Eileen D. Kuempel、Charles L. Geraci、Paul A. Schulte2012-06-15The Annals of Occupational Hygiene
In the last decade since the rise in occupational safety and health (OSH) research focusing on nanomaterials, some progress has been made in generating the health effects and exposure data needed to perform risk assessment and develop risk management guidance. Yet, substantial research gaps remain, as do challenges in…
Heavy Metal Exposure and ToxicityNanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsAir Quality and Health Impacts
Qinghong Yuan、Zhiping Xu、Boris I. Yakobson 等 4 位作者2012-06-15Physical Review Letters
The energetics of topological defects (TDs) in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and their kinetic healing during the catalytic growth are explored theoretically. Our study indicates that, with the assistance of a metal catalyst, TDs formed during the addition of C atoms can be efficiently healed at the CNT-catalyst interface.…
Graphene research and applicationsCarbon Nanotubes in CompositesElectrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Hongbo Ma、Amanda A. Brennan、Stephen A. Diamond2012-06-15Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry
Generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) by titanium dioxide nanoparticles (nano-TiO(2)) and its consequent phototoxicity to Daphnia magna were measured under different solar ultraviolet (UV) spectra by applying a series of optical filters in a solar simulator. Removing UV-B (280-320 nm) from solar radiation had no…
Healthcare and Environmental Waste ManagementNanoparticles: synthesis and applications
Maxim Khodas、Andrey V. Chubukov2012-06-15Physical Review Letters
We analyze the pairing symmetry in Fe-based superconductors AFe2Se2 (A=K, Rb, Cs) which contain only electron pockets. We argue that the pairing condensate in such systems contains not only intrapocket component but also interpocket component, made of fermions belonging to different electron pockets. We analyze the in…
Iron-based superconductors researchRare-earth and actinide compounds
Jin-Wu Jiang、Junhua Zhao、Kun Zhou 等 4 位作者2012-06-15Journal of Applied Physics
The upper limit of the thermal conductivity and the mechanical strength are predicted for the polyethylene chain, by performing the ab initio calculation and applying the quantum mechanical non-equilibrium Green’s function approach. Specially, there are two main findings from our calculation: (1) the thermal conductiv…
Thermal properties of materialsComposite Material MechanicsPolymer crystallization and properties
Rajeev Kumar、Bobby G. Sumpter、S. Michael Kilbey2012-06-15The Journal of Chemical Physics
Understanding the effect of inhomogeneity on the charge regulation and dielectric properties, and how it depends on the conformational characteristics of the macromolecules is a long-standing problem. In order to address this problem, we have developed a field-theory to study charge regulation and local dielectric fun…
Electrostatics and Colloid InteractionsPolymer Surface Interaction StudiesHydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
A. X. Trautwein、H. Paulsen、H. Winkler 等 9 位作者2012-06-15arXiv
Nuclear inelastic scattering (NIS) spectra were recorded for the spin-crossover complexes STP and ETP (STP = [Fe(1,1,1-trisf[N-(2-pyridylmethyl)-N-methylamino]methylg- ethane)](ClO4)2 and ETP = [Fe(1,1,1-trisf[N-(2-pyridylmethyl)-N-methylamino]methylg-butane)](ClO4)2) at 30 K and at room temperature and also at ambien…
Chemical PhysicsMaterials Science
Chris Fietz、Costas M. Soukoulis2012-06-15arXiv
We present a simple model of the interface between a local homogeneous medium and a potentially nonlocal metamaterial/photonic crystal. This model allows us to calculate the scattering matrix elements of the interface for a plane wave of light normally incident upon the interface from either direction. The resulting s…
Materials Sciencephysics.optics
M. I. Andriychuk、A. G. Ramm2012-06-15arXiv
A numerical solution to the problem of wave scattering by many small particles is studied under the assumption k<<1, d>>a, where a is the size of the particles and d is the distance between the neighboring particles. Impedance boundary conditions are assumed on the boundaries of small particles. The results of numeric…
physics.comp-phMaterials Science
Z. T. Trautt、A. Adland、A. Karma 等 4 位作者2012-06-15arXiv
Previous simulation and experimental studies have shown that some grain boundaries (GBs) can couple to applied shear stresses and be moved by them, producing shear deformation of the lattice traversed by their motion. While this coupling effect has been well confirmed for symmetrical tilt GBs, little is known about th…
Materials Science
F. M. Schappacher、P. Khuntia、A. K. Rajarajan 等 8 位作者2012-06-15arXiv
The ternary stannide CeRuSn is a static mixed-valent cerium compound with an or-dering of trivalent and intermediate-valent cerium on two distinct crystallographic sites. 119Sn Mössbauer spectra showed two electronically almost identical tin atoms at 323 K, while at 298 K and below (77 and 4.2 K) two tin sites can cle…
Strongly Correlated ElectronsMaterials Science
Kikuo Harigaya2012-06-15arXiv
Possible magnetic properties are studied in the buckybowl molecules: the sumanene and a part of C_60. The Hubbard model is applied to the systems. We find that the molecular structure determines the magnetism in the sumanene. On the other hand, the edge state is found along the zigzag edge of a part of C_60. Therefore…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials ScienceChemical Physics
C. J. Edgcombe、A. Ionescu、J. C. Loudon 等 6 位作者2012-06-15arXiv
Holographic measurements on magnetised thin-film cobalt rings have demonstrated both onion and vortex states of magnetisation. For a ring in the vortex state, the difference between phases of electron paths that pass through the ring and those that travel outside it was found to agree very well with Aharonov-Bohm theo…
Materials Sciencephysics.ins-det
M. I. Andriychuk、A. G. Ramm2012-06-15arXiv
A numerical approach to the problem of wave scattering by many small particles is developed under the assumptions k<<1, d>>a, where a is the size of the particles and d is the distance between the neighboring particles. On the wavelength one may have many small particles. An impedance boundary conditions are assumed o…
Materials Sciencephysics.comp-ph
Stefan Knoppe、Igor Dolamic、Amala Dass 等 4 位作者2012-06-15Angewandte Chemie International Edition
Chirality unveiled: Thiolate-protected Au40(SR)24 clusters were enantioenriched using an HPLC approach. CD spectra show strong mirror-image responses, indicating the intrinsic chirality of a cluster of unknown structure protected with achiral ligands.
Nanocluster Synthesis and ApplicationsGold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsAdvanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
Matthias C. Ehmke、Steven N. Ehrlich、John E. Blendell 等 4 位作者2012-06-15Journal of Applied Physics
Dielectric permittivity and x-ray diffraction measurements were used to identify a region of phase coexistence between the rhombohedral and tetragonal phases near the morphotropic phase boundary in (1−x)Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3–x(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BZT-BCT). This phase coexistence prevails over a considerable composition and te…
Microwave Dielectric Ceramics SynthesisFerroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materials
P. Haro‐González、L. Martínez‐Maestro、Inocencio R. Martín 等 5 位作者2012-06-15Small
The potential use of CdTe quantum dots as luminescence nano-probes for lifetime fluorescence nano-thermometry is demonstrated. The maximum thermal sensitivity achievable is strongly dependent on the quantum dot size. For the smallest sizes (close to 1 nm) the lifetime thermal sensitivity overcomes those of conventiona…
Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin FilmsQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesOptical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials
Muhammad Rizwan Saleem2012-06-15International Journal of the Physical Sciences
The transparent Zinc Oxide (ZnO) thin films were deposited by multi-step sol-gel method and the effect of sol concentration on structural, morphological and optical properties were investigated. X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were employed to characterize structures and morphologies of…
ZnO doping and propertiesGas Sensing Nanomaterials and SensorsCopper-based nanomaterials and applications
Yousuke Toduka、Tatsushi Toyooka、Yuko Ibuki2012-06-15Environmental Science & Technology
We recently clarified that the side-scatter(ed) light (SSC) of flow cytometry (FCM) could be used as a guide to measure the uptake potential of nanoparticles [ Suzuki et al. Environ. Sci. Technol. 2007 , 41 , 3018 - 3024 ]. In this paper, the method was improved so as to be able to determine simultaneously the uptake…
Nanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsMicroplastics and Plastic Pollution
E. L. Verde、Gabriel T. Landi、Juliano de Andrade Gomes 等 5 位作者2012-06-15Journal of Applied Physics
Considerable effort has been made in recent years to optimize materials properties for magnetic hyperthermia applications. However, due to the complexity of the problem, several aspects pertaining to the combined influence of the different parameters involved still remain unclear. In this paper, we discuss in detail t…
Magnetic properties of thin filmsMultiferroics and related materialsMagnetic Properties and Synthesis of Ferrites