DFT study of the electronic and charge transfer properties of perfluoroarene–thiophene oligomers

The ground state structures of 5,5″-diperfluorophenyl-2,2′:5′,2″:5″,2‴-quaterthiophene (1), 5,5′-bis{1-[4-(thien-2-yl)perfluorophenyl]}-2,2′-dithiophene (2), 4,4′-bis[5-(2,2′-dithiophenyl)]-perfluorobiphenyl (3), 5,5″-diperfluorophenyl-2,2′:5′,2″-tertthiophene (4), 5,5′-diperfluorophenyl-2,2′-dihiophene (5), and 5,5-diperfluorophenylthiophene (6) have been optimized at the B3LYP/6-31G(d), B3LYP/6-31G(d,p), PBE0/6-31G(d), and PBE0/6-31G(d,p) level of theories. The B3LYP/6-31+G(d) and PBE0/6-31+G(d) level of theories have been applied to investigate the absorption spectra. The PBE0 functional is good to predict the C–S bond lengths while the C–F bond lengths are good envisaged with B3LYP functional. The increment of thiophene rings between two perfluoroarene rings leads to red shift in absorption spectra. The electron affinities are energetically destabilized while energetic stabilization of the radical-cation increases by decreasing the thiophene rings from four to one. The perfluoroarene rings leads to enhance the electron injection.     

Design of Optical Directional Couplers Made of Polydimethysiloxane Liquid Crystal Channel Waveguides

We present numerical simulations of a directional coupler based on three-dimensional waveguides made of a nematic liquid crystal, acting as the waveguide core, infiltrated in polydimethysiloxane channels. Modeling is based on the combination of minimization of Oseen-Frank energy of the liquid crystal molecules with a beam propagation algorithm. Design of the coupler waveguides is optimized to minimize coupling lengths and maximise efficiencies. Such components can be made at low cost on flexible plastic substrates and can be also integrated with optofluidic devices for biomedical applications.     

Photoresponding ionic complex containing azobenzene chromophore for use in birefringent flm简

A novel photoresponding ionic complex （PANDAZO） was prepared by the ionic self-assembly （1SA） of sodium polyacrylate （PANa） and azobenzene chromophores （NDAZO）. The ionic complex forms an interdigitated lamellar structure with full overlap of the side chains. The optical anisotropy was investigated by using a polarization pulse laser （355 nm）. Furthermore, a high photoinduced birefringence （An = 0.365） was measured by using a continuous 488 nm laser as the pump light.     

Novel advances in metal-based solar absorber for photothermal vapor generation

Access to safe drinking water has become an extremely urgent research topic worldwide. In recent years, the technology of solar vapor generation has been extensively explored as a potential and effective strategy of transforming elements content in seawater. In this review, the basic concepts and theories of metal-based photothermal vapor generation device (PVGD) with excellent optical and thermal regulatory are introduced. In the view of optical regulation, how to achieve high-efficiency localized evaporation in different evaporation system (i.e., volumetric solar heating and interface solar heating) is discussed; from the aspect of thermal regulation, the importance of selective absorption surface for interfacial PVGD is analyzed. Based on the above discussion and analysis, we summarize the challenges of metal-based desalination device.     

BiVO4/TiO2 core-shell heterostructure: wide range optical absorption and enhanced photoelectrochemical and photocatalytic performance

In the present study, pristine BiVO₄, TiO₂ and BiVO₄/TiO₂ core-shell heterostructured nanoparticles are prepared by hydrothermal methods and studied for structural, morphological, optical, photoelectrochemical water splitting and photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue as an organic pollutant. Both pristine BiVO₄ and TiO₂ exhibit poor PEC and PC performance under visible light illumination. However, an enhanced PEC and PC activity in BiVO₄/TiO₂ core-shell heterostructure is observed due to high solar energy absorption and superior charge separation properties in core-shell nanoparticles. The photoelectrode prepared using BiVO₄/TiO₂ core-shell nanoparticles exhibit a photocathode behavior and produced cathodic photocurrent, however, the pristine BiVO₄ and TiO₂ photoelectrodes act as photoanode and produced anodic photocurrent. This behavior of change in current direction is also observe in the Mott-Schottky analysis where the BiVO₄/TiO₂ core-shell nanoparticles photoelectrode exhibits the positive slow showing p-type semiconducting behavior. The change in cathodic photoresponse in core-shell nanoparticles in comparison to anodic photoresponse of BiVO₄ and TiO₂ nanoparticles is explained in terms of the variations in the work function values. These results highlight the advantages of core-shell nanoparticle of suitable materials for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical applications.     

