Raman detection of hydrohalite formation: Avoiding accidents on icy roads by deicing where salt will not work

The common substance Hydrohalite has a role to play in as diverse areas as Geology, Earth Climatology, Universe Cosmology, and Cryobiology. In this review, the occurrences under very different occasions are described. These relations are not commonly appreciated. During the work, we realized that there is yet an aspect that has been overlooked. Hydrohalite formed sometimes on icy roads resists common salt deicing procedures. Also, hydrohalite can be detected by rather simple Raman spectroscopy instrumentation. It means that it is possible to avoid accidents on icy roads in the following way: Common salt deicing trucks may be equipped with “artificial intelligence” based on a duel deicing system that switches between normal NaCl deicing and non-NaCl deicing based on Raman spectroscopy. The advantages are first of all less traffic accidents and lower environmental impact and corrosion from NaCl, but disadvantages are increased costs of investments and consumption of non-NaCl deicing agents.     

Temperature dependence of the low-frequency reflectance spectrum of a sodium nitrate single crystal: Effect of the phase transition on the lattice modes parameters

Conclusion Reflectivity of a single crystal sodium nitrate have been measured as a fonction of temperature and crystallographic orientations over a frequency region which spans all infrared active lattice modes. The data have been fitted with a series of five independent oscillators and an overdamped oscillator of A_2u symmetry at temperatures between 250 and 276°C. None of them behaves as a soft mode. Our measurements show also the influence of the phase transition on the lattice modes parameters.     

不同提取方法对菟丝子总黄酮和金属元素锌的含量比较研究

分别采用常规回流提取法、石油醚脱脂-索氏提取法和微波辅助萃取法对中药菟丝子进行提取;以芦丁为对照品,紫外分光光度法测定提取物中总黄酮的含量;原子吸收光谱法测定提取液中金属元素锌的含量,以总黄酮的含量和金属元素锌的含量为考察指标,明确金属元素锌的提取与黄酮类总含量之间的关系。结果表明,3种提取方法中,微波辅助萃取法具有高效、省时等优点,提取效果最好,锌元素的含量与总黄酮的含量成正比。     

白酒单体物质紫外荧光光谱研究

白酒荧光光谱是由各种单体物质的荧光共同叠加而表征出来的。不同品牌的白酒中所含的单体物质种类基本相同,都包括水、酒精以及各种微量成分,然而其荧光光谱却差别很大。白酒中的各种单体物质成分究竟是如何对白酒的荧光光谱产生影响,至今未见相关报道。通过对白酒中的主要单体物质,包扩酒精、水及各种主要的微量成分(共10种)在不同激发波长下产生的荧光光谱进行测定,并将其与已测定的大量白酒三维荧光光谱进行对比发现,可以对白酒的荧光光谱产生影响的单体物质是乙醇和主要微量成分。白酒主要微量成分中醇类、酸类、酯类和醛类物质对其荧光光谱都有着一定的影响,但各自影响的程度及影响的光谱范围又各自有所不同。研究结果对白酒荧光光谱的进一步细化研究有着重要的意义。     

荧光光谱法研究Hg(Ⅱ)与牛血清白蛋白的相互作用

在pH为7.15、离子强度为0.15mol/L的NaCl溶液条件下,采用荧光光谱法研究了Hg（Ⅱ）与牛血清白蛋白的相互作用。实验结果表明,Hg（Ⅱ）对牛血清白蛋白的荧光强度猝灭机理是一种静态猝灭,且Hg2＋与牛血清白蛋白结合的位点数为2,表观络合常数（K）为2.468×10^10L^2·mol^-2。     

High-pressure and high-temperature generation using diamond/sic composite anvils prepared with hot isostatic pressing

Using a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) technique, we synthesized diamond/SiC composites from diamond and Si powders. At an HIP condition of 1450 °C and 100 MPa, a pressure much lower than that of the diamond stability field, diamond powders react with molten Si to form well-sintered diamond/SiC composites. Cubes of the composites with 15 mm edge length were thereby fabricated, and an application to the second stage anvils in a Kawai-type high-pressure apparatus was attempted. A hybrid anvils system using four cubes of the composites and four of the conventional WC was introduced and heating experiments up to 1600 °C became possible. Because the diamond/SiC composites are transparent to X-rays, the present system is applicable not only to diffraction studies but also to radiographic studies that need a larger window for an X-ray image.     

Ultrafast dynamics in the excited hydrogen atom transfer states of ammonia clusters

Neutral ammonia clusters (NH₃)_m are photo-excited to the electronic state by a deep UV femtosecond laser pump pulse. Within a few hundred femtoseconds a significant fraction of the clusters rearrange to form an H-transfer state (NH₃)_m-2NH₄(3s)NH₂ with the subunit NH₄ in its 3s electronic ground state. This state is then electronically excited by a time-delayed infrared control pulse of variable wavelength. Finally, a third (probe) pulse in the UV ionizes the clusters for detection. The lifetime of the excited (NH₃)_m-2NH₄(3p)NH₂ states is found to vary between 2.7 and 0.13 ps depending on cluster size and excitation energy. It increases drastically upon deuteration. The corresponding cluster size-dependent photoelectron spectra allow us to disentangle the underlying energetics of the excitation and ionization process and reveal additional processes, such as nonresonant ionization or dissociative ionization. The experimental findings suggest that the excited H-transfer ammonia complexes with m > 2 are deactivated by an internal conversion process back to the electronically lowest H-transfer state followed by fast dissociation. Received 22 September 2001 and Received in final form 31 January 2002     

