В. В. Бражкин、Yoshiaki Katayama、M. V. Kondrin 等 6 位作者2008-04-08Physical Review Letters
An in situ high-temperature--high-pressure study of liquid chalcogenide AsS by x-ray diffraction, resistivity measurements, and quenching from melt is presented. The obtained data provide direct evidence for the existence in the melt under compression of two transformations: one is from a moderate-viscosity molecular…
Phase Equilibria and ThermodynamicsMaterial Dynamics and PropertiesChemical Thermodynamics and Molecular Structure
Yongjin Li、Yuko Iwakura、Li Zhao 等 4 位作者2008-04-08Macromolecules
Nanostructured poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF)/acrylic rubber (ACM) blends have been prepared by simply melt blending of PVDF and several percent of ACM. The morphology and properties of the prepared nanoblends have been investigated by means of transmission electron microscopy (TEM), dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA…
Polymer crystallization and propertiesPolymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesPolymer Foaming and Composites
Ning Wang、Xia Cao、Desheng Kong 等 6 位作者2008-04-08The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Nickel nanochains assembled with submicrometer-sized hollow spheres were synthesized through a mild polyol reduction method by using PVP as the soft template. The resulting fiberlike superstructures were characterized by using X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, and high-…
Magnetic properties of thin filmsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationNanoporous metals and alloys
Motohiko Ezawa2008-04-08Physical Review B
Graphene nanodisk is a graphene derivative with a closed edge. The trigonal zigzag nanodisk with size $N$ contains a zero-energy sector with the $\text{SU}(N)$ symmetry. We investigate electron-electron interaction effects within the zero-energy sector. We explicitly derive the direct and exchange interactions, which…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsGraphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomena
C Y Wang、L C Zhang2008-04-08Nanotechnology
This paper proposes a two-dimensional elastic shell model to characterize the deformation of single-walled carbon nanotubes using the in-plane rigidity, Poisson ratio, bending rigidity and off-plane torsion rigidity as independent elastic constants. It was found that the off-plane torsion rigidity of a single-walled c…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesNonlocal and gradient elasticity in micro/nano structuresNanotechnology research and applications
Lymarie Semidey-Flecha、David S. Sholl2008-04-08The Journal of Chemical Physics
First-principles calculations offer a useful complement to experimental approaches for characterizing hydrogen permeance through dense metal membranes. A challenge in applying these methods to disordered alloys is to make quantitative predictions for the net solubility and diffusivity of interstitial H based on the sp…
Catalysts for Methane ReformingHydrogen Storage and MaterialsAmmonia Synthesis and Nitrogen Reduction
Yasuhiro Tachibana、Kazuya Umekita、Yasuhide Otsuka 等 4 位作者2008-04-08Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
A dense TiO 2 electron blocking layer was introduced on a conducting glass in CdS quantum dots sensitized solar cells to investigate electron leakage into the electrolyte. A ferricyanide/ferrocyanide redox couple was employed, as a model electrolyte, possessing a high standard rate constant. The analysis of the I – V…
TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar CellsAdvanced Photocatalysis TechniquesQuantum Dots Synthesis And Properties
Sabine Szunerits、Vera G. Praig、Maël Manesse 等 4 位作者2008-04-08Nanotechnology
Mechanically, chemically and optically stable gold island films were prepared on indium tin oxide (ITO) substrates by direct thermal evaporation of thin gold films (2-6 nm) without the need for pre- or post-coating. The effect of mild thermal annealing (150 °C, 12 h) or short high temperature annealing (500 °C, 1 min)…
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
Wei-Kun Li、Xue‐Qing Gong、Guanzhong Lu 等 4 位作者2008-04-08The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Density functional theory calculations have been performed to determine the relationship between structures and reactivity of anatase and brookite TiO 2 surfaces. Brookite TiO 2 (210) has the same structural building block of anatase TiO 2 (101), but interatomic dista…
TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar CellsCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCatalysis and Oxidation Reactions
N. Patel、R. Fernandes、Graziano Guella 等 7 位作者2008-04-08The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Amorphous Co−B-based catalyst powder, produced by chemical reduction of cobalt salts, was used as the target material for Co−B thin film catalyst preparation through pulsed laser deposition (PLD). A comparative kinetic analysis of the sodium borohydride (NaBH 4 ) hydrolysis by using Co−B catalyst added to the hydride…
