Dynamics of fluorescence of solid solutions of quantum dots and the organic dye DODCI: Experiment and numerical simulation

The fluorescence of solid solutions of CdSe/ZnS quantum dots and the organic dye DODCI is investigated. It is shown that nonradiative transfer of electronic excitation energy to dye molecules, which with some probability lose their acceptor properties as a result of photoisomerization or photodegradation, is responsible for a significant increase in the fluorescence intensity of a donor. The degree of polarization of the donor fluorescence attains values exceeding 0.5, which is due to the difference in the fluorescence quantum yields of donors with different orientations of the oscillator with respect to the electric vector of an excitation light wave. A numerical simulation of the experimentally observed dependences is performed.     

Infrared spectroscopic analyses of transformations of chemical species on the silica highly-reacted with gaseous BF3.

Transformations of chemical species formed by the reaction of gaseous BF3 with high pressure and silica preheated at 473 and 1093 K were studied with the use of infrared absorption spectrometry. The species containing -BF2 and the species containing >BF were transformed to each other on the highly-reacted silica depending on the pressure of BF3 in cell, and some of the species containing -BF2 were also desorbed without their transformations to the species containing >BF. H2O played important roles in these transformations.     

Failure of an infinitely compressible composite containing a finite cylindrical crack in axial compression

S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 31, No. 9, pp. 15–23, September, 1995.     

Model of the dynamics of mechanochemical corrosion cracking

The problem is considered of crack distribution with mechanochemical corrosion. A model is suggested for the process based on representing it by the semi-Markov aim of phase transitions. An accurate solution is found making it possible to determine the mathematical expectation of the time for achieving the corrosion process with a fixed penetration depth.Translated from Dinamicheskie Sistemy, No. 4, pp. 102–107, 1985.     

Transition between layered and filamentary types of anisotropy in layered superconducting structures

A model of layered superconducting structure consisting of alternating anisotropic superconducting layers S₁ and S₂ with different transition temperatures is considered. It is shown that due to competition between two origins of anisotropy - effective-mass anisotropy of individual layers and proximity-induced anisotropy the effective anisotropy of the whole system signficiantly varies temperature. The components of the effective-mass tensor m_c (along the anisotropy axis) and m_a (perpendicular to the anisotropy axis) strongly depend upon temperature. This may lead to transition between layered (m_c > m_a) and quasi one-dimensional (m_c < m_a) types of anisotropy as well as to biaxial-type anisotropy which is also temperature dependent. The field distribution in a tilted vortex in a biaxial superconductor is calculated. The change in the properties of the vortex lattice with temperature in such systems is also investigated. The properties of YBa₂Cu₃O_x/PrBa₂Cu₃O_y multilayers are discussed in this connection.     

Asymptotic expansions of integrals of two Bessel functions via the generalized hypergeometric and Meijer functions

Asymptotic expansions of certain finite and infinite integrals involving products of two Bessel functions of the first kind are obtained by using the generalized hypergeometric and Meijer functions. The Bessel functions involved are of arbitrary (generally different) orders, but of the same argument containing a parameter which tends to infinity. These types of integrals arise in various contexts, including wave scattering and crystallography, and are of general mathematical interest being related to the Riemann—Liouville and Hankel integrals. The results complete the asymptotic expansions derived previously by two different methods — a straightforward approach and the Mellin-transform technique. These asymptotic expansions supply practical algorithms for computing the integrals. The leading terms explicitly provide valuable analytical insight into the high-frequency behavior of the solutions to the wave-scattering problems.     

Analysis of fragrance compounds in blood samples of mice by gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, GC/FTIR and GC/AES after inhalation of sandalwood oil.

After inhalation experiments with sandalwood oil and the pure fragrance compounds coumarin and alpha-terpineol, substances were detected and measured in the blood samples of test animals (mice) using gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) (MID) in connection with GC/FTIR (SWC), GC/AES (carbon and oxygen trace) and flame ionization detection/gas chromatography. Using tiglinic acid benzyl ester as the internal standard the following concentrations in serum could be found: alpha-santalol 6.1 ng/mL, beta-santalol 5.3 ng/mL and alpha-santalene 0.5 ng/mL. In separate inhalation experiments with coumarin and with alpha-terpineol the corresponding concentrations were 7.7 ng/mL and 6.9 ng/mL, respectively.