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Polyurethane (PUR) plastic sheets were prepared by reacting polyols synthesized from canola oil with aromatic diphenylmethane diisocyanate. The properties of the material were measured by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) as well as tensile…
We present a theory and experiment demonstrating optical readout of charge and spin in a single InAs/GaAs self-assembled quantum dot. By applying a magnetic field we create the filling factor 2 quantum Hall singlet phase of the charged exciton. Increasing or decreasing the magnetic field leads to electronic spin-flip…
We implement and demonstrate a scheme that permits to drive electroluminescence with an extremely low turn-on voltage. The device behaves like compound semiconductors, in which the electroluminescence turn-on voltage is about the same as the open circuit voltage for the photovoltaic effect. However, the electrolumines…
Several chalcogenide alloys exhibit a pronounced contrast between the optical absorption in the metastable rocksalt and in the amorphous phase. This phenomenon is the basis for their application in optical data storage. Here we present ab initio calculations of the optical properties of GeTe and Ge1Sb2Te4 in the two p…
For investigation of electron transport on the nanoscale, a system possessing a simple to interpret electronic structure is composed of alkane chains bridging two electrodes via end groups; to date the majority of experiments and theoretical investigations on such structures have considered thiols bonding to gold elec…
We develop a nucleation-based model to explain the formation of the wurtzite (WZ) crystalline phase during the vapor-liquid-solid growth of free-standing nanowires of zinc-blende (ZB) semiconductors. We first show that, in nanowires, nucleation generally occurs at the outer edge of the solid/liquid interface (the trip…
Surface magnetic properties of perovskite manganites have been a recurrent topic during last years since they play a major role in the implementation of magnetoelectronic devices. Magneto-optical techniques, such as X-ray magnetic circular dichroism, turn out to be a very efficient tool to study surface magnetism due…
The use of micro-Raman spectroscopy, through chemical bond nano-scale probes, allows the changes in conformations (alpha helix -> beta sheet), chain orientation, disconnection of disulfide bonds (-20%) and the increase of intra and inter-chain distances during the strain to be distinguished. The combination of micro-R…
We present a computational LCHO-CI approach allowing for the simulation of exchange interactions in gated lateral quantum dot networks. The approach is based on single-particle states calculated using a linear combination of harmonic orbitals (LCHO) of each of the dots, and a configuration interaction (CI) approach to…
The interest of micro and tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy to analyze nanosized and nanostructured materials, chiefly semiconductors, oxides and pristine or functionalized carbon nanotubes, is reviewed at the light of the contributions to this special issue. Particular attention is paid to the fact that chemical reacti…
Protein-protein interactions can be altered by mutating one or more "hot spots," the subset of residues that account for most of the interface's binding free energy. The identification of hot spots requires a significant experimental effort, highlighting the practical value of hot spot predictions. We present two know…
Abstract Nanoparticles can influence the properties of polymer materials by a variety of mechanisms. With fullerene, carbon nanotube, and clay or graphene sheet nanocomposites in mind, we investigate how particle shape influences the melt shear viscosity η and the tensile strength τ, which we determine via molecular d…
We describe how a recent efficient theory of low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) enables the determination of finite-size and disordered nanostructures. Our cluster approach, called NANOLEED, speeds up the computation to scale as $n\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}\mathrm{log}\phantom{\rule{0.2em}{0ex}}n$, rather than th…
Abstract The synthesis of new functional amphiphiles 4 and 7 synthesized by DCC coupling of pyrenebutyric acid with first‐ and second‐generation Newkome‐type aminodendrons is reported. The crystal structure of the free amphiphilic tricarboxylic acid 4 exhibits efficient and cooperative usage of all possible hydrogen‐b…
Generally, phase transitions are seriously affected by spatial confinement. This effect is important for its own sake, but also for applications to nanotechnology. Here we report the first systematic experimental study on confinement effects on a liquid-liquid transition of a molecular liquid. We found that one liquid…
${\mathrm{Nd}}_{0.7}{\mathrm{Sr}}_{0.3}\mathrm{Mn}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ (NSMO) films $7--300\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{nm}$ thick have been grown on $(001){(\mathrm{La}\mathrm{Al}{\mathrm{O}}_{3})}_{0.3}{({\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}\mathrm{Al}\mathrm{Ta}{\mathrm{O}}_{6})}_{0.7}$ (LSAT) and $(001)\mathrm{Sr}\mathrm{Ti}{\math…
This work presents direct observations of orientational percolation and depolarization in a (001)-cut relaxor $\mathrm{Pb}{({\mathrm{In}}_{1∕2}{\mathrm{Nb}}_{1∕2})}_{0.70}{\mathrm{Ti}}_{0.30}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ (PINT30%) crystal by means of dielectric permittivity, depolarization current, domain structure, and hysteresi…
A guided-mode resonance (GMR) filter with wide angular tolerances is experimentally demonstrated as an authentication label illuminated with unpolarized white light. The proposed filter, based on a free-standing silicon nitride membrane suspended on a silicon substrate, is fabricated by using anisotropic wet etching t…
The alpha-cellulose content, holocellulose content and crystallinity index were measured for thirteen hardwood and five softwood samples, for which both cell-wall substance and cell-wall densities had been measured in an earlier study. Direct relationships were found between crystallinity index, alpha-cellulose conten…
The stochastic dynamics in molten nickel is studied by neutron scattering. The quasielastic spectrum shows two distinct components having disparate linewidths. The wave-vector dependence of the narrow component is shown to arise from incoherent scattering at low momentum transfers. In turn, the spectral half-width of…