Sanaz Mosadegh‐Sedghi、Denis Rodrigue、Josée Brisson 等 4 位作者2013-03-10Polymers for Advanced Technologies
Microporous and highly hydrophobic low‐density polyethylene (LDPE) hollow fiber membranes were successfully prepared via a solvent‐free method, combining melt‐extrusion, and salt‐leaching techniques. NaCl particles with particle size of 5–10 µm were mixed with LDPE pellets to produce a blend of 35, 40, 50, 60, 65 and…
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsMembrane Separation TechnologiesSurface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer、Dinesh Kabra、Silvia Vignolini 等 8 位作者2013-03-10Chemistry of Materials
Electron and hole conducting 10-nm-wide polymer morphologies hold great promise for organic electro-optical devices such as solar cells and light emitting diodes. The self-assembly of block-copolymers (BCPs) is often viewed as an efficient way to generate such materials. Here, a functional block copolymer that contain…
Block Copolymer Self-AssemblyLiquid Crystal Research AdvancementsFluid Dynamics and Thin Films
Sehoon Jung、Min Serk Kwon、Seung Bin Kim 等 4 位作者2013-03-10Surface and Interface Analysis
A combination of scanning electron microscopy, X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, and transmission electron microscopy with a sampling method by glow discharge sputtering was successfully employed to characterize the chemical information and microscopic features of oxide layers…
Magnetic Properties and ApplicationsCopper Interconnects and ReliabilitySemiconductor materials and devices
Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za strojništvo, Smetanova 17, 2000 Maribor、Manja Kurečič、CO Polimat, Tehnološki park 24, 1000 Ljubljana 等 6 位作者2013-03-10Tekstilec
Electrospinning is a method based on the use of electrostatic forces for producing continuous fi bres with the diameter from between ten nanometres to some micrometres. Such fi ne fi bres cannot be produced with conventional methods for the production of nonwovens. The nanofi bres formed with electrospinning have an e…
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsElectrohydrodynamics and Fluid DynamicsElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
Qiwen Zhong、Vyacheslav V. Diev、Sean T. Roberts 等 7 位作者2013-03-10ACS Nano
A systematic study of the interaction between π-extended porphyrins and single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is reported here. Zinc porphyrins with 1-pyrenyl groups in the 5,15-meso positions, 1, as well as compounds where one or both of the pyrene groups have been fused at the meso and β positions of the porphyrin…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesFullerene Chemistry and ApplicationsPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
K. Ziegler2013-03-10arXiv
We use a random gap model to describe a metal-insulator transition in three-dimensional semiconductors due to doping and find a conventional phase transition, where the effective scattering rate is the order parameter. Spontaneous symmetry breaking results in metallic behavior, whereas the insulating regime is charact…
cond-mat.dis-nnMaterials Science
Ralph Kurt、Christian Klinke、Jean-Marc Bonard 等 5 位作者2013-03-10arXiv
Patterned films of decorated nitrogenated carbon (C-N) nanotubes were catalytically synthesised by hot filament chemical vapour deposition (HF-CVD) in a nitrogen-methane-ammonia environment. The systematic study of a transition between different kinds of C-N nanostructures as a function of the local substrate temperat…
Materials Science
A. B. Harris、T. Yildirim2013-03-10arXiv
We treat the ground state, elementary excitations, and neutron scattering cross section for a system of trimers consisting of three tightly bound spins 1/2 on a distorted Kagomé lattice, subject to isotropic nearest neighbor (usually antiferromagnetic) Heisenberg interactions. The interactions between trimers are assu…
Strongly Correlated ElectronsMaterials Science
Qin Zhou、A. Zettl2013-03-10arXiv
Graphene has extremely low mass density and high mechanical strength, key qualities for efficient wide-frequency-response electrostatic audio speaker design. Low mass ensures good high frequency response, while high strength allows for relatively large free-standing diaphragms necessary for effective low frequency res…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Hongzhi Liu、Xiaojie Guo、Wenjia Song 等 4 位作者2013-03-09Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
In this study, toughening of poly(lactic acid) (PLA) through reactive blending with epoxy-containing elastomer and ionomer was investigated. Four commercial ionomers based on the poly(ethylene- co -methacrylic acid) (EMAA) precursor were evaluated in this study, which contained zinc, magnesium, sodium, an lithium ions…
Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysisPolymer composites and self-healingbiodegradable polymer synthesis and properties
Zhanghui Chen、Xiangwei Jiang、Jingbo Li 等 5 位作者2013-03-09Journal of Computational Chemistry
The optimization of the atomic and molecular clusters with a large number of atoms is a very challenging topic. This article proposes a parallel differential evolution (DE) optimization scheme for large-scale clusters. It combines a modified DE algorithm with improved genetic operators and a parallel strategy with a m…
Advanced Chemical Physics StudiesCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceMachine Learning in Materials Science
Laura Cano-Cortés、Carmine Ortix、Jeroen van den Brink2013-03-09arXiv
Combining an analytical and numerical approach we investigate the dispersion of the topologically protected spin-filtered edge-states of the Quantum Spin Hall state on honeycomb and ruby nets with zigzag (ZZ) and armchair (AC) edges. We show that the Fermi velocity of the helical edge-states on ZZ edges increases line…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Brooks D. Rabideau、Animesh Agarwal、Ahmed E. Ismail2013-03-09The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Explicit, all-atom molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the breakup of small bundles of cellulose Iα and Iβ in the ionic liquids [BMIM]Cl, [EMIM]Ac, and [DMIM]DMP. In all cases, significant breakup of the bundles is observed with the initial breakup following a common underlying mechanism. Anions bind stro…
Catalysis for Biomass ConversionAdvanced Cellulose Research StudiesBiofuel production and bioconversion
Hsin Lin、Tanmoy Das、Yung Jui Wang 等 7 位作者2013-03-09arXiv
We demonstrate that first-principles based adiabatic continuation approach is a very powerful and efficient tool for constructing topological phase diagrams and locating non-trivial topological insulator materials. Using this technique, we predict that the ternary intermetallic series Li$_2M'X$ where $M'$=Cu, Ag, Au,…
Materials Science
Wei-Feng Tsai、Cheng-Yi Huang、Tay-Rong Chang 等 6 位作者2013-03-09arXiv
Silicene is a one-atom-thick 2D crystal of silicon with a hexagonal lattice structure that is related to that of graphene but with atomic bonds that are buckled rather than flat. This buckling confers advantages on silicene over graphene, because it should, in principle, generate both a band gap and polarized spin-sta…
Materials Science
Petr S. Sokolov、Andrey N. Baranov、Anthony M. T. Bell 等 4 位作者2013-03-09arXiv
Lattice parameter of metastable high-pressure phase of zinc oxide, rock-salt ZnO was measured in the 10-300 K temperature range using synchrotron X-ray powder diffraction. No phase transition was observed down to 10 K. The lattice parameter of rock-salt ZnO was found to increase from 4.266 Å in the 10-80 K range up to…
Materials Science
Hanyu Liu、E. R. Hernandez、Jun Yan 等 4 位作者2013-03-09arXiv
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, and its properties under conditions of high temperature and pressure are crucial to understand the interior of of large gaseous planets and other astrophysical bodies. At ultra high pressures solid hydrogen has been predicted to transform into a quantum fluid, bec…
Materials Science
Bertold Rasche、Anna Isaeva、Michael Ruck 等 10 位作者2013-03-09arXiv
Commonly materials are classified as either electrical conductors or insulators. The theoretical discovery of topological insulators (TIs) in 2005 has fundamentally challenged this dichotomy. In a TI, spin-orbit interaction generates a non-trivial topology of the electronic band-structure dictating that its bulk is pe…
cond-mat.otherMaterials Science
F. M. Hashimzade、D. A. Huseinova、Z. A. Jahangirli 等 5 位作者2013-03-09arXiv
The IR- and Raman-active phonon frequencies, as well as the elastic constants of orthorhombic GeSe, were calculatedas a function of hydrostatic pressure using the method of density functional in the ABINIT software package. Comparison with the published results of theoretical calculations and experimental data of the…
Materials Science
Carlos Pérez‐Campaña、Vanessa Gómez‐Vallejo、María Puigivila 等 9 位作者2013-03-09ACS Nano
The extraordinary small size of NPs makes them difficult to detect and quantify once distributed in a material or biological system. We present a simple and straightforward method for the direct proton beam activation of synthetic or commercially available aluminum oxide NPs (Al2O3 NPs) via the 16O(p,α)13N nuclear rea…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryRadiation Therapy and DosimetryElectron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques