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Graphene-based photodetectors are promising new devices for high-speed optoelectronic applications. However, despite recent efforts it is not clear what determines the ultimate speed limit of these devices. Here, we present measurements of the intrinsic response time of metal-graphene-metal photodetectors with monolay…
There is an increasing understanding of the mechanisms underlying the development of magnetoelectric coupling and multiferroic order in both single-phase and composite materials. The investigations underlying this advance include a range of studies on thin films, which are expected to play an important role in the dev…
We compare the atomic dynamics of the glass to that of the relevant crystal. In the spectra of inelastic scattering, the boson peak of the glass appears higher than the transverse acoustic (TA) singularity of the crystal. However, the density of states shows that they have the same number of states. Increasing pressur…
Traditional nanostructured design of cerium oxide catalysts typically focuses on their shape, size, and elemental composition. We report a different approach to enhance the catalytic activity of cerium oxide nanostructures through engineering high density of oxygen vacancy defects in these catalysts without dopants. T…
Abstract Renewable poly(lactic acid) (PLA) exhibits high strength and stiffness. PLA is fully biodegradable and has received great interest. However, the inherent brittleness of PLA largely impedes its wide applications. In this article, the recent progress in PLA toughening using various routes including plasticizati…
Highly porous nanocellulose aerogels can be prepared by vacuum freeze-drying from microfibrillated cellulose hydrogels. Here we show that by functionalizing the native cellulose nanofibrils of the aerogel with a hydrophobic but oleophilic coating, such as titanium dioxide, a selectively oil-absorbing material capable…
Sphere we go: Monodisperse resorcinol formaldehyde (RF) resin polymer spheres with finely tunable particle size ranging from 200 to 1000 nm (see pictures) are prepared by an extension of the Stöber method. Pyrolysis of the RF spheres at 600 °C under N2 atmosphere yields uniform carbon spheres with a volume shrinkage o…
The modified Becke-Johnson exchange potential [F. Tran and P. Blaha, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 226401 (2009)] (TB-mBJ) is tested on various types of solids which are difficult to describe theoretically: nonmagnetic semiconducting transition-metal oxides and sulfides, metals (Fe, Co, Ni, and Cu), and (anti)ferromagnetic in…
Abstract Polycrystalline samples of La 0.4 Ca o.6 Mn 1− x Cr x O 3 ( x = 0.00, 0.02, 0.04, 0.06) were prepared by the solid state reaction method. The influence of Cr 3+ substitution for Mn 3+ on the magnetic property and charge ordering phase of La 0.4 Ca 0.6 MnO 3 was studied through the measurements of X‐ray diffra…
Abstract Mg‐doped ZnO radial spherical structures with nanorods grown on both sides of the spherical shell were successfully prepared via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of Zn and Mg powders in the absence of a catalyst. The structures associated with different growth temperatures (700, 800, and 850°C) were monitored…
This work describes the behavior of 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH) in ethanol/water mixtures. The dependence of DPH photophysical properties (absorption and fluorescence emission) on the water percentage in ethanol indicates that DPH undergoes self-aggregation processes in solvent conditions above a critical wate…
The x-ray absorption near edge structures of amorphous ZnO (a-ZnO) films were examined. The near-edge structure, which reflects the virtual electron hopping interactions in the photoabsorption final states, increased in intensity compared to crystalline ZnO. Theoretical path-by-path analyses revealed that this reflect…
The synthesis and photophysical evaluation of a new lanthanide luminescence imaging agent is presented. The agent, a terbium-based cyclen complex can, through the use of an iminodiacetate moiety, bind to damaged bone surface via chelation to exposed Ca(ii) sites, enabling the imaging of the damage using confocal fluor…
Polyamide-6 (PA6), acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene and their blends are an important class of engineering thermoplastics that are widely used for electronic and automotive industries. Many efforts have been done to improve the properties of both pure components and the blends. It was for this reason that the mechanica…
Abstract Vanadium dioxide thin films were fabricated through annealing vanadium oxide thin films deposited by dual ion beam sputtering. X‐ray diffraction (XRD), atom force microscopy (AFM), and Fourier transform infrared spectrum (FTIR) were employed to measure the crystalline structure, surface morphology, and infrar…
Well-defined magnetically separable, amorphous titania-coated magnetite spherical nanoparticles were successfully synthesized by a sonochemical method using 20 kHz ultrasound. Amorphous magnetite particles were generated by the pyrolysis of Fe(CO) 5 within the cavitation bubbles. The simultaneous formation of titania…
The crystal structure of gustavite Pb1.06Ag0.95Bi2.80Sb0.20S5.99 from Rotgu¨lden, Lungau, Salzburg Land, Austria, was refined to R1 ¼ 2.76 % using single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. Refined unit-cell parameters are a 7.0567(14), b 19.6905(39), c 8.2219(16) A ° , b 106.961(3) , unit-cell volume 1092.7(2) A ° 3 and…
Cations are specifically recognized by numerous proteins. Cations may play a structural role, as cofactors stabilizing their binding partners, or a functional role, as cofactors activating their binding partners or being themselves involved in enzymatic reactions. Despite their small size, their charge density and the…
Quantum dots found widespread application in the biosciences as bright and highly photo-stable fluorescent probes, i.e. for single-particle tracking. In this work we used ensemble spectroscopy and single-molecule techniques to study the quenching of quantum dots by various biochemical compounds that are usually presen…
The electronic band structures of Ce3Te4 have been studied using the first-principles density-functional theory calculations. It is found that the density of states of Ce3Te4 has a very high delta-shaped peak appearing 0.21 eV above the Fermi level, which mainly comes from the f orbital electrons of the rare-earth ele…