Dissertations / Theses on the topic '-BBO crystal'

This diploma thesis is focused on investigation of temporal characteristics of laser pulses generated by oscillator with Ti:Sapphire active laser medium. In terms of properties of laserinduced plasmas the beam quality is crucial, in particular laser pulse contrast ratio. A new prototype of third order autocorrelator was designed. Pulse contrast ratio measurement is based on sum frequency generation between pulse of fundamental wavelength and its frequency doubled replica. Dynamic range of presented autocorrelator is estimated to be up to 8×10^12 which is more than currently available commercial devices can offer.

Neste trabalho crescemos monocristais de Bi12SiO20 (BSO) e de Bi12TiO20 (BTO). Os cristais de BSO foram crescidos pela técnica de Czochralski a partir da fase líquida com composição molar 6Bi2O3:1SiO2. Os melhores resultados foram obtidos para taxas de puxamento entre 1 e 2,5mm/h, a velocidade de rotação foi mantida constante em 20rpm. Os cristais de BTO foram crescidos pelo método top-seeded solution Growth (TSSG) a partir da composição molar 10Bi2O3:1SiO2, com taxas de puxamento menores que 0,3mm/h e velocidade de rotação entre 16 e 30 rpm. A qualidade dos cristais foi avaliada utilizando microscopia óptica e eletrônica, corrosão seletiva e raios-x. Por microscopia óptica identificamos os defeitos macroscópicos e discutimos sua natureza e possíveis causas. Utilizando a técnica de ataque químico seletivo, analisamos a morfologia das figuras de ataque e estimamos a densidade de deslocações. Visando identificar defeitos de estequiometria, fizemos medidas de composição por microanálise eletrônica. Para a caracterização cristalográfica, calculamos o parâmetro de rede por difração de raios-x usando o método do pó e confirmamos a estrutura cristalográfica através do método de Rietveld. E, ainda, medimos a atividade óptica que é uma constante característica dos cristais.
In this work we grew Bi12SiO20 (BSO) and Bi12TiO20 single crystals. The BSO crystals have been grown from the melt composition of 6Bi2O3:1SiO2 by the Czochralski method. The best results were obtained at pulling rates from 1 to 2.5m/h, the rotation rate of 20rpm was constant. The BTO crystals have been grown by the top-seeded solution growth technique from a 10Bi2O3:1SiO2 solution with pulling rates less than 0.3mm/h and rotation rates from 16 to 30rpm. The crystal quality was examined by optical and scanning electron microscopy, selective etching, and x-ray diffraction. We identified the macroscopic defects by optical microscopy and discussed their nature and probable origin. Using selective etching, we analyzed the etching pits morphology and evaluated the dislocation density. To identify stoichiometric defects, composition measurements by electron probe microanalysis were made. To obtain crystallographic characterization, we calculated the cell parameter by powder method x-ray diffraction and used the Rietveld method to verify the crystallographic structure. And, also, we measured the optical activity, a constant of the crystals.

Manipulation of light at the nanoscale has the promise to enable numerous technological advances in biomedical sensing, optical communications, nano-mechanics and quantum optics. As photons have vanishingly small interaction cross sections, their interactions have to be mitigated by matters (i.e. quantum emitters, molecules, electrons etc.). Waveguides and cavities are the fundamental building blocks of the optical circuits, which control or confine light to specific matters of interest. The first half of the thesis (Chapters 2 & 3) focuses on how to design various photonic nanostructures to manipulate light on nano- to micro- scale, especially to modify the light-matter interaction properties. Chapter 2 discusses how nano-slot waveguides and photonic crystal nanobeam waveguides are able to modify the emission of quantum emitters, in a different way that normal ridge waveguides are not able to. Chapter 3 focuses on a more complicated and powerful structure: the photonic crystal nanobeam cavity. The design, fabrication and characterization of the photonic crystal nanobeam cavities are described and demonstrated in detail, which lays out the foundation of the biomedical sensing applications in the second half of the thesis. The second half of the thesis (Chapters 4 & 5) focuses on the application of photonic crystal nanobeam cavities in the label-free sensing of biomedical substances. Chapter 4 demonstrates detection of solutions with different refractive index (aceton, methanol, IPA etc.), glucose concentration, single polystyrene nanoparticles and single streptavidin bio-molecules. Chapter 4 proposes a novel nonlinear optical method to further enhance the sensitivity. Chapter 4 also demonstrates high quality nanobeam cavities fabricated in polymers, that open up a new route to decrease the cost, as well as to achieve novel applications with functional polymers. The broader impact of this technology lies in its potential of commercialization of a new generation of biosensors with high sensitivity and high integration. Chapter 5 discusses progresses towards instrumentation of the nanobeam cavity sensing technology for research & development apparatus, as well as point-of-care diagnostic tools.
Engineering and Applied Sciences

This thesis presents an investigation into some of the structural colours that are produced in nature. There are many animals and plants that produce structural colour, with a particularly high structural colour diversity in insects. Of the species that exhibit structural colours, three species are the subjects for investigation of this thesis. Those comprise a group of beetles from South-East Asia, Torynorrhina flammea, a buttery, Parides sesostris and a fruit, Margaritaria nobilis, both from South American rainforests. The structures that produce the vivid colours of these species were analysed using electron microscopy. This information aided the design and creation of three inorganic, synthetic replicas of the natural structures. The fruit of Margaritaria nobilis was structurally analysed, yielding the discovery of a novel multilayer fibre. These fibres were cylindrical in design and were found to be layered together producing the epidermis of the fruit. The multilayer structure produced a vivid blue colour appearance, which is believed to offer a selective advantage because the colour deceives birds into thinking that the fruit contains nutritious flesh. This selective advantage earns M. nobilis the label of mimetic fruit. The structure found within the M. nobilis fruit epidermis inspired the synthesis of a structure which comprises single cylindrical multilayer fibres. The synthetic fibres were manufactured from elastic materials which allow the structure to be deformed under strain and, therefore, a change in colour can be observed. As the structure was stretched, this made the layers get thinner and, therefore, the colour of the fibre blue-shifted. The fibre was able to be stretched to over twice its original length which yields a shift in peak reflected wavelength of over 200 nm. Four beetles from the Torynorrhina flammea species were investigated with the aim of replicating the nanostructures responsible for their colour appearance. The initial interest in the beetles came from their strikingly vivid colour appearances. The structure responsible for the vivid colours in all four of the subspecies is a multilayer with high structural order and over 100 laminae. Both of these attributes contribute to the saturation of the colours exhibited. The multilayer was found to be intersected by an array of rods, the long axis of which is orthogonal to the surface. The rods are believed to be the cause of an interesting diffraction phenomenon exhibited by the beetles. Using imaging scatterometry, the structure was found to diffract the colour produced by the multilayers into an annulus around a specularly reflected white spot. This inspired the synthesis of a multilayer permeated with an array of holes with the aim of replicating a system that could reproduce the annular pattern of colour reflection. The initial synthesised system comprised a quarter-wave stack with a perfectly ordered hexagonal array of holes permeating the surface orthogonally. The sample displayed the scattering characteristics of a hexagonal array, and the reflection spectra of the multilayer stack. When disordered hexagonal arrays were milled into the structure with a focussed ion beam, the scattering pattern started to show more of the green colour from the multilayer and less of the ordered scattering pattern. The highly disordered, synthesised structure displayed no hexagonal scattering pattern, but instead it showed a highly scattered bluish-green colouration. One sample was created by directly mapping out the array of holes using an image of the original array from one of the beetle samples. This sample was expected the same annular diffraction pattern as the beetles, however, the sample instead exhibited the same scattering pattern as the highly disordered array. Some structurally coloured systems in nature have more than one light scattering structure, all of which contribute to the overall colour of the system. For complicated systems such as this, it is necessary to devise a technique to characterise the individual scattering structures separately. One such species that displays a complex, multicomponent system is Parides sesostris. The male of the species displays bright green patches on the dorsal side of the forewings which are made up of thousands of green wing scales. These green scales contain a 3D gyroid poly-crystal at centre with a membrane layer surrounding the underside of each scale and a scattering structure on top. Using focussed ion beam milling techniques allowed the individual characterisation of each of these structures. The gyroid poly-crystal was found to reflect not green but blue wavelengths. This led to the discovery by another group [1] that the scales contain at least one type of fluorophore. The removal of the membrane structure and some of the gyroid poly-crystal from the base of the scale resulted in the change of the overall scale structure from green to cyan. This suggests that the membrane maybe a significant source of fluorescence. Computational modelling, without fluorescence, suggests that the addition of the membrane layer to the gyroid does not shift the band-gap wavelengths; however, the overall reflection intensity does increase. The scattering structure on the top side of each scale is comprised a bi-grating which sits on top of the 3D gyroid structure. The long periodicity of the bi-grating protrudes above the surface, resulting in the very top layer of the scale to be a mono-grating. This whole structure decreases the angular-dependence of the colour by efficiently scattering the incident light into the gyroid and also scattering the reflected light from the gyroid, resulting in a double-scattering. FIB-milling was used to isolate the scattering part of the structure. Analysis of this component of the structure revealed that it was not a source of the green colour itself; however, it did show the characteristic scattering pattern of a mono-grating. The small periodicity of the bi-grating did not produce a scattering pattern since the periodicity is too small to produce optical diffraction at normal incidence. To characterise the effect of the fluorophores, the whole scale structure was photo-bleached using ultra-violet radiation for two months with the aim of destroying the fluorophores contained within the structure. The expected result occurred which was the blue-shifting of the peak reflected wavelengths. However, it could not be confirmed whether or not the photo-bleaching reduced the physical size of the light scattering structures which would, in theory, result in a blue-shift of the peak reflected wavelengths. The male P. sesostris green wing scales were also the subject for investigation for trying to make inorganic replicas of the gyroid-polycrystal. A surface sol-gel coating process was utilised to coat the green wing scales with titania. This coating process was performed using a few different methods. Half of the samples were coated with TiO2 and the other half with tin-doped TiO2. Half of each of these samples had their surfaces dendritically amplified before the coating processes and the other half were left untreated. The samples were coated with 25 surface sol-gel (SSG) cycles of each treatment at a time. After each 25 cycle treatment the samples were optically characterised. The total number of cycles applied to the samples at the end was 150. The addition of layers of titania resulted in a general red-shift that was higher for the tin-doped titania samples than for the titania samples. Another general trend found was that the samples that had their surfaces dendritically amplified, produced a lower red-shift in peak wavelength. This was contrary to the hypothesis that the amplification process was supposed to aid the SSG coating process and, therefore, increases the red-shift in peak wavelength.

This project investigates the moisture barrier properties of bio-based polymers and ways of improving them. The first section addresses the effect of crystallinity on the water permeability of poly(lactic acid) (PLA). The second section investigates PLA/talc composites and PLA/ montmorillonite nanocomposites. The third section is focused on a new polymer, polybutylene succinate (PBS), and its nanocomposites with montmorillonite. In the first section, the water vapour transmission rates (WVTR) through samples of polylactic acid of different crystallinities have been measured. Three different grades of commercial PLA were used with different ratios of L-lactide and D-lactide to give a range of crystallinities from 0 to 50%. Sheets of PLA were prepared by melt compounding followed by compression moulding and annealing at different temperatures and for different times to give the range of crystallinities required. Crystallinity was measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and the morphology of the samples was observed under crossed polars in a transmitted light microscope. Water vapour transmission rates through the films were measured at 38°C and at a relative humidity of 90%. It was found that the measured values of WVTR decreased linearly with increasing crystallinity of the PLA from 0 to 50%. The results are discussed in terms of the effect of crystallinity on solubility and shown to fit the tortuous path model. The model was also successfully used to explain published data on water permeability of polyethylene terephthalate. In the second section, a series of PLA/talc composites and PLA/ montmorillonite nanocomposites were prepared by melt compounding followed by compression moulding. The morphologies of the composites were investigated using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and it was found that the fillers were well dispersed in the polymer matrix. The average aspect ratio of the compounded talc was found to be 8, and that of the nanoclay was found to be 50. Water vapour transmission rates (WVTR) through the films were measured at 38°C and at a relative humidity of 90%. It was found that the measured values of WVTR decreased with increasing filler content and the results gave good agreement with predictions from the Nielsen tortuous path model. In the third section, PBS/ montmorillonite nanocomposites were prepared by melt compounding followed by compression moulding. The melting and crystallisation behaviour of the pure PBS samples were investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and cross polarised optical microscopy. A slight decrease of the degree of crystallinity was found in PBS containing 5% nanoclay. The morphology of the composites was investigated using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and wide-angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD) and it was confirmed that that composite structures were intercalated. Water vapour transmission rates (WVTR) through the PBS sheets were measured using a MOCON Permatran-W®398. The measured values of WVTR decreased with increasing nanoclay content. However, the experimental values were all higher than the values predicted by the Nielsen tortuosity model. This result shows that in the case of PBS, which is a highly crystalline polymer, the nanoclay is not as well dispersed and is not as effective in reducing water vapour permeability as in the case of PLA.

Au cours des dernières années, la recherche dans le domaine des bio-capteurs optiques sans marquage a connu une croissance rapide du fait de la nécessité de développer des méthodes toujours plus performantes pour la détection et la mesure de faibles concentrations de molécules spécifiques dans divers domaines. Parmi les différentes méthodes optiques existantes, les cristaux photoniques (CP) offrent une alternative prometteuse du fait de leur sensibilité. D’autre part, le diamant, utilisé comme matériau pour la réalisation de ces dispositifs offre de bonnes propriétés optiques et la possibilité de réaliser une fonctionnalisation de surface efficace facilement. Dans ce contexte, cette thèse propose un nouveau design de bio-capteur optique à cristaux photonique bi-dimensionnel en diamant, fonctionnant à des longueurs d'onde proche de 800 nm.Une géométrie originale de trous d'air circulaires organisés selon une maille carrée a été choisie pour maximiser la sensibilité du bio-capteur à des changements d'indice de réfraction en leur surface. Il a été démontré analytiquement que les modes à faible vitesse de groupe avaient une plus grande sensibilité à ces changements. Des méthodes numériques ont permis de préciser les paramètres géométriques optimaux du CP. Le design proposé est basé sur la mesure de décalage angulaire dans le spectre en réflexion d'un mode lent résonant du CP quand celui-ci est éclairé par une lumière monochromatique.Des films de diamant polycristallin de quelques centaines de nanomètres à quelques micromètres d’épaisseur ont été déposés sur différents substrats. L’ensemble des procédés technologiques nécessaires à la réalisation des CP et spécifiques aux films de diamant polycristallin ont été développés ou optimisés, comme, entre autre, un procédé de lissage obtenu par gravure plasma, un procédé de transfert de films de diamant sur un autre substrat par collage, un procédé d’amincissement des films de diamant et la fabrication des CP par lithographie électronique et gravure plasma.Les échantillons réalisés dans la salle blanche du C2N ont été mesurés optiquement et les hypothèses théoriques concernant les performances du capteur ont étés validées. Un mode avec une vitesse de groupe c/100 à une longueur d'onde de 800 nm a été mesuré et la sensibilité correspondant a cette structure a été estimée à 500 degrés par unité d'indice de réfraction (°/RIU), une valeur supérieure d’un ordre de grandeur à celles rencontrées couramment dans les capteurs à CP bidimensionnels. Ces résultats représentent un premier pas vers un biocapteur hautement sensible, comprenant une fonctionnalisation de surface du diamant pour une reconnaissance de cible spécifique
Over the last years, the research on the label-free biosensor topic has experienced a very rapid growth because of the need to develop high-performing methods to detect and measure low concentrations of specific molecules in various fields. Among all the methods proposed, photonic crystals (PhC) structures offers a good alternative due to their sensitivity. Moreover, the use of diamond as material make the proposed device more attractive due to its optical properties, high chemical stability and efficiency of surface functionalization. In this context, this PhD thesis propose a new design of optical bio-sensor based on diamond two-dimensional photonic crystals, working at the wavelength near 800 nm.An original geometry of circular air holes arranged in squared lattice was chosen in order to maximize the sensitivity of such photonic structures to refractive index changes on their surface. It was analytically proven that modes with low group velocity are more sensitive to these variations. Numerical methods gave the necessary information to determine the optimal geometrical parameters of the PhC. The proposed design is based on measuring the shift of the angular reflectivity of a low group velocity guided mode resonance (GMR) PhC when probed with a single frequency light.Polycrystalline diamond films were grown on two different substrates, with thicknesses ranging from a few hundreds of nanometers to several micrometers. The technological processes required for the realization of PhC on polycrustalline diamond were developed or optimized, such as surface planarization by inductively coupled plasma (ICP) dry etching, diamond film transfer onto new substrate by wafer bonding process, diamond films thinning and surface patterning with PhC using Electronic Beam Lithography (EBL) and ICP methods.The samples realized in clean-room facilities were optically measured and the theoretical assumptions were validated. A GMR with a c/100 group velocity at a wavelength of 800 nm was measured and its sensitivity is estimated to be in the order of 500 degrees/ refractive index unit (°/RIU), a value that is one order of magnitude higher than the typical values encountered for sensors based on 2D PhC. These results represents a first step towards a highly sensitive bio-sensor, including a diamond surface functionalization for specific target recognition

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e TecnolÃgico
Os Enterococcus sÃo cocos Gram-positivos catalase-negativos, habitantes do trato gastrintestinal e geniturinÃrio. SÃo identificados por meios manuais baseados no clÃssico de Facklam, por sistemas semi-automatizados, automatizados e por Biologia Molecular. Em vista da diversidade de mÃtodos de identificaÃÃo e com o intuito de se verificar a concordÃncia entre alguns mÃtodos, foi realizada identificaÃÃo de 62 cepas bacterianas, advindas da coleÃÃo do Centro Especializado em Micologia MÃdica (CEMM) da Universidade Federal do CearÃ, Brasil, presumidamente identificadas como Enterococcus sp. e Enterococcus faecalis pelo esquema de Facklam. Este estudo iniciou-se com a identificaÃÃo por trÃs mÃtodos manuais: esquema de facklam e dois modificados deste - Modificado 1 e Modificado 2 - e semi-automatizado â API 20 Strep. Para a definiÃÃo de resultados discordantes, recorreu-se ao semi-automatizado â BBL â e à Biologia Molecular â PCR. O esquema de Facklam identificou 16% (10) como cepas do gÃnero Enterococcus sp. e 84% (52) como E. faecalis. O esquema Modificado 1 apresentou a seguinte identificaÃÃo: 82,2% (51) E. faecalis, 9,7% (6) E. mundtii, e 8,1% (5) E. gallinarum. O Modificado 2 identificou 98,4% (61) E. faecalis e 1,6% (1) E. gallinarum. O API 20 Strep identificou 51,6% (32) E. faecalis, 19,4% (12) A viridans, 13,0% (8) E. avium, 4,8% (3) S. agalactiae, 3,2% (2) E. faecium, 1,6% (1) S. acidominimus, 1,6% (1) Leuconoctocc sp., 1,6% (1) S. uberis, 1,6% (1) A. adiacens e 1,6% (1) InaceitÃvel. Foram selecionadas 10 amostras (cepas nÂs 05, 13, 15, 20, 27, 31, 32, 33, 50 e 60), que apresentaram resultados discordantes entre os sistemas Modificado 1, Modificado 2 e API 20 Strep para serem identificadas pelo BBL Crystal e por PCR. O BBL identificou 6 amostras como E. faecium, inclusive a cepa-controle E. faecalis ATCC 29212 e nÃo identificou 4 amostras. Na PCR, uma amostra nÃo amplificou e 9 foram identificadas como Streptococcus spp.. Uma amostra apresentou-se positiva para o gÃnero Enterococcus, mas nÃo para a espÃcie E. faecalis e 1 (uma) amplificou para a espÃcie S. agalactiae. Nenhuma das amostras se apresentou positiva para a espÃcie E. gallinarum. A amostra-controle â E. faecalis ATCC 29212 - foi amplificada corretamente. Com a anÃlise dos resultados, verificou-se que houve concordÃncia de identificaÃÃo das 62 cepas em 84% das amostras entre os sistemas manuais (Facklam, Modificado 1 e Modificado 2) e em 52% das amostras entre os sistemas manuais e semi-automatizado (API 20 Strep). Nas 10 amostras com resultados discrepantes, nÃo houve concordÃncia de identificaÃÃo entre os sistemas manuais, API 20 Strep e o BBL. A PCR concordou com os sistemas manuais e o BBL e foi discordante do API 20 Strep, em gÃnero, em 01 amostra. Correlacionando a PCR com o API 20 Strep, houve concordÃncia, em gÃnero, em 01 amostra e foi discordante dos demais sistemas. Para aumentar a sensibilidade de identificaÃÃo de Enterococcus spp. devem ser utilizados pelo menos dois mÃtodos com testes fenotÃpicos. Amostras com identificaÃÃes discordantes devem ser reidentificadas por PCR
The Enterococcus are Gram-positive cocci catalase negative - which inhabit the gastrointestinal, and genitourinary tract. They are identified manually and the procedure is based on the classic of Facklam, by semi-authomatized and automatized systems as well as by Molecular Biology. Due to the diversity of identification methods and aiming to verify the concordance among some methods, it was accomplished the identification of 62 bacteria strains proceeding from the collection of the Centro Especializado em Micologia MÃdica (CEMM) of the Federal University of CearÃ, in Brazil. They were presumably identified as Enterococcus sp. e Enterococcus faecalis by the Facklam scheme. This study was begun with the identification for two manual methods, modified from the Facklam scheme â Modified 1 and Modified 2- and semi-automatized â API 20 Strep. For the inconsistent results definition we used the semi-automatized â BBL and the Molecular Biology- PRC. The Franklin scheme identified 16% (10) as strains of the genre Enterococcus sp. and 52% (84) as E. faecalis. The Modified Scheme 1 presented the following identification: 82, 2% (51) E. faecalis, 9, 7% (6) E. mundtii and 8, 1% (5) E. gallinarum. The Modified 2 identified 98, 4% (61) E. faecalis and 1, 6% (1) E. gallinarum. The API 20 Strep identified 51,6% (32) E. faecalis, 19,4% (12) A viridans, 13,0% (8) E. avium, 4,8% (3) S. agalactiae, 3,2% (2) E. faecium, 1,6% (1) S. acidominimus, 1,6% (1) Leuconoctocc sp., 1,6% (1) S. uberis, 1,6% (1) A. adiacens and1,6% (1) unacceptable. It was made the selection of 10 sample (strains), among them, the ones numbered (05, 13, 15, 20, 27, 31, 32, 33, 50 and 60), which presented discordant results among the systems Modified 1, Modified 2 and API 20 Strep to be identified by BBL Crystal and by PCR. The BBL identified 6 samples as E. faecium, including the control- strain E. faecalis ATCC 29212 and did not identify 4 samples. In the PCR, one sample did not amplify and 9 were identified as Streptococcus spp. One sample was identified as positive for the genre Enterococcus, but it did not for the species E. faecalis and 1 (one) was amplified for the species S. agalactiae. None of the samples presented were positive for the species E. gallinarum. The control-sample â E. faecalis ATCC 29212 â was correctly amplified. With the analysis of the results, it was noticed that there was identification concordance of the 62 strains in 84% of the samples among the manual systems (Facklam, Modified 1 and Modified 2) and in 52% of the samples among the manual and semi-automatized systems (API 20 Strep). In 10 samples with disagreeing results there was no identification concordance among the manual systems, API 20 Strep and the BBL. A PCR agreed with the manual systems and the BBL and did not agree with the API 20 step, in genre, in one sample. Correlating the PCR with the API 20 Strep, there was agreement, in genre, in 01 sample and disagreement with the other systems

Les biocapteurs optiques ont connu une évolution sans précédent au cours des dernières années, principalement en raison de la forte interaction entre la biotechnologie, l’optique et la chimie des matériaux. Dans cette thèse, deux différentes plates-formes de biocapteurs optiques ont été conçues pour la détection sensible et spécifique des biomolécules. Plus précisément, le premier système de détection optique est construit sur la base de la bioluminescence de cellules bactériennes d'Escherichia coli génétiquement modifiées. L’émission de lumière induite par cette interaction peut donc être utilisée pour la détection des substances toxiques. Le second système utilise des nanoparticules de métaux précieux (or et argent) aux propriétés plasmoniques accordables qui permettent de sonder les interactions des biomolécules spécifiques à l'interface nano-bio par la résonance plasmonique de surface (LSPR). Ces nanoparticules ont été obtenues par traitement thermique à haute température d’un film métallique déposé sur du verre à l’aide d’une grille de TEM ou déposé sur une couche de bactéries fixée sur le verre. Après une optimisation appropriée des nanostructures métalliques en termes de morphologie et de fonctionnalisation, une sensibilité élevée et une grande spécificité peuvent être simultanément obtenues avec ces immunocapteurs plasmonique. Ces deux plateformes ont été utilisées pour détecter des pesticides comme le carbofuran et l’atrazine
Optical biosensors have witnessed unprecedented developments over recent years, mainly due to the lively interplay between biotechnology, optical physics and materials chemistry. In this thesis, two different optical biosensing platforms have been designed for sensitive and specific detection of (bio)molecules. Specifically, the first optical detection system is constructed on the basis of bioluminescence derived from engineered Escherichia coli bacterial cells. Upon stressed by the toxic compounds, the bacterial cells produce light via a range of complex biochemical reactions in vivo and the resulted bioluminescent evolution thus can be used for toxicant detection. The bacterial bioluminescent assays are able to provide competitive sensitivity, while they are limited in the specificity. Therefore, the second optical detection platform is built on the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) immunosensors. In this optical biosensor, the noble metal (gold and silver) nanoparticles with tunable plasmonic properties are used as transducer for probing the specific biomolecules interactions occurred in the nano-bio interface. These nanoparticles were obtained after a high temperature thermal treatment of an initially thin-metallic film deposited on a glass substrate through a TEM grid or on a bacteria layer fixed on the glass. After appropriate optimization on metal nanostructures morphology and surface biomodification, the applicable sensitivity and specificity can be both guaranteed in this LSPR immunosensor

As the two most abundant natural polymers on earth, cellulose and chitin have attracted increasing attention as a source of renewable energy and functional materials. Thin films of cellulose and chitin are useful for studying interactions of these materials with other natural and synthetic molecules via techniques such as quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) and surface plasmon resonance (SPR). Because of the difficulty of extracting native cellulose, regenerated cellulose (RC), sulfated nanocrystalline cellulose (SNC), and desulfated nanocrystalline cellulose (DNC) thin films are often studied in its place. In this work, QCM-D solvent exchange studies showed that water contents of RC, SNC and DNC films were proportional to the film thickness (d). Accessibility and degradation of the films was further analyzed via substrate exposure to cellulase. Cellulase adsorption onto RC films was independent of d, whereas cellulase adsorption onto SNC and DNC films increased with d. Enhanced access to guest molecules for SNC and DNC films relative to RC films revealed they are more porous. The porosity of these cellulose films aided in understanding the observed differences of xyloglucan (XG) adsorption onto their surfaces. Xyloglucan adsorption onto RC, SNC, and DNC was studied by QCM-D and SPR. The amount of adsorbed XG increased in the order RC < SNC < DNC. XG adsorption onto RC films was independent of d, whereas XG adsorption was weakly dependent upon d for SNC films and strongly dependent upon d for DNC films. However, XG adsorbed onto "monolayer" thin films of RC, SNC, and DNC in approximately the same amount. These results suggested that the morphology and surface charge of the cellulose substrate had a limited effect upon XG adsorption and that accessible surface area of the cellulose film may be the factor leading to apparent differences in XG adsorption for different surfaces. The porosity and surface charge of SNC films presented a unique opportunity to examine polyelectrolyte adsorption and subsequent dewatering of the SNC substrate. The adsorption of a series of cationically derivatized dextran (cDex) polyelectrolytes with various degrees of substitution (DS) onto SNC was studied using QCM-D and SPR. As the hydrophobic character of the cDex samples increased, the water content of the adsorbed cDex layer decreased. For cDex with the greatest hydrophobic content, nearly 50% by mass of the initial water present in the porous SNC film was removed upon cDex adsorption. This study indicated that the water content of the film could be tailored by controlling the DS and hydrophobic character of the polyelectrolyte. This work also presents the first report of smooth, homogeneous, ultrathin chitin films, opening the door to surface studies of binding interactions, adsorption kinetics, and enzymatic degradation. The chitin films were formed by spincoating trimethylsilyl chitin onto gold or silica substrates, followed by regeneration to a chitin film. The utility of these chitin films as biosensors was evident from QCM-D and SPR studies that revealed bovine serum albumin adsorbed as a monolayer.
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Neste trabalho foram realizados a síntese, o crescimento e a caracterização de cristais de Bi 12Ti1-xGaxO20 (BTGaO) para avaliar suas potencialidades tecnológicas em dispositivos do estado sólido, especificamente para registros holográficos. Através da síntese do estado sólido, foi possível determinar um limite máximo de 20% utilizando uma forma estequiométrica de substituição. Considerando a não-estequiometria do sistema Bi2O3:Ga2O3 obtivemos soluções sólidas completas. Os cristais de B12Ti1-xGaxO20 (BTGaO)foram obtidos pelo método de TSSG (Top Seed Solution Growth), utilizando como solvente excesso de Bi2O3 . Cristais de boa qualidade óptica e estrutural foram crescidos utilizando-se taxas de puxamento de 0,2 0,3 mm/h e rotação de 5- 30 rpm . Das medidas de composição dos cristais realizadas por microssonda (EDS) foi possível determinarmos o coeficiente de segregação efetivo do Ga em Bi12TiO20 como sendo maior do que um. Por meio de análise térmica diferencial (DTA) foi possível verificar que a temperatura de fusão diminui de acordo com os diferentes níveis de substituição. Verificamos que a introdução do Ga na matriz de BTO aumenta a atividade óptica (BTO puro de 6.4°/mm; BTGaO-30% de substituição de 9.8°/mm) e para o BGaO nominalmente puro encontramos um valor da ordem de 150% maior (15.9°/mm). A corrente no escuro aumentou em quatro ordens de grandeza (ID=10-9 A) em relação àquela presente nos cristais de BTO nominalmente puro (ID=10-13 A) enquanto nenhuma fotocorrente foi detectada. O coeficiente de absorção óptica diminuiu em todo espectro visível e o coeficiente eletroóptico não apresentou variação significativa (5,20pm/V para o BTO e 5,4 - 5,6pm/V para os cristais de BTGaO). A análise das propriedades ópticas indicam que os cristais de Bi12Ti1-xGaxO20 são inadequados para registros holográfico no vermelho. Porém sua maior transparência na região do espectro visível pode qualificá-lo como um novo meio para dispositivos optoeletrônicos
In this work the synthesis, the growth and crystal characterization of Bi 12Ti1-xGaxO20 (BTGaO) have been carried out to evaluate its technological potentialities in solid state devices, specifically for holographic recorders. Through the synthesis of the solid state, it was possible to determine a maximum limit of 20% using an stoichioinetric form of substitution. Considering the non-stoichiometry of the Bi2O3:Ga203 system we got full solid solutions. The crystals of BTGaO have been gotten by the TSSG method (Top Seed Solution Growth), using as solvent excess of BiO3. Crystals with good optic and structural quality have been grown using pulling rates of 0.2-0.3 mm/h and rotation of 5-30rpm. From the measures of composition through microprobe(EDS) in crystals, it was possible to determine the effective coefficient of segregation of Ga in Bi12TiO20 as being bigger than one. By means of differential thermal analysis (DTA), it was possible to verify that the melting temperature diminishes in accordance with the different leveis of substitution. We verify the introduction of Ga in the host of BTO increases the optical activity (in pure BTO = 6.4°/mm; 9.8°/mm 30% of substitution) and for nominally pure BGaO vve find a value 150% higher (15.9°/mm). The dark current increase in four orders of magnitude (ID=10-9 A) in relation to crystals of pure BTO (ID=10-13 A) while not any photocurrent was detected. The optical absorption coefficient diminishes in ali visible spectrum. The electrooptical coefficient did not present significant variation (5.20pm/V for BTO and 5.4-5.6pm/V for crystals of BTGaO). The analysis of the optical properties indicates that the crystals of Bi12Ti1-xGaxO20 are inadequate for holographic recorders. However its bigger transparency in the region of the visible specter can chancterize it as new medium for optoeletronical devices

Ce mémoire a été préparé dans le cadre du projet européen ERUDESP. Il décrit en détail les études qui ont été réalisées dans ce travail. Un bioréacteur sous forme d’une cellule bioélectrochimique à flux a été développé dans le but de servir pour la bioélectrosynthèse enantiopure. Le mémoire est consacré au design de cellules, screenings de différents médiateurs, au test de différentes réactions électroorganiques et électroenzymatiques à la fois dans une cellule électrochimique classique et dans une cellule électrochimique à flux. Un thème central de ce mémoire représente la synthèse d’électrodes macroporeuses tri-dimensionnelles. Grâce à cela, la surface active de l’électrode est augmentée de manière significative. Pour la préparation de ces électrodes une approche de template a été suivie. Des particules de polystyrène monodisperses ont été synthétisées de différentes manières et sont utilisées pour la synthèse des cristaux colloïdaux qui constituent les templates. Comme procédure de préparation contrôlée de ces templates, la technique de Langmuir-Blodgett et la méthode d’évaporation contrôlée, suivi par l’électrodéposition des métaux et des oxydes métalliques sont appliquées. Les diamètres des pores des matériaux macroporeux résultants sont parfaitement contrôlables par le diamètre des particules utilisées. La méthode de Langmuir-Blodgett a été étendue et appliquée pour la première fois à l’utilisation de particules de polystyrène. Le dépôt est réalisé dans les interstices des cristaux colloïdaux préparés préalablement, suivi par la dissolution des particules. De plus, des électrodes poreuses avec une grande surface de 6 x 6 cm2 ont été préparées. Les matériaux obtenus montrent une très bonne interconnéctivité avec une porosité ouverte et une surface active fortement augmentée ce qui se traduit électrochimiquement en une augmentation significative de la puissance du signal. Les matériaux poreux représentent un bénéfice non-seulement pour la (bio)électrosynthèse mais aussi dans le cadre de la (bio)électroanalyse. Dans ce mémoire, d’électrodes poreuses d’oxyde de ruthénium pour l’oxydation direct de NADH avec une surtension significativement améliorée ont été élaborée. La méthode de l’agrandissement de la surface est également appliquée et une meilleure densité de courant a été obtenue. Basé sur le projet ERUDESP, les méthodes apprises pour créer des électrodes poreuses à base de cristaux colloïdales ont dans la suite aussi été appliquées à d’autres domaines d’investigation. L’évolution méthodique de la technique de Langmuir-Blodgett a été utilisée pour le développement d’un système d’électrode renouvelable. Dans ce système, la surface peut être renouvelée sur commande par application d’un potentiel fixe (effet click).Les électrodes de l’oxyde de ruthénium ont non seulement été étudié dans le cadre du projet ERUDESP, mais la miniaturisation de ce matériau poreux et stable sous forme de microélectrodes a permis d’étudier une application comme capteur pH chimiquement et mécaniquement stable avec un meilleur ratio signal sur bruit. Dans ce cas le bruit thermique est diminué grâce à la porosité de l’électrode. Grâce à la technicité acquise par rapport à la synthèse des microélectrodes poreuses, des microélectrodes implantables pour les prothèses de main ont été aussi modifiées avec une couche macroporeuse pour augmenter la surface active et diminuer l’impédance de transition.Nous avons également exploré des couches multicatalyseurs macroporeuses de platine et nickel pour effectuer la génération d’hydrogène in-situ et l’hydrogénation simultanée dans un seul système catalytique.Comme dernière possibilité pour une structuration de surface contrôlée, des îlots de platine d’une étendue nanométrique furent examinées et biofonctionnalisées, ce qui résulte également en une augmentation significatif de la densité de courant
The present work has been prepared within the framework of the European project ERUDESP and describes the research that has been carried out during this work. A bioreactor as a bioelectrochemical flow-cell was designed and realized with the goal to serve for enantiopure bioelectrosynthesis. The work deals with the cell design and screening of different mediators in a batch-cell and multi-cells, the development of different electroorganic and electroenzymatic reactions in an electrochemical batch- and flow-cell. With respect to the flow-cell, the upscaling of electrochemical reactions was carried out in the present work not only for electroorganic but also for electroenzymatic reactions with regard to the final application. A main focus of the present work represents the synthesis of three-dimensional macroporous electrodes in order to increase significantly the active surface. These macroporous structures were obtained by using the template approach. For the preparation of the templates monodisperse polystyrene particles were synthesized in different ways, and then used for the preparation of colloidal crystals serving as templates. As controlled assembly procedures, the Langmuir-Blodgett technique and the controlled evaporation method with subsequent electrodeposition of metals and metal oxides were chosen. With the present process the pore diameter could be exactly controlled by the diameter of the used particles. The approach of the Langmuir-Blodgett technique has been extended and optimized. For the first time, the Langmuir-Blodgett technique could be used with polystyrene particles. The deposition took place in the interspaces of the prepared colloidal crystals and is followed by the dissolving of the particles. Furthermore, the size of the porous electrodes could be upscaled (6 x 6 cm2). The obtained materials showed a very good interconnectivity with an open porosity and a highly increased active surface, which led to an increased electrochemical signal. The prepared porous materials represent a great benefit not only for (bio)electrosynthesis but also in the field of (bio)electroanalysis. In the framework of this work, the use of porous ruthenium oxide electrodes for direct oxidation of NADH with a significantly improved overvoltage was studied. Also in this context the increase of the surface led to an improved current density. Based on the ERUDESP project, the studied techniques for preparing porous electrodes with colloidal crystals were used for further scientific studies. The new variant of the Langmuir-Blodgett technique has also been used for the elaboration of a renewable electrode system where the surface can be simply renewed by applying a positive potential to the porous multilayers (click effect). The porous ruthenium oxide electrodes have not only been studied with respect to the ERUDESP project, but it was also possible to miniaturize this stable porous material as microelectrodes and use them as chemically and mechanically stable pH sensor with an improved signal to noise ratio. In this case the thermal noise decreased due to the porosity of the electrode. Due to the acquired expertise in the field of the preparation of porous microelectrodes, implantable microelectrodes for hand prosthesis were modified with a porous layer on the surface for increasing the active surface and decreasing their impedance.In addition, macroporous multicatalyst layers of platinum and nickel were synthesized for the simultaneous in-situ generation of hydrogen and hydrogenation reaction in the same catalyst system.As a final example for controlled surface structuring, nanoscale platinum islands were in detail examined and biofunctionalized. This led also to a significant increase of the current density

Nanotechnology applications have emerged enormously in recent times. Of particular interest is that area that overlaps the areas of nanotechnology, biology and medicine: nanomedicine. One advantage of nanomedicines is it that it can be used as an enabling technology by pharmaceutical researchers and industry to overcome issues associated with the low bioavailability of hydrophobic drugs. In the first part of the current study, nanosuspensions of two of hydrophobic steroid drugs: hydrocortisone and prednisolone were produced. Nanosuspensions were prepared using a bottom-up approach: the anti-solvent precipitation method using microfluidic reactors. Surface modification was carried out on these nanosuspensions using cationic surfactants to obtain nanoparticles with different levels of surface positive charge as indicated by ¿-potential values. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) techniques were used to characterize the prepared nanoparticles. Powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) were also used to characterize hydrocortisone nanoparticles. In the second part, cellular uptake of both coated and uncoated nanoparticles by HaCaT keratinocytes cell line was examined and indicated by quantifying the anti- inflammatory effect of nanoparticles on the LPS-induced inflammation. Also, TEM was employed to evaluate the cellular uptake of hydrocortisone nanoparticles. Results showed higher ant-inflammatory effect of coated nanoparticles over uncoated nanoparticles. Furthermore, the anti-inflammatory effect of coated nanoparticles was correlated to the degree of positive surface charge.
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Cette thèse porte sur les différentes voies de fonctionnalisation et d'auto-organisation d'un système modèle dans le domaine de la matière condensée : le virus fd et ses mutants. Alors que son diagramme de phase cristal-liquide a été établi et sa correspondance qualitative avec les prédictions théoriques montrée, une des perspectives majeure consiste en son utilisation comme brique élémentaire dans la construction de nouveaux auto-assemblages. De telles avancées passent nécessairement par l'ajout de fonctions de manière régio-sélective sur le corps de la particule. Nous proposons dans ces travaux l'étude de plusieurs voies de fonctionnalisation menant à l'ajout d'espèces moléculaires ou macromoléculaires soit sur l'ensemble du virus ou bien uniquement à son extrémité.En réalisant le greffage de polymères thermosensibles, il est alors possible d'explorer les possibilités d'induire une transition de phase par variation du diamètre effectif du bâtonnet. En utilisant des diblocs d'élastine, ce principe est montré sur la transition entre le liquide isotrope et la phase nématique. L'utilisation de mutants particuliers, conçus par phage display, permet de s'intéresser alors uniquement à la fonctionnalisation de la protéine p3 située à une des extrémités du phage. L'ajout de chromophores permet alors une visualisation unique de la phase smectique et de ses défauts et crée également un effet patchy perturbant le diagramme de phase cristal-liquide. La biotine quant à elle permet la création d'auto-assemblages du fait de son interaction spécifique avec les dérivés d'avidine et un tel système est alors comparé avec un mutant dont l'ADN modifié permet l'expression directe d'une étiquette biologique complémentaire de la streptavidine. Les résultats prometteurs obtenus sont également complétés par une étude encourageante pour l'utilisation des systèmes cristal-liquides colloïdaux dans le domaine de l'électro-optique
This thesis deals with the different paths of functionalization and self-organization of a model system of colloidal rod-like particles: the fd virus and its mutants. While its liquid-crystalline phase diagram is well established and proven to be in qualitative agreement with theory and numerical simulations, one of the most trending perspectives is its use as building-block in new self-assemblies. For such purposes, it is mandatory to add functions regio-specifically on the particle. We show in this work the study of several ways of functionalization leading to the grafting of molecular or macromolecular compounds onto the whole virus or only onto its tip.When grafting thermoresponsive polymers, we can then explore the possibilities to induce phase transitions by a variation of the effective diameter of the rod. Using diblocs of elastin-like peptides, this principle is shown to work on the isotropic-to-nematic phase transition. The use of particular mutants, engineered by phage display, allows us to functionalize only the tip of the virus. The addition of dyes provides unique features on the smectic phase and its defects and creates a patchy effect which is modifying the liquid-crystalline phase diagram. The functionalization with biotin leads towards the creation of new self-assemblies thanks to its specific interaction with avidine and such a system is then compared with a mutant displaying a biological tag interacting with streptavidin. The results obtained are promising and are completed by a whole study of the use of colloidal liquid-crystalline system in electro-optics

