肉桂酸类分子非线性光学效应的理论研究

计算了一系列肉桂酸（苯基丙烯酸）类化合物的二阶非线性光学系数，系统地研究了取代基的电子性质和取代位置对其非线性光学性质的影响，并且探讨了该类化合物的饱和取代效应．研究表明，该类化合物的非线性光学性质与其分子结构有着密切的关系．     

Luminescent Sensing with Quantum Dots

Summary This review highlights recent advances in the use of quantum dots (QD’s) as luminescent sensors. The bulk of the study concentrates on systems that possess organic ligands bound to the surface of QD’s. These ligands vary from low molecular weight thiols to larger molecules such as maltose binding protein. All have one thing in common: when a target analyte binds to the ligand/receptor, a perturbation of the system occurs, that registers itself as a change in the luminescence intensity of the QD. Two main mechanisms are prevalent in controlling the luminescent intensity in such systems. The first is Photoinduced Electron Transfer (PET) and the second energy transfer. This review looks at current sensors that operate by using these mechanisms. Two component systems are also investigated where a quencher is first added to a solution of the QD, followed by addition of the target analyte that interacts with the quencher to influence the luminescence intensity.     

Optical emission spectroscopy as a real time diagnostic tool for plasma-assisted deposition of TiN

Real-time optical emission spectroscopy (OES) was used to monitor the deposition of TiN both from mixtures of tetrakis(dimethylamino)titanium (TDMATi)-N₂ and TiCl₄-H₂-N₂ in an electron cyclotron resonance chemical vapor deposition system. The accurate control of the ratio of the emission intensities of ionized nitrogen at 391.4 nm and molecular nitrogen at 357.7 nm (N ₂ ⁺ /N₂) led to low temperature deposition of stoichiometric TiN (Ti/N ≈ 1) and very low resistivity in both cases. It was found that high ion density plasmas are crucial for a considerable reduction of the deposition temperature while maintaining good film quality. OES shows that the abundance of certain excited plasma species is not only dependent on the gas mixture and the deposition parameters, such as total pressure and microwave power, but also is strongly affected by the magnetic field configuration. The deposition rate and the film resistivity can be related to the emission intensity ratio, I(N ₂ ⁺ )/I(N₂). Finally, the two processes are compared in terms of the quality of as-deposited and heat-treated films. The comparison shows that the films obtained with TDMATi exhibit lower resistivity and are thermally more stable than with TiCl₄.     

2-苯基苯并咪唑衍生物非线性光学性质的从头算研究

采用HF／6-31G^*方法优化分子构型，在此基础上用CPHF方法系统地研究了多种基团取代的2-苯基苯并咪唑衍生物的二阶非线性光学系数βvec，并对βvdc的影响因素进行了探讨，为进一步设计综合性能优良的有机非线性光学材料提供理论指导．     

Fibre optic fluorometric enzyme sensors for hydrogen peroxide and lactate,based on horseradish peroxidase and lactate oxidase

An optical biosensor for the determination of hydrogen peroxide based on immobilized horseradish peroxidase is described. The fluorescence of the dimeric product of the enzyme catalysed oxidation of homovanillic acid is utilized to determine the concentration of H₂O₂. The membrane-bound enzyme is attached to a bifurcated fibre bundle permitting excitation and detection of the fluorescence by a fluorometer. The response of the sensor is linear from 1 to 130 M hydrogen peroxide; the coefficient of variation is 3%. The sensor is stable for more than 10 weeks. The operating pH for maximal sensor response is 8.15. This allows the sensor to be used in combination with oxidase reactions producing hydrogen peroxide, as is demonstrated with a co-immobilized lactate oxidase-horseradish peroxidase optode for the determination of L-lactate. The fluorescence intensity of this sensor depends linearly on the concentration of lactate between 3 and 200 M and a throughput of 10 samples per hour is possible. The precision is in the same range as that of the monoenzyme optode. The lifetime of the bienzyme sensor for lactate is considerably shorter than that of the peroxidase sensor; it is limited by the stability of the immobilized lactate oxidase enzyme. The sensor has been applied to the determination of lactate in control serum.     