Raman Optical Activity (ROA) as a New Tool to Elucidate the Helical Structure of Poly(phenylacetylene)s

Poly(phenylacetylene)s are a family of helical polymers constituted by conjugated double bonds. Raman spectra of these polymers show a structural fingerprint of the polyene backbone which, in combination with its helical orientation, makes them good candidates to be studied by Raman optical activity (ROA). Four different well‐known poly(phenylacetylene)s adopting different scaffolds and ten different helical senses have been prepared. Raman and ROA spectra were recorded and allowed to establish ROA‐spectrum/helical‐sense relationships: a left/right‐handed orientation of the polyene backbone (M_helix/P_helix) produces a triplet of positive/negative ROA bands. Raman and ROA spectra of each polymer exhibited the same profile, and the sign of the ROA spectrum was opposite to the lowest‐energy electronic circular dichroism (ECD) band, indicating a resonance effect. Resonance ROA appears then as an indicator of the helical sense of poly(phenylacetylene)s, especially for those with an extra Cotton band in the ECD spectrum, where a wrong helical sense is assigned based on ECD, while ROA alerts of this misassignment.     

Visible light driven photocatalytic activity of ZnO/CuO nanocomposites coupled with rGO heterostructures synthesized by solid-state method for RhB dye degradation

Metal oxide frame works along with carbon materials have been attracting tremendous attention of researches as the potential materials for energy and environmental remediation. In the present work heterostructures of (ZnO/CuO)/rGO ternary nanocomposites were synthesized by solid-state method. The crystalline structure of the nanoparticles was obtained from the XRD analysis. Optical band gap of the ZnO nanoparticles (3.1 eV) is tuned to 2.8 eV in the synthesized (ZnO/CuO)/rGO ternary nanocomposites. Field emission scanning electron microscope images of the (ZnO/CuO)/rGO ternary nanocomposites revealed formation of well-developed flowers like morphology of (ZnO/CuO) nanoparticles on rGO sheets. Photoluminescence spectroscopy analysis of (ZnO/CuO)/rGO ternary nanocomposites show enhancement in the electron-hole pair separation and thereby diminishing electron-hole pairs recombination rates effectively. In the present work, the photocatalytic activity of the ZC₃G₁₅ ternary nanocomposites show 99% and 93% of degradation efficiency respectively against RhB dye and 4-chlorophenol for 20 min under visible light irradiation. Thus, the simple solid-state method provides the effective ternary nanocomposites heterostructures light harvesting material for energy and environmental remediation.     

同步光分组交换网核心节点光分组长度分析

研究了同步光分组交换网中光分组长度的设计及其对一些网络性能参数的影响,分别推导了光分组中开销所占比率、时延及光纤延时线长度与光分组长度的关系,并给出各自相应的理论分析和数值解析,为光分组中分组长度的设计做了基础工作。     

灰度人脸识别形态学相关的一般理论研究

提出一般形态学相关概念,并提出一种小型联合变换相关器的硬件设计以实现一般形态学相关.提出两种改进的一般形态学相关算法,灰度图像按某种分解方法分解成一系列二值图像片.在第一种算法中,每片二值联合图像片的边缘被检测,其功率谱求和.在第二种算法中,一种情况是每片的联合变换功率谱被二值化或细化再求和;另一种情况是这些片的联合变换功率谱的总和被二值化或细化.计算机模拟结果表明,改进后的算法能改善高相似度灰度人脸图像识别的鉴别率.     

测量光纤外腔Fabry-Perot干涉仪的白光干涉术

提出了一种基于白光干涉术测量低锐度光纤外腔Fabry Perot干涉仪（EFPI）的方法用宽带光源注入F P腔,在接收端用一高锐度的可调谐光纤F P滤波器对EFPI的反射光谱进行扫描,获得了周期性变化的光谱输出为了测量出EFPI的腔长,对光谱信号进行傅里叶变换,得到光谱的周期,由此求出EFPI的绝对腔长证明了用低锐度EFPI的测量准确度由腔长决定F P腔越长,测量准确度越高在腔长分别是200 μm,400 μm和600 μm时,测量的腔长与实际腔长相同.