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Ultrathin nanocrystalline films of gold formed