Effect of dimensionality of a crystal lattice on the properties of a localized impurity

The changes of electron density due to the presence of a localized impurity in a crystal lattice are examined in dependence on the lattice dimensionality. The Koster–Slater impurity model developed for the case of a three‐dimensional simple cubic lattice has been taken as the basis of examinations. Ordinary bound states, virtual bound states, and delocalized electron states are considered in each lattice case. For the delocalized states extended in a one‐dimensional lattice the amplitude of the oscillatory changes of the electron density due to the impurity perturbation does not decrease with the distance from the impurity position, whereas for a two‐dimensional lattice this amplitude decreases roughly proportionally to the reciprocal value of the square root of the distance from the impurity. Let us note that a well‐known amplitude characterizing the decrease of the oscillatory change of the electron density in a three‐dimensional system is proportional to the reciprocal value of the third power of the distance from the impurity position. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Int J Quant Chem 80: 61–78, 2000     

Thermal properties and morphology of crystal in nylon 1010 formed isothermally at melting peak temperature

Thermal properties and morphology of crystal in NYLON 1010 formed isothermally at melting peak temperature were studied by using DSC, TEM and ED. It turns out that the crystal on the time scale of the DSC experiment is stable, which is not transformed from the crystal with low melting point. Its electron diffraction pattern shows symmetrical and clear electron diffraction spots of single crystal and is proved to be the electron diffraction pattern of single crystal by means of index with parameters of unit cell of Nylon 1010     

微量杂质对苯并三氧化呋咱(BTF)感度影响研究

苯并三氧化呋咱(BTF)是一种由三叠氮三硝基苯(TATNB)经脱氮反应制得的零氧无氢炸药,90℃～120℃温度范围内动力学参数计算外推得到其贮存寿命大约是太安的1．5倍,桥丝感度与太安相当,需要的能量较小,并使发火的电压降低,其起爆性能、输出能量、机械感度、热安定性均     

Effect of surface orientation on the segregation kinetics of Sb from a Cu single crystal

In a previous theoretical study it has been suggested that the bulk vacancy formation energy near a surface depends on the orientation of the surface. It has been suggested also that this dependency of the vacancy formation energy would influence the bulk diffusion coefficient near the surface. The experimental results presented in this paper support this hypothesis. The experimental results were obtained by measuring the bulk‐to‐surface segregation of Sb for a Cu(111) single crystal with 0.088 at.% Sb and for a Cu(110) single crystal with 0.082 at.% Sb. The experimental results were fitted with the vacancy‐modified Darken model and it was clear that the bulk diffusion coefficient beneath the (110) surface is higher than the bulk diffusion coefficient beneath the (111) surface. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Effects of the fluorinated liquid crystal molecules on the electro-optical properties of polymer dispersed liquid crystal films

The different fluorinated liquid crystal (LC) molecules doped to E8 were used as LC component to prepare polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films. The mass fraction of the LC mixture is fixed 50.0 wt%. Results indicate that doping 8.0 wt% fluorinated LC molecule ME3CP to E8 significantly reduced the driving voltage of the PDLC films, and the driving voltage reduced with the rise of mass fraction of ME3CP. Besides, the terminal flexible chain length of the fluorinated LC molecule influenced the LC mixture properties based on E8, such as the dielectric anisotropy, birefringence and viscosity of the LC mixture, and the morphology and the electro-optical properties of PDLC films were controlled not only by the physical properties of the LC mixture, but also by the terminal flexible chain length of the fluorinated LC molecule .     

Effect of molecular orientation distribution and crystallinity on the measurement of the crystal lattice modulus of nylon 6 by x-ray diffraction

The crystal lattice modulus of nylon 6 (-type) was measured by x-ray diffraction using nylon 6 films drawn up to five times. The measured crystal lattice modulus was 173–175 GPa for all specimens whose crystallinity and the Young's modulus were beyond 46% and 3.75 GPa, respectively. These results indicate that a state of homogenous stress can be achieved. In contrast, the values were scattered for the speciments whose crystallinity and Young's modulus are less than the above values. To study the origin, a numerical calculation of the crystal lattice modulus, as measured by x-ray diffraction, was carried out by considering effects on the orientation factors of molecular chains and crystallinity. In this calculation, a previously introduced model was employed, in which oriented crystalline layers are surrounded by oriented amorphous phases so that the strains of the two phases at the boundary are identical. The theoretical results calculated by the introduced model indicated that the crystal lattice modulus by x-ray diffraction is almost equal to the intrinsic crystal modulus if the morphology of the test specimen can be represented as a series model. In contrast, if a parallel model is more appropriate, the difference between the measured modulus and the intrinsic value can be pronounced. Such morphological dependence was found to be less pronounced with increasing high degree of molecular orientation and crystallinity.     