U disertaciji su opisane sinteze i fizičko-hemijske karakterizacije 32 kompleksa kobalta(III), nikla(II) i bakra(II) sa ligandima S-metilizotiosemikarbazonom 2-acetilpiridina (HL¹), bis(S-metilizotiosemikarbazonom) 2,6-diacetilpiridina (H₂L²), tiosemikarbazonom-S-metilizotiosemikarbazonom 2,6-diacetilpiridina (HL³), 1-adamantoilhidrazonom 2-acetilpiridina (HL⁴) i 1-adamantoilhidrazonom di(2-piridil)-ketona (HL⁵).Kako ligandi HL³, HL⁴ i HL⁵ do sada nisu bili sintetisani, dobijeni rezultati ujedno predstavljaju i prve iz njihove koordinacione hemije. Iako je sa S-metilizotiosemikarbazonom 2-acetilpiridina poznato nekoliko kompleksa, do sada nijedan od njih nije strukturno okarakterisan, tako da su rezultati prikazani u ovoj disertaciji dali jasnu sliku o načinima koordinacije HL¹. Takođe, kako je sa H₂L² poznat vrlo malo broj kompleksa, dobijeni rezultati su dali značajan doprinos razumevanju koordinacione hemije ovog liganda.Gotovo svi sintetisani kompleksi (njih 27 od 32) su strukturno okarakterisani metodom rendgenske kristalografije. Odabrana jedinjenja su ispitana metodama termičke analize, a utvrđena je njihova antimikrobna i citotoksična aktivnost. 
This thesis describes syntheses and physico-chemical characterizations of 32 complexes of cobalt(III), nickel(II) and copper(II), with ligands 2-acetylpyridine S-methylisothiosemicarbazone (HL¹), 2,6-dicetylpyridine bis(S-methylisothiosemicarbazone) (H₂L²), thiosemicarbazone-S-methylisothiosemicarbazone 2,6-dicetylpyridine (HL³), 2-acetylpyridine 1-adamantoylhydrazone (HL⁴), and di(2-pyridil)-ketone 1-adamantoylhydrazone (HL⁵).Since the ligands HL³, HL⁴, and HL⁵ were not synthetized hitherto, the obtained results are the first regarding their coordination chemistry as well. Even though there are several complexes reported with 2-acetylpyridine S-methylisothiosemicarbazone as a ligand, none of them was structurally characterized. Therefore, here presented results gave clear insight into coordination modes of the HL¹. Moreover, since there is limited number of complexes with H₂L² reported hitherto, the obtained results gave significant contribution to understanding of its coordination chemistry.Almost each synthetized complex (27 out of 32) was structurally characterized by means of single crystal X-ray crystallography. The selected compounds were characterized by thermal analysis, and their antimicrobial and cytotoxic activity were determined.

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With the increasing resistance of microrganisms to available drugs, mainly in hospital environments, the pharmaceutical industries have concentrated efforts in the research of new versatility of their molecular structures and their biological effects achieved. The hydrazones belong to an important class as they present a broad pharmacological profile whose properties have been extensively studied in medicinal chemistry because of their chelating capacity and the role of coordination in their biochemical mechanism of action. In this work a chemical ligand called J3 was synthesized which was complexed with copper nitrate (II), nickel nitrate, cadmium nitrate, cobalt perchlorate and diphenyltin dichloride, being called: J3Cu, J3Ni, J3Cd, J3Co and J3Sn, respectively. From the formation of the crystals, they were subjected to spectroscopic analysis of single crystal X-ray diffraction and infrared spectroscopy, which confirmed the chemical structures obtained from the ligand and its complexes. The biological activity of the six synthesized compounds was evaluated through the microdilution method on 96 wells plates, and the determination of the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) was determined by the density measurement in ELISA reader after incubations of 24, 48, 72 and 96 hours in bacteria of the species Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus. The J3Cu, J3Cd and J3Sn compounds presented moderate activity for the tested bacteria, whereas the J3 ligand and its J3Co and J3Ni complexes did not inhibit 100% of the microrganisms in the tested concentrations. Through the tests of determination of the minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC), it was concluded that the complexes J3Sn and J3Cd presented bacteriostatic and bactericidal activity and J3Cu complex presented activity bacteriostatic.
Com o crescente aumento da resistência de microrganismos aos fármacos disponíveis, principalmente em ambiente hospitalar, as indústrias farmacêuticas têm concentrado esforços na pesquisa de novos fármacos. Diversas classes de compostos orgânicos despertam o interesse de pesquisadores devido à versatilidade de suas estruturas moleculares e seus efeitos biológicos alcançados. As hidrazonas pertencem a uma classe importante pois apresentam um amplo perfil farmacológico cujas propriedades têm sido extensivamente estudadas na Química Medicinal em razão de sua capacidade quelante e do papel da coordenação no seu mecanismo bioquímico de ação. Neste trabalho foi sintetizado um ligante químico denominado J3 o qual foi complexado com Nitrato de Cobre (II), Nitrato de Níquel, Nitrato de Cádmio, Perclorato de Cobalto e Dicloreto de difenilestanho, sendo denominados de: J3Cu, J3Ni, J3Cd, J3Co e J3Sn, respectivamente. A partir da formação dos cristais, os mesmos foram submetidos a análises espectroscópicas de difração de raios x em monocristal e espectroscopia na região do infravermelho, que confirmaram as estruturas químicas obtidas do ligante e seus complexos. Foi avaliada a atividade biológica dos seis compostos sintetizados através do método de microdiluição em placas de 96 poços, e a determinação da concentração inibitória mínima (CIM) foi determinada através da medida de densidade em leitor de ELISA após incubações de 24, 48, 72 e 96 horas em bactérias das espécies Escherichia coli e Staphylococcus aureus. Foi determinada a concentração bactericida mínima para os compostos que apresentaram CIM contra as bactérias testadas. Os compostos J3Cu, J3Cd e J3Sn apresentaram atividade moderada para as bactérias testadas, ao passo que o ligante J3 e seus complexos J3Co e J3Ni não inibiram 100% dos microrganismos nas concentrações testadas. Através dos testes de determinação da concentração bactericida mínima, concluiu-se que os complexos J3Sn e J3Cd apresentaram atividade bacteriostática e bactericida, o complexo J3Cu apresentou atividade bacteriostática.

Le travail de recherche présenté dans cette thèse s’est orienté vers l’élaboration de matériaux avancés et la conception de polymères/composites biosourcés. Ce dernier sujet a été entrepris à travers la combinaison de différentes matières premières biosourcées qui sont connues comme ayant un grand potentiel de substitution des monomères pétrosourcés. Tout d’abord, un travail fondamental a été exécuté en combinant l’huile de lin epoxydée (ELO) avec des dérivés d’anhydrides d’acides comme agents de réticulation, afin de relier la réactivité chimique de polymérisation à la structure du réseau formé et aux propriétés thermomécaniques. Afin de devenir économiquement viable, les bio-raffineries doivent urgemment valoriser les sous-produits issus de la conversion de la biomasse. Fort de ce constat, une deuxième étude sur l’incorporation et la copolymérisation d’une quantité importante d’humins (résidu hétérogène obtenu durant la conversion des sucres en hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF)) avec de l’alcool furfurylique (FA) a été réalisée avec succès afin de créer de nouvelles résines thermodures. Une autre voie proposée consiste en la combinaison de ELO et de FA à travers une polymérisation cationique, dans l’idée de créer de nouvelles résines totalement biosourcées, générant ainsi une gamme de matériaux aux propriétés mécaniques modulables
The research work presented in this thesis was oriented on advanced thermoset materials and also on the conception of bio-based polymers and composites. This last topic has been investigated by the combination of different bio-based raw materials which are well-known to have a great potential to substitute the petroleum monomers. Firstly, a fundamental work has been done on the combination of epoxidized linseed oil (ELO) and anhydrides as cross-linkers, which links the polymerization reactivity with the network structure and thermomechanical properties. For being economically realistic, the bio-refineries are urged to valorize the sidestream products issued from biomass conversion. In that respect, a second study investigated successfully the incorporation and copolymerization of an important amount of humins (heterogeneous residues obtained during the sugar conversion into hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF)) with furfuryl alcohol (FA) in order to create new resins. Another proposed combination, focused on ELO and FA cationic copolymerization with the purpose to create new fully bio-based resins with tailored mechanical properties. Concerning the elaboration of advanced polymers and composites, a reflection around the hierarchically organized natural materials has been achieved in order to adapt the self-organization and structuration concepts to polymeric network

Fundação de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais
In this work, Zn1-xAxTe (A = Mn, Co) diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) nanocrystal (NCs) were successfully grown in the P2O5 ZnO Al2O3 BaO PbO glass system synthesized by the method of Fusion-Nucleation, after subjecting to appropriate thermal annealing. Various experimental techniques were used in this study in order to get a comprehensive understanding of the optical, morphological, structural and magnetic properties these NCs. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) images revealed the size of both of Zn1-xMnxTe and Zn1-xCoxTe NCs. From the vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) technique, there was growth behavior of magnetization and magnetic susceptibility as a function of the Mn concentration in the samples containing Zn1-xMnxTe NCs. At lower Mn concentrations, the sp electrons of ZnTe host semiconductor interact with the d electrons of Mn2+ ions, resulting in the sp-d exchange interaction, which causes a small increase in susceptibility. At higher Mn concentrations, the d-d exchange interaction between Mn atoms dominates over the sp-d exchange interaction, resulting in an abrupt increase in susceptibility. The EPR spectra, in addition to prove the results exhibited the well-known sextet hyperfine lines of Mn2+ ions, since samples with low Mn concentrations revealed the presence of Mn2+ ions within and near the surface of the ZnTe NCs. From the optical absorption spectra (OA) and photoluminescence (PL), analyzed on the basis of crystal field theory (CFT) as well as of the diffraction X-ray (XRD), Raman scattering (RS) and electron microscopy transmission (TEM) techniques, the substitutional incorporation of Mn2+ ions was confirmed up to its solubility limit (x = 0.100) ZnTe NCs. Above this concentration, can observe the formation of manganese oxide NCs such as MnO and MnO2, since the nucleation rate for the formation of these NCs is greater than that of Zn1-xMnxTe NCs, at high concentrations. Furthermore, from the PL spectra, it was found that it is possible to tune the emission of energy related to transition 4T1(4G) → 6A1(6S) of Mn2+ ions, of the spectral orange region to the near infrared, depending on Mn concentration. This is possible due to the variation of the local crystal field, where these ions are inserted. From the OA spectra, analyzed on the basis of CFT, it showed that Co2+ ions are substitutionally incorporated in tetrahedral sites of ZnTe NCs, due to its characteristics transitions in visible and near infrared spectral region. This evidence has been enhanced from MFM images, since NCs doped with magnetic ions, magnetically respond when induced by the magnetization of the probe.
Neste trabalho, nanocristais semicondutores magnéticos diluídos (SMD) de Zn1-xAxTe (A = Mn; Co) foram crescidos com sucesso no sistema vítreo P2O5 ZnO Al2O3 BaO PbO, sintetizado pelo método de Fusão-Nucleação, após submetê-lo a tratamento térmico apropriado. Várias técnicas experimentais foram utilizadas neste estudo a fim de obter um entendimento compreensivo das propriedades ópticas, morfológicas, estruturais e magnéticas desses NCs. Imagens de microscopia eletrônica de transmissão (MET) e microscopia de força atômica (MFA) revelaram o tamanho tanto de NCs de Zn1-xMnxTe quanto de Zn1-xCoxTe. A partir da técnica de magnetometria de amostra vibrante (MAV), verificou-se o crescimento da magnetização e o comportamento da susceptibilidade magnética, em função da concentração de Mn, em amostras contendo NCs de Zn1-xMnxTe. Em baixas concentrações de Mn, os elétrons sp do semicondutor hospedeiro ZnTe, interagem com os elétrons d dos íons Mn2+, resultando na interação de troca sp-d, que provoca um pequeno aumento na susceptibilidade magnética. Já, em concentrações mais elevadas de Mn, a interação de troca d-d entre átomos de Mn domina a interação de troca sp-d, o que resulta em um aumento abrupto da susceptibilidade. Os espectros RPE, além de comprovar esses resultados, exibiram o bem conhecido sexteto de linhas hiperfinas de íons Mn2+, uma vez que amostras com baixas concentrações de Mn revelaram a presença de íons Mn2+ no interior e próximos à superfície dos NCs de ZnTe. A partir dos espectros de absorção óptica (AO) e fotoluminescência (FL), analisados com base na teoria do campo cristalino (TCC), bem como das técnicas de difração de raios-X (DRX), espalhamento Raman (ER) e microscopia eletrônica de transmissão (MET), confirmou-se a incorporação substitucional de íons Mn2+ até seu limite de solubilidade nominal (x = 0,100) em NCs de ZnTe. Acima dessa concentração, observa-se a formação de NCs de óxido de manganês, tais como MnO e MnO2, uma vez que a taxa de nucleação para a formação desses NCs é maior que a de NCs de Zn1-xMnxTe, em altas concentrações. Além disso, a partir dos espectros FL, verificou-se que é possível sintonizar a energia de emissão relacionada à transição 4T1(4G) → 6A1(6S) de íons Mn2+, da região espectral laranja ao infravermelho próximo, em função da concentração de Mn. Isso é possível devido à variação do campo cristalino local, onde esses íons estão inseridos. A partir dos espectros AO, analisados com base na TCC, evidenciou-se que íons Co2+ são incorporados substitucionalmente em sítios tetraédricos de NCs de ZnTe, devido às suas transições características na região espectral do visível e infravermelho próximo. Essa evidência foi reforçada a partir de imagens de MFM, uma vez que os NCs, dopados com íons magnéticos, respondem magneticamente quando induzidos pela magnetização da sonda.
Doutor em Física

L'hadronthérapie est l'une des modalités disponibles pour traiter le cancer. Cette modalité utilise des ions légers (protons, ions carbone) pour détruire les cellules cancéreuses. De telles particules ont une précision balistique de par leur trajectoire quasi-rectiligne, leur parcours fini et le profil de dose maximum en fin de parcours, ce qui permet, par rapport à la radiothérapie conventionnelle, d'épargner les tissus sains situés à côté, en aval et en amont de la tumeur. L'un des enjeux de l'assurance qualité de cette modalité est le contrôle du positionnement de la dose déposée par les ions dans le patient. Une possibilité pour effectuer ce contrôle est d'observer les gammas prompts émis lors des réactions nucléaires induites le long du parcours des ions dans le patient. Un prototype de caméra Compton, permettant théoriquement de maximiser l'efficacité de détection des gammas prompts, est actuellement développé dans une collaboration régionale. Mon travail de thèse s'est axé autour de cette caméra et plus particulièrement sur les points suivants : i) étudier par les simulations Monte Carlo le fonctionnement du prototype en cours de construction, notamment en regard des taux de comptage attendus sur les différents types d'accélérateurs en hadronthérapie, ii) mener des études de simulation sur l'utilisation de cette caméra en imagerie clinique, iii) caractériser les détecteurs silicium du diffuseur, iv) confronter les simulations entreprises sur la réponse de la caméra avec des mesures sur faisceau à l'aide d'un démonstrateur. Il résulte que le prototype de caméra Compton développé rend possible un contrôle de la localisation du dépôt de dose en protonthérapie à l'échelle d'un spot, à condition que l'intensité clinique du faisceau de protons soit diminuée d'un facteur 200 (intensité de 108 protons/s). Une application de la caméra Compton en médecine nucléaire semble réalisable avec l'utilisation de radioisotopes d'énergie supérieure à 300 keV. Ces premiers résultats doivent être confirmés par des simulations plus réalistes (cibles de PMMA homogènes et hétérogènes). Des tests avec l'intégration progressive de tous les éléments de la caméra vont avoir lieu courant 2016
Hadrontherapy is one of the modalities available for treating cancer. This modality uses light ions (protons, carbon ions) to destroy cancer cells. Such particles have a ballistic accuracy thanks to their quasi-rectilinear trajectory, their path and the finished profile maximum dose in the end. Compared to conventional radiotherapy, this allows to spare the healthy tissue located adjacent downstream and upstream of the tumor. One of this modality’s quality assurance challenges is to control the positioning of the dose deposited by ions in the patient. One possibility to perform this control is to detect the prompt gammas emitted during nuclear reactions induced along the ion path in the patient. A Compton camera prototype, theoretically allowing to maximize the detection efficiency of the prompt gammas, is being developed under a regional collaboration. This camera was the main focus of my thesis, and particularly the following points : i) studying, throughout Monte Carlo simulations, the operation of the prototype in construction, particularly with respect to the expected counting rates on the different types of accelerators in hadrontherapy ii) conducting simulation studies on the use of this camera in clinical imaging, iii) characterising the silicon detectors (scatterer) iv) confronting Geant4 simulations on the camera’s response with measurements on the beam with the help of a demonstrator. As a result, the Compton camera prototype developed makes a control of the localization of the dose deposition in proton therapy to the scale of a spot possible, provided that the intensity of the clinical proton beam is reduced by a factor 200 (intensity of 108 protons / s). An application of the Compton camera in nuclear medicine seems to be attainable with the use of radioisotopes of an energy greater than 300 keV. These initial results must be confirmed by more realistic simulations (homogeneous and heterogeneous PMMA targets). Tests with the progressive integration of all camera elements will take place during 2016

Nanomaterials, typically less than 100 nm size in any direction have gained noteworthy interest from scientific community owing to their significantly different and often improved physical properties compared to their bulk counterparts. Semiconductor nanoparticles (NPs) are of great interest to study their tunable optical properties, primarily as a function of size and shape. Accordingly, there has been a lot of attention paid to synthesize discrete semiconducting nanoparticles, of where Group III-V and II-VI materials have been studied extensively. In contrast, Group IV and Group IV-V based nanocrystals as earth abundant and less-non-toxic semiconductors have not been studied thoroughly. From the class of Group IV, Ge1-xSnx alloys are prime candidates for the fabrication of Si-compatible applications in the field of electronic and photonic devices, transistors, and charge storage devices. In addition, Ge1-xSnx alloys are potentials candidates for bio-sensing applications as alternative to toxic materials. Tin phosphides, a class of Group IV-V materials with their promising applications in thermoelectric, photocatalytic, and charge storage devices. However, both aforementioned semiconductors have not been studied thoroughly for their full potential in visible (Vis) to near infrared (NIR) optoelectronic applications. In this dissertation research, we have successfully developed unique synthetic strategies to produce Ge1-xSnx alloy quantum dots (QDs) and tin phosphide (Sn3P4, SnP, and Sn4P3) nanoparticles with tunable physical properties and crystal structures for potential applications in IR technologies. Low-cost, less-non-toxic, and abundantly-produced Ge1-xSnx alloys are an interesting class of narrow energy-gap semiconductors that received noteworthy interest in optical technologies. Admixing of α-Sn into Ge results in an indirect-to-direct bandgap crossover significantly improving light absorption and emission relative to indirect-gap Ge. However, the narrow energy-gaps reported for bulk Ge1-xSnx alloys have become a major impediment for their widespread application in optoelectronics. Herein, we report the first colloidal synthesis of Ge1-xSnx alloy quantum dots (QDs) with narrow size dispersity (3.3±0.5 – 5.9±0.8 nm), wide range of Sn compositions (0–20.6%), and composition-tunable energy-gaps and near infrared (IR) photoluminescence (PL). The structural analysis of alloy QDs indicates linear expansion of cubic Ge lattice with increasing Sn, suggesting the formation of strain-free nanoalloys. The successful incorporation of α-Sn into crystalline Ge has been confirmed by electron microscopy, which suggests the homogeneous solid solution behavior of QDs. The quantum confinement effects have resulted in energy gaps that are significantly blue-shifted from bulk Ge for Ge1-xSnx alloy QDs with composition-tunable absorption onsets (1.72–0.84 eV for x=1.5–20.6%) and PL peaks (1.62–1.31 eV for x=1.5–5.6%). Time-resolved PL (TRPL) spectroscopy revealed microsecond and nanosecond timescale decays at 15 K and 295 K, respectively owing to radiative recombination of dark and bright excitons as well as the interplay of surface traps and core electronic states. Realization of low-to-non-toxic and silicon-compatible Ge1-xSnx QDs with composition-tunable near IR PL allows the unprecedented expansion of direct-gap Group IV semiconductors to a wide range of biomedical and advanced technological studies. Tin phosphides are a class of materials that received noteworthy interest in photocatalysis, charge storage and thermoelectric devices. Dual stable oxidation states of tin (Sn2+ and Sn4+) enable tin phosphides to exhibit different stoichiometries and crystal phases. However, the synthesis of such nanostructures with control over morphology and crystal structure has proven a challenging task. Herein, we report the first colloidal synthesis of size, shape, and phase controlled, narrowly disperse rhombohedral Sn4P3, hexagonal SnP, and amorphous tin phosphide nanoparticles (NPs) displaying tunable morphologies and size dependent physical properties. The control over NP morphology and crystal phase was achieved by tuning the nucleation/growth temperature, molar ratio of Sn/P, and incorporation of additional coordinating solvents (alkylphosphines). The absorption spectra of smaller NPs exhibit size-dependent blue shifts in energy gaps (0.88–1.38 eV) compared to the theoretical value of bulk Sn3P4 (0.83 eV), consistent with quantum confinement effects. The amorphous NPs adopt rhombohedral Sn4P3 and hexagonal SnP crystal structures at 180 and 250 °C, respectively. Structural and surface analysis indicates consistent bond energies for phosphorus across different crystal phases, whereas the rhombohedral Sn4P3 NPs demonstrate Sn oxidation states distinctive from those of the hexagonal and amorphous NPs owing to complex chemical structure. All phases exhibit N(1s) and ʋ(N-H) energies suggestive of alkylamine surface functionalization and are devoid of tetragonal Sn impurities.

In this thesis, we study mathematical models that describe the morphology of a generalized biological cell in equilibrium or under the influence of external forces. Within these models, the cell is considered as a thermodynamic system, where streaming effects in the cell bulk and the surrounding are coupled with a Helfrich-type model for the cell membrane. The governing evolution equations for the cell given in a continuum formulation are derived using an energy variation approach. Such two-phase flow problems that combine streaming effects with a free boundary problem that accounts for bending and surface tension can be described effectively by a diffuse interface approach. An advantage of the diffuse interface approach is that models for e.g. different biophysical processes can easily be combined. That makes this method suitable to describe complex phenomena such as cell motility and multi-cell dynamics. Within the first model for cell motility, we combine a biological network for GTPases with the hydrodynamic Helfrich-type model. This model allows to account for cell motility driven by membrane protrusion as a result of actin polymerization. Within the second model, we moreover extend the Helfrich-type model by an active gel theory to account for the actin filaments in the cell bulk. Caused by contractile stress within the actin-myosin solution, a spontaneous symmetry breaking event occurs that lead to cell motility. In this thesis, we further study the dynamics of multiple cells which is of wide interest since it reveals rich non-linear behavior. To apply the diffuse interface framework, we introduce several phase field variables to account for several cells that are coupled by a local interaction potential. In a first application, we study white blood cell margination, a biological phenomenon that results from the complex relation between collisions, different mechanical properties and lift forces of red blood cells and white blood cells within the vascular system. Here, it is shown that inertial effects, which can become of relevance in various parts of the cardiovascular system, lead to a decreasing tendency for margination with increasing Reynolds number. Finally, we combine the active polar gel theory and the multi-cell approach that is capable of studying collective migration of cells. This hydrodynamic approach predicts that collective migration emerges spontaneously forming coherently-moving clusters as a result of the mutual alignment of the velocity vectors during inelastic collisions. We further observe that hydrodynamics heavily influence those systems. However, a complete suppression of the onset of collective migration cannot be confirmed. Moreover, we give a brief insight how such highly coupled systems can be treated numerically using finite elements and how the numerical costs can be limited using operator splitting approaches and problem parallelization with OPENMP
Diese Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit mathematischen Modellen zur Beschreibung von Gleichgewichts- und dynamischen Zuständen von verallgemeinerten biologischen Zellen. Die Zellen werden dabei als thermodynamisches System aufgefasst, bei dem Strömungseffekte innerhalb und außerhalb der Zelle zusammen mit einem Helfrich-Modell für Zellmembranen kombiniert werden. Schließlich werden durch einen Energie-Variations-Ansatz die Evolutionsgleichungen für die Zelle hergeleitet. Es ergeben sie dabei Mehrphasen-Systeme, die Strömungseffekte mit einem freien Randwertproblem, das zusätzlich physikalischen Einflüssen wie Biegung und Oberflächenspannung unterliegt, vereinen. Um solche Probleme effizient zu lösen, wird in dieser Arbeit die Diffuse-Interface-Methode verwendet. Ein Vorteil dieser Methode ist, dass es sehr einfach möglich ist, Modelle, die verschiedenste Prozesse beschreiben, miteinander zu vereinen. Dies erlaubt es, komplexe biologische Phänomene, wie zum Beispiel Zellmotilität oder auch die kollektive Bewegung von Zellen, zu beschreiben. In den Modellen für Zellmotilität wird ein biologisches Netzwerk-Modell für GTPasen oder auch ein Active-Polar-Gel-Modell, das die Aktinfilamente im Inneren der Zellen als Flüssigkristall auffasst, mit dem Multi-Phasen-Modell kombiniert. Beide Modelle erlauben es, komplexe Vorgänge bei der selbst hervorgerufenen Bewegung von Zellen, wie das Vorantreiben der Zellmembran durch Aktinpolymerisierung oder auch die Kontraktionsbewegung des Zellkörpers durch kontraktile Spannungen innerhalb des Zytoskelets der Zelle, zu verstehen. Weiterhin ist die kollektive Bewegung von vielen Zellen von großem Interesse, da sich hier viele nichtlineare Phänomene zeigen. Um das Diffuse-Interface-Modell für eine Zelle auf die Beschreibung mehrerer Zellen zu übertragen, werden mehrere Phasenfelder eingeführt, die die Zellen jeweils kennzeichnen. Schließlich werden die Zellen durch ein lokales Abstoßungspotential gekoppelt. Das Modell wird angewendet, um White blood cell margination, das die Annäherung von Leukozyten an die Blutgefäßwand bezeichnet, zu verstehen. Dieser Prozess wird dabei bestimmt durch den komplexen Zusammenhang zwischen Kollisionen, den jeweiligen mechanischen Eigenschaften der Zellen, sowie deren Auftriebskraft innerhalb der Adern. Die Simulationen zeigen, dass diese Annäherung sich in bestimmten Gebieten des kardiovaskulären Systems stark vermindert, in denen die Blutströmung das Stokes-Regime verlässt. Schließlich wird das Active-Polar-Gel-Modell mit dem Modell für die kollektive Bewegung vom Zellen kombiniert. Dies macht es möglich, die kollektive Bewegung der Zellen und den Einfluss von Hydrodynamik auf diese Bewegung zu untersuchen. Es zeigt sich dabei, dass der Zustand der kollektiven gerichteten Bewegung sich spontan aus der Neuausrichtung der jeweiligen Zellen durch inelastische Kollisionen ergibt. Obwohl die Hydrodynamik einen großen Einfluss auf solche Systeme hat, deuten die Simulationen nicht daraufhin, dass Hydrodynamik die kollektive Bewegung vollständig unterdrückt. Weiterhin wird in dieser Arbeit gezeigt, wie die stark gekoppelten Systeme numerisch gelöst werden können mit Hilfe der Finiten-Elemente-Methode und wie die Effizienz der Methode gesteigert werden kann durch die Anwendung von Operator-Splitting-Techniken und Problemparallelisierung mittels OPENMP

碩士
淡江大學
物理學系
85
The major purpose of this thesis is to investigate the principle and effects of second-order nonlinear optical frequency conversion, compare between different types of phase matching methods, and produce tunable coherent deep ultraviolet( UV) light by sum-frequency generation (SFG). In the theoretical part, the effects of frequency mixing of optical waves in nonlinear media are reviewed, and some basics of uniaxial and biaxial crystals and of β-barium borate(BBO) crystals are discussed. According to thn-縱lready known optical characteristics of BBO, the phase matching angles for parametric conversion and SFG in BBO are calculated; the walk off of the sum-fr?簇ncy beam in BBO is also discussed. In the experimental part, we used the third harmonic(TH) of a nanosecond pulsed Nd:YAG laser to pump a BBO based optical parametric oscillator (OPO) which provides a wavelength tuning range from 450 nm to 690 nm for the signal wave and from 730 nm to about 1.7 mm for idler wave. We used the signal wave (478-650 nm) and the residual pump beam of the OPO as the input beams to perform SFG in BBO crystals, and thus, tunable coherent deep UV output from 203.6 nm to 229.5 nm can be obtained. The average SFG conversion efficiency is about 15% and the average energy of deep UV output is about 8mJ/pulse. We also find that the SFG conversion efficiency depends mainly on the intensity, beam divergence, beam quality, and the degree of phase matching of the interacting beams. The study shows that the SFG of the OPO output and the TH beam of the Nd:YAG laser can be very efficient for producing tunable deep UV light. The SFG system is all- solid-state and is easy to operate.

博士
國立成功大學
材料科學及工程學系碩博士班
91
The fabrication of transparent B2O3-based glasses containing non-linear optical crystal of β-BaB2O4(BBO) particles by incorporation method was studied. For glass phases, 45BaO-24B2O3-31SiO2（GPI） and 40BaO-30B2O3-25SiO2-5K2O（GPII） were used. Besides, the BBO crystal phase was prepared by annealing the BaO-B2O3 powder at 850℃ for 5 hours. 　　From the results of experimental, the BBO particle has been successfully incorporated into glasses by adjusting the melting temperature, soaking time and the amount of BBO. A small difference in the refractive index between matrix glass and incorporated crystals, is a significant reason for the transparency. 　　The refractive index and thermal stability was increased for the change of coordination number when the BBO was dissolved. The β–phase could be transformed to α–phase when the remelting time and/or temperature was increased. We concluded that the efficiency of SHG was dependent on the content of BBO particles within the glass matrix. The SHG efficiency reached to 4.5% of pure BBO crystal when the GPI-glass containing 15wt% of BBO was remelted at a temperature of 1020℃ for 3min, and it reached to 10% for the GPII- glass at 960℃ for 5min.

碩士
國立交通大學
機械工程系所
104
The goal of this project is to develop a photonic crystal micropost (PCMP) substrate to enhance fluorescence and reduce background noise for further improvement of the limit of detection. The PCMP substrate consists of an array of microposts with photonic crystal (PC) structures on top of each micropost. The immediate applications will be DNA and protein microarrays. By spectrally matching the PC resonance with the excitation laser used to excite fluorophores, one can achieve increase in fluorophores’ emission due to an enhanced electric field. While the fluorescence are enhanced, inevitably the background noise will also be amplified. In this work, the micropost substrate consisted of an array of circular microposts was developed to eliminate or minimize the background noise. This substrate allows droplets (containing capture molecules) to form composite contact upon deposited on such surface. Upon finishing the assay, each micropost will serve as a spot. Due to the gap between micropost/spots, the background noise can be eliminated or minimized. In this study, we successfully establish an approach of fabricating the PCMP substrate. Also, we demonstrate that the PCMP can be used as a microarray substrate for enhancing fluorescence signal and minimizing the background signal. The results show that the fluorescence intensity on PCMP substrate can be enhanced by 4.5x. In contrast, the background signals are not amplified.

碩士
國立臺灣師範大學
化學系
94
Glucose, urea and hydrogen peroxide are important bio-species in the human body. In this study, a multi-channel piezoelectric crystal bio-sensor with the home-made computer interface for data processing was prepared and employed to detect separately various bio-species, e.g. glucose, urea and H2O2. The multi-channel PZ system includes two working electrodes and two reference electrodes and one oxygen electrode. Various immobilized fullerene C60-enzymes, e.g. C60-glucose oxidase, C60-Urease and C60-catalase, were synthesized and applied to catalyze oxidation of glucose, decomposition of urea and H2O2, respectively in this piezoelectric bio-sensor system. The C60 and C60-Cryptand-22 coated piezoelectric crystals were used to detect various products of these enzyme-catalyzed reactions. The oscillated frequency decreased due to adsorption of product catalyzed by immobilized C60-enzyme on the coating material. The C60-enzyme coated PZ bio-sensor exhibited quiet good selectivity for these bio-species. Other interfering compounds e.q. cysteine, tyrosine, uric acid and galactose in sample solutions showed nearly no interference with these C60-enzyme coated PZ bio-sensor. The activity of immobilized C60-enzyme can be hold over 90% in 15 days. The home-made multi-channels Piezoelectric crystal bio-sensor showed good detection limit of 12.37μg/mL and R2 values of calibration curve were more than 0.978. The piezoelectric crystal bio-sensor system can distinguish individual components in the mixed samples. Furthermore, multivariate linear regression (MLR) was employed to make quantitative analysis for these biospecies.

博士
臺灣大學
應用力學研究所
96
The application of Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) in the liquid phase condition usually subjected to two major problems. The first one is the extra damping in liquid phase that causes the mechanical quality factor drop to a level that may induce unstable oscillation frequency. The second one is the self oscillation zero phase condition will be lost due to the shunt capacitance effect. In this study, a novel phase compensated quartz crystal oscillation circuit is proposed and will try to resolve these problems. According to the traditional theoretical analysis, the prediction of frequency change is done by using the series resonance frequency as a reference. However, the general oscillation circuit is designed and operated at the actual resonance frequency condition. The difference between the two above-mentioned frequencies became even larger in the high damping liquid environment, and will lead to errors on bio-medical samples measurement. To hold self oscillation operated on the series resonance frequency accurately, a negative capacitance compensation circuit is proposed to cancel out the shut capacitance of the quartz crystal. It was shown that the simple self oscillation circuit will lead to accurate series resonant frequency oscillation no matter it is in liquid phase or not. The experimental result of the impedance analysis shows that the method is successful and work well to stabilize the oscillation and eliminate the measurement errors in liquid phase. A new bridge oscillation circuit to enhance the circuit loop quality factor and to sustain the constant voltage cross the quartz was also developed in this study. It also helps to further stabilize the oscillation in liquid phase. The new compensated oscillation circuit not only fix the phase error in the liquid phase, but also can be used to get the capacitance and damping values by using a control loop design. With all these developmnets, not only the bio-mass loading but also the damping coefficient can be measured on the circuit simultaneously. With the improved stability and precision on the new QCM system, it will be shown that protein conformation changes and bio-mechanisms can then be examined.

A sub-nanosecond green laser source has big demand in such fields like spectroscopy, micromachining, fluorescence imaging, and laser displays. Most often green light is produced by frequency doubling of pulsed laser sources based on Nd3+-ion or Yb3+-ion doped gain media that oscillate in the near-IR range. For creating compact and relatively small source of green light suitable for broad type of applications a passively Q-switched Nd:YAG microchip laser (Teem Photonics) operating at 1064 nm with 6.9 kHz repetition rate was chosen. It delivers 560 ps long pulses with 10 μJ energy, corresponding to an average output power of 69 mW. Crystals of BiBO, KTP, LBO, and PPLN were chosen for frequency doubling. Main goal of this work was to study the characteristics of these crystals under similar experimental conditions and to select the most efficient one for this task. To optimize second harmonic generation (SHG) process, different focusing conditions were used during the experiments. In this work we measured the second harmonic output power as a function of the incident power, beam profile for fundamental and second harmonic radiation for all crystals, and second harmonic output power as a function of temperature for PPLN crystal. Crystal of PPLN was found to be the most suitable for SHG process and produced it with up to 60% conversion efficiency.

The hydrophobicity of a surface is an important property in many areas of science and engineering. This is especially the case in mineral processing, where differences in surface hydrophobicity lie at the heart of the separation process of flotation. Chemicals are used to increase and decrease the natural hydrophobicity of minerals to attain a better separation between valuable and worthless material. Polymers are often used to reduce mineral surface hydrophobicity. Decades of empirically based decision making have produced a list of effective depressants. However the detailed study of how these polymer depressants affect surface hydrophobicity and mineral recovery lags behind applied investigations. The aim of this thesis was to study the adsorption of commonly used depressants on model surfaces and to interrogate the action of these polymers in reducing surface hydrophobicity. We have modelled the degree of hydrophobicity of common minerals in order to study polymer depressants with methods not commonly used in studies of surface characterisation in flotation. The model surfaces (self-assembled monolayers, SAMs) allowed us to use the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D) to study the adsorption of polymers. The QCM-D can be used to obtain adsorption isotherms, adsorption kinetics, water content of adsorbed layers, and information on the conformation of the adsorbed polymer. The results from the QCM-D were correlated with the contact angle data from the captive bubble measurements, with which we assessed the hydrophobicity of the surface before and after polymer adsorption. Three of the polymers layers were probed with dynamic dewetting studies, in order to test other modes of depressant action. Three types of polymers were studied - a polyacrylamide (Polymer-H), a polyelectrolyte CMC (carboxymethyl cellulose) and a group of dextrins (Dextrin-TY, a phenyl succinate substituted dextrin (PS Dextrin) and a styrene oxide substituted dextrin (SO Dextrin)). These polymers are commonly used or have potential to be used in the depression of talc and graphite. Polymer-H was used to investigate the hydrophobic bonding between a non-ionic polymer depressant and chemically inert and non charged surfaces by probing the influence of substrate hydrophobicity on polymer adsorption and reduction of contact angle. Three different model surfaces were used (mixed self-assembled 0.5 SAM, 0.7 SAM or single self-assembled 1.0 SAM monolayers) with advancing contact angles between 75?? and 119??. The study of Polymer-H found that the substrate hydrophobicity is an important factor in adsorption of this polymer and the change in contact angle upon adsorption depends on adsorbed amount. The effectiveness of Polymer-H to reduce surface hydrophobicity was established to correlate with its conformation and morphology. CMC was investigated to find out how a stimulus responsive polymer depressant can be used in flotation. It was established that the adsorbed amount and rate of adsorption of CMC increase with decreasing of pH or increasing of ionic strength. It was shown that the surface hydrophobicity of a CMC pre-adsorbed layer changes with the environment and these alterations are fully reversible. A switch of ionic strength (from 10-2 M KCl to 10-1 M KCl) caused partial dehydration of the adsorbed layer and a decrease of the receding contact angle by 20??. A pH switch (pH = 9 to pH = 3) resulted in a 40?? change in receding contact angle. The CMC investigation showed that the use of a stimulus responsive polymer presents opportunities for exploiting solution conditions as a means to effect a better mineral separation in flotation The adsorption of three dextrin-based polymers on a model hydrophobic surface has been characterized using the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation monitoring (QCM-D). The three polymers (one standard dextrin and two dextrins with different aromatic group substitutions) exhibited varying affinities and capacity for adsorption on the hydrophobic substrate. The effect of the three polymers on the static contact angle of the surface was studied using captive bubble contact angle measurements. The three polymers were seen to reduce the receding contact angle by similar amounts (approximately 14 degrees) in spite of having varying adsorbed amounts and differences in adsorbed layer water content. Although no differences were observed in the ability of the polymers to reduce the static contact angle, measurements of the dewetting dynamics between a rising air bubble and the polymer covered substrate yielded stark differences between the polymers, with one polymer slowing the dewetting dynamics by an order of magnitude more than the other two polymers. The differences in dewetting behaviour correlate with the adsorbed layer characteristics determined by QCM-D.
Thesis (PhD)--University of South Australia, 2010

碩士
國立高雄師範大學
物理學系
94
This thesis aims to study the influence of different terminal chains on dielectric dynamics and electro-optical response of chiral ferroelectric liquid crystals (FLCs). The dielectric relaxation spectroscopy of FLCs were measured by LCR meters, The dielectric spectra were further analyzed in the framework of Debye dielectric theorem. The electro-optical response of the FLC samples was analyzed, to compare with the relation parameters of molecular dynamics and the spontaneous polarization characterized by Automated LC Property Tester. The analyzed results of the spontaneous polarization measurements have shown that the spontaneous polarization of FLCs is correlated with the terminal chain molecular. While the measurement of electro-optical response has shown that the response time of FLC is correlated with spontaneous polarization and viscosity. According to the analysis in terms of the Debye theorem, the dielectric spectra are attributed to the Goldstone mode and Soft mode of molecular dynamics. The chiral terminal group has shown an effect on the collective dynamics and response time of liquid crystals. The results provide implication for electro-optical application utilizing ferroelectric liquid crystals.