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The thermal behaviors of linear and branched polypropylene (PP) with foaming additives were investigated using a normal and a high-pressure differential scanning calorimeter (DSC). Specifically, the effects of material branching, dispersed additives, cooling rates, and dissolved blowing agents on the crystallization t…
Time-to-failure of polymers, and the actual failure mode, are influenced by stress, temperature, processing history, and molecular weight. We show that long-term ductile failure under constant load is governed by the same process as short term ductile failure at constant rate of deformation. Failure proves to originat…
We have developed a thermally stable, deep-ultraviolet (DUV) photodiode using tungsten carbide (WC) Schottky and Ti/WC ohmic contacts for a boron-doped homoepitaxial p-diamond epilayer. Effects of thermal annealing in an argon ambient on the electrical and photoresponse properties were investigated. Annealing at tempe…
Silicon nitride bulk ceramics with varying compositions of the grain boundary phase but similar grain sizes were developed, which allows to analyze the influence of the grain boundary chemistry on mechanical properties. Micrographs of the crack path reveal a much weaker interface when the rare‐earth element in the gra…
We extend the plasmon hybridization method to investigate the plasmon modes of metallic nanoshell dimers. The formalism is also generalized to include the effects of dielectric backgrounds. It is shown that the presence of dielectrics shifts the plasmon resonances of the individual nanoparticles to lower energies and…
Poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET)/clay nanocomposites are prepared by intercalation of a catalyst precursor and an organic modifier, followed by the polymerization of monomers between the adjacent clay layers. The mechanical properties, thermal deformation temperature, anti-UV-radiation properties, CO2 gas-barrier pr…
Abstract Rice husk ash (RHA) obtained from agricultural waste, by using rice husk as a power source, is mainly composed of silica and carbon black. A two‐stage conventional mixing procedure was used to incorporate rice husk ash into natural rubber. For comparison purposes, two commercial reinforcing fillers, silica an…
The ac conductivity of CaCu3Ti4O12 (CCTO) ceramics was studied in the temperature range 173<T<443K. The dc conductivities containing the components of electrodes (σe) and grain boundaries (σgb) were measured, from which a thermal activation energies of ∼0.54eV was inferred. Different behaviors of dielect…
Single crystals of a highly conductive oxide SrMoO3 have been grown by a floating-zone method under argon atmosphere with ultralow oxygen partial pressure p(O2)∼10−25atm. The obtained single crystals of SrMoO3 reveal quite low resistivity at 300 K ρ(300K)=5.1μΩcm, which is the lowest to date in the values of ρ(300K) o…
Pre-growth pressure control in a solid–vapor process leads to the synthesis of single-crystal ZnO nanosprings at high yield (>50 %). This study demonstrates the possibility of synthesizing nanosprings (see image) of high purity and at high yield, and makes systematic understanding of the properties and exploration of…
Based on a modified Ising model in a transverse field we demonstrate that defect layers in ferroelectric thin films, such as layers with impurities, vacancies or dislocations, are able to induce a strong increase or decrease of the polarization depending on the variation of the exchange interaction within the defect l…
The measurement of the Casimir force between a large gold coated sphere and single crystal silicon plate is performed with an atomic force microscope. A rigorous statistical comparison of data with theory is done, without use of the concept of root-mean-square deviation, and excellent agreement is obtained. The Casimi…
The mobility of charge carriers in a semiconductor nanowire is explored as a function of increasing radius, assuming low temperatures where impurity scattering dominates. The competition between increased cross-section and the concurrent increase in available scattering channels causes strongly non-monotonic dependenc…
Dendrimers are an attractive platform for macromolecular imaging due to the presence of multiple terminal groups on the exterior of the molecule. Through application of appropriate metal ion chelates, large numbers of metal ions for imaging (paramagnetic or radioopaque) and therapy (radioactive particle emitters) may…
We have fabricated two-dimensional n-type PbTe∕PbTe0.75Se0.25 structures using an evaporation process. In optimized films exhibiting a high-quality superlattice structure, a significant reduction in lattice thermal conductivity has been experimentally measured. The reduction would indicate enhanced thermoelectric devi…
Recent experiments on several oxide perovskites reveal that they undergo tilt phase transitions to higher-symmetry phases on increasing pressure and that dTc/dP<0, contrary to a general rule previously proposed for such zone-boundary transitions. We show that the negative slope of the phase boundary is a consequence o…
Surface and ferroelectric properties of ${\mathrm{PbTiO}}_{3}$ thin films are investigated using an interatomic potential approach with parameters determined from first-principles calculations. We show that a model developed for the bulk describes properly the surface properties of ${\mathrm{PbTiO}}_{3}$. In particula…
Experiments and three-dimensional numerical modeling of nanoscale piezoelectric response across a single domain wall in ferroelectric lithium niobate are presented. Surprising asymmetry in the local electromechanical response across a single antiparallel ferroelectric domain wall is reported. Piezoelectric force micro…
We investigate the effect of orbital overlap on optical matrix elements in empirical tight-binding models. Empirical tight-binding models assume an orthogonal basis of (atomiclike) states and a diagonal coordinate operator which neglects the intra-atomic part. It is shown that, starting with an atomic basis which is n…
Ammonia adsorption on single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) was studied by means of infrared spectroscopy at both cryogenic (approximately 94 K) and room (approximately 300 K) temperatures. At 94 K, vacuum-annealed SWNTs showed no detectable ammonia uptake. However, the ammonia adsorption was found to be sensitive to…