托卡马克工程试验混合堆等离子体性能的等值线图分析

本文简要叙述托卡马克工程试验混合堆等离子体概念设计的物理基础,对等离子体性能进行了等值线图(Plasma Operation Contour)分析。根据工程试验混合堆的要求,得出一组等离子体参数。     

Reentrant behavior of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes in water-methanol mixtures investigated with a quartz crystal microbalance

The solvent composition induced reentrant behavior of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) chains grafted on a SiO2 surface in water-methanol mixtures was investigated using a quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) at 20 degrees C. The frequency and energy dissipation responses showed that the grafted PNIPAM chains sharply collapse when the methanol content (x(m)) reaches approximately 17 mol %. In the range 17-50 mol %, the grafted chains remain in a collapsed state. Further increase of the methanol content leads to an abrupt reswelling of the collapsed chains at x(m) > approximately 50 mol %. The sharp reentrant swelling-to-collapse-to-swelling transition was attributed to the water-methanol complexation instead of the preferential adsorption effect. Our results also suggest that the water-methanol complexation is not induced by hydrophobic interaction but by hydrogen bonding.     

Particle-rod hybrids: growth of arachidic acid molecular rods from capped cadmium selenide nanoparticles

This communication describes a spin-coating method to nucleate organic molecular rods of uniform size from an inorganic nanoparticle at a solid surface. The particle-rod hybrid structure spontaneously forms when a film is spin coated from a mixed 2-propanol solution of arachidic acid (AA) and nanoparticles of cadmium selenide capped by mercaptoundecanoic acid (MUA-CdSe) on graphite. AFM images show that MUA-CdSe nanoparticles nucleate single crystalline rods of AA with a cross section of a single unit cell of the C-form. The solution-based process potentially allows the precise tuning of the wetting profile of the solution on the surface-attached nanoparticle, which provides the reservoir for the growth of the single crystalline rods. The results suggest that nanoparticles can be regarded as nanoseeds for the nucleation of guest crystals. It should be possible to further functionalize the AA rods by electrostatic complexation with metal or organic ions.     

Mechanical properties and stability measurement of cholesterol-containing liposome on mica by atomic force microscopy

The micromechanical properties of pure and cholesterol modified egg yolk phosphatidylcholine (EggPC) vesicles prepared by sonication were studied by atomic force microscopy (AFM) on mica surface. The force curves between an AFM tip and an unruptured vesicle were obtained by contact mode. During approach, two repulsion regions with two breaks were observed. The slopes of the two repulsive force regimes for the pure EggPC vesicles are determined to be several times lower than that of EggPC/cholesterol vesicles. The elastic properties from force plot analysis based on the Hertzian model showed that Young's modulus (E) and the bending modulus (kc) of cholesterol-modified vesicles increased several-fold compared with pure EggPC vesicles. The significant difference is attributed to the enhanced rigidity of the EggPC vesicles as a result of the incorporation of cholesterol molecules. The behavior of cholesterol-modified vesicles upon adsorption is different from that in solution as revealed by mechanical properties. The results indicate that AFM can provide a direct method to measure the mechanical properties of adsorbed small liposomes and to detect the stability change of liposomes.     

Collapse and swelling of thermally sensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes monitored with a quartz crystal microbalance

Thermally sensitive poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) brushes grafted on SiO2-coated quartz crystal surface were prepared with a surface-immobilized initiator. Using quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), we investigated the collapse and swelling of the brushes in water in real time. Both frequency and dissipation of PNIPAM brushes were found to gradually change throughout a temperature range 20-38 degrees C, indicating that PNIPAM brushes undergo a continuous collapse transition in contrast with PNIPAM chains free in dilute solution exhibiting a sharp coil-to-globule transition. This result is in accordance with the previous theoretical prediction. The nonuniformity and stretching of PNIPAM brushes as well as the cooperativity between collapse and dehydration transitions are thought to be responsible for the continuity. On the other hand, a hysteresis was also observed in the cooling process. This is not only due to the intrachain and interchain interactions formed in the collapsed state but also to the nonuniform structure and stretching of the high-density brushes.     

Colloidal subwavelength nanostructures for antireflection optical coatings

A two-dimensional (2D) subwavelength nanostructure for antireflection coating is fabricated upon a transparent substrate. Self-assembled 2D colloidal crystals are used as a nanoscale composite material with controlled thickness and low refractive index. The feature size of the structure is approximately 105 nm. The structure is used for antireflection coating, and the measured reflectivity of a glass substrate is reduced to 0.3%. Enhanced transmission through the substrate is also observed.     

The Marple algorithm for the autoregressive spectral estimates of the SMMW fourier transform spectroscopy data

The Marple algorthm for the autoregressive spectral estimates has been applied to the SMMW Fourier transform spectrum analysis. The experimental results have shown that this method yields AR spectra with three times higher resolution than the FFT method does. The improvements obtained from the Marple algorithm over the maximum entropy algorithm include higher resolution, less bias in the spectral peak frequency estimation and absence of observed spectral line splitting. The effects of the structure of the spectral lines and the noise on the resolution are discussed.Projects supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China     

Current Rectification in Temperature‐Responsive Single Nanopores

Herein we demonstrate a fully abiotic smart single‐nanopore device that rectifies ionic current in response to the temperature. The temperature‐responsive nanopore ionic rectifier can be switched between a rectifying state below 34 °C and a non‐rectifying state above 38 °C actuated by the phase transition of the poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) [PNIPAM] brushes. On the rectifying state, the rectifying efficiency can be enhanced by the dehydration of the attached PNIPAM brushes below the LCST. When the PNIPAM brushes have sufficiently collapsed, the nanopore switches to the non‐rectifying state. The concept of the temperature‐responsive current rectification in chemically‐modified nanopores paves a new way for controlling the preferential direction of the ion transport in nanofluidics by modulating the temperature, which has the potential to build novel nanomachines with smart fluidic communication functions for future lab‐on‐chip devices.     

复合组分材料的X射线定量相衬成像研究

对复合组分材料的应用和需求日益广泛,但如何精确地测量其定量结构信息仍是一个亟待解决的难题.建立了复合组分结构模型,利用X射线同轴相衬成像和相位恢复方法,分别进行了计算机模拟和实验研究,系统地分析了复合组分材料不同的密度差异对X射线相衬成像和相位恢复精度的影响以及噪声对定量相位恢复的影响.实验结果表明,利用X射线定量相衬...     

Thermoresponsive brush copolymers with poly(propylene oxide‐ran‐ethylene oxide) side chains via metal‐free anionic polymerization “grafting from” technique

Thermoresponsive brush copolymers with poly(propylene oxide‐ran‐ethylene oxide) side chains were synthesized via a “grafting from” technique. Poly(p‐hydroxystyrene) was used as the backbone, and the brush copolymers were prepared by random copolymerization of mixtures of oxyalkylene monomers, using metal‐free anionic ring‐opening polymerization, with the phosphazene base (t‐BuP₄) being the polymerization promoter. By controlling the monomer feed ratios in the graft copolymerization, two samples with the same side‐chain length and different compositions were prepared, both of which possessed high molecular weights and low molecular weight distributions. The results from light scattering and fluorescence spectroscopy indicated that the brush copolymers in their dilute aqueous solutions were near completely solvated at low temperature and underwent slight intramolecular chain contraction/association and much more profound intermolecular aggregation at different stages of the step‐by‐step heating process. Above 50 °C, very turbid solutions, followed by macrophase separation, were observed for both of the samples, which implied that it was difficult for the brush copolymers to form stable nanoscopic aggregates at high temperature. All these observations were attributed, at least partly, to the distribution of the oxyalkylene monomers along the side chains and the overall brush‐like molecular architecture. © 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 2320–2328, 2010