Noureddine Abidi、Eric Héquet2004-04-12Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abstract The effect of microwave plasma on lightweight cotton fabric was investigated. N 2 ‐plasma, O 2 ‐plasma, and Ar‐plasma were obtained using a microwave generator at 2.45 GHz under vacuum. The universal attenuated total reflectance–Fourier transform infrared (UATR–FTIR) instrument was used to monitor the changes…
Advanced Cellulose Research StudiesMicroplastics and Plastic PollutionDyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers
David J. Browne、J.D. Hunt2004-04-12Numerical Heat Transfer Part B Fundamentals
In a new model of alloy solidification in a square mold, the interface being followed by a front-tracking technique is representative of a curve joining the tips of growing solid dendrites. The coupled heat equation is solved via an Eulerian control-volume formulation. In the absence of convection, the nucleation and…
Solidification and crystal growth phenomenaMetallurgical Processes and ThermodynamicsMetallurgy and Material Forming
Karen Lozano、Shuying Yang、Qiang Zeng2004-04-12Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abstract The melt rheological analysis of high‐density polyethylene reinforced with vapor‐grown carbon nanofibers (VGCNFs) was performed on an oscillatory rheometer. The influence of frequency, temperature, and nanofiber concentration (up to 30 wt %) on the rheological properties of composites was investigated. Specif…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesPolymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesDielectric materials and actuators
Kao‐Shuo Chang、Maria A. Aronova、Chia‐Ching Lin 等 13 位作者2004-04-12Applied Physics Letters
We have fabricated a series of composition spreads consisting of ferroelectric BaTiO3 and piezomagnetic CoFe2O4 layers of varying thicknesses modulated at nanometer level in order to explore artificial magnetoelectric thin-film heterostructures. Scanning microwave microscopy and scanning superconducting quantum interf…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsDielectric properties of ceramics
T. Scholz、Gerold A. Schneider、J. Muñoz‐Saldaña 等 4 位作者2004-04-12Applied Physics Letters
Indentation tests with loads between 0.5 and 10 mN were performed on fused quartz, (0001) oriented sapphire and (001) oriented barium titanate. The resulting submicron cracks were used to determine the fracture toughness KIC of the tested samples. The indentation crack length method was applicable, but a c/a dependenc…
Advanced ceramic materials synthesisMetal and Thin Film MechanicsAdvanced materials and composites
A. A. Yehia、M. A. Mull、M. N. Ismail 等 5 位作者2004-04-12Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abstract Waste rubber powder (RP) was subjected to chemical modification by using different concentrations of oxidizing agents such as nitric acid and 30% hydrogen peroxide solution. This treatment leads to introducing some functional groups onto the surface of RP. The chemically modified RP was incorporated in natura…
Polymer crystallization and propertiesPolymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesEpoxy Resin Curing Processes
Yeh Wang、Feng‐B. Chen、Kai‐C. Wu2004-04-12Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abstract Polypropylene/organoclay nanocomposites modified with different maleic anhydride grafted polypropylene (PPgMA) compatibilizers were compounded on a twin‐screw extruder. The effectiveness of the feeding sequence and compatibilizer type toward the dispersion of organoclay into PP matrix was critically studied.…
Polymer crystallization and propertiesPolymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesPolymer Nanocomposite Synthesis and Irradiation
Takashi Uchino、Atsuko Aboshi、Shinji Kohara 等 6 位作者2004-04-12Physical Review B
We have studied the structure of nanometer-sized silica particles called fumed silica, which is a synthetic amorphous silicon dioxide produced by burning silicon tetrachloride in an oxygen-hydrogen flame, using infrared and Raman spectroscopies and a high-energy x-ray diffraction method. It has been demonstrated that…
High-pressure geophysics and materialsGlass properties and applicationsSilicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
Jiwei Zhai、Xi Yao、Liangying Zhang 等 4 位作者2004-04-12Applied Physics Letters
Ba(Zr 0.35 Ti 0.65 ) O 3 (BZT) thin films were deposited via a sol-gel process on Pt-coated silicon substrates. The BZT films were in the perovskite phase and had polycrystalline structure. Temperature-dependent dielectric measurements revealed that the thin films have relaxor behavior and diffuse phase transition cha…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsMicrowave Dielectric Ceramics Synthesis
Qing Wan、Q. H. Li、Yujin Chen 等 7 位作者2004-04-12Applied Physics Letters
