Bubble generation and transport in a microfluidic device with high aspect ratio

Bubble generation and transport in a micro-device composed of a micro-T-junction and a following serpentine micro-channel was experimentally investigated. It has a rectangular cross-sectional with an aspect ratio of 7.425. Air and water were used as gas and liquid, respectively. Mixtures of water–glycerol and water–Tween-20 were used to study the effects of liquid viscosity and surface tension. Compared with previous T-junction bubble generation, the liquid and gas inlets orientation was switched in this work. The continuous flow was driven from the perpendicular channel and the dispersion flow was from the main channel. It shows that the break-up process has three periodic steps under certain operating conditions. The dimensionless bubble length L/w in the micro-channel with high aspect ratio is much larger than that in square microchannels. A correlation is proposed to correlate L/w with liquid flow rate J_L, gas flow rate J_G, and liquid viscosity μ_L. Surface tension σ can change the bubble shape but almost does not affect the bubble length in this fast break-up process. Additionally, a long bubble may be broken up at the corners at the same time because the locations of gas and liquid are exchanged relative to the concave and convex portions of an elbow after a turn which may result in the change of fluid velocities and gas–liquid pressure drop.     

Preparation of CuInS2 Thin Film Using Sulfides Nanoparticle Precursor Ink

A low cost spin coating route of fabricating CuInS₂ polycrystalline thin films by reactive sin-tering method was put forward. The ink for spin coating was optimized by pre-reducing the precursor powders in hydrogen, which turned the nanoparticle precursor powders from mixed sulfides into a mixture of CuInS₂ and Cu-In metal alloys. The results of scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, and Raman spectra showed that this optimization could highly improve the performance of CuInS₂ polycrystalline thin films, including higher packing density, less impurity phases, and better quality. The en-ergy gap of optimized CuInS₂ thin film was determined to be about 1.45 eV by absorption spectroscopy measurement.     

Influence of local environment on the intensity of the localized surface plasmon polariton of Ag nanoparticles

A combined Ag nanoparticle with an insulating or conductive layer structure has been designed for molecular detection using surface enhanced Raman scattering microscopy. Optical absorption studies revealed localized surface plasmon resonance, which shows regular red shift with increasing environmental dielectric constant. With the combined structure of surface enhanced Raman scattering substrates and rhodamine 6G as a test molecule, the results in this paper show that the absorption has a linear relationship with the local electromagnetic field for insulating substrates, and the electrical property of the substrate has a non-negligible effect on the intensity of the local electromagnetic field and hence the Raman enhancement.     

Viscoelastic measurement of complex fluids using forced oscillating torsion resonator with continuously varying frequency capability

Traditional torsional resonators, often obtaining the viscoelastic moduli of complex fluids only at one or several given discrete frequencies, lack the continuously varying frequency capability. This is an obvious disadvantage of the traditional torsional resonator technique. This paper presents an improved strategy, based on our previous discrete-frequency-measuring method (Wang et al., J Rheol 52:999–1011, 2008), to overcome such restriction and thus accomplish the continuously varying frequency capability of the traditional torsional resonator for measuring the viscoelastic properties of complex fluids. The feasibility of this strategy is demonstrated with the Newtonian fluids (several water–glycerol solutions) of viscosities varying from 10 to 1,400 cp by using our homemade torsion resonator apparatus in the 10 ~ 2,500 rad/s frequency range (continuous frequencies). Some results for typical viscoelastic polymers (two polyethylene oxide (PEO) aqueous solutions) are also given. Additionally, a comparison of the PEO results is made with the common rheometer technique. It is demonstrated that this improved strategy could enable the traditional torsional resonators, with one oscillating resonance mode, to work as the microrheological technique and the common rheometer technique in the continuous frequency range.     

