Le Claire's model allowed the grain boundary diffusion parameter (αD _gb δ) to be established. Nickel bulk diffusion does not vary significantly according to the microstructure of chromia. The activation energy of grain boundary diffusion is slightly greater than the activation energy of bulk diffusion, probably on account of segregation phenomena. Nickel diffusion was compared with cationic self-diffusion and with literature data on Fe and Mn heterodiffusion in the bulk and along grain boundaries. All results were analyzed in relation to the oxidation process of stainless steel.     

Diffusion Imaging with HyperpolarizedHe Gas

We used MRI of hyperpolarized³He to demonstrate some novel aspects of gas diffusion. Two different techniques were used. First, a slice was burned into a one-dimensional image by inverting the spins in the slice and diffusion was studied by measuring the magnetization as it filled the depleted slice. A diffusion coefficient was determined by the fit of these data. Second, one-dimensional diffusion images were made using a Stejskal–Tanner PGSE method. This was done with and without a temperature gradient present, showing that the effect of temperature can be dynamically monitored by such diffusion images.     

Simultaneous magnetic resonance imaging of diffusion anisotropy and diffusion gradient

The theory of diffusion gradient-weighted MRI (DGWI) is presented in this paper. The Bloch-Torrey equation was modified to include the effect of intravoxel spatial-location variation of water diffusion (diffusion gradient) on MRI signal, in addition to the effect of intravoxel spatial-direction variation of water diffusion (diffusion anisotropy). An analytical solution for a diffusion-encoding spin-echo pulse sequence was derived. Unlike water diffusion which attenuates the image signal intensity, this newly derived solution relates the spatial gradient of the water diffusion with the phase of the image signal. This novel MRI technique directly measures both the water diffusion and its spatial gradient, and thus offers a noninvasive imaging tool to simultaneously investigate the intravoxel inhomogeneity and anisotropy of tissue structures. In addition, as demonstrated with our preliminary data, this new method may be utilized to delineate the interfaces of tissues with different diffusion. This method is an extension of the successful diffusion tensor MRI (DTI), but requires no additional data acquisition. In addition to the measured diffusion tensor, this new method provides measurements of the spatial derivatives of the three principal diffusivities of the tensor, thereby providing additional information for improving white matter fiber tractography.     

Measurement of dye diffusion in agar gel by use of low-coherence interferometry

We demonstrate low-coherence interferometry for diffusion measurements. We have measured the diffusion coefficient of a phthalocyanine dye in 1.5% agar gel with a two-wavelength interferometer; one wavelength was matched to the absorption peak of the dye at 675 nm, while the other, 805 nm, was not affected by the dye. The diffusion coefficient of the dye was found by fitting a mathematical model for the interferometer signal to the measured low-coherence interferometry amplitude. A 95% confidence interval for the diffusion coefficient was found to be D = (2.5 +/- 0.2) x 10(-10) m2/s. The influence of speckle averaging and experiment time on the determination of the diffusion coefficient has been studied. The presented technique allows in situ characterization of diffusion in semitransparent media.     

X-ray topography study of monocrystalline silicon wafers diffused with phosphorus by different methods

To reduce the cost of the emitter diffusion process, there has been increasing interest to substitute the standard process of batch POCl₃ emitter diffusion used in the silicon solar-cell manufacturing industry with in-line diffusion processes such as the spray-on and screen-printing process. For this reason, it is essential to study and compare the processes of different diffusion methods from the point of view of the crystalline quality of the final wafers. X-ray transmission topography was employed to characterize the possible precipitates and other microdefects generated in Czochralski-grown silicon (Cz Si) during the emitter diffusion process carried out by screen-printing, spray-on and the standard process, in which the emitter was provided by a liquid (POCl₃) source. The results indicate that the phosphorus diffusion process influences the crystalline quality of the wafers and the efficiency of the external gettering process that takes place during phosphorus diffusion depends on the diffusion method employed.     