Effect of a surface charge on the halfwidth and peak position of cluster plasmons in colloidal metal particles

The optical response of colloidal particles depends on a variety of properties of the cluster, e.g., shape, size, size distribution and particle material. Since particles often are charged, also the surface charge may be a parameter which influences their optical properties. In this paper the effect of a surface charge on optical properties of spherical colloidal particles is studied and its magnitude is estimated by extended computations for silver clusters with surface plasmon in aqueous suspension. Two models are presented and discussed. The first model is based on the electrodynamic solution by Bohren and Hunt (Can. J. Phys. 55, 1930 (1977)), where a surface conductivity _S for a free surface charge yield an additional contribution _S to the dielectric constant of the particle material. In the second model, the surface charge contributes to the number density of free electrons in the cluster. Both models lead to a shift of the cluster plasmon peak, while an increase of the plasmon halfwidth could not be derived. The effect is quite small and limited on very small clusters.PACS 61.46+w 73.20.Mf 78.20.Dj     

The effect of mono-sized liquid crystal domains on electro-optical properties in a polymer dispersed liquid crystal prepared by using monodisperse poly(methylmethacrylate)/liquid crystal microcapsules

Highly mono-sized poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)/liquid crystal (LC) microcapsules having a mono-sized single LC domain were prepared by the solute codiffusion method and solvent evaporation. The size of the LC domain in the microcapsules could be controlled by the amount of LC introduced during the swelling stage. The electro-optical properties of the polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) prepared by using the microcapsules was highly improved. In particular, the threshold voltage was lowered and the switching behaviour with an applied electric field was sharpened drastically compared with PDLC prepared simply by solvent evaporation-induced phase separation.     

Dielectric and electro-optical properties of a photosensitive liquid crystal

The temperature dependencies of the dielectric and electro-optical properties of a pure photo-ferroelectric liquid crystal have been investigated, in the chiral smectic C (SmC*) phase, with and without ultraviolet (UV) illumination. The SmC* dielectric Goldstone mode characteristics, the spontaneous polarization, the tilt angle and the rotational viscosity are affected by UV irradiation. Under increasing UV light intensities the dielectric strength Δ?_G increases whereas the relaxation frequency f_G , the spontaneous polarization P _s, the electro-optical rotational viscosity γ_eo and the tilt angle θ decrease. The twist elastic constant K ₃ and the Goldstone mode rotational viscosity γ_G of the studied compound are deduced from dielectric experimental results. Good agreement was found between both viscosities. The observed dielectric behaviours are controlled by the elastic constant and the rotational viscosity variations.     

Antiferromagnetic phase of a 2‐D Wigner crystal

The antiferromagnetic phase of a 2‐D Wigner crystal is investigated, using a localized representation for electrons. In our model, the electrons are located at the lattice sites of a face‐centered square lattice (corresponding to bcc in the 3‐D case). This lattice may be thought of as consisting of two equivalent interpenetrating sublattices. The ground‐state energies of the antiferromagnetic phase of a 2‐D Wigner electron crystal are computed with uniform neutralizing, Gaussian‐type, and Yukawa‐type positive backgrounds in the range of r_s = 5 to 130. The role of correlation energy is suitably taken into account. The possibility of the antiferromagnetic phase of the 2‐D Wigner crystal having a square or circle as the region of occupation in momentum space is also analyzed. The low‐density region favorable for the antiferromagnetic phase of Wigner crystallization is found to be at r_s = 7.0. Our results agree well with experimental and other theoretical results for the 2‐D Wigner crystal. The structure‐dependent Wannier functions, which give proper localized representation for Wigner electrons, are constructed and employed in the calculation for the first time. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2005     

Order in the ground state of a simple cubic dipole lattice in an external field

Motivated by the presence of a lattice of rotating molecular dipoles in the high temperature phase of methylammonium lead iodide, we investigate the ground state of a simple cubic lattice of dipoles interacting with each other via the dipole-dipole interaction and with an external field via the standard, linear dipole-field interaction. In the absence of an external field, the ground state is infinitely degenerate, and all the configurations in the ground state manifold are periodic along the three lattice axes with a period of two lattice sites. Using a 1000-dipole lattice as a unit cell in numerical simulations of an infinite simple cubic lattice, we determine the ground state dipole configurations in the presence of an external field. We then analyze the polarization, dipole orientation statistics and correlations in these configurations. Our calculations show that for some special directions of the external field the two-site periodicity in the dipole configurations is preserved, while in the general case this periodicity is lost and complex dipole configurations form under the influence of the external field. More specifically, for a general field direction, a sudden transition from two-site-periodic configurations to irregular configurations occurs at a finite value of the applied field strength.     

Effect of terminal aryl rings of liquid crystal trimers on liquid crystalline properties

Liquid crystalline properties of five series of biphenyl derivatives connected with p-nitrophenyl, phenyl, 2-naphthyl, 9-phenathryl and bromo as the terminal groups via flexible spacers were studied. All the compounds exhibited nematic phase. The nematic–isotropic or isotropic–nematic transition properties resulted in an odd–even effect as the length of the spacers was varied, in which the even members exhibited higher values, for the compounds with p-nitrophenyl, phenyl, 2-naphthyl and 9-phenanthryl groups, while the transitional properties of the compounds substituted with bromo atom as the terminal group instead of the aryl groups did not show such odd–even effect. These results suggest that the aryl rings, such as p-nitrophenyl, phenyl, 2-naphthyl and 9-phenanthryl groups, play a role of mesogen while the terminal bromo atom does not. The effect of the terminal aryl rings on the liquid crystalline properties will be reported.     

Microsolvation effects on the optical properties of crystal violet

We present a joint experimental and theoretical study of the photoabsorption and photodissociation behavior of crystal violet, that is, the tris[p-(dimethylamino)phenyl]methyl cation. The photodissociation spectra of isolated and microsolvated crystal violet have been measured. A single band is observed for the bare cation. This is in good agreement with the calculated vibronic absorption spectrum based on time-dependent density functional theory calculations. The interaction of crystal violet with a single water molecule shifts and broadens the photodissociation spectrum, so that it approaches the spectrum obtained in solution. Theoretical calculations of the structure of the complex suggest that the shift in the absorption spectrum originates from a water molecule bonding with the central carbon atom of crystal violet.     

Liquid crystal properties of a self-assembling viral coat protein

Monomers of the fd bacteriophage major coat protein, g8p, interact to form a helical bent-core structure surrounding the viral deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). It was hypothesised that g8p has mesophasic characteristics guiding viral coat assembly. Atomic force and scanning electron microscopy reveal that g8p monomers organise to form films that wrap around a central axis to form birefringent fibres. These fibres resemble the filament structure of bent-core thermotropic B7 liquid crystals. These results offer insight into the g8p self-assembly mechanism that results in the formation of new viral particles in vivo.     

芳基四硫富瓦烯与碘电荷转移复合物的合成及其晶体结构

采用缓慢挥发溶剂的方法合成了硫原子桥联芳基取代四硫富瓦烯（Ar-S-TTF）与碘的3种电荷转移复合物（1^+·）（I₃）·I₂、（2^+·）（I₅）·I₂和（3²⁺）（I₃）₂,采用单晶X射线衍射、紫外可见光谱、循环伏安对其进行了表征。复合物（1^+·）（I₃）·I₂为C2/c空间群,1^+·呈椅式构型。化合物1与碘之间在溶液中和复合物中电荷转移一致。复合物（2^+·）（I₅）·I₂为P1空间群,2^+·呈椅式构型。复合物（3²⁺）（I₃）₂为Pbca空间群,3²⁺呈独特的平面构型。化合物2和3与碘之间在溶液中和复合物中呈现不同的电荷转移。复合物中聚碘阴离子呈现不同的堆积结构：由I₃^-或I₅^-/I₂组成的一维链状和I₃^-/I₂组成的二维网格状。     

芳基四硫富瓦烯与碘电荷转移复合物的合成及其晶体结构

采用缓慢挥发溶剂的方法合成了硫原子桥联芳基取代四硫富瓦烯(Ar-S-TTF)与碘的3种电荷转移复合物(1^+·)(I₃)·I₂、(2^+·)(I₅)·I₂和(3²⁺)(I₃)₂,采用单晶X射线衍射、紫外可见光谱、循环伏安对其进行了表征。复合物(1^+·)(I₃)·I₂为C2/c空间群,1^+·呈椅式构型。化合物1与碘之间在溶液中和复合物中电荷转移一致。复合物(2^+·)(I₅)·I₂为P1空间群,2^+·呈椅式构型。复合物(3²⁺)(I₃)₂为Pbca空间群,3²⁺呈独特的平面构型。化合物2和3与碘之间在溶液中和复合物中呈现不同的电荷转移。复合物中聚碘阴离子呈现不同的堆积结构：由I₃^-或I₅^-/I₂组成的一维链状和I₃^-/I₂组成的二维网格状。     

Effect of low and high concentrations of KCl dopant on ADP crystal properties

The experimental results of the influence of low (1 M%) and high (10 M%) concentrations of potassium chloride (KCl) dopant on ADP crystals are presented. The dopant results in an increase in the metastable zone width leading to an enhanced crystal growth rate, at its low concentrations. In the presence of high concentrations of the dopant in the medium, the growth rate decreases appreciably. Further, low concentrations of dopant improve the crystalline quality with better transparency. The diffraction patterns reveal that there is no change in basic structure except for variation in intensity by doping. Slight broadening is observed in FTIR of ADP in the 3500–3000 cm⁻¹ range in the presence of high [KCl]. It appears that the dopant has not altered much the optical transparency of the crystal. SEM studies of pure and doped samples reveal that structure defect centers are formed in ADP crystals by the dopant. Second harmonic generation (SHG) efficiency measurements indicate that nonlinear optical (NLO) property is enhanced appreciably by [KCl] dopant and the SHG is more pronounced at high concentrations. It seems that the molecular alignment of the crystal facilitates non-linearity in the presence of the dopant.     

Liquid crystal properties of new ionic liquid crystal compounds having a 1,3-dioxane ring

New pyridinium type chiral ionic liquid crystal materials having a 1,3-dioxane ring in the central core, (+)- N -2-methylbutyl-4-(5-alkyl-1,3-dioxan-2-yl)pyridinium bromides (6), were synthesized. Mixture A was made by adding 5.9 wt % of compound 6?3 to the ferroelectric liquid crystal mixture Merck 4655-100; its phase transitions and some liquid crystal properties were measured. In spite of a large decrease of P_s for mixture A, its response time A was the same as that of Merck 4655-100. The dielectric constants perpendicular to the molecular axis for the smectic C* and smectic A phases were measured for the mixture and Merck 4655?100: in the smectic C phase, these dielectric constants were almost the same (4.5～5.5), but in the smectic A phase, the perpendicular dielectric constant of the mixture was 47.0 and that of Merck 4655?100 was 4.5.     

Study on the electro-optical properties of polyimide-based polymer-dispersed liquid crystal films

The reflectivity control device, initially developed for attitude control, is utilised to control the solar sail orbit by switching the states between absorption and specular reflection. Actually, the major parts of the device are the polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films. Here, PDLC films based on polyimide (PI) as polymer matrix and a low molecular weight LC can be prepared by the thermally induced phase separation (TIPS) method. The influences of cooling rate and the content of LC on the size and uniformity of LC droplets dispersed in a polymer matrix by a TIPS process were investigated. It was found that a fast cooling rate gave smaller droplet sizes and hence a more uniform distribution as compared to the ones produced under a slow cooling rate. If the LC content was increased, the droplet size would be increased. Furthermore, the effect of LC droplet size on the electro-optical properties of the PI-based PDLC films was discussed, such as transmittance, threshold voltage, driving voltage and contrast ratio (CR).     

An orbital localization criterion based on the topological analysis of the electron localization function

This work proposes a new molecular orbital localization procedure. The approach is based on the decomposition of the overlap matrix in accordance with the partitioning of the three‐dimensional physical space into basins with clear chemical meaning arising from the topological analysis of the electron localization function. The procedure is computationally inexpensive, provides a straightforward interpretation of the resulting orbitals in terms of their localization indices and basin occupancies, and preserves the σ/π‐separability in planar N‐electron systems. The localization algorithm is tested on selected molecular systems. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.