Optical activity of microemulsion induced by electric field and its tunable behaviors

It has been shown that optical activity can occur in microemulsion under external electric field and rotation angle can also be tuned by the electric field. A set of microemulsions (water/Span80/transformer oil) with different water concentration were prepared and their optical activity was measured with the changes of applied electric field and θ, the angle between the electric vector of the incident linearly polarized light and the external electric field, using an automatic polarimeter. The experiments indicate that when none of the external electric field, water concentration and θ are zero, there is optical activity in microemulsions. For a given concentration, rotation angle ψ increases with electric field, and it firstly increases, passes through a maximum at C = C0,then monotonically decreases as C increases when electric field keeps constant. The relationship between the rotation angle and θ is also obtained. It is thought that the electric field-induced destroy of spatial symmetry of microemulsion is responsible for the optical activity of microemulsion.     

蒙脱土/二氧化钛复合颗粒电流变液材料的制备及其性能

利用溶胶-凝胶法制备了一种新型的蒙脱土/二氧化钛(MMT/TiO_2)复合电流变 颗粒材料，FT-IR，XRD，SEM分析表明TiO_2以纳米晶的形态包覆于蒙脱土表面。电 流变性能测试表明，MMT/TiO_2复合颗粒的电流变效应比纯蒙脱土电流变液有显著 提高，当颗粒体积分数为25%，直流电场强度为3kV/mm时，TiO_2质量分数为22.7% 的MMT/TiO_2复合颗粒电流变液的静态屈服应力达8.3kPa，此值约为纯蒙脱土电流 变液的4倍。同时发现TiO_2包覆量对电流变效应有重要影响。     

电场诱导的微乳液旋光及其可调节行为

通过实验发现在外电场作用下微乳液不仅具有旋光效应, 而且随电场强度改变可调控旋光角大小. 用微乳液法制备了不同含水量的油包水微乳液样品, 并利用自动旋光仪对样品随外加电场强度E和入射线偏振光振动方向与电场方向间夹角θ变化的旋光行为进行了测量. 实验表明, 电场强度E, 浓度C及θ 3个量全不为零时, 微乳液出现旋光效应; 对于一定浓度的微乳液, 旋光角Ψ 随E增大而增大; 同一电场强度作用下, 旋光角Ψ 随浓度C先增大后减小且存在一个浓度最佳值C₀, 此时Ψ 取极大值; 在浓度C与场强E一定的情况下, 旋光角Ψ 还随入射光的电矢量振动方向与电场方向间夹角θ而变化. 由电场作用下液滴空间对称破缺导致各向异性定性解释了实验现象.