Control of reaction channels of CsI molecule by ultra-short laser pulse

The influence of the ultra-short pulse wavelength on the populations in the three electronic states of CsI molecule is investigated using the time-dependent wave packet method. The calculated results show that the populations in the two excited states approach to the maxima at the wavelengths of 369 nm and 297 nm, respectively. The photodissociation reaction channels of the CsI molecule can be chosen by controlling the pump pulse wavelength.     

飞秒物理、飞秒化学和飞秒生物学

飞秒激光技术因其极高的时间分辨特性而被广泛应用于研究多种材料的超快过程,文章从几个侧面就飞秒技术在物理学,化学及生物学等方面的应用作了介绍,在飞秒物理方面,介绍了飞秒技术在研究半导体量子阱材料,纳米材料的性质及高次谐波产生等方面的研究进展,飞秒化学则主要介绍了飞秒技术在研究光化学反应,光解离过程、键的断裂及结合以及相关的动力学过程的应用;在生物方面,则介绍利用飞秒技术研究光合作用中的能量传递过程,视觉系统中的光致异构化过程以及DNA中的电荷传递及质子传递等过程的研究现状。     

Cerebral hemodynamic response in Chinese (first) and English (second) language processing revealed by event-related functional MRI.

Comparative functional neuroimaging studies using the block design paradigm have previously demonstrated that there are no significant differences in the location of areas of cerebral activation when native Chinese speakers independently process single words or sentences in both the Chinese (first) and English (second) languages. While it has also been documented that significant domains of brain response include the inferior to middle left frontal lobe, the latency, amplitude and duration of the associated hemodynamic changes during isolated neural processing of Chinese and English languages still remain unknown. The aim of this study, therefore, was to examine the characteristics of the hemodynamic alterations in the above-mentioned regions with event-related functional MRI (ER-fMRI) when native Chinese speakers performed verb generation tasks in both the Chinese (first) and English (second) languages. Our results demonstrate the presence of a similar neural activity-induced hemodynamic response in the inferior to middle left frontal lobe during both tasks. Further, there were also no statistically significant differences among the variables that described the hemodynamic response curves. These findings strongly imply that the underlying neural mechanism for Chinese (first) and English (second) language processing may be similar in native Chinese speakers.     

奇异介子光生反应的QCD描述

从低能QCD有效拉氏量出发,利用重子夸克结构的[SU_SF(6)⊙O(3)]_sym.⊙SU_c(3)波函数,研究了在核子上的奇异介子光生反应.计算了γ+p→K⁺+Λ反应的微分截面.结果表明:与传统唯象的强子理论相比,仅有一个自由参数(即强相互作用耦合常数)的QCD理论成功地描述了反应过程,很好地解释了实验结果.     

光检测器参数对相位—多普勒粒子分析系统特性的影响

应用几何光学近似理论模型计算了激光相位多普勒系统中微粒的光散射特性,得到了散射光强与粒径关系、检测器表现的散射光强分布、相位差与粒径特性中的非线性跃变以及检测器形状对特性的影响。     

新型水溶性配体-负载金属氢甲酰化催化剂:TPPTS-Rh/SiO2

考察了几种硅胶负载贵金属催化剂和HRhCO(TPP)3催化剂的1-己烯氢甲酰化反应,对Rh/SiO2、 HRhCO(TPPTS)3/SiO2 和TPPTS-Rh/SiO2上的1-己烯氢甲酰化结果进行了比较.结果表明, TPPTS-Rh/SiO2催化剂的醛的选择性和醛的正异比n/b接近HRhCO(TPPTS)3/SiO2 的相应的催化性能,而远高于Rh/SiO2的相应的催化性能, 7.0 MPa高压下TPPTS-Rh/SiO2催化剂的活性大幅度增加,达到0.0692 S-1.实验排除了其他可能,认为是含有孤对电子的TPPTS 和Rh/SiO2中高度分散的Rh粒子产生了化学键的作用,形成了具有匀相性能的支撑水膜多相催化剂: TPPTS-Rh/SiO2.