Cd-doped ZnO nanowires in mass production were synthesized by evaporating metal zinc (Zn) and cadmium (Cd) at 900 °C. Devices using the synthesized nanowires were fabricated on microstructured substrates. Cd-doped ZnO nanowires show a clear positive temperature coefficient of resistance effect, which is quite abnormal…
ZnO doping and propertiesGas Sensing Nanomaterials and SensorsGa2O3 and related materials
Amit Bhattacharya、Paramita Ray2004-04-12Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abstract It is generally considered that the H‐bonds are responsible for the stabilization of network of PVA in water. The major types of intermolecular interactions from inorganic salts are responsible for the network of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) and water, which ruptures the multiple H‐bonds between the OH groups o…
Thermodynamic properties of mixturesChemical and Physical Properties in Aqueous SolutionsPolymer Science and PVC
Slava V. Rotkin、K. L. Hess2004-04-12Applied Physics Letters
We develop theoretical arguments that demonstrate the possibility of metallic field-effect transistors in one-dimensional systems and particularly in armchair carbon nanotubes. A very inhomogeneous electric field, such as the field of a tunneling tip, can penetrate the relatively weakly screened nanotubes and open an…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsDiamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
P. Badica、T. Kondo、T. Kudo 等 6 位作者2004-04-12arXiv
Magnetization in DC magnetic fields and at different temperatures have been measured on the Li2Pd3B compound. This material was recently found to show superconductivity at 7-8K. Critical fields Hc1(0) and Hc2(0) have been determined to be 135Oe and 4T, respectively. Critical current density, scaling of the pinning for…
Materials ScienceSuperconductivity
Randy Fishman2004-04-12arXiv
This work examines the magnetic order and spin dynamics of a double-exchange model with competing ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic Heisenberg interactions between the local moments. The Heisenberg interactions are periodically arranged in a Villain configuration in two dimensions with nearest-neighbor, ferromagneti…
Materials ScienceStrongly Correlated Electrons
C. Menotti、M. Kramer、A. Smerzi 等 5 位作者2004-04-12arXiv
We study the propagation of sound waves in a Bose-Einstein condensate trapped in a one-dimensional optical lattice. We find that the velocity of propagation of sound wavepackets decreases with increasing optical lattice depth, as predicted by the Bogoliubov theory. The strong interplay between nonlinearities and the p…
Materials ScienceSoft Condensed Matter
Yongqiang Xue、Mark A. Ratner2004-04-12Physical Review B
We present an atomistic self-consistent tight-binding study of the electronic and transport properties of metal-semiconducting carbon nanotube interfaces as a function of the nanotube channel length when the end of the nanotube wire is buried inside the electrodes. We show that the lineup of the nanotube band structur…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsMolecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Paul J. Petersan、Robert D. Deegan、M. Marder 等 4 位作者2004-04-12arXiv
The shear wave speed is an upper limit for the speed of cracks loaded in tension in linear elastic solids. We have discovered that in a non-linear material, cracks in tension (Mode I) exceed this sound speed, and travel in an intersonic range between shear and longitudinal wave speeds. The experiments are conducted in…
Materials Science
Yuanzheng Yue、Renate von der Ohe、Søren Lund Jensen2004-04-12The Journal of Chemical Physics
The physical correlation between the fictive temperature dependence of the cooling rate of the melts and the temperature dependence of the equilibrium viscosity has been found by doing differential scanning calorimetric and viscometric measurements on a silicate melt, and by performing finite element simulations of th…
Material Dynamics and PropertiesGlass properties and applicationsMetallic Glasses and Amorphous Alloys
Chao‐Nan Xu、Hiroshi Yamada、Xusheng Wang 等 4 位作者2004-04-12Applied Physics Letters
Elastico-deformation luminescence in strontium aluminates was investigated systematically using precisely controlled pure-phase Eu-doped strontium aluminates of SrAl12O19, Sr4Al14O25, SrAl4O7, α-SrAl2O4, β-SrAl2O4, Sr3Al2O6 and their mixed phases. This study revealed that only the α-SrAl2O4 phase produces strong elast…
Luminescence Properties of Advanced MaterialsAcoustic Wave Resonator TechnologiesRadiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
Chris Wolverton、Vidvuds Ozoliņš、Mark Asta2004-04-12OpenAlex
Despite decades of study, several key aspects of the Al-H system remain the subject of considerable debate. In an effort to elucidate some of these unknowns, we perform a systematic study of this system using first-principles density-functional calculations. We show that generalized gradient approximation (GGA) calcul…
Fusion materials and technologiesHydrogen Storage and MaterialsNuclear Materials and Properties