Cristina Greco、Alberta Ferrarini2015-09-29Physical Review Letters
Why should achiral particles organize into a helical structure? Here, using theory and molecular dynamics simulations we show that at high concentration crescent-shaped particles interacting through a purely repulsive potential form the twist-bend nematic phase, which features helical order of the twofold symmetry axe…
Material Dynamics and PropertiesMolecular spectroscopy and chiralityLiquid Crystal Research Advancements
Evgeniya Moshkina、Svetlana Sofronova、Alexey Veligzhanin 等 7 位作者2015-09-29arXiv
Single crystals of ludwigite Ni2MnBO5 were synthesized by flux growth technique. The detailed structural and magnetic characterizations of the synthesized samples have been carried out. The cations composition of the studied crystal was determined using X-ray diffraction and EXAFS technique, the resulting composition…
Materials Science
Shuang Ma、Mingwu Wen、Zhanshan Wang2015-09-29arXiv
The thermal stability and separation characteristic of anti-sticking layers of Pt/Cr films were studied in this paper. Several types of adhesion layers were investigated: 10.0 nm Pt, 1.5 nm Cr+50.0 nm Pt, 2.5 nm Cr+50.0 nm Pt and 3.5 nm Cr+50.0 nm Pt fabricated using direct current magnetron sputtering. The variation…
Materials Science
A. Lim、W. M. C. Foulkes、A. P. Horsfild 等 7 位作者2015-09-29arXiv
We have used time-dependent density functional theory to study self-irradiated Si. We calculate the electronic stopping power of Si in Si by evaluating the energy transferred to the electrons per unit path length by an ion of kinetic energy from $1$ eV to $100 $ keV moving through the host. Electronic stopping is foun…
Materials Science
Anna N. Morozovska、Yulian M. Vysochanskii、Oleksandr V. Varenyk 等 6 位作者2015-09-29Physical Review B
The impact of the flexoelectric effect on the generalized susceptibility and soft phonon dispersion is not well known in the long-range-ordered phases of ferroics. Within the Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire approach we obtained analytical expressions for the generalized susceptibility and phonon dispersion relations in the…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsForce Microscopy Techniques and ApplicationsNonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structures
Kaori Kurita、Akira Chikamatsu、Kei Shigematsu 等 7 位作者2015-09-29Physical Review B
The effect of Cr substitution in a $\mathrm{SrRu}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ epitaxial thin film on $\mathrm{SrTi}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ substrate was investigated by measuring the magnetic and transport properties and the electronic states. The ferromagnetic transition temperature of the $\mathrm{SrR}{\mathrm{u}}_{0.9}\mathrm{C}{\m…
Advanced Condensed Matter PhysicsMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Qiang Chen、Junshuai Li、Yongfeng Li2015-09-29arXiv
In this review, we have summarized the recent advances and present conditions of the nanomaterials synthesis from the plasma-liquid interactions. A theoretical analysis for the nanomaterials synthesis process is presented by analyzing the experimental data. Besides the theoretical analysis, the practical applications…
Chemical PhysicsMesoscale and Nanoscale Physicsphysics.plasm-phMaterials Science
Karl Joulain、Younes Ezzahri、Jérémie Drevillon 等 5 位作者2015-09-29arXiv
By means of fluctuationnal electrodynamics, we calculate radiative heat flux between two pla-nar materials respectively made of SiC and SiO2. More specifically, we focus on a first (direct) situation where one of the two materials (for example SiC) is at ambient temperature whereas the second material is at a higher o…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physicsphysics.class-phphysics.opticsMaterials Science
T. Shang、Q. F. Zhan、H. L. Yang 等 11 位作者2015-09-29arXiv
We report an investigation of transverse Hall resistance and longitudinal resistance on Pt thin films sputtered on epitaxial LaCoO$_3$ (LCO) ferromagnetic insulator films. The LaCoO$_3$ films were deposited on several single crystalline substrates [LaAlO$_3$ (LAO), (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O$_3$ (LSAT), and SrTiO$_3$ (STO)] with…
Materials ScienceStrongly Correlated ElectronsMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Raphael O. Akande、Emmanuel O Oyewande2015-09-29arXiv
Erosion of surface atoms of solid materials by ion bombardment (surface-sputtering) causes nano-ripples and quantum dots to self-organise on the surfaces. The self-organisation had been shown, in some sputtering experiments, to be influenced by unexpected contaminants (ions) from vacuum walls. Existing inter-atomic-in…
Chemical PhysicsMaterials Science
Nallani Raghav、Sudip Chakraborty、Prabal K. Maiti2015-09-29arXiv
The layers of graphene oxide (GO) are found to be good for permeation of water but not for helium (Science 2012 335 (6067): 442-444) suggesting that the GO layers are dynamic in the formation of permeation route depending on the environment they are in (i.e, water or helium). To probe the microscopic origin of this ob…
cond-mat.stat-mechMesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials ScienceSoft Condensed Matter
Daniel Rhodes、Suvadip Das、Q. R. Zhang 等 8 位作者2015-09-29Physical Review B
Here, we present a detailed study on the temperature and angular dependence of the Shubnikov--de Haas (SdH) effect in the semimetal ${\mathrm{WTe}}_{2}$. This compound was recently shown to display a very large nonsaturating magnetoresistance which was attributed to nearly perfectly compensated densities of electrons…
Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and DevicesTopological Materials and Phenomena2D Materials and Applications
C Salazar Mejía、A K Nayak、J A Schiemer 等 6 位作者2015-09-29Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
The lattice dynamics in the polycrystalline shape-memory Heusler alloy Ni50Mn35In15 have been studied by means of resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS). RUS spectra were collected in a frequency range 100-1200 kHz between 10 and 350 K. Ni50Mn35In15 exhibits a ferromagnetic transition at 313 K in the austenite phase a…
Shape Memory Alloy TransformationsThermal Expansion and Ionic ConductivityHeusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties
Muna Khushaim、Ryota Gemma、Talaat Al-Kassab2015-09-29arXiv
The influence of tuning the laser energy during the analyses on the resulting microstructure in a specimen utilizing an ultra-fast laser assisted atom probe was demonstrated by a case study of a binary Al-Li alloy. The decomposition parameters, such as the size, number density, volume fraction and composition of $δ^{'…
Materials Sciencephysics.ins-det
J. E. Coppock、J. R. Anderson、W. B. Johnson2015-09-29arXiv
This paper describes a simple microwave apparatus to measure the Hall effect in semiconductor wafers. The advantage of this technique is that it does not require contacts on the sample or the use of a resonant cavity. Our method consists of placing the semiconductor wafer into a slot cut in an X-band (8 - 12 GHz) wave…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
David Richard、Thomas Speck2015-09-29Scientific Reports
In many technical applications crystallization proceeds in the presence of stresses and flows, hence the importance to understand the crystallization mechanism in simple situations. We employ molecular dynamics simulations to study the crystallization kinetics of a nearly hard sphere liquid that is weakly sheared. We…
Granular flow and fluidized bedsMetallic Glasses and Amorphous AlloysMaterial Dynamics and Properties
Yanwen Liu、Cheng Zhang、Xiang Yuan 等 12 位作者2015-09-29arXiv
Electrostatic doping in materials can lead to various exciting electronic properties, such as metal-insulator transition and superconductivity, by altering the Fermi level position or introducing exotic phases. Cd3As2, a three-dimensional (3D) analog of graphene with extraordinary carrier mobility, was predicted to be…
Materials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Peter Fulde2015-09-29arXiv
Electronic structure calculations for solids based on many-electron wavefunctions have been hampered by the argument that for large electron numbers wavefunctions are not a legitimate scientific concept, because they face an exponential wall problem. We show that this problem can be avoided by using cumulant technique…
Materials ScienceChemical Physics
Thidarat Wongpinyochit、Petra Uhlmann、Andrew J. Urquhart 等 4 位作者2015-09-29Biomacromolecules
Silk has a robust clinical track record and is emerging as a promising biopolymer for drug delivery, including its use as nanomedicine. However, silk-based nanomedicines still require further refinements for full exploitation of their potential; the application of "stealth" design principals is especially necessary to…
Silk-based biomaterials and applicationsNonlinear Optical Materials StudiesElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
Yi Jiang、Dina Maniar、Albert J. J. Woortman 等 5 位作者2015-09-29Biomacromolecules
Furan-2,5-dicarboxylic acid (FDCA)-based furanic-aliphatic polyamides can be used as promising sustainable alternatives to polyphthalamides (semiaromatic polyamides) and be applied as high performance materials with great commercial interest. In this study, poly(octamethylene furanamide) (PA8F), an analog to poly(octa…
Synthetic Organic Chemistry MethodsCatalysis for Biomass Conversionbiodegradable polymer synthesis and properties