First-principles study of metallic carbon nanotubes with boron/nitrogen co-doping

Using the first-principles calculations, we investigate the electronic band structure and the quantum transport properties of metallic carbon nanotubes (MCNTs) with B/N pair co-doping. The results about formation energy show that the B/N pair co-doping configuration is a most stable structure. We find that the electronic structure and the transport properties are very sensitive to the doping concentration of the B/N pairs in MCNTs, where the energy gaps increase with doping concentration increasing both along the tube axis and around the tube, because the mirror symmetry of MCNT is broken by doping B/N pairs. In addition, we discuss conductance dips of the transmission spectrum of doped MCNTs. These unconventional doping effects could be used to design novel nanoelectronic devices.     

邻氯苯甲酰肼缩水杨醛Schiff碱及其配合物的合成与表征

合成了邻氯苯甲酰肼缩水杨醛及Zn()、Co()、Ni()配合物,通过元素分析、红外光谱、紫外光谱、核磁共振氢谱对化合物进行了表征,用X射线单晶衍射测定邻氯苯甲酰肼缩水杨醛的晶体结构。     

无偏压的串联光折变晶体回路中高斯光束传播特性调节

根据串联光折变晶体回路中独立空间孤子对理论,研究了明暗孤子对之间的相互依赖特性.假设一束暗孤子波和一束高斯光束分别入射到回路中两块晶体上,利用数值计算方法讨论了改变其中暗孤子光束的强度对高斯光束在另外一个晶体中传播特性的影响.结果表明,调节暗孤子的强度能够影响高斯光束的传播特性,可以决定高斯光束在晶体中是否能够演化为稳定传播的明孤子波 关键词： 非线性光学 光折变效应 光折变空间孤子对 高斯光束     

Photocatalytic activity of 6.5 MeV electron-irradiated ZnO nanorods

The microwave-synthesized zinc-oxide (ZnO) nanonorods of average length of ～ 1500 nm and diameter ～ 100 nm were irradiated with 6.5 meV electrons. From sample to sample, the electron fluence was varied over the range 5×10¹⁴ to 2.5×10¹⁵ e-cm^?2. The pre- and post-electron-irradiated ZnO nanorods were characterized by X-ray diffraction, UV–VIS, EDAX, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and BET methods. The results show that after electron irradiation, the ZnO nanorods could retain the hexagonal phase with the wurtzite structure; however, the average length of the ZnO nanorods reduced to ～ 800 nm. Moreover, the oxygen atoms from a fraction of ZnO molecules were dislodged, and the process contributed to the formation of Zn–ZnO mixed phase, with increased zinc to oxygen ratio. In the photo-degradation of Rhodamine-B, a significant enhancement in the photocatalytic activity of the electron-irradiated ZnO nanorods was observed. This could be attributed to the induced defects, reduced dimensions, and increased surface area of the ZnO nanorods, in addition to the formation of the Zn–ZnO phase. All these could collectively contribute to the effective separation of the photogenerated electrons from the holes on the ZnO nanorods, and therefore enhance the photocatalytic activity under UV exposure.     

Time-resolved electron paramagnetic resonance of radical pair intermediates in cryptochromes

Electron transfer plays a key role in many biological systems, including core complexes of photosynthesis and respiration. As this involves unpaired electron spins, electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) is the method of choice to investigate such processes. Systems that show photo-induced charge separation and electron transfer are of particular interest, as here the processes can easily be synchronised to the experiment and therefore followed directly over its time course. One particular class of proteins, the cryptochromes, showing charge separation and in turn spin-correlated radical pairs upon excitation with blue light, have been investigated by time-resolved EPR spectroscopy in great detail and the results obtained so far are summarised in this contribution. Highlights include the first observation of spin-correlated radical pairs in these proteins, a fact with great impact on the proposed role as key part of a magnetic compass of migratory birds, as well as the assignment of the radical-pair partners and the unravelling of alternative and unexpected electron transfer pathways in these proteins, giving new insights into aspects of biological electron transfer itself.     

浅海波导中简正波干涉特征频率增强

针对浅海波导中水平线列阵接收的低频宽带低信噪比信号,提出了一种利用多拍信号相干累加来提高干涉简正波特征频谱信噪比的方法。这种方法主要针对未知距离和声源形式的运动声源,对不同时刻(或接收距离)处阵列输出信号进行warping变换,根据干涉简正波的特征频率不变性,通过搜索距离与径向速度的比值来对齐未知距离下warping变换后的谱峰频率,进而通过相干累加来增强信号干涉简正波的特征频率。仿真和海上实验数据分析均验证了方法的性能。     

BeAl_6O_(10)晶体中单体铬和铬离子对的窄线发光

BeAl_6O_(10):Cr的荧光谱由宽带和七条窄线组成.在室温下,宽带和窄线发光的衰减时间极不相同.本文根据线强度的温度关系、浓度关系推论,三条窄而强的荧光线来自两种单体铬中心.另有两条稍宽的线来自铬离子对中心.宽带发射与这些窄线发射没有象BeAl_2O_4:Cr中那样的联系.     

Ion‐pair switchable‐hydrophilicity solvent‐based homogeneous liquid–liquid microextraction for the determination of paraquat in environmental and biological samples before high‐performance liquid chromatography

An approach involving ion‐pair switchable‐hydrophilicity solvent‐based homogeneous liquid–liquid microextraction coupled to high‐performance liquid chromatography has been applied for the preconcentration and separation of paraquat in a real sample. A mixture of triethylamine and water was used as the switchable‐hydrophilicity solvent. The pH was regulated using carbon dioxide; hence the ratio of the ionized and non‐ionized form of triethylamine could control the optimum conditions. Sodium dodecyl sulfate was utilized as an ion‐pairing agent. The ion‐associate complex formed between the cationic paraquat and sodium dodecyl sulfate was extracted into triethylamine. The separation of the two phases was carried out by the addition of sodium hydroxide, which changed the ionization state of triethylamine. The effects of some important parameters on the extraction recovery were investigated. Under the optimum conditions (500 μL of the extraction solvent, 1 mg sodium dodecyl sulfate, 2.0 mL of 10 mol/L sodium hydroxide, and pH 4), the limit of detection and the limit of quantification were 0.2 and 0.5 μg/L, respectively, with preconcentration factor of 74. The precision (RSD, n  = 10) was  <5%. The recovery of the analyte in environmental and biological samples was in the range of 90.0–92.3%.     

Non-convex sweeping processes involving maximal monotone operators

By using a regularization method, we study in this paper the global existence and uniqueness property of a new variant of non-convex sweeping processes involving maximal monotone operators. The system can be considered as a maximal monotone differential inclusion under a control term of normal cone type forcing the trajectory to be always contained in the desired moving set. When the set is fixed, one can show that the unique solution is right-differentiable everywhere and its right-derivative is right-continuous. Non-smooth Lyapunov pairs for this system are also analysed.