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Fibrous encapsulation is known to occur to many prosthetic implants and is thought to be due to the cells not adhering adequately to the surface. For developing new materials able to enhance cellular adhesion by mimicking extracellular matrix components, polyelectrolyte polymers, characterized by tunable surface charg…
Using in situ x-ray diffraction and Raman scattering techniques, we have investigated the behaviour of single-walled carbon nanotubes bundles under non-hydrostatic pressures. It is seen that the diffraction line corresponding to the two-dimensional triangular lattice in the bundles is not reversible for pressures beyo…
Various optical and dynamic light scattering studies have been conducted on the nematic phase of an oxazole-derived bent-core liquid crystal. At optical length scales and in the absence of applied fields, homogeneously aligned samples of this material, which has an oxazole heterocyclic ring in the central core, are fo…
The influence of shallow core-level hybridization on the electronic structure of the post-transition metal oxides ZnO, CdO, ${\mathrm{In}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{3},$ and ${\mathrm{SnO}}_{2}$ has been investigated using high-resolution soft x-ray emission and absorption spectroscopies. Synchrotron radiation excited O ${K}_{…
The ideal tensile (compressive) strength, Young's modulus, and band-gap changes of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNT's) with zigzag types of (8,0), (9,0), and (10,0) and armchair of (8,8) under an uniaxial deformation are analyzed using a tight binding (TB) method parametrized by Tang et al. In addition, the first…
In 1996, Berger and Slonczewski independently predicted that a large enough spin-polarized dc current density sent perpendicularly through a ferromagnetic layer could produce magnetic excitations (spin-waves) or reversal of magnetization (switching). In the past few years, both current-driven switching and current-dri…
We investigate one-electron properties of one-dimensional self-similar structures called limit quasi-periodic lattices. The trace map of such a lattice is nonconservative in contrast to the quasi-periodic case, and we can determine the structure of its attractor. It allows us to obtain the three new features of the pr…
We present results of electrochemical deposition of superconducting Pb in the pores of templates prepared by self-assembly from colloidal suspensions of polystyrene latex spheres. This technique enables us to create highly ordered superconducting nano-structures with 3D architectures on length scales ranging from 50 -…
Under heating, $α$-AlF$_3$ undergoes a structural phase transition from rhombohedral to cubic at temperature $T$ around 730 K. The density functional method is used to examine the $T$=0 energy surface in the structural parameter space, and finds the minimum in good agreement with the observed rhombohedral structure. T…
The mechanical milled ${\mathrm{Co}}_{0.2}{\mathrm{Zn}}_{0.8}{\mathrm{Fe}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{4}$ spinel oxide with average particle size $\ensuremath{\approx}20\mathrm{nm}$ shows an enhancement in both magnetization (i.e., more ferromagnetic) and ordering temperature comparing the bulk sample. The annealing of the as m…
An extended temperature and pressure-dependent investigation is carried out on a La0.75Ca0.25MnO3 sample exploiting the infrared absorption technique coupled to a diamond anvil cell. The pressure dependence of the insulator to metal transition temperature T(IM) is determined for the first time up to 11.2 GPa. The T(IM…
We measure the dynamic resistance of a Co/Cu/Co trilayer nanopillar at varied magnetic field $H$ and current $I$. The resistance displays the usual behavior, almost symmetric in $H$, both when magnetization switching is hysteretic at small $I,H$, and reversible at larger $I,H$. We show differences in the $I,H$ magneti…
Simultaneous monitoring of ac and dc responses of the electrode-electrolyte interface with potentiodynamic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (PDEIS) in silver underpotential and overpotential deposition on platinum has confirmed the role of intrinsic Pt surface changes in the irreversibility of Ag underpotential…
We present a methodology for computing photocurrent production in molecular semiconducting molecules. Our model combines a single-configuration interaction picture with the Schwinger-Keldysh non-equilibrium Greens function approach to compute the current response of a molecular semi-conducting wire following excitatio…
A drift-diffusion model of miniband transport in strongly coupled superlattices is derived from the single-miniband Boltzmann-Poisson transport equation with a BGK (Bhatnagar-Gross-Krook) collision term. We use a consistent Chapman-Enskog method to analyze the hyperbolic limit, at which collision and electric field te…
The coking characteristics during ethyl acetate and benzene combustion, in the presence and absence of water vapor, are reported. Coked Cr−ZSM-5 was prepared by exposing the catalyst to 32000 ppm of respective VOC at a GHSV of 3800 h -1 at 400 °C and with the addition of 9000 ppm of water vapor in humid feed. Stable r…
A series of chromophore-functionalized polybinaphthalenes have been prepared and characterized for their (nonlinear optical) properties. The polymers were prepared by direct polymerization using a Stille coupling between a bis(trimethyltin) compound and dibromo-substituted binaphthalene monomers. The chromophores were…
We study numerically the wetting properties of model heterogeneous flat substrates. The shapes of three-dimensional liquid drops in equilibrium with such substrates in the framework of the classical capillary theory are obtained. The numerical method used for minimizing the free energy is based on the local variations…
In-situ optical microscopy was used to measure the growth rate of gibbsite single crystals growing from aqueous sodium aluminate solutions. The growth rate was measured for various crystal faces, i.e., {100} and {001} faces in case of twinned hexagons and {110} faces for single crystalline lozenges. A considerable dis…
In this work, we have applied surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) and surface-enhanced infrared spectroscopy (SEIR) to study the interaction of nitro polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (NPAHs) with metal surfaces. The nitro group confers the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) moiety additional electronic and s…