Mono-layer of Ni(100-x)Fe(x) nanoparticles fabricated on a polyimide film under different curing atmospheres

A mono-layer of nano-sized metal particles was prepared on the surface of a polyimide film by simply depositing a thin film of Ni80Fe20 on top of the polyamic acid that was spin coated onto a Si wafer. During thermal imidization of the polyamic acid film, Fe was selectively etched by reacting with the carbonyl group of the polyamic acid to leave behind uniformly distributed Ni-rich metallic particles. The average diameter of the particles was 4 nm and the particles were confined into a single layer on top of the polymer film. Moreover, it was also shown that the morphology of the nanoparticles can be substantially altered by curing the precursor film in a hydrogen atmosphere, without significantly damaging the polymer film. Thus produced nanoparticles lay exposed on top of the electrically insulating and chemically stable polymer film so that it is possible that the nanoparticles can be directly used for fabricating a nonvolatile flash memory device or as a template for building functional nano-structures.     

缓冲层对量子阱二能级系统中电子子带间跃迁光吸收的影响

由于ZnO缓冲层对纤锌矿ZnO/Mg_xZn_(1-x)O有限深单量子阱结构左垒的限制作用,导致阱和右垒的尺寸、Mg组分值等因素将影响系统中形成二能级.本文考虑内建电场、导带弯曲及材料掺杂对实际异质结势的影响,利用有限差分法数值求解Schr?dinger方程,获得电子的本征能级和波函数,探讨ZnO缓冲层对此类量子阱形成二能级系统的尺寸效应及三元混晶效应的影响;利用费米黄金法则探讨缓冲层、左垒、阱及右垒宽度和三元混晶效应对此类量子阱电子子带间跃迁光吸收的影响.计算结果显示:对于加入ZnO缓冲层的ZnO/Mg_xZn_(1-x)O有限深单量子阱二能级系统,左垒宽度临界值会随着阱宽和Mg组分值的增大而逐渐减小,随着右垒宽度和缓冲层厚度的增大而逐渐增大;量子阱中电子子带间跃迁光吸收峰会随着左垒、右垒尺寸以及Mg组分的增大发生蓝移,随着阱宽增大而发生红移.本文所得结果可为改善异质结器件的光电性能提供理论指导.     

C自掺杂TiO2纳米棒的制备与光催化性能研究

本文以TiC为前驱体和掺杂源,采用一步水热法合成了具有可见光吸收的C自掺杂金红石相TiO_2纳米棒.样品的结构、形貌、化学态和光学性质等可通过X射线衍射仪(XRD)、扫描电子显微镜(SEM)、傅里叶变换红外光谱仪(FT-IR)、X射线光电子能谱仪(XPS)以及紫外可见分光光度计(UV-vis)来表征.所合成的样品具有较强的光催化活性,可通过在可见光照射下降解有机染料罗丹明B(RhB)来验证.C自掺杂TiO_2所呈现的较强光催化活性是由于其具有小的能带间隙(2.74 eV)、大的比表面积和高的电子-空穴对分离率.     

Solution Structure of Multi-layer Neural Networks with Initial Condition

This paper studies the initial value problem of multi-layer cellular neural networks. We demonstrate that the mosaic solutions of such system is topologically conjugated to a new class in symbolic dynamical systems called the path set (Abram and Lagarias in Adv Appl Math 56:109–134, 2014). The topological entropies of the solution, output, and hidden spaces of a multi-layer cellular neural network with initial condition are formulated explicitly. Also, a sufficient condition for whether the mosaic solution space of a multi-layer cellular neural network is independent of initial conditions is addressed. Furthermore, two spaces exhibit identical topological entropy if and only if they are finitely equivalent.     

Transient pore dynamics in pH-responsive liquid membrane

We have investigated the transient pore dynamics in a chemically destabilized liquid membrane in buffer solutions at macroscopic scale. A hole opened and closed repeatedly in response to pH in the surrounding media when the concentration of surfactant in the liquid membrane was sufficiently high to form emulsion at equilibrium and the membrane was larger than a critical value. The analysis of pore dynamics allowed us to estimate some physicochemical properties such as membrane tension, line tension, and membrane viscosity.     

Pressure effect on the electron mobility in AlAs/GaAs quantum wells

By taking the influence of optical phonon modes into account, this paper adopts the dielectric continuum phonon model and force balance equation to investigate the electronic mobility parallel to the interfaces for AlAs/GaAs semiconductor quantum wells (QWs) under hydrostatic pressure. The scattering from confined phonon modes, interface phonon modes and half-space phonon modes are analysed and the dominant scattering mechanisms in wide and narrow QWs are presented. The temperature dependence of the electronic mobility is also studied in the temperature range of optical phonon scattering being available. It is shown that the electronic mobility reduces obviously as pressure increases from 0 to 4GPa, the confined longitudinal optical (LO) phonon modes play an important role in wide QWs, whereas the interface optical phonon modes are dominant in narrow QWs, the half-space LO phonon modes hardly influence the electronic mobility expect for very narrow QWs.     

Mesoporous sodium four-coordinate aluminosilicate nanoparticles modulate dendritic cell pyroptosis and activate innate and adaptive immunity

Pyroptosis is a programmed cell death widely studied in cancer cells for tumour inhibition, but rarely in dendritic cell (DC) activation for vaccine development. Here, we report the synthesis of sodium stabilized mesoporous aluminosilicate nanoparticles as DC pyroptosis modulators and antigen carriers. By surface modification of sodium-stabilized four-coordinate aluminium species on dendritic mesoporous silica nanoparticles, the resultant Na-^IVAl-DMSN significantly activated DC through caspase-1 dependent pyroptosis via pH responsive intracellular ion exchange. The released proinflammatory cellular contents further mediated DC hyperactivation with prolonged cytokine release. In vivo studies showed that Na-^IVAl-DMSN induced enhanced cellular immunity mediated by natural killer (NK) cells, cytotoxic T cells, and memory T cells as well as humoral immune response. Our results provide a new principle for the design of next-generation nanoadjuvants for vaccine applications.

Na-^IVAl-DMSN acts as both antigen carriers and modulators to “hyperactivate” dendritic cells (DCs) via potassium (K⁺) efflux dependent pyroptosis, eventually leading to enhanced adaptive and innate immunity.     

Effects of indium,gallium, or bismuth additions on the discharge behavior of Al-Mg-Sn-based alloy for Al-air battery anodes in NaOH electrolytes

Journal of Solid State Electrochemistry - In this paper, the electrochemical performances of Al 0.5-Mg 0.1-Sn (wt%), Al 0.5-Mg 0.1-Sn 0.05 In (wt%), Al 0.5-Mg 0.1-Sn 0.05 Ga (wt%) and Al 0.5-Mg...     

Low-density plasma channels generated by femtosecond pulses

We present an investigation of the plasma channel formed along the trail of an intense femtosecond (fs) laser pulse propagating through helium, air and nitrogen at low pressures. The lifetime of the generated plasma channel of up to 60 μs was measured. We determined the electron-attachment mechanism as a dominant mechanism for the plasma relaxation. The initial electron densities, electron-attachment coefficients and plasma channel conductivity for different experimental conditions were obtained. PACS 52.50.Jm; 52.25.-b; 51.50.+v     

Semiphenomenological analysis of cis-to-trans isomerization of polyacetylene

Semiphenomenological analysis of cis-to-trans isomerization process of polyacetylene is presented. It is shown that excitation of cis-transoid form to trans-cisoid form is necessary in the course of the isomerization. The probability of tunneling of a π electron from trans-cisoid to cis-transoid state is estimated to be about 0.7 per second. The life time of trans-cisoid form can be inferred to be several hours.