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Mixed-ion and electron-conducting perovskite membranes are used to produce oxygen-enriched air (see picture). These membranes are thermally and mechanically stable at high temperatures (>875 °C) over a long period of time, thus making them suitable for industrial processes. Oxygen concentrations of the enriched air ty…
One-dimensional TTF assemblies have been obtained through the design of low molecular-weight gels, which show a characteristic absorption band at around 1750 nm upon I2 doping, assignable to a mixed-valence state of the TTF assemblies.
We have studied the transport properties of a molecular device composed of donor and acceptor moieties between two electrodes on either side. The device is considered to be one-dimensional with different on-site energies and the non-equilibrium properties are calculated using Landauer's formalism. The current-voltage…
In Part I of this set of two papers, a model of mesoscopic plasticity is developed for studying initial-boundary value problems of small scale plasticity. Here we make qualitative, finite element method-based computational predictions of the theory. We demonstrate size effects and the development of strong inhomogenei…
A rational building-block approach was employed to construct organometallic/polyoxometalate (POM) hybrids in which POM clusters and transition-metal complexes are linked by a π-conjugated bridge. The synthetic strategy for molecular and polymeric hybrids—POM functionalization with iodo-bearing groups, attachment of a…
We use the replica method to study the ideal glass transition of a liquid of identical hard spheres. We obtain estimates of the configurational entropy in the liquid phase, of the Kauzmann packing fraction phi(K), in the range of 0.58-0.62, and of the random close packing density phi(c), in the range of 0.64-0.67, dep…
A europium complex capable of selectively binding zinc (see picture) has been developed as a new paramagnetic chemical exchange saturation transfer (PARACEST) imaging agent for use in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A hydroxide group on the bound Zn ion increases the rate of water exchange on the Eu ion.
We have probed the electrical properties of top-gated single-walled carbon nanotube transistors at frequencies up to 50GHz by using the device as a microwave mixer. We find that the amplitude of the mixing signal decays as a function of frequency with a characteristic time constant that is limited by the setup. Despit…
Enlarging upon work of Nicorovici, McPhedran & Milton ( Nicorovici et al . 1994 Phys. Rev. B 49 (12), 8479–8482), a rigorous proof is given that in the quasistatic regime a cylindrical superlens can successfully image a dipole line source in the limit as the loss in the lens tends to zero. In this limit it is prov…
Though the existence of two-level systems (TLS) is widely accepted to explain low-temperature anomalies in many physical observables, knowledge about their properties is very rare. For silica, which is one of the prototype glass-forming systems, we elucidate the properties of the TLS via computer simulations by applyi…
Abstract Summary: This communication describes the effect of organic modifier miscibility with the matrices, and the effect of the initial interlayer spacing of the organoclay, on the overall morphology and properties of an immiscible polycarbonate/poly(methyl methacrylate) blend. By varying the organic‐modifier‐speci…
We have investigated the magnetic moment of the W ion in the ferrimagnetic double perovskites ${\mathrm{Sr}}_{2}\mathrm{Cr}\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{O}}_{6}$ and ${\mathrm{Ca}}_{2}\mathrm{Cr}\mathrm{W}{\mathrm{O}}_{6}$ by x-ray magnetic circular dichroism at the W ${L}_{2,3}$ edges. In both compounds a finite negative spin a…
We present a systematic study of the ballistic electron conductance through sp and 3d transition metal atoms attached to copper and palladium crystalline electrodes. We employ the 'ab initio' screened Korringa-Kohn-Rostoker Green's function method to calculate the electronic structure of nanocontacts while the ballist…
We propose a parameter-free scheme of calculation of the orbital polarization (OP) in metals, which starts with the strong-coupling limit for the screened Coulomb interactions in the random-phase approximation (RPA). For itinerant magnets, RPA can be further improved by restoring the spin polarization of the local-spi…
Perovskite-type $\mathrm{Bi}\mathrm{Ni}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ is an insulating antiferromagnet in which a charge disproportionation occurs at the Bi site. La substitution for Bi suppresses the charge disproportionation and makes the system metallic. We have measured the photoemission and x-ray-absorption (XAS) spectra of $…
We study numerically the equilibrium shapes, shape transitions and dislocation nucleation of small strained epitaxial islands with a two-dimensional atomistic model, using simple interatomic pair potentials. We first map out the phase diagram for the equilibrium island shapes as a function of island size (up to N = 10…
Nanofibers with side-by-side morphologies are electrospun from polyacrylonitrile and polyurethane using a microfluidic device. Laminar flow of the two polymer solutions through the device results in nanometer-diameter curly nanofibers with bicomponent cross-sections. The polyurethane half of the nanofibers can be diss…
Nonhydrolytic sol-gel processes in organic solvents have become very popular for the synthesis of metal oxide NCs. We report an affordable, high-yield, shape-control synthesis of MnO multipod nanocrystals with a quick reaction time. The reaction yields exclusively multipods; two to six pod nanocrystals are synthesized…
In this report, we present an acid-sensitive drug delivery vehicle, termed polyketal nanoparticles, which are designed to target therapeutics to the acidic environments of tumors, inflammatory tissues, and phagosomes. The polyketal nanoparticles are formulated from poly(1,4-phenyleneacetone dimethylene ketal) (PPADK),…
A new series of poly( p -phenylenebutadiynylene)s has been synthesized with unique polymer structural features. In these systems each of the p -phenylene units in the conjugated backbone is the core of a rigid three-dimensional iptycene scaffold. The fluorescence quenching properties of these polymers in response to a…