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Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) has emerged as a powerful tool to probe molecules at nanoscale. By utilizing plasmon polaritons on metallic nanowires, remote-excitation SERS can be achieved. Enhancement and modulation of remote-SERS intensity are vital for nano-optical spectroscopy. Counter-propagating plasmo…
This study investigates the recombination dynamics in highly mismatched ZnTeO alloys using time-resolved photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The large PL energy redshift with increasing O content and the disappearance of the ZnTe emission verify the O-induced conduction band anticrossing effect. The incorporation of…
The advent of micro-focused X-ray beams has led to the development of a number of advanced methods of sample evaluation and data collection. In particular, multiple-position data-collection and helical oscillation strategies are now becoming commonplace in order to alleviate the problems associated with radiation dama…
Human fumarase (HsFH) is a well-known citric acid cycle enzyme and is therefore a key component in energy metabolism. Genetic studies on human patients have shown that polymorphisms in the fumarase gene are responsible for diseases such as hereditary leiomyomatosis and renal cell cancer. As a first step in unravelling…
Calmodulin is one of the most well characterized proteins and a widely used model system for calcium binding and large-scale protein conformational changes. Its long central helix is usually cut in half when a target peptide is bound. Here, two new crystal structures of calmodulin are presented, in which conformations…
Magnetism of 6H-SiC single crystals implanted with 3 MeV protons is studied both experimentally and theoretically. We found that proton irradiation can induce stable ferromagnetism in 6H-SiC with a Curie temperature above 300 K. There is a dose window available for tuning the magnetization of the samples. The maximum…
BiFeO 3 has a complex phase diagram as function of both strain and temperature, undergoing a morphotropic phase transformation under large compressive strain. Epitaxial films, grown by pulsed laser deposition, are ideal for the study of the intricate phase coexistence between multiple polymporphs. Three polymorphs hav…
ZnO and related alloys are an important class of materials to realize transparent electronics because of their characteristic wide band-gap and high mobility, and also because of their practical advantages, such as: available n-type materials and bulk single crystals, low-cost production, and absence of toxicity. Our…
Fresnoite Ba 2 TiSi 2 O 8 (BTS) thin films were grown and crystallized in situ using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) with CO 2 laser direct heating of the a -plane sapphire (1 1 0) substrates up to 1250 °C. Starting with 775 °C growth temperature, (0 0 1)- and (1 1 0)-textured BTS and BaTiO 3 phases, respectively, could…
We design a novel multifunctional fluorene-based material containing triple azacrown ether (FTC) not only for application in aqueous solution as a chemosensor towards Fe(3+) but also to enhance the electroluminescence of PLEDs using an environmentally stable aluminum cathode. The photo-physical and sensing properties…
Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) is a very versatile tool to deposit thin films from a large variety of materials. Pulsed KrF excimer laser radiation at 248 nm wavelength can be employed to evaporate most oxide materials. Special focus has been put on transferring the stoichiometry of the target to the thin film, which i…
Carbon-bonded carbon fiber composites (CBCFs) containing SiC particles with uniform microstructure were produced using an innovative dispersion and flocculent approach. The mixed phenolic (Pf), SiC particles and chopped carbon fibers (Cf) were blended uniformly using polyethyleneimine (PEI) as a dispersant and polyacr…
Using synchrotron radiation (SR), the crystal structures of T6 bovine insulin complexed with Ni(2+) and Cu(2+) were solved to 1.50 and 1.45 Å resolution, respectively. The level of detail around the metal centres in these structures was highly limited, and the coordination of water in Cu site II of the copper insulin…
We report results of our experimental and theoretical studies on the Au concentration profile of Cu3Au(111) during oxidation by a hyperthermal O2 molecular beam at room temperature, using X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), in conjunction with synchrotron radiation (SR), and density functional theory (DFT). Before…
White light emitting Sr2SiO4:Eu2+ nanoparticles were prepared using reverse micellar route using Tergitol as a surfactant. The systems were characterised by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), photoluminescence, thermoluminescence (TL), and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) spectroscopy. SEM sho…
We have studied the adsorption of monoethanolamine (MEA, HO(CH 2 ) 2 NH 2 ), a well-known CO 2 capture molecule, on the rutile TiO 2 (110) surface using a combined experimental and theoretical approach. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, near-edge X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy, and scanning tunneling mic…
We present a theoretical and numerical analysis of the mechanical behavior of self-healing materials using an analytical model and numerical calculations both based on a Hierarchical Fiber Bundle Model, and applying them to graphene- or carbon-nanotube-based materials. The self-healing process can be described essenti…
A combined experimental and theoretical study of the local chemistry of cerium oxide films and islands on Ru(0001) is presented. Based on intensity-voltage low-energy electron microscopy [$I(V)$-LEEM] and resonant x-ray photoemission spectroscopy, we establish a one-to-one correspondence between the local oxidation st…
The adiabatic transition energies from the lowest triplet states of four Europium tris β-diketonate/phenantroline complexes have been determined in vacuo and in dicholomethane solution by the ΔSCF approach at the density functional theory level, using the PBE1PBE and the CAM-B3LYP hybrid functionals. The calculated ad…
Due to the donor–acceptor nature of their supramolecular interactions, nanostructured porphyrin-fullerene self-assembled architectures show attractive properties that can be exploited in high efficiency solar cells. In this work, we show that six different ordered bicomponent porphyrin-fullerene (C 60 ) networks are o…