Alexander J. Kupijai、Konstantin M. Behringer、Michael Corazza 等 7 位作者2015-05-06arXiv
The unique properties of organic semiconductors make them versatile base materials for many applications ranging from light emitting diodes to transistors. The low spin-orbit coupling typical for carbon-based materials and the resulting long spin lifetimes give rise to a large influence of the electron spin on charge…
Materials Science
Edith L. Losada、Jorge E. Garcés2015-05-06arXiv
This work reports the structural instability at T=0 K of the U2Mo compound in the structure C11b under the distortion related to the C66 elastic constant. The electronic properties of U2Mo such density of states (DOS), bands and Fermi surface (FS) are studied to understand the source of the instability. The C11b struc…
Materials Science
M. Lacotte、A. David、G. S. Rohrer 等 5 位作者2015-05-06arXiv
A high-throughput investigation of local epitaxy (called combinatorial substrate epitaxy) was carried out on Ca$_2$MnO$_4$ Ruddlesden-Popper thin films of six thicknesses (from 20 to 400 nm), all deposited on isostructural polycrystalline Sr$_2$TiO$_4$ substrates. Electron backscatter diffraction revealed grain-over-g…
Materials Science
Yifan Gao、Artem R. Oganov、Qiang Zhu 等 4 位作者2015-05-06Scientific Reports
Novel superhard materials, especially those with superior thermal and chemical stability, are needed to replace diamond. Carbon nitrides (C-N), which are likely to possess these characteristics and have even been expected to be harder than diamond, are excellent candidates. Here we report three new superhard and therm…
Boron and Carbon Nanomaterials ResearchDiamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchMXene and MAX Phase Materials
O. V. Misochko、J. Flock、T. Dekorsy2015-05-06arXiv
We have studied the polarization dependence of coherent phonons in the topological insulator Bi2Te3. Using polarization-dependent femtosecond pump-probe spectroscopy, we measured coherent phonons as a function of angle when the pump and probe polarizations were fixed, and the crystal orientation was rotated. For isotr…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Pier Luigi Silvestrelli、Alberto Ambrosetti2015-05-06Physical Review B
The DFT/vdW-WF2s1 method, recently developed to include the van der Waals interactions in the density functional theory and describe adsorption processes on metal surfaces by taking metal-screening effects into account, is applied to the case of the interaction of Xe and graphene with a transition-metal surface, namel…
Graphene research and applicationsInorganic Fluorides and Related CompoundsAdvanced Chemical Physics Studies
Nurit Atar、Eitan Grossman、I. Gouzman 等 9 位作者2015-05-06ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
In low Earth orbit (LEO), hazards such as atomic oxygen (AO) or electrostatic discharge (ESD) degrade polymeric materials, specifically, the extensively used polyimide (PI) Kapton. We prepared PI-based nanocomposite films that show both AO durability and ESD protection by incorporating polyhedral oligomeric silsesquio…
Synthesis and properties of polymersSilicone and Siloxane ChemistryConducting polymers and applications
D. Rauch、M. Kraken、F. J. Litterst 等 12 位作者2015-05-06Physical Review B
We have investigated single crystals and polycrystals from the series ${\mathrm{Nb}}_{1\ensuremath{-}y}{\mathrm{Fe}}_{2+y}, \ensuremath{-}0.004\ensuremath{\le}y\ensuremath{\le}0.018$, by electron spin resonance, muon spin relaxation, and M\"ossbauer spectroscopy. Our data establish that at lowest temperatures all samp…
Iron-based superconductors researchRare-earth and actinide compoundsMagnetic Properties of Alloys
Ricardo Garcia、Armin W. Knoll、Elisa Riedo2015-05-06arXiv
The nanoscale control afforded by scanning probe microscopes has prompted the development of a wide variety of scanning probe-based patterning methods. Some of these methods have demonstrated a high degree of robustness and patterning capabilities that are unmatched by other lithographic techniques. However, the limit…
Materials Science
Kamal Choudhary2015-05-06arXiv
There is a need for replacement material for lead due to its toxicity in organic-inorganic hybrid halide to facilitate its wide range photovoltaic applications. Here, first-principle calculations are used to screen some of the elements from the periodic table.
Materials Science
Tobias Brink、Daniel Şopu、Karsten Albe2015-05-06arXiv
Solid-state amorphization of crystalline copper nanolayers embedded in a Cu64Zr36 metallic glass is studied by molecular dynamics simulations for different orientations of the crystalline layer. We show that solid-state amorphization is driven by a reduction of interface energy, which compensates the bulk excess energ…
Materials Science
O. Durand、L. Soulard2015-05-06arXiv
The mass (volume and areal densities) versus velocity as well as the size versus velocity distributions of a shock-induced cloud of particles are investigated using large scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. A generic 3D tin crystal with a sinusoidal free surface roughness (single wavelength) is set in contact w…
Materials Science
H. C. Walker、K. A. McEwen、J. -C. Griveau 等 8 位作者2015-05-06arXiv
We present bulk property measurements of NpIr, a newly synthesized member of the Np-Ir binary phase diagram, which is isostructural to the non-centrosymmetric pressure-induced ferromagnetic superconductor UIr. Magnetic susceptibility, electronic transport properties at ambient and high pressure, and heat capacity meas…
Materials ScienceStrongly Correlated Electrons
D. Gottschalk、A. McBride、B. D. Reddy 等 6 位作者2015-05-06arXiv
A detailed theoretical and numerical investigation of the infinitesimal single-crystal gradient plasticity and grain-boundary theory of Gurtin (2008) "A theory of grain boundaries that accounts automatically for grain misorientation and grain-boundary orientation". Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 56 (2)…
Soft Condensed MatterMaterials Science
Huilong Dong、Tingjun Hou、Shuit‐Tong Lee 等 4 位作者2015-05-06Scientific Reports
The newly found B40 is the first experimentally observed all-boron fullerene and has potential applications in hydrogen storage. Here we investigate the binding ability and hydrogen storage capacity of Ti-decorated B40 fullerene based on DFT calculations. Our results indicate that Ti shows excellent binding capability…
MXene and MAX Phase MaterialsHydrogen Storage and MaterialsBoron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
Haider I. Rasool、Colin Ophus、Alex Zettl2015-05-06Advanced Materials
Atomic defects in crystalline structures have pronounced affects on their bulk properties. Aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy has proved to be a powerful characterization tool for understanding the bonding structure of defects in materials. In this article, recent results on the characterization of…
Graphene research and applicationsGa2O3 and related materials2D Materials and Applications
Bang Lin Li、Hao Zou、Lu Lu 等 7 位作者2015-05-06Advanced Functional Materials
Size‐dependent optical absorption of semiconductive (2H) layered molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ), exhibiting great discrimination abilities to single‐ and double‐stranded DNA (ssDNA) and (dsDNA), is studied. In the presence of high concentration of salt, layered MoS 2 trends to aggregate rapidly, leading to the increase…
MXene and MAX Phase MaterialsAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques2D Materials and Applications
Suresh Vishwanath、Xinyu Liu、Sergei Rouvimov 等 11 位作者2015-05-062D Materials
We report the structural and optical properties of a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) grown 2-dimensional (2D) material molybdenum diselenide (MoSe 2 ) on graphite, CaF 2 and epitaxial graphene. Extensive characterizations reveal that 2H–MoSe 2 grows by van-der-Waals epitaxy on all three substrates with a preferred crysta…
Graphene research and applicationsMXene and MAX Phase Materials2D Materials and Applications
John Christopher Bachman、Reza Kavian、Daniel J. Graham 等 8 位作者2015-05-06Nature Communications
Electrochemical energy-storage devices have the potential to be clean and efficient, but their current cost and performance limit their use in numerous transportation and stationary applications. Many organic molecules are abundant, economical and electrochemically active; if selected correctly and rationally designed…
Conducting polymers and applicationsAdvanced battery technologies researchSupercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
Sen Hou、Xuefei Wang、Sean S. Park 等 5 位作者2015-05-06Advanced Healthcare Materials
A novel rapid self-integrating, injectable, and bioerodible hydrogel is developed for bone-cartilage tissue complex regeneration. The hydrogels are able to self-integrate to form various structures, as can be seen after dying some hydrogel disks pink with rodamine. This hydrogel is demonstrated to engineer cartilage-b…
Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsBone Tissue Engineering MaterialsSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials