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Non-destructive inspection of food and technical oils by terahertz spectroscopy
摘要： Quality control and non-destructive monitoring are of notable interest of food and pharmaceutical industries. It relies on the ability of non-invasive inspection which can be employed for manufacturing process control. We hereby apply terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy as non-destructive technique to monitor pure and degraded oils as well as hydrocarbon chemicals. Significant differences in the spectra of refractive index (RI) and absorption coefficient arising from the presence of ester linkages in the edible and technical oils were obtained. Explicit increase from 1.38 to 1.5 of the RI in all THz spectrum range was observed in hydrocarbons and mono-functional esters with the increase of molar mass. This fact is in contrast of RI dependence on molar mass in multi-functional esters, such as Adipate or vegetable oils, where it is around 1.54. Degradation products, Oleic Acid (OA) and water in particular, lead only to some changes in absorption coefficient and RI spectra of vegetable oils. We demonstrate that complex colloidal and supramolecular processes, such as dynamics of inverse micelles and oil hydrolysis, take part during oil degradation and are responsible for non-uniform dependence of optical properties on extent of degradation.
关键词： absorption coefficient,terahertz spectroscopy,oils,degradation,non-destructive inspection,refractive index
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Energy disorder and energy level alignment between host and dopant in organic semiconductors
摘要： Energy level alignment between host and dopant molecules plays a critical role in exciton formation and harvesting in light emission zone of organic light-emitting diodes. Understanding the mechanism for predicting energy level alignment is thus important in materials selection for fabricating high-performance organic light-emitting devices. Here we show that host-dopant energy level alignment strongly depends on film thickness and substrate work function by using X-ray and ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy. Invariant Gaussian density of states fails to explain the experimental data. We speculate that energy disorder in molecules next to the surface dictates the alignment. Ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy measurements of several archetypical organic semiconductors confirm our speculation. An empirical interface disorder function is derived and used to construct a functional Gaussian density of states to compute host energy levels. Host-dopant energy level alignment is then computed by applying the universal energy alignment rule and is found in excellent agreement with the experimental data.
关键词： Host-dopant systems,Organic semiconductors,Energy level alignment,Photoemission spectroscopy,Energy disorder
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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A label-free aptamer-based nanogap capacitive biosensor with greatly diminished electrode polarization effects
摘要： A significant impediment to the use of impedance spectroscopy in bio-sensing is the electrode polarization effect that arises from the movement of free ions to the electrode–solution interface, forming an electrical double layer (EDL). The EDL screens the dielectric response of the bulk and its large capacitance dominates the signal response at low frequency, masking information particularly relevant for biological samples, such as molecular conformation changes and DNA hybridization. The fabrication of nanogap capacitors with electrode separation less than the EDL thickness can significantly reduce electrode polarization effects and provide enormous improvement in sensitivity due to better matching of the sensing volume with the size of the target entities. We report on the fabrication of a horizontal thin-film nanogap capacitive sensor with electrode separation of 40 nm that shows almost no electrode polarization effects when measured with water and ionic buffer solutions, thereby allowing direct quantification of their relative permittivity at low frequencies. Surface modification of the electrodes with thiol-functionalized single strand DNA aptamers transforms the device into a label-free biosensor with high sensitivity and selectivity towards the detection of a specific protein. Using this approach, we have developed a biosensor for the detection of human alpha thrombin. In addition, we also examine frequency dependent permittivity measurements on high ionic strength solutions contained within the nanogap and discuss how these support recent experimental observations of large Debye lengths. A large shift in the Debye relaxation frequency to lower frequency is also found, which is consistent with water molecules being in a rigid-like state, possibly indicating the formation of an ordered ‘‘ice-like’’ phase. Altogether, this work highlights the need for better understanding of fluids in confined, nanoscale geometries, from which important new applications in sensing may arise.
关键词： electrode polarization,aptamer,nanogap,capacitive biosensor,dielectric spectroscopy,thrombin
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Acceptor levels of the carbon vacancy in 4 <i>H</i> -SiC: Combining Laplace deep level transient spectroscopy with density functional modeling
摘要： We provide direct evidence that the broad Z1/2 peak, commonly observed by conventional deep level transient spectroscopy in as-grown and at high concentrations in radiation damaged 4H-SiC, has two components, namely, Z1 and Z2, with activation energies for electron emissions of 0.59 and 0.67 eV, respectively. We assign these components to Z?1/2 + e? → Z?1/2 → Z?1/2 + 2e? transition sequences from negative-U ordered acceptor levels of carbon vacancy (V_C) defects at hexagonal/pseudo-cubic sites, respectively. By employing short filling pulses at lower temperatures, we were able to characterize the first acceptor level of V_C on both sub-lattice sites. Activation energies for electron emission of 0.48 and 0.41 eV were determined for Z1(?/0) and Z2(?/0) transitions, respectively. Based on trap filling kinetics and capture barrier calculations, we investigated the two-step transitions from neutral to doubly negatively charged Z1 and Z2. Positions of the first and second acceptor levels of V_C at both lattice sites, as well as (?/0) occupancy levels, were derived from the analysis of the emission and capture data.
关键词： density functional theory,acceptor levels,deep level transient spectroscopy,negative-U ordering,carbon vacancy,4H-SiC
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Silver Nanostructures on Graphene Oxide as the Substrate for Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS)
摘要： Nanosized surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates fabricated by the controlled growth of metal nanostructures on water-dispersed two-dimensional nanomaterials can open a new avenue for SERS analysis of liquid samples in biological fields. In this work, regular and uniform Ag nanostructures were grown on the surface of graphene oxide (GO) through a microwave-assisted hydrothermal method. Polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers were assembled on the surface of GO to form GO/PAMAM templates for growing Ag nanostructures, which are primarily comprised of Ag dimers and trimers. The prepared Ag/GO nanocomposites are highly dispersed and stable in aqueous solution and may be used as substrates for enhanced Raman detection of rhodamine 6 G (R6G) in aqueous solution. This special substrate provides high-performance SERS and suppresses R6G fluorescence in aqueous solution and is promising as a nanosized material for the enhanced Raman detection of liquid samples in biological diagnostics.
关键词： graphene oxide (GO),Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS),polyamidoamine (PAMAM) dendrimers,transmission electron microscopy (TEM),Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy,rhodamine 6G (R6G)
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Effect of anions on fluorescence quenching of Rhodamine B–Pluronic F127 complex
摘要： Pluronic F127 has been widely used for controlled release of drugs. The aggregation behaviour and solubilisation properties of pluronics can be affected by addition of salts. This work reports the studies on the changes in micellar assemblies of F127 due to addition of inorganic anions (KCl, KBr, KI and KNO3) in Pluronic F127–Rhodamine B system. This was monitored by using UV–vis spectroscopy, fluorescence spectroscopy and fluorescence lifetime spectra. The change in fluorescence spectrum due to the presence of quenchers was attributed to the change in microenvironment of the micelle. The quenching depends on the ability of the fluorophore to transfer energy to the quencher. Out of all four salts, KI was observed to be the best quencher for the above system.
关键词： Rhodamine B (Rh B),quenchers,spectroscopy studies,Pluronic F127,micelle
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Optical thickness identification of few-layer MoS <sub/>2</sub> deposited by chemical vapor deposition
摘要： The physical and optoelectronic properties of MoS2 are closely related to their thickness. Few-layer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has been intensively studied for its potential applications. In this work, monolayer and few-layer MoS2 nanosheets with large size and high crystallization quality were successfully prepared by chemical vapor deposition (CVD). Then, the layer number of CVD-grown MoS2 nanosheets were identified for the first time by extracting the R channel contrast of the optical image of the sample with ImageJ software. Compared with Raman spectra and PL spectra, this method can identify the layer number of CVD-grown MoS2 nanosheets efficiently and accurately, which provides a simple and feasible method for the study of the layer number of CVD-grown MoS2 nanosheets and can help us exploiting their applications in the future.
关键词： Thickness identification,chemical vapor deposition,MoS2,optical microscopy,Raman spectroscopy
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Multivariable study on growth of diamond on diamond substrates by microwave? plasma chemical vapour deposition
摘要： Substrate temperature and methane concentration in Hydrogen (H2) gas mixture is the main source for increasing the growth rate, nucleation and grain size of a synthetic diamond. The downside of such an approach is reduced quality. By increasing the chamber pressure, although the quality can be improved, however, it leads to a decrease in the crystal growth rate. Thin diamond films were deposited under hydrogen (H2) and methane (CH4) gas mixture using microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD) technique. The effect of methane concentration (1-5%), growth temperature, and pressure on the nucleation of diamond thin films on diamond substrates was investigated. The growth temperature and pressure were maintained in the range of 925-950 ℃ and 72-75 Torr, respectively. Single crystal diamond (SCD) thin films have been prepared on diamond substrates, which play an important role in the application of the diamond detectors. Different dimensions of films were obtained on diamond substrates with different thicknesses such as 209.17 μm, 401.73 μm, and 995.03μm for the sample with 1%, 2% and 5% of methane concentration respectively. The roughness, as well as growth rate of these films, were also investigated and were found to be 5.02 μ/h and 4.23 nm, respectively for 5% methane by optimizing the substrate temperature at 950 ℃. Different characterization techniques were used to study the structural, morphological, and compositional properties of the deposited diamond films which confirmed the crystallographic order of the developed diamond film on the diamond substrates.
关键词： MPCVD,XRD,Diamond thin films,XPS,Raman spectroscopy,AFM,SEM
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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Detection of the adulteration of extra virgin olive oil by near-infrared spectroscopy and chemometric techniques
摘要： Introduction and Objectives: Due to the value of extra virgin olive oil (EVOO), adulteration has become an important issue in the industry, which has created demand for quick and inexpensive fraud detection testing. In contrast to many current food fraud detection methods, near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) can be inexpensive and convenient by minimizing sample preparation and measurement times. In this study, we developed a method using NIRS and chemometrics to detect adulteration of EVOO with other edible oil types that does not require sample preparation and can be completed in less than 10 min. Methods, Results, and Discussions: First, a single EVOO was adulterated with corn oil from 2.7% to 25% w/w. Spectra for the unadulterated sample and its adulterated counterparts were measured. A principal component analysis (PCA) scores plot showed separation between the adulterated mixtures and the unadulterated sample, which demonstrated that the developed method could detect as low as 2.7% w/w adulteration if an unadulterated sample of the oil in question is provided. To study adulteration detection without an unadulterated sample for reference, the spectra of unadulterated samples and samples adulterated with corn, sunflower, soybean, and canola oils were measured. A PCA with soft independent modelling of class analogy was used for adulteration detection. Lower limits of adulteration detection for corn, sunflower, soybean, and canola oils were found to be approximately 20%, 20%, 15%, and 10%, respectively. Conclusions: These results demonstrate that the developed method can be used to rapidly screen for adulterated olive oils.
关键词： principal component analysis,olive oil adulteration,chemometrics,NIR,spectroscopy
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52
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state of RbCs
摘要： We perform a high-resolution Fourier-transform spectroscopic study of the (4) 1Σ state of the RbCs molecule by applying two-step (4) 1Σ ← A 1Σ+ ～ b 3Π ← X 1Σ+ optical excitation followed by observation of the (4) 1Σ → X 1Σ+ laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) spectra. In many LIF progressions the collision-induced satellite rotational lines are observed, thus increasing the amount of term values and allowing us to estimate the Λ-doubling effect in the (4) 1Σ state. The direct potential fit (DPF) of experimental term values of 777 rovibronic levels of both 85RbCs and 87RbCs isotopologues is performed by means of the robust weighted nonlinear least-squares method. The DPF analysis based on the adiabatic approximation and analytical expanded Morse oscillator potential reveals numerous regular shifts in the measured level positions. The spectroscopic studies of the (4) 1Σ state are supported by the electronic structure calculations including the potential energy curves of the singlet- and triplet-state manifold and spin-allowed transition dipole moments. The subsequent estimates of radiative lifetimes and corresponding vibronic branching ratios elucidate a dominant contribution of the (4) 1Σ → A ～ b channel into the total radiative decay of the (4) 1Σ state. The relative intensity distributions simulated for (4) 1Σ → X 1Σ+ LIF progressions agree well with their observed counterparts even for the profoundly shifted levels of the entirely perturbed (4) 1Σ state. To get insight into the origin of the intramolecular perturbations, the relevant spin-orbit- and L-uncoupling electronic matrix elements are evaluated.
关键词： electronic structure calculations,Fourier-transform spectroscopy,RbCs molecule,perturbed state,direct potential fit,laser-induced fluorescence,radiative properties
更新于2025-09-23 15:23:52