Analysis of Quantum Rod Diffusion by Polarized Fluorescence Correlation Spectroscopy

To measure the polarization dependence of fluorescent probes, a confocal-microscope-based polarized fluorescence correlation spectroscopy system was developed, and the polarization dependence on the rotational diffusion of well-defined quantum rods (Qrods) was investigated and characterized. The rotational diffusion region of the Qrods was observed over a time range of less than 10^?5 s in a water solution, and the rotational diffusion parameters were extracted using a rotational diffusion model in which the viscosity of the solution media was varied. Our work demonstrated that polarized fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) is useful for investigating both the rotational and translational diffusion of fluorescent probes.     

Application of electron spin echo ESR-tomography to study radical diffusion in porous media

ESR-tomography based on electron spin echo was used to study the translational diffusion of stable radical 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-pipyridinoxyl in the solutions filling the pore space of silica gel. The values of the efficient diffusion coefficients were measured for the solution of radicals 2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-4-pipyridinoxyl in methanol and 2-methyl-tetrahydrofuran, depending on the mean size of the silica gel pore. It was shown that the value of the diffusion coefficient decreased as pore size decreased, and furthermore depended on the solvent type. A linear relation between the diffusion coefficient and the spin exchange constant was established within the scope of the quasihomogeneous diffusion model.     

Mass transfer in nonuniform media

The lattice model was used to derive equations describing diffusion in a nonuniform medium in the absence of local equilibrium at nonzero temperature gradients. Equations are obtained that extend a diffusion equation with fractional derivative in time and a nonlinear diffusion equation, which was previously obtained within the framework of a generalized thermodynamic approach, to cover diffusion in a medium with a nonuniform temperature field.     

Removal of partial volume averaging with free water in MR diffusion tensor imaging using inversion recovery for b0 image

Purpose

To remove the partial volume averaging effect of free water in MR diffusion imaging of neural tissues by use of the fluid attenuated inversion recovery (FLAIR) without the penalty of an extended scan time.

Materials and methods

The magnetic resonance images were obtained from a normal volunteer in a coronal slice orientation at 3 T with the 20-channel rf coil. In diffusion imaging only the b0 images were obtained with the FLAIR contrast while the diffusion weighted images were obtained without the FLAIR contrast. A composition of FLAIR b0 and non-FLAIR diffusion weighted images was used in calculating the diffusion tensor and fractional anisotropy after compensating the reduced signal amplitude due to the inversion recovery in the FLAIR b0 images. The fractional anisotropy of the non-FLAIR, FLAIR, and the composite methods were analyzed for the mean and histogram in the corpus callosum, cervical spine, and the fornix tracts.

Results

The partial volume averaging effect was observed in the corpus callosum, the cervical spine, and the fornix tracts in the non-FLAIR b0 and diffusion images. The partial volume averaging effect was removed in the FLAIR diffusion images which took more than twice the scan time than the non-FLAIR diffusion imaging. The proposed composite FLAIR diffusion imaging removed the partial volume averaging effect as in the FLAIR diffusion imaging. The distribution of the FA histogram was very different between the non-FLAIR and FLAIR diffusion images, while it was very similar between the FLAIR and the composite FLAIR after correcting the white matter signal in the FLAIR b0 images.

Conclusions

The proposed composite FLAIR diffusion imaging method was equally effective in removing the partial volume averaging effect as the FLAIR diffusion imaging at a limited increase of the scan time since only a small number of b0 images needed to be obtained with the FLAIR contrast.     

Photothermal deflection measurement of effective gas diffusion coefficient of a porous medium

In this work, an effective gas diffusion coefficient of a porous medium was measured using photothermal deflection (PD) technique. An in-house made Loschmidt diffusion cell with a photothermal-deflection probe were employed to measure the effective gas diffusion coefficient of a gas diffusion layer (GDL) with a porosity ε ≈ 0.7. The concentration evolutions of CO₂ in O₂ with and without the GDL were measured, respectively, using a transverse normal PD technique. The concentration variations were used to deduce the gas diffusion coefficients in the presence and absence of the GDL by solving mass diffusion equations. The effective gas diffusion coefficient of the GDL was calculated from the diffusion coefficients using a model of an equivalent resistance to diffusion and found to be 4.39 × 10^-6 m²s^-1, demonstrating that PD technique can be employed to determine the effective gas diffusion coefficient of a porous medium.     

激光全息干涉法测量二元气体扩散系数

依据Mach-Zehnder干涉光路搭建了数字实时激光全息干涉实验台,设计加工了适用于测量二元气体扩散系数的扩散槽本体,详细介绍了根据物光相位的变化计算二元气体扩散系数的测量原理及图像处理方法。在此基础上测量了二元气体对H_2-Air、CH_4-Air和O_2-Air在273.15 K和0.1 MPa下的扩散系数,通过与文献值的比较验证了该实验方法的准确性,为后续二元气体扩散系数测量工作奠定了坚实的基础。     

High b-value q-space diffusion MRI in myelin-deficient rat spinal cords

In this study, we explore the effect of the lack of myelin on the diffusion characteristics and diffusion anisotropy obtained from high b-value q-space diffusion-weighted MRI (q-space DWI) in excised rat spinal cords. Twenty-one-day-old myelin-deficient (md) mutant (N=6) and control rats (N=6) were used in this study. The MRI protocol included multi-slice T(1), T(2), proton density (PD) MR images and high b-value q-space diffusion MRI measured perpendicular and parallel to the fibers of the spine. q-Space displacement and probability maps, in both directions, as well as displacement anisotropy maps, were computed from the diffusion data. At the end of the MRI protocol, representative spinal cords from both groups were subjected to electron microscopy (EM). The md spinal cords show different gray/white matter contrast in the T(1), T(2) and PD MR images as compared with controls. In addition, the mean displacement extracted from the high b-value q-space diffusion data was found to be dramatically higher in the white matter (WM) of the md spinal cords than the controls when diffusion was measured perpendicular and parallel to the fibers of the spine. However, interestingly, at the diffusion time used in the present study, the difference in the WM displacement anisotropies of the two groups was not found to be statistically significant. Myelin was found to have a pronounced effect on the diffusion characteristics of water in WM but less so on the diffusion anisotropy observed at the diffusion time used in the present study.     

Sorption and Desorption of PVA-Pyrene Chains in and out of Agarose Gel

In situ steady-state fluorescence (SSF) measurement technique was applied to investigation of pyrene labeled Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA-Py) molecules diffusion in and out of agarose gels. Gel samples with four different concentration of agarose were prepared. PVA-Py was synthesized by "click" chemistry method and dissolved in water to use in diffusion experiments. The results were analyzed by using Fickian type diffusion model, and it was found that sorption and desorption processes of PVA-Py molecules in and out of agarose gel have two distinct regions for short and long diffusion times. Sorption and desorption coefficients were measured and it was seen that the diffusion rates were much larger at short times and at lower agarose concentrations.     

Kr/Xe气体在塑料闪烁体表面的吸附与扩散行为研究

采用基于Compass力场的分子动力学(MD)方法,研究了惰性气体氙(Xe)和氪(Kr)在塑料闪烁体(聚乙烯基对甲苯)的平整和粗糙表面的吸附和扩散行为.由惰性气体吸附曲线的均方根位移(MSD),得到了Xe/Kr气体在聚乙烯基对甲苯表面的扩散系数.研究结果表明,Kr/Xe气体均被稳定地吸附在塑料闪烁体表面,其稳定性随着温度的升高而增加,Xe分子的吸附性强于Kr分子. Kr/Xe气体在聚乙烯基对甲苯表面具有较强的扩散性能,扩散深度随着温度与厚度的增加而增加,最大为22.865?,Kr分子扩散能力强于Xe分子.基底粗糙表面增加了两种惰性气体分子的吸附和扩散.