Zhan Shi、Yongshuai Tong、Shuwen Deng 等 8 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
This paper presents a miniature alternating magnetic field sensor made from magnetoelectric (ME) laminated materials with a universal tunable bias magnetic circuit. By adjusting the width of the bypass passage in the bias magnetic circuit, the magnetic flux in the ME materials could be tuned and make the ME sensor wor…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsMagnetic Field Sensors Techniques
Ying Wang、Yu-Meng Yang、Zizheng Zhao 等 5 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
A systematic field-emission study has been carried out on different types of two-dimensional carbons in ultrahigh vacuum with the cathode-anode distance ranging from near-contact to about 124 nm. An analytical model has been developed to explain the increase of field enhancement factor with the cathode-anode distance.…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsDiamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
Ying-Gang Lu、Stuart Turner、Johan Verbeeck 等 6 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
Variations in local bond length and coordination in boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond (NCD) films have been studied through changes in the fine structure of boron and carbon K-edges in electron energy-loss spectra, acquired in a scanning transmission electron microscope. The presence of high concentrations of B in p…
Semiconductor materials and devicesDiamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchAdvanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications
Thomas G. Barclay、Kristina T. Constantopoulos、Wei Zhang 等 6 位作者2013-07-15Langmuir
A series of novel amphiphiles were designed for self-assembly into chiral morphologies, the amphiphiles consisting of a glutamic acid (Glu) headgroup connected through an 11-carbon alkoxy chain to a diphenyldiazenyl (Azo) group and terminated with a variable length alkyl chain (R-Azo-11-Glu, where R denotes the number…
Lipid Membrane Structure and BehaviorPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistrySupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Hailong Huang、Yapeng Li、Caijin Li 等 6 位作者2013-07-15Macromolecular Bioscience
A pH-responsive anticancer drug polymer conjugate p(aspartate)-graft-p(ethylene glycol)-dodecylamine-hydrazone-(adriamycin-levulinic acid) is synthesized as a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-visible and pH-sensitive drug delivery system. Being pH-sensitive, the anticancer drug ADR are stable in the polymeric micelles…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryNanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsUltrasound and Hyperthermia Applications
Changtao Wang、Ping Gao、xing Tao 等 7 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
We report experimental observation of directional imaging of evanescent waves in layered metal-dielectric metamaterial. The investigation is performed with Ag/SiO2 multilayers combined with nano-object featured by a silicon mask slit. Evanescent waves of directional imaging are transferred to far field by roughening t…
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces ApplicationsPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon ResearchPhotonic Crystals and Applications
Xiuyan Li、Zhe Wang、Jiaona Wang 等 5 位作者2013-07-15Polymer Engineering and Science
Laser melt electrospinning is a novel technology to fabricate scaffolds in the tissue engineering applications. The melt electrospinning is much safer than the conventional solution electrospinning due to without solvent effect. In this study, thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) micro/nanofibers were successfully prepare…
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsPolymer composites and self-healing
Jinyuan Zhou、Gengzhi Sun、Zhaoyao Zhan 等 6 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
The structural properties of dry-spun carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers were characterized by depth-profiled polarized Raman spectroscopy. Results showed that the twisting cannot be fully transferred through the whole fiber and the CNTs within fibers possess non-uniform alignments in radial direction. Effective twisting de…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsSmart Materials for Construction
A.A. Adly、Salwa K. Abd–El–Hafiz2013-07-15Journal of Advanced Research
Magnetic materials are considered as crucial components for a wide range of products and devices. Usually, complexity of such materials is defined by their permeability classification and coupling extent to non-magnetic properties. Hence, development of models that could accurately simulate the complex nature of these…
Magnetic properties of thin filmsMagnetic Properties and ApplicationsNon-Destructive Testing Techniques
Jianwei Wang、Rodney C. Ewing、Udo Becker2013-07-15Physical Review B
Electronic-Structure and high-pressure phase transitions of stoichiometric uranium dioxide (UO${}_{2}$) and hyperstoichiometric UO${}_{2.03}$ were investigated using first-principles calculations. Density functional theory calculations using the generalized gradient approximation and the projector-augmented wave metho…
Radioactive element chemistry and processingNuclear Materials and PropertiesNuclear materials and radiation effects
Lihong Liu、Rong‐Jun Xie、Chenning Zhang 等 4 位作者2013-07-15Materials
Chlorides of NH4Cl and SrCl2 and fluorides of AlF3 and SrF2 were added to raw materials acting as the flux for preparing the SrSi2O2N2:Eu2+ phosphor. The effects of the fluxes on the phase formation, particle morphology, particle size, and photoluminescence properties were investigated. The results revealed that parti…
Luminescence Properties of Advanced MaterialsRadiation Detection and Scintillator TechnologiesAmmonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
B. Amin、Nirpendra Singh、Terry M. Tritt 等 5 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
The electronic structure and thermoelectric properties of strained (biaxially and uniaxially) Sr0.95Pr0.05TiO3 and SrTi0.95Nb0.05O3 are investigated in the temperature range from 300 K to 1200 K. Substitutions of Pr at the Sr site and Nb at the Ti site generate n-type doping and thus improve the thermoelectric perform…
Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and DevicesMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
Geeta Yadav、HITEN P. PANCHORY2013-07-15Journal of Drug Delivery and Therapeutics
Site specific or targeted drug delivery is used to treat many diseases like cardiovascular disease, Osteo-diseases, hormonal deficiency diseases like Parkinson’s disease, auto-immune diseases like arthritis, diabetes. However, the most important application of targeted drug delivery system is to treat cancer. The un…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryRNA Interference and Gene DeliveryGraphene and Nanomaterials Applications
Kaveh Edalati、Takeshi Daio、Yoshifumi Ikoma 等 5 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
Diamond-like carbon (DLC) with significant fraction of tetrahedral sp3 bonds and amorphous structure is generally produced in the form of thin films by rapid cooling of high-energy carbon atoms in vacuum. This study shows that DLC can be directly formed from bulk samples of graphite by application of severe plastic de…
Microstructure and mechanical propertiesDiamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchAdvanced materials and composites
J. Galán、Patricia Verleysen、Joris Degrieck2013-07-15Strain
ABSTRACT An in‐depth analysis of the effect of heat generated by plastic work on the observed tensile behaviour of Ti6Al4V at different strain rates is presented. Special emphasis is put on the transition from isothermal to adiabatic conditions and how this transition is affected by several process parameters such a…
High-pressure geophysics and materialsEnergetic Materials and CombustionHigh-Velocity Impact and Material Behavior
Mahboobeh Shahbazi、Xiaolin Wang、Kwanseok Choi 等 4 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
The flux pinning mechanism of BaFe1.9Ni0.1As2 superconducting crystals have been investigated systematically by magnetic measurements up to 13 T at various temperatures. The field dependence of the critical current density, Jc, was analysed within the collective pinning model. A remarkably good agreement between the e…
Physics of Superconductivity and MagnetismIron-based superconductors researchSuperconductivity in MgB2 and Alloys
Manal A. El-Sheikh、M. H. El‐Rafie、E.S. Abdel-Halim 等 4 位作者2013-07-15Journal of Polymers
Green synthesis aims to minimize the use of unsafe reactants and maximize the efficiency of synthesis process. These could be achieved by using environmentally compassionate polymers and nontoxic chemicals. Hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC), an ecofriendly polymer, was used as both reducing and stabilizing agents in the sy…
Nanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsGold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsNanomaterials for catalytic reactions
H. P. Ojeda-Collado、C. Rodríguez-Castellanos2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
Photon-assisted charge transport through a double barrier structure under a time periodic field in graphene is studied. Within the framework of the Floquet formalism and using the transfer matrix method, the transmission probabilities for the central band and sidebands are calculated. A critical phase difference betwe…
Graphene research and applicationsPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon ResearchQuantum and electron transport phenomena
Qimin Zhu、Qing Ma、D. Bruce Buchholz 等 6 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
Polarization-dependent X-ray absorption measurements reveal the existence of structural anisotropy in amorphous (a-) SnO2 film. The anisotropy is readily seen for the second neighbor interaction whose magnitude differs along three measured directions. The differences can be well accounted for by 10%–20% variation in t…
ZnO doping and propertiesLuminescence Properties of Advanced MaterialsTransition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
Felix Trier、S. Amoruso、Dennis Valbjørn Christensen 等 9 位作者2013-07-15Applied Physics Letters
Amorphous-LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces present metallic conductivity similar to those found in their all-crystalline counterparts. Here, the conductivity of amorphous-LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces is modified by an external electric field applied in-situ with a biased truncated cone electrode (−10 V ≤ Vbias ≤ 20 V) during film…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides