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Water-soluble, highly fluorescent, silanized semiconductor nanocrystals with different surface charges were synthesized. To covalently attach the nanocrystals to biological macromolecules with a variety of mild coupling chemistries, the outermost siloxane shells were derivatized with thiol, amino, or carboxyl function…
Classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations employing Brenner potential for intra-nanotube interactions and van der Waals forces for polymer-nanotube interface are used to investigate the thermal expansion and diffusion characteristics of carbon nanotube−polyethylene composites. Additions of carbon nanotubes to a po…
We report a strong correlation between the location of Mn sites in ferromagnetic ${\mathrm{Ga}}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}{\mathrm{Mn}}_{x}\mathrm{As}$ measured by combined channeling Rutherford backscattering and by particle-induced x-ray emission experiments and its Curie temperature. The concentrations of free holes determ…
This paper presents the material modeling and experimental characterization of SMA rod and tube actuators undergoing torsional deformations. The investigation of the torsional characteristics of SMAs was carried out in order to gain fundamental understanding of the behavior of torsional actuators for actively altering…
Validity of the assumptions relating the applicability of continuum shell theories to the global mechanical behavior of carbon nanotubes is examined. The present study focuses on providing a basis that can be used to qualitatively assess the appropriateness of continuum-shell models for nanotubes. To address the effec…
This paper presents a detailed calculation of the electronic structure of quantum dots with various geometries. In particular, non-circular quantum dots are examined and their characteristic properties analysed. In addition, the importance of electron-electron spin exchange and correlation is addressed.
Abstract Morphological variations of ABC triblock copolymers through the blending of B or A/C homopolymers, all with short chain lengths, were studied experimentally. The samples were symmetric ISP triblock copolymers, where I, S, and P denote polyisoprene, polystyrene, and poly(2‐vinylpyridine), and component homopol…
Comparative measurements of specific heat capacities (temperature interval between 2 and 500 K), and of low frequency mechanical spectroscopy (temperature interval between 120 and 400 K) in poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) amorphous blends show the existence of single calorimetric…
Water has been shown to play a crucial role in the stability and catalytic function of protein. Our purpose is to understand the modification of bulk liquid behavior when water is around myoglobin, in particular, the perturbation of liquid water structure by hydrophobic and hydrophilic sites of the protein. For this,…
The self-consistent-field (SCF) theory developed in Part I [J. Chem. Phys. 116, 7283 (2002), preceding paper] is employed to compute the interaction between particles coated by end-grafted homopolymers in good solvent, where the particles and the homopolymers have comparable sizes. The result shows that, contrary to t…
Residual stress in titanium–nickel thin films has been exploited as a force load for thin-film shape-memory alloy micro-actuators, thus eliminating the need for providing 'external' force load for device training and operation. Thermal cycling during device operation is accomplished using electrical current-induced Jo…
We studied the epitaxy of 10 mol % Nb:SrTiO3 on a SrTiO3(100) substrate under an interrupted pulsed-laser-deposition condition. By monitoring the recovery behaviors of reflection high-energy electron diffraction intensity and an optical reflectance difference signal from the growth surface, we observed that, at temper…
A theory of collective plasma excitations in a linear periodic array of multishell nanotubes is presented. The electron system in the nanotubes is modeled by a quasifree electron gas confined to the surface of an infinitely long cylinder. The plasmon dispersion equation is derived in the random-phase approximation neg…
A new terminally protected synthetic tripeptide with noncoded amino acids, tert-butyloxycarbonyl-β-alanyl-α-aminoisobutyryl-β-alanyl methyl ester, is synthesized. The product is characterized by 1H NMR and DQF COSY NMR data. This tripeptide produces thermoreversible gels in 1,2-dichlorobenzene (DCB) at room temperatur…
Photoreflectance spectra of a high-quality ZnO epilayer on the ScAlMgO4 (0001) substrate grown by laser molecular-beam epitaxy exhibited clear excitonic resonances due to three excitons associated with uppermost valence bands (A, B, and C excitons). The oscillator strengths of the B and C excitons are larger than that…
We report on the properties of lanthanum-doped SrTiO3 thin films grown by off-axis laser ablation on LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 substrates in oxygen partial pressures ranging from 10−8 Torr to 55 mTorr. The La/Sr doping ratio of the ablation target was 1%. The resulting films have carrier densities measured in the range of 4.7…
We describe a thermoelectric device structure that confines the thermal gradients and electric fields at the boundaries of the cold end, and exploits the reduction of thermal conductivity at the interfaces and the poor electron-phonon coupling at the junctions. The measured temperature–current and voltage–current char…
The photoinduced non-oxidative methane coupling at room temperature was examined by using a series of silica-alumina samples prepared by a sol–gel method, in order to clarify the photoactive sites of silica-alumina. The maximum yield of ethane, the main product in this reaction condition, was obtained on the sample co…
Electronic properties of ferroelectric SrBi2Ta2O9 (SBT) SrBi2Nb2O9 (SBN) and PbBi2Nb2O9 (PBN) have been investigated using a first-principles calculational method with optimized structures. In optimized SBT, the displacement of Ta in TaO6 octahedra is small, while the displacement of Nb in NbO6 octahedra is larger in…
The distribution of gallium/germanium in the type-I clathrates Sr8Ga16Ge30 and Sr4Eu4Ga16Ge30 over the three crystallographically distinct framework sites has been determined by resonant diffraction. The analyses indicate a strong preference for the occupation of the 6c site by gallium. This is consistent with theoret…