Profile calculation of gold nanostructures by dispersed-nanosphere lithography through oblique etching for LSPR applications

Nanosphere lithography is an inexpensive method used to fabricate gold nanostructures on a substrate. Using dispersed-nanosphere lithography, in which the nanospheres are dispersed on a substrate, 2D or 3D nanostructures can be fabricated by obliquely depositing a gold film on the nanospheres and etching the gold film afterward. These nanostructures are tunable and acute, and are thus good emitting elements for the localized surface plasmon resonance applications. So far, for the fabrication of nanostructures on a substrate with dispersed nanospheres, only 2D nanostructures have been reported through perpendicular etching. We report in this paper that the 3D nanostructures fabricated by dispersed-nanosphere lithography are rigid non-conformal structures, and perpendicular gold etching can be expanded to oblique etching, which provides more possibilities for fabricating the gold nanostructures in various shapes. The profiles of gold nanostructures after several varying angle depositions, and their final profiles after perpendicular or oblique etching, are calculated in this paper. Our profile simulations are applicable for nanospheres (or microspheres) within the range of tens of nanometers to tens of micrometers, and are consistent with our fabricated nanostructures observed using scanning electron and atomic force microscopy. Electronic Supplementary Material  The online version of this article (doi:) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

Field enhancement effect of metal probe in evanescent field

Field enhancement effect of metal probe in evanescent field, induced by using a multi-layers structure for exciting surface plasmon resonance （SPR）, is analyzed numerically by utilizing two-dimensional （2D） TM- wave finite difference time-domain （FDTD） method. In this letter, we used a flmdamental mode Gaussian beam to induce evanescent field, and calculated the electric intensity. The results show that compared with the nonmetal probe, the metal probe has a larger field enhancement effect, and its scattering wave induced by field enhancement has a bigger decay coefficient. The field enhancement effect should conclude that the metal probe has an important application in nanolithography.     

重离子治疗装置同步加速器高频控制系统研制

重离子治疗对病灶周围健康组织损伤最小,对癌细胞杀伤效果最佳,是当代公认的先进有效的放疗方法。重离子Bragg峰与束流能量的关系要求重离子束能够在不同的能量间切换,需要加速器实现变能量加速。变能量加速的关键系统是同步加速器高频计算机控制系统;要求该系统能够根据光触发事例自动更换加速波形文件。该系统主要由三块基于PXI总线的FPGA板卡组成,采用了SOPC、DSP等技术,实现了波形文件的接收、插值及输出等功能。目前,控制系统经过长期稳定性试验,指标完全满足重离子治疗要求。Heavy ion therapy is the most advanced and effective method of radiotherapy. Because it has the advantage that it has minimal damage to surrounding healthy tissue and the greatest cancer celling killing effect. The relationship between heavy ion Bragg peak and beam energy requires the accelerator to switch the beam between different energy. The PXI RF control system plays an important role in Heavy Ion Medical Machine(HIMM). It can automatically change the waveform files according to the optical event. The system is mainly consisted by three FPGA cards, based on PXI bus, and mainly use the technology such as SOPC, DSP and so on. The PXI RF control system for HIMM has been tested through a long-term stability experiments, the system meets the proposed requirements.     

金纳米粒子对黑色素瘤细胞的重离子辐射增敏效应研究

采用配体交换法合成了粒径15 nm左右的11-巯基十一烷酸包被的金纳米粒子（mAuNPs）,使用透射电镜和纳米粒度电位仪对合成后的金纳米粒子进行了表征,然后用MTT法检测了mAuNPs对体外培养小鼠黑色素瘤B16-F10细胞的毒性。在传能线密度（LET）为50 keV/μm的碳离子束照射下,利用香豆素-3-羧酸（3CCA）作为荧光探针检测mAuNPs对水溶液中羟自由基的增强效应、二氯荧光素双醋酸盐（DCFHDA）检测mAuNPs对细胞内活性氧（ROS）的增强效应、克隆形成法检测mAuNPs对B16-F10细胞的辐射增敏效应。实验结果表明:mAuNPs对小鼠黑色素瘤B16-F10细胞基本无毒;mAuNPs对水溶液中的羟自由基产额增强为1.08~2.95倍;在共培养浓度为5 μg/mL情况下mAuNPs增加了胞内活性氧水平,mAuNPs在10%细胞存活水平下的辐射增敏比（SER）为1.15。因此,mAuNPs在黑色素瘤细胞中展现出对重离子的辐射增敏效应。     

Effects of tension on vortex-induced vibration (VIV) responses of a long tensioned cylinder in uniform flows

The effects of tension on vortex-induced vibra-tion (VIV) responses for a tension-dominated long cylinder with an aspect ratio of 550 in uniform flows are experimen-tally investigated in this paper. The results show that elevated tension suppresses fluctuations of maximum displacement with respect to flow velocity and makes chaotic VIV more likely to appear. With respect to periodic VIV, if elevated tension is applied, the dominant vibration frequency in the in-line (IL) direction will switch from a fundamental vibra-tion frequency to twice the value of the fundamental vibration frequency, which results in a ratio of the dominant vibration frequency in the IL direction to that in the cross-flow direc-tion of 2.0. The suppression of the elevated tension in the fluctuation of the maximum displacement causes the axial tension to become an active control parameter for the VIV maximum displacement of a tension-dominated long riser or tether of an engineering structure in deep oceans. However, the axial tension must be optimized before being used since the high dominant vibration frequency due to the elevated tension may unfavorably affect the fatigue life of the riser or tether.     

高速逆流色谱法从蝙蝠蛾拟青霉中快速分离制备麦角甾醇纯品

建立了用高速逆流色谱从蝙蝠蛾拟青霉中高效、快速分离制备高纯度麦角甾醇的方法。将蝙蝠蛾拟青霉的乙酸乙酯提取物直接进行高速逆流色谱分离,考察了不同溶剂系统的分离效果。结果表明,最佳的溶剂系统为正己烷-乙酸乙酯-甲醇-水(体积比为6:1.7:6:0.3),以上相为固定相,下相为流动相,转速为850 r/min,流速为2 mL/min,检测波长为280 nm。制备所得的麦角甾醇经紫外光谱(UV)和高分辨质谱(HRMS)鉴定及与标准品对照定性;纯度经高效液相色谱(HPLC)分析为99.2%(峰面积归一化法)。该方法制备麦角甾醇简便、快速,所得产物的纯度高,适合于麦角甾醇对照品的制备。     

基于环糊精的高度支化聚合物*

环糊精（CD）与高度支化聚合物都存在空腔结构,若将两者结合起来可构筑出含有两种不同疏水空腔且具有特异物理化学功能的高分子体系,并有望在分子包合与识别、药物控释、基因传输等领域得到新的应用。本文根据高度支化聚合物与环糊精结合方式的不同,从以环糊精为核的高度支化聚合物、外端悬挂环糊精的高度支化聚合物、高度支化聚合物的结构单元与环糊精包合、环糊精与客体分子包合后自组装成高度支化聚合物,以及用功能化的环糊精单体合成超支化聚合物等5个方面对其研究进展进行了总结和评述,并在此基础上展望了该类聚合物的研究方向和发展趋势。     

高频热声驻波发动机性能的实验研究

热声驻波发动机由于内禀的不可逆性而热效率较低,但其系统结构简单和可靠性高的优点使其仍具有一定的应用前景。目前,对高频驻波系统研究较少,搭建了一台高频热声驻波发动机,研究了板叠和谐振管对系统的重要作用,另外,初步探讨了系统热腔内的温度演化过程和稳定振荡时的温度分布特性,这对高频热声驻波发动机实验和数值研究具有指导意义。     

Mass exponent spectrum analysis of human ECG signals and its application to complexity detection

The complexity of electrocardiogram (ECG) signal may reflect the physiological function and healthy status of the heart. In this paper, we introduced two novel intermediate parameters of multifractality, the mass exponent spectrum curvature and area, to characterize the nonlinear complexity of ECG signal. These indicators express the nonlinear superposition of the discrepancies of singularity strengths from all the adjacent points of the spectrum curve and thus overall subsets of original fractal structure. The evaluation of binomial multifractal sets validated these two variables were entirely effective in exploring the complexity of this time series. We then studied the ECG mass exponent spectra taken from the cohorts of healthy, ischemia and myocardial infarction (MI) sufferer based on a large sets of 12 leads’ recordings, and took the statistical averages among each crowd. Experimental results suggest the two values from healthy ECG are apparently larger than those from the heart diseased. While the values from ECG of MI sufferer are much smaller than those from the other two groups. As for the ischemia sufferer, they are almost of moderate magnitude. Afterward, we compared these new indicators with the nonlinear parameters of singularity spectrum. The classification indexes and results of total separating ratios (TSR, defined in the paper) both indicated that our method could achieve a better effect. These conclusions may be of some values in early diagnoses and clinical applications.