Study of Factors Affecting the Performance of Voltammetric Copper Sensors Based on Gly‐Gly‐His Modified Glassy Carbon and Gold Electrodes

This paper reports a study of the factors affecting the analytical performance of gold and glassy carbon electrodes modified with the tripeptide Gly‐Gly‐His for the detection of copper ions. Gly‐Gly‐His is attached to a glassy carbon (GC) surface modified with 4‐carboxyphenyl moieties or a gold surface modified with 3‐mercaptopropionic acid by the reaction of the N‐terminal amine group of the peptide with the carboxylic acid groups of the monolayer via carbodiimide activation. X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to characterize the steps in the biosensor fabrication. It was found that the analytical performance of a sensor prepared with Gly‐Gly‐His on a GC electrode was similar to that on a gold electrode under the same conditions. The performance was greatly enhanced at higher temperature, no added salt during copper accumulation and longer accumulation time within a pH range of 7–9. Interference studies and investigations of stability of the Gly‐Gly‐His sensor are reported. Analysis of natural water samples show that the sensors measure only copper ions that can complex at the sensor surface. Strongly complexed copper in natural water is not measured. Despite greater stability of diazonium salt derived monolayers on carbon surfaces compared with alkanethiols self‐assembled monolayers on gold, the stability of the sensors was essentially the same regardless of the modification procedure.     

Enhancement of the light-scattering ability of coatings by using hollow pigments

The light-scattering properties of coatings based on monodisperse polymeric spheres of two different diameters (ca 0.5 and 1 m) were evaluated from reflectance measurements as a function of the wavelength from 400 to 700 nm. Some of these plastic pigments were hollow and it was noted that these particles gave coatings with a greater light-scattering ability than coatings based on solid particles of a similar size. It was possible to estimate the contribution of the internal pores to the scattering ability of the coating layers by saturating the layers with an oil of a refractive index similar to that of the polymeric pigment particles. A simple model accounting for the scattering provided by the internal pores of the hollow particles is suggested. The agreement between the experimental results and the prediction of the model is fair. It was noted that the light scattering coefficient of the coatings increased when the external diameter of their constituent hollow particles increased from ca 0.5 to 1 m.     

Theoretical Investigation on the Second-order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Chiral Amino Acid Zinc（Ⅱ） Porphyrins

Static second-order nonlinear optical effects of amino acid zinc(Ⅱ) porphyrins 1, 2,3 and 4 were calculated by the TDHF/PM3 method based on the molecular structures optim.zed at the semiempirical PM3 quantum chemistry level, showing due to the cancellation of symmetric center, these amino acid zinc(H) porphyrins exhibit second order nonlinear optical response. The analysis of β components indicated that these amino acid zinc(Ⅱ) porphyrins are of multipolarizabilities, and they may be ascribed as the “mixture” of octupolar and dipoar molecules with ||βJ=3||/||βJ=1||≈5. It is found that there are no significant differences between the static β values of non-chiral and chiral amino acid zinc(Ⅱ) porphyrins. However, the βxyz component, which is quite important to quadratic macroscopic X^(2) susceptibility of chiral material, is increased significantly with the increase of side chain group of amino acids.     

Hybrid genetic algorithm–tabu search approach for optimising multilayer optical coatings

Constructing multilayer optical coatings (MOCs) is a difficult large-scale optimisation problem due to the enormous size of the search space. In the present paper, a new approach for designing MOCs is presented using genetic algorithms (GAs) and tabu search (TS). In this approach, it is not necessary to specify how many layers will be present in a design, only a maximum needs to be defined. As it is generally recognised that the existence of specific repeating blocks is beneficial for a design, a specific GA representation of a design is used which promotes the occurrence of repeating blocks. Solutions found by GAs are improved by a new refinement method, based on TS, a global optimisation method which is loosely based on artificial intelligence. The improvements are demonstrated by creating a visible transmitting/infrared reflecting filter with a wide variety of materials.     

PEO-LiClO_4-ZSM5 composite polymer electrolyte (IV): Polarized optical microscopy study

All solid-state lithium polymer batteries may be one of the best choices for the future electrochemical power source, characterized by high energy densities, good cyclability, reliability and safety[1,2]. Owing to its potential capability to replace the t…