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceHydrogen Storage and MaterialsCatalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
J. Cayssol2008-04-08Physical Review Letters
We investigate the crossed Andreev reflections between two graphene leads connected by a narrow superconductor. When the leads are, respectively, of the n and p type, we find that electron elastic cotunneling and local Andreev reflection are both eliminated even in the absence of any valley-isospin or spin polarizatio…
Graphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomenaMolecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Tomohiro Seki、Shiki Yagai、Takashi Karatsu 等 4 位作者2008-04-08The Journal of Organic Chemistry
Melamine-linked perylene bisimide dyes (MPBIs) bearing an ethylene or trimethylene group as linker moieties were synthesized, and their self-aggregation and coaggregation with cyanurates through complementary triple hydrogen bonds have been investigated. UV/vis studies revealed that both the MPBIs self-assemble in non…
Luminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsSupramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsPolydiacetylene-based materials and applications
V. A. Khomchenko、M. Kopcewicz、A. M. L. Lopes 等 7 位作者2008-04-08Journal of Physics D Applied Physics
The mechanism of the formation of heterovalent-substitution-induced defects as well as their influence on the magnetic properties of BiFeO3-based multiferroics has been studied. It has been shown that heterovalent A2+ substitution results in the formation of oxygen vacancies in the host lattices of both antiferromagne…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsMultiferroics and related materials
Fawad Inam、Haixue Yan、Michael J. Reece 等 4 位作者2008-04-08Nanotechnology
Carbon nanotube (CNT) and alumina dispersions were prepared separately in dimethylformamide (DMF) and ethanol by ultrasonication. The colloidal stability of the dispersions was monitored and a particle size analysis was performed to evaluate the size range of the agglomerates after different times. DMF was found to be…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesDielectric materials and actuatorsSmart Materials for Construction
Ali Akbar Ashkarran、Azam Iraji zad、Mohammad Mahdi Ahadian 等 4 位作者2008-04-08Nanotechnology
In this paper, we discuss the synthesis and characterization of tungsten trioxide nanoparticles prepared by the arc discharge method in deionized (DI) water. The size and morphology of WO(3) nanoparticles prepared using different arc currents (25, 35 and 45 A) were studied. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) and scanning…
TiO2 Photocatalysis and Solar CellsGas Sensing Nanomaterials and SensorsTransition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
Stephanie Hornig、Thomas Heinze2008-04-08Biomacromolecules
Commercially prepared cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate propionate, -butyrate, and -phthalate as well as cellulose acetates prepared in the laboratory scale with varying degree of substitution (DS) self-assemble into regular nanoparticles, ranging in size from 86 to 368 nm, by using two different techniques of nano…
Advanced Cellulose Research StudiesElectrostatics and Colloid InteractionsElectrohydrodynamics and Fluid Dynamics
Edan Lerner、Itamar Procaccia2008-04-08arXiv
We present a quantitative theory for a relaxation function in a simple glass-forming model (binary mixture of particles with different interaction parameters). It is shown that the slowing down is caused by the competition between locally favored regions (clusters) which are long lived but each of which relaxes as a s…
cond-mat.dis-nnMaterials Sciencecond-mat.stat-mech
M. Haridas、S. Srivastava、J. K. Basu2008-04-08arXiv
Optical properties of polymer capped gold nanoparticles of various sizes (diameter 3-6 nm) have been studied. We present a new scheme to extract size dependent variation of total dielectric function of gold nanoparticles from measured UV-Vis absorption data. The new scheme can also be used, in principle, for other rel…
Materials Science
Jutta Rogal、Karsten Reuter、Matthias Scheffler2008-04-08Physical Review B
The possible significance of oxide formation for the catalytic activity of transition metals in heterogeneous oxidation catalysis has evoked a lively discussion over the recent years. On the more noble transition metals (such as Pd, Pt, or Ag), the low stability of the common bulk oxides primarily suggests subnanomete…
Advanced Chemical Physics StudiesCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCatalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Neophytos Neophytou、Abhijeet Paul、Mark Lundstrom 等 4 位作者2008-04-08arXiv
Bandstructure effects in the electronic transport of strongly quantized silicon nanowire field-effect-transistors (FET) in various transport orientations are examined. A 10-band sp3d5s* semi-empirical atomistic tight-binding model coupled to a self consistent Poisson solver is used for the dispersion calculation. A se…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science