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  • A green route to covalently-fluorescent whitening cotton fabric for excellent washing durability and skin safety via electron beam irradiation

    分类: 物理学 >> 核物理学 提交时间: 2025-03-29

    摘要: Herein, a new methodwasdevelopedfor efficient and lasting fluorescent whitening cotton fabric by synthesizing and using a vinyl-containing fluorescent whitening agent to covalently grafting onto fiber surfaces with the as sistance of electron beam irradiation. The results from FT-IR spectroscopic, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic, and energy dispersive spectrometric analyses showed that the fluorescent whitening agent was successfully anchored on cotton fiber via radiation-induced grafting copolymerization. The optimized whiteness value at 110.81 (that of raw cotton fabric, 74.50) was achieved using just 0.3-wt% fluorescent whitening agent. No tably, the whiteness value of the treated cotton fabric remained 110+ even after 100 equivalent home-washing cycles, substantiating its excellent washing durability. Skin stimulation experiments on rabbits showed that the primary stimulation index of all experimental groups was 0 and no abnormal clinical symptoms were found in all tested rabbits, demonstrating the outstanding skin safety. Furthermore, energy generated by irradiation grafting technology was much lower than that of traditional processes and water consumption greatly reduced. Even the effluent from this process completely met the discharge standard of industrial wastewater without any treatment. This study explores a new method for textile finishing via electron beam irradiation, providing a green and sustainable perspective for the textile industry.

  • Learning-based multiplexed transmission of scattered twisted light through a kilometer-scale standard multimode fiber

    分类: 光学 >> 量子光学 提交时间: 2023-02-19

    摘要: Multiplexing multiple orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes of light has the potential to increase data capacity in optical communication. However, the distribution of such modes over long distances remains challenging. Free-space transmission is strongly influenced by atmospheric turbulence and light scattering, while the wave distortion induced by the mode dispersion in fibers disables OAM demultiplexing in fiber-optic communications. Here, a deep-learning-based approach is developed to recover the data from scattered OAM channels without measuring any phase information. Over a 1-km-long standard multimode fiber, the method is able to identify different OAM modes with an accuracy of more than 99.9% in parallel demultiplexing of 24 scattered OAM channels. To demonstrate the transmission quality, color images are encoded in multiplexed twisted light and our method achieves decoding the transmitted data with an error rate of 0.13%. Our work shows the artificial intelligence algorithm could benefit the use of OAM multiplexing in commercial fiber networks and high-performance optical communication in turbulent environments.