原子光谱线增宽的原因

本文从理论上给出了原子光谱线增宽的几种原因 ,即 :①自然线宽 ,它是原子的内禀特性 (即在跃迁中所涉及到的能级的特性 ) ;②多普勒增宽 ,它是原子无规则热运动的结果 ;③碰撞增宽 ,它是原子间相互作用的结果。并对这几种原因分别给出了数量级上的估算。对原子光谱的测定具有参考意义。     

黄素体系电子转移过程光谱研究

黄素类物质在生物体内广泛存在,是许多电子转移反应的活性中心,也是电子传递链的重要组成部分。其受到光照激发后引起的电子转移,是许多生命过程的基础与起始步骤。特别地,一种名为隐花色素的黄素蛋白在光激发后经一系列电子转移形成自旋相关自由基对,被认为是最有可能的生物磁敏物质,更使黄素体系电子转移过程的动力学,特别是自旋动力学过程倍受关注。对黄素电子转移过程及相关机理进行研究,有助于厘清多种生命过程的化学机理与影响因素。为此,科学界综合运用了多种仪器与测试手段,其中主要包括紫外-可见光谱,荧光光谱,瞬态吸收光谱,光化学诱导动态核极化（Photo-CIDNP）技术等。通过多年的研究,对黄素在生物体内的作用机理与电子转移过程的认识经历了由浅入深,不断深入的过程。紫外-可见光谱（UV-Vis）主要用于研究黄素系统中的电子激发,自旋动力学和电子转移。结合理论计算,UV-Vis还可以识别电子转移中涉及的基团并进行定量分析。荧光光谱可以识别电子受激发的物质,在反应过程中观察黄素和半醌中间体的产生和消耗,并确定其氧化还原和质子化状态。瞬态吸收光谱适于观测反应过程中出现的短寿命物种,其中飞秒泵浦探测技术的引入大大提高了观测的时间分辨率,并且可以通过光谱特征区分单重态和三重态的自由基对。光化学诱导动态核极化核磁共振（NMR）可以直接观察电子-核自旋动力学过程。磁场依赖性photo-CIDNP NMR揭示了控制单重态与三重态互变的因素,并提出了生物地磁导航可能依赖的化学机制。腔吸收与单分子光谱的运用,从技术上提高了实验装置的灵敏度并降低检测限。主要介绍黄素体系电子转移过程研究所运用的各种光谱手段与取得的成果,并展望其未来。     

基于光谱学分析的聚氨酯弹性体/聚磷酸铵/氢氧化铝复合材料阻燃机理研究

采用熔融共混技术,将聚磷酸铵(APP)和氢氧化铝(ATH)引入到聚氨酯弹性体(TPU)中,制备了一系列热塑性聚氨酯/聚磷酸铵/氢氧化铝(TPU/APP/ATH)复合材料。采用傅里叶红外光谱(FTIR)、X-射线光电子能谱(XPS)、扫描电镜(SEM)、激光拉曼光谱研究了TPU和阻燃TPU(FR-TPU)复合材料燃烧后炭渣的微观形貌、表面结构、元素组成、键合状态和石墨化程度,结合阻燃性能测试,揭示APP和ATH的协同阻燃机制。SEM分析表明相较于APP与ATH单独使用,TPU/APP/ATH炭层的空洞结构更少,炭渣的致密性更高。XPS分析表明FR-TPU的炭渣中C元素含量相比于纯TPU有所降低,O元素的含量有所上升,其中TPU/APP10/ATH10的C元素含量从88.2%降至69.24%,O元素的含量从8.07%升至17.78%,P和Al元素含量相较于单独添加分别从11.74%和16.36%下降至3.91%和3.31%。在此基础上,通过对C元素的分峰拟合发现TPU炭渣中C—C/C—H,C—O/C—N和CO/CN含量分别为61.05%,35.65%和3.30%;TPU/APP10/ATH10炭渣中三种结构含量分别为45.38%,45.00%和9.63%,说明ATH和APP复配使用有利于C元素形成酯、醚、羰基、羧酸（盐）、酯基等结构。通过对O元素的分峰拟合发现,TPU炭渣中O₂/H₂O,—O—,O三种结构含量分别为28.75%,44.36%和26.89%;TPU/APP10/ATH10炭渣中O₂/H₂O,—O—,O三种结构含量分别为44.33%,32.78%和22.89%,说明APP和ATH的加入有利于炭渣中O元素形成O₂/H₂O结构。通过对N元素的分峰拟合发现,TPU炭渣中—NH—,N结构的N元素含量分别为40.93%和59.07%;TPU/APP10/ATH10中—NH—,N结构的N元素含量分别47.17%和52.83%,说明ATH与APP复配使用促进了—NH—结构的形成。拉曼测试表明,相比于单独使用,APP和ATH复配使用,炭层的石墨化程度更好,致密性更高。以上分析结合阻燃测试可以得出TPU/APP/ATH复合材料阻燃机制：ATH受热分解生成氧化铝,吸收热量并释放大量水蒸气,有效促进APP降解,生成不燃性的氨气和聚磷酸,氨气和水蒸气稀释可燃性气体的浓度。随着温度继续升高,氧化铝可继续与聚磷酸反应生成偏磷酸铝[Al(PO₃)₃],同步催化聚氨酯基体成炭,形成高度石墨化炭层,石墨化炭层与偏磷酸铝一起覆盖在基体表面,有效抑制燃烧区域物质以及能量的输运,从而达到阻燃目的。