Effects of cell volume fraction changes on apparent diffusion in human cells

Diffusion-weighted imaging was used to study the relationship between apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) and cell volume fraction in cell suspensions and packed arrays. Cell volume fraction was varied by changing extracellular fluid osmolarity (for human glial cells) and by changing cell density (for human glial and red blood cells). In packed arrays of glial cells, ADC increased 10% when cells shrank and decreased 13% when cells swelled. ADC decreased 34% as cell density increased from 0 to 72%. In erythrocyte suspensions, ADC decreased 90% as the cell density increased from 0 to 89%. These results agree with theoretical predictions.     

直接扣除法测量半导体光放大器频率响应

在光电子器件散射参量定义的基础上建立了基于直接扣除法的半导体光放大器频率响应测量系统,测量中通过扣除激光器和探测器系统的频率响应,得到放大器固有的频率响应。对InGaAsP体材料行波腔半导体光放大器样品进行了测量,得到了放大器在不同注入光功率和不同偏置电流下的频率响应曲线。这些曲线很好地反应了半导体光放大器的增益饱和和噪声特性,进一步分析发现半导体光放大器对低频调制信号的放大能力弱于对高频信号的放大能力,分析认为其原因在于半导体光放大器的载流子寿命有限导致低频信号长时间消耗载流子时,载流子数量无法及时恢复,从而使得增益降低。     

Solitons in relativistic laser-plasma interactions

Single or/and multipeak solitons in plasma under relativistic electromagnetic field are reviewed. The incident electromagnetic field is allowed to have a zero or/and nonzero initial constant amplitude. Some interesting numerical results are obtained that include a high-number multipeak laser pulse and single or/and low-number multipeak plasma wake structures. It is also shown that there exists a combination of soliton and oscillation waves for plasma wake field. Also, the electron density exhibits multi-caviton structure or the combination of caviton and oscillation. A complete eigenvalue spectrum of parameters is given wherein some higher peak numbers of multipeak electromagnetic solitons in the plasma are included. Moreover, some interesting scaling laws are presented for field energy via numerical approaches. Some implications of results are discussed.      

Kink and conductance of an organic molecular wire

The effect of a kink on the conductance of a nanoscale polymer molecular wire is theoretically investigated on the basis of the Su–Schrieffer–Heeger (SSH) model combined with the Green's function formalism. It is found that, due to the appearance of kink, the molecular conductance decreases rapidly with the molecular length and reaches near zero when the molecular length is over a critical value. The reason is attributed to the localized effect of kink on the electronic state at the Fermi energy. The effect of electron-lattice coupling strength on the conductance is also discussed.     

Surface luminescence in ZnO nanoparticles

Spectral and time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) measurements were performed on ZnO nanoparticles of different sizes (17-300 nm). Under a low photon energy excitation of 2.33 eV, the time-integrated PL spectra (TIPL) clearly exhibit broad emission in the range of 1.2-2.3 eV. Upon increase of the particle size, a red-shift in the PL peak position was observed. Gaussian analysis indicates that this red-shift corresponds to the increased relative magnitude of the Gaussian combination in the low energy region. In addition, TRPL demonstrates a clear relationship between the particle diameters and the PL decay times. The shortening of the PL lifetime could be explained by a surface states model.     

卵磷脂抗石英毒作用的研究

本文采用家兔肺泡巨噬细胞(AM)体外培养法,以细胞内游离钙浓度([Ca~(2+)]_i)、细胞存活率、乳酸脱氢酶(LDH)和酸性磷酸酶(ACP)活性为指标,观察了卵磷脂、脑磷脂及现用防治硅肺药物克矽平(PVPNO)、柠檬酸铝等抗石英毒效果。结果表明:卵磷脂在所试各药物中效果最佳.初步探讨了卵磷脂拮抗石英细胞毒性的机理.卵磷脂有成为防治硅肺药物的可能性.     

Computer computation of the method of multiple scales—dirichlet problem for a class of system of nonlinear differential equations

The method of boundary layer with multiple scales and computer algebra were applied to study the asymptotic behavior of solution of boundary value problems for a class of system of nonlinear differential equations. The asymptotic expansions of solution were constructed. The remainders were estimated. And an example was analysed. It provides a new foreground for the application of the method of boundary layer with multiple scales. Contributed by Jiang Fu-ru, Original Member of Editorial Committe, AMM Biography: Xie La-bing (1976∼); Jiang Fu-ru(1927∼)     

Syntheses,crystal structures,and magnetic properties of three coordination polymers based on manganese(II) and 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylate

Three novel coordination polymers, namely, [Mn(ndc)(bpy)] _n  · n(H₂O) (1), [Mn(ndc)(phen)] _n (2), and [Mn₃(ndc)₃(bpy)₂] _n (3) (H₂ndc = 2,6-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid, bpy = 2,2′-bipyridine, phen = 1,10-phenanthroline) have been hydrothermally synthesized and characterized by elemental analysis, IR, and single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. Complexes 1–3 exhibit three-dimensional metal-organic frameworks (MOFs); 1 and 2 are assemblies of the same secondary building units (SBUs), linear infinite chains {Mn(CO₂)₂} _n , forming one-dimensional channel, while complex 3 is constructed by trinuclear clusters {Mn₃(CO₂)₆} SBUs. Magnetic properties of complexes 1 and 3 are also discussed with respect to the bridging mode of the carboxylate groups.     

Platinum(II)-bis(aryleneethynylene) complexes for solution-processible molecular bulk heterojunction solar cells

Four new solution-processible small-molecular platinum(II)-bis(aryleneethynylene) complexes consisting of benzothiadiazole as the electron acceptor and triphenylamine and/or thiophene as the electron donor were conveniently synthesized and characterized by physicochemical and computational methods, and utilized as the electron-donor materials in the fabrication of solution-processed bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells. The effect of different electron-donor groups in these small molecules on the optoelectronic and photovoltaic properties was also examined. The optical and time-dependent density functional theory studies showed that the incorporation of stronger electron-donor groups significantly enhanced the solar-absorption abilities of the complexes. These molecular complexes can serve as good electron donors for fabricating BHJ devices by blending them with the [6,6]-phenyl-C(71)-butyric acid methyl ester (PC(70)BM) as the electron acceptor. The best power conversion efficiency of 2.37% was achieved with the open-circuit voltage of 0.83 V, short-circuit current density of 7.10 mA cm(-2) and fill factor of 0.40 under illumination of an AM 1.5 solar-cell simulator. The spin-coated thin films showed p-channel field-effect charge transport with hole mobilities of up to 2.4×10(-4) cm(2) V(-1) s(-1) for these molecules. The present work illuminates the potential of well-defined organometallic complexes in developing light-harvesting small molecules for efficient power generation in organic photovoltaics implementation.