Jingjing Zhang2015-05-28Scientific Reports
The resolution of conventional optical lenses is limited by diffraction. For decades researchers have made various attempts to beat the diffraction limit and realize subwavelength imaging. Here we present the approach to design modified solid immersion lenses that deliver the subwavelength information of objects into…
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces ApplicationsPhotonic Crystals and ApplicationsNear-Field Optical Microscopy
Alex Acheampong、Mark Adom‐Asamoah、Joshua Ayarkwa 等 4 位作者2015-05-28Journal of Civil Engineering and Construction Technology
This paper evaluates the shear strength of simply supported palm kernel shell (PKS) concrete and normal weight concrete (NWC) beams subjected to four-point loading. The primary variable of the investigation was evaluation of shear capacity of reinforced PKS concrete and NWC beams with and without shear reinforcement.…
Structural Behavior of Reinforced ConcreteNatural Fiber Reinforced CompositesInnovative concrete reinforcement materials
Shi Cao、Ning Wu、William Echtenkamp 等 8 位作者2015-05-28Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
The surface of chromia (Cr2O3) has a surface electronic structure distinct from the bulk and a packing density distinct from the bulk. More than a demarcation between the solid and the vacuum, the surface differs from the bulk of chromia, not just because of a partial occupancy of chromium sites, but also because of a…
Machine Learning in Materials ScienceElectron and X-Ray Spectroscopy TechniquesX-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Raja Nor Izawati Raja Othman、Arthur Wilkinson2015-05-28International Journal of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering
Carbon nanotubes grafted onto the surfaces of spherical silica gels were incorporated into epoxy polymer to yield nanocomposite. The efficiency of this approach in controlling the dispersion of carbon nanotubes within the epoxy matrices was observed from the scanning electron microscope images, where the nanotubes rem…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesElectromagnetic wave absorption materialsDielectric materials and actuators
Yoon Yee Then、Nor Azowa Ibrahim、Norhazlin Zainuddin 等 6 位作者2015-05-28International Journal of Automotive and Mechanical Engineering
The present work deals with the utilization of oil palm mesocarp fibre (OPMF) andpoly(butylene succinate) (PBS) to produce cost-effective biodegradable materials. Thebiocomposite was prepared from OPMF and PBS at a weight ratio of 70:30 via a meltblending technique without addition of any additive. This biocomposite s…
Nanocomposite Films for Food PackagingNatural Fiber Reinforced CompositesElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
Saiful Izwan Abd Razak、Noor Fadzliana Ahmad Sharif、Nadirul Hasraf Mat Nayan 等 5 位作者2015-05-28BioResources
Newly developed packaging paper made of biopulped pineapple leaf fiber (PALF) and poly(lactic acid)(PLA) was studied. PALF packaging sheets were solvent impregnated with PLA at different concentrations in order to improve their moisture barrier and mechanical performance. With the impregnation of PLA at a concentratio…
Nanocomposite Films for Food PackagingAdvanced Cellulose Research Studiesbiodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
Xiangguo Li、Iek‐Heng Chu、Xiaoguang Zhang 等 4 位作者2015-05-28Physical Review B
Electron transport in graphene is along the sheet but junction devices are often made by stacking different sheets together in a ``side-contact'' geometry which causes the current to flow perpendicular to the sheets within the device. Such geometry presents a challenge to first-principles transport methods. We solve t…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsGraphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomena
R. H. Miwa、Ricardo Kagimura、Matheus P. Lima 等 4 位作者2015-05-28Physical Review B
We have performed an ab initio theoretical study of the energetic stability and the electronic properties of pristine and hydrogen-adsorbed grain boundaries (GBs) in silicene. We find that GBs in silicene present lower formation energy when compared with their counterparts in graphene. Removing the inversion symmetry,…
Graphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomenaTopological Materials and Phenomena
Jingjing Sun、Xinjing Tang2015-05-28Scientific Reports
DNA cross-linking technology is an attractive tool for the detection, regulation, and manipulation of genes. In this study, a series of photolabile 4-oxo-enal-modified oligonucleotides functionalized with photosensitive ο-nitrobenzyl derivatives were rationally designed as a new kind of photocaged cross-linking agents…
DNA and Nucleic Acid ChemistryPhotochromic and Fluorescence ChemistrySynthesis of Indole Derivatives
Ranjith Rajasekharan Unnithan、Ann Roberts2015-05-28Scientific Reports
Here we propose and computationally demonstrate a quasi-planar metasurface consisting of arrays of pairs of concentric coaxial apertures in a metallic film. The structure relies on destructive interference between Fabry-Pérot modes excited in each aperture at resonance producing transmitted fields that interfere destr…
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces ApplicationsPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon ResearchAdvanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
Yujin Jeong、S. C. Kim、S.-R. Eric Yang2015-05-28Physical Review B
In semiconducting armchair graphene ribbons a tensile strain can induce pairs of topological gap states with opposite energies. Near the critical value of the deformation potential these kink and antikink states become almost degenerate with zero energy and have a fractional charge of one-half. Such a semiconducting a…
Graphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomenaTopological Materials and Phenomena
E. Dul’kin、Jiwei Zhai、Michael Roth2015-05-28physica status solidi (b)
Ba x Sr 1– x TiO 3 ferroelectrics ceramic with x = 70 and 80% have been studied by means of acoustic emission over a wide 0–300 °C temperature range and under dc external electric field. All the Curie temperatures T c , intermediate temperatures T * , and Burns temperatures T d have been successfully detected and comp…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsAcoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
Chengpeng Yao、Youjin Zhang、Yun Fan 等 5 位作者2015-05-28Crystal Research and Technology
Elliptic NdCrO 3 microplates were synthesized by a simple and facile one‐step hydrothermal method of processing temperature 280 °C for 3 days. The products prepared in this paper have been characterized by X‐ray diffraction (XRD), X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X‐ray fluorescence (XRF), Fourier transform infr…
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsMultiferroics and related materialsAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics
M. Bachelet2015-05-28Materials Science and Technology
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) hold promising applications in many fields such as electronics, optics and catalysis. In the past decades, there has been a growing interest for their application in medicine, in particular in nano-oncology as contrast agents, drug delivery vehicles or for diagnosis. Once injected intravenou…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryGold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsNanoplatforms for cancer theranostics
Matthias Schrade、Truls Norby、T. G. Finstad2015-05-28Journal of Applied Physics
The Hall coefficient RH and electrical conductivity of misfit calcium cobalt oxide (Ca2CoO3−δ)q(CoO2) (CCO) were measured at room temperature for different oxygen vacancy concentrations δ. Based on these and numerous previous results, it is shown that the charge carrier concentrations n obtained by the classical formu…
Physics of Superconductivity and MagnetismAdvanced Thermoelectric Materials and DevicesAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics
R V Kirkham2015-05-28Geological Society of America eBooks
This volume defines and summarizes in a comprehensive and systematic manner the essential characteristics of all economically significant types of Canadian mineral deposits. These summaries reflect the current understanding of mineral deposits and correspond closely to the definition of mineral-deposit types in common…
Metallurgy and Material Science
Daniel M. Marincel、Stephen Jesse、Alex Belianinov 等 8 位作者2015-05-28Journal of Applied Physics
Lead zirconate titanate (PZT) films with Zr/Ti ratios of 52/48 and 30/70 annealed at varying partial pressures of PbO within the perovskite phase field exhibited permittivities of 1150 and 600, respectively, with loss tangents of 0.02. Many of the functional properties, including the permittivity, piezoelectricity as…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsAcoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
Takafumi Hawai、Yusuke Nambu、Kenya Ohgushi 等 14 位作者2015-05-28Physical Review B
We investigated the iron-based ladder compounds (Ba,$\mathrm{Cs}){\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}{\mathrm{Se}}_{3}$. Their parent compounds ${\mathrm{BaFe}}_{2}{\mathrm{Se}}_{3}$ and ${\mathrm{CsFe}}_{2}{\mathrm{Se}}_{3}$ have different space groups, formal valences of Fe, and magnetic structures. Electrical resistivity, specific he…
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsRare-earth and actinide compoundsIron-based superconductors research
A. V. Emelyanenko、Alexei R. Khokhlov2015-05-28The Journal of Chemical Physics
The transitions between smectic, nematic, and isotropic phases are investigated in the framework of a unified molecular-statistical approach. The new translational order parameter is different from the one introduced in K. Kobayashi [Phys. Lett. A 31, 125 (1970)] and W. L. McMillan [Phys. Rev. A 4, 1238 (1971)]. The v…
Liquid Crystal Research AdvancementsSurfactants and Colloidal SystemsMolecular spectroscopy and chirality
Elnaz Akbari、Zolkafle Buntat、Elmira Shahraki 等 5 位作者2015-05-28Journal of Biomaterials Applications
Graphene is another allotrope of carbon with two-dimensional monolayer honeycomb. Owing to its special characteristics including electrical, physical and optical properties, graphene is known as a more suitable candidate compared to other materials to be used in the sensor application. It is possible, moreover, to use…
Graphene research and applicationsElectrochemical sensors and biosensorsGraphene and Nanomaterials Applications