A Reversible Multi‐Stimuli‐Responsive Fluorescence Probe and the Design for Combinational Logic Gate Operations

Here, a novel multi‐stimuli‐responsive fluorescence probe is developed by incorporating spiropyran group into the coumarin‐substituted polydiacetylene (PDA) vesicles. The fluorescence of PDA can be turned on upon heating, and can be quenched upon exposure to UV light irradiation or pH stimuli owing to the fluorescene resonance energy transfer (FRET) between the red‐phase PDA and the open merocyanine (MC) form of spiropyran. Moreover, we have designed and experimentally realized a set of logic gate operations for the first time based on the fluorescence modulation of the designed system upon thermal, photo, and pH stimuli. This novel type of resettable logic gates augur well for practical applications in information storage, optical recording, and sensing in complicated microenvironments.

     

Nonlinear optical properties of nanometer-size silver coated polydiacetylene composite vesicles and resulting Langmuir–Blodgett films

Noble metal-coated PDA composite vesicles were expected to increase the effective third-order nonlinear optical susceptibility χ ⁽³⁾(ω), due to the enhancement of the optical electric field induced by localized surface plasmon resonance. Different size (20, 50 and 80 nm) Ag colloidal nanoparticles were coated on the outer surface of polydiacetylene (PDA) vesicles to form PDA/Ag nanocomposite vesicles and the size-dependent effect of Ag colloidal nanoparticles on NLO properties enhancement has been explored. The explanation based on the competition of a size-dependent light-confinement effect and a size-dependent dielectric constant of Ag particles had been presented. Furthermore, these PDA/Ag composite vesicles were successfully immobilized onto the solid substrate by the Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) method and their linear and nonlinear optical properties were characterized, respectively. Obviously, PDA/Ag composite vesicles Langmuir–Blodgett (LB) films promoted the enhancement of the third-order NLO properties.     

复合修饰电极测定p-硝基苯酚新方法的研究与探讨

将多壁碳纳米管分散在孔雀绿溶液中并滴涂在玻碳电极表面,再电聚合一层孔雀绿膜,制备了一种新型的聚孔雀绿/多壁碳纳米管复合膜修饰玻碳电极.用电化学方法对所制得的复合修饰电极进行了表征,并研究了p-硝基苯酚在该电极上的电化学行为.结果表明,所制备的复合修饰电极对P-硝基苯酚有良好的电催化作用,从而建立了一种直接测定P-硝基苯...     

2-取代氨基-5-去氢枞基-1,3,4-噁二唑衍生物的合成及除草活性

以去氢枞酸为原料,经酰化后与水合肼反应合成去氢枞酰肼3,再与芳基异硫氰酸酯反应,得到中间体1-去氢枞酰基-4-取代基氨基硫脲4,4在Hg(OAc)2/EtOH条件下关环,合成得到一系列新型2-取代氨基-5-去氢枞基-1,3,4-噁二唑化合物5.采用IR,MS,1HNMR,13C NMR和元素分析等方法对中间体4和目标产物5进行了分析和表征.初步的除草活性测试表明,化合物4和5对油菜的胚根生长以及对稗草的幼苗生长有一定的抑制作用,其中化合物4d在浓度为100mg/L时对油菜胚根生长的抑制率达88.2％.     

High-sensitivity temperature sensor based on Bragg grating in BDK-doped photosensitive polymer optical fiber

A single-mode polymer optical fiber (POF) with highly photosensitive core doped with benzil dimethyl ketal (BDK) is fabricated and used for writing Bragg grating through the two-beam interference method. The Bragg wavelength of the grating is about 1570 nm, while the full-width at half-maximum (FWHM) of the reflection peak is 0.3 nm. The temperature response of POF Bragg grating is theoretically analyzed and experimentally measured in contrast to silica optical fiber Bragg grating (FBG). The result shows that the temperature character of POF Bragg grating is negative, which is opposite to the silica optical FBG. The absolute value of the temperature response of POF Bragg grating is one order of magnitude higher than that of the silica optical FBG, making POF Bragg grating appear to be very attractive for constructing temperature sensors with high resolution.     

Study on the Kinetics of Polymerization of Tributyltin Methacrylate

The kinetics of polymerization of tributyltin methacrylate (TBTM) has been studied in benzene solution in the temperature range 60–75°C in the presence of azobisisobutyronitrile (AIBN). We have obtained the following polymerization rate equation: R _p = K _p [TBTM]^1.5 [AIBN]^0.5. It shows that the dependence of the polymerization rate on the concentrations of the monomer TBTM and the initiator AIBN are 1.5 and 0.5 order, respectively. The activation energy of polymerization was found to be 18.1 kcal/mol. The activation energy for the degree of polymerization is approximately -12.3 kcal/mol.     

Graphene Nanoplatelets: Electrochemical Properties and Applications for Oxidation of Endocrine‐Disrupting Chemicals

In most graphene‐based electrochemical applications, graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) have been applied. Now, for the first time, electrochemical properties of GNPs, namely, its electrochemical activity, potential window, and double‐layer capacitance, have been investigated. These properties are compared with those of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). GNP‐ and CNT‐coated electrodes were then applied for electrochemical oxidation of endocrine‐disrupting chemicals. The GNP‐coated electrode was characterized by atomic force microscopy and electrochemical techniques. Compared with the CNT‐coated electrode, higher peak current for the oxidation of 4‐nonylphenol is achieved on the GNP‐coated electrode, together with lower capacitive current. Electrochemical oxidation of 2,4‐dichlorophenol, bisphenol A, and octylphenol in the absence or presence of 4‐nonylphenol was studied on the GNP‐coated electrode. The results suggest that GNPs have better electrochemical performance than CNTs and are thus more promising for electrochemical applications, for example, electrochemical detection and removal of endocrine‐disrupting chemicals.     

基于DVD光头的双光子光致漂白三维光存储

基于现有的DVD光头物镜与音圈电机，根据光致漂白的双光子吸收气维光信息存储原理，以钛蓝宝石飞秒脉冲激光进行双光子光信息写入和读出，利用音圈电机进行选层，在新型光致漂白材料二苯乙烯衍生物中进行光致漂白二进制编码信息的存储和读出实验研究；实现了三层光信息存储，信息点间距和信息层间距分别为4μm和15μm；用Matlab软件读出信息的信号强度并对其进行了识别，识别结果与写入的二进制编码信息完全一致。实验证明了用DVD光头进行双光子三维光数据存储的可行性，表明双光子吸收光致漂白技术可以与现有CD／DVD兼容，为实现多层高密度和超高密度光信息存储打下基础。     

Two-Photon Induced Anisotropy of Azobenzene Polymer Liquid Crystals Excited by a 532nm Laser

Polymer liquid crystals (PLC) with azobenzene moieties are promising materials for optical switching and image storage because the orientation of mesogens in thin films of this material may be modified by light.     

Calculating potentials of mean force and diffusion coefficients from nonequilibrium processes without Jarzynski's equality

In general, the direct application of the Jarzynski equality (JE) to reconstruct potentials of mean force (PMFs) from a small number of nonequilibrium unidirectional steered molecular-dynamics (SMD) paths is hindered by the lack of sampling of extremely rare paths with negative dissipative work. Such trajectories that transiently violate the second law of thermodynamics are crucial for the validity of JE. As a solution to this daunting problem, we propose a simple and efficient method, referred to as the FR method, for calculating simultaneously both the PMF U(z) and the corresponding diffusion coefficient D(z) along a reaction coordinate z for a classical many-particle system by employing a small number of fast SMD pullings in both forward (F) and time reverse (R) directions, without invoking JE. By employing Crooks [Phys. Rev. E 61, 2361 (2000)] transient fluctuation theorem (that is more general than JE) and the stiff-spring approximation, we show that (i) the mean dissipative work W(d) in the F and R pullings is the same, (ii) both U(z) and W(d) can be expressed in terms of the easily calculable mean work of the F and R processes, and (iii) D(z) can be expressed in terms of the slope of W(d). To test its viability, the FR method is applied to determine U(z) and D(z) of single-file water molecules in single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs). The obtained U(z) is found to be in very good agreement with the results from other PMF calculation methods, e.g., umbrella sampling. Finally, U(z) and D(z) are used as input in a stochastic model, based on the Fokker-Planck equation, for describing water transport through SWNTs on a mesoscopic time scale that in general is inaccessible to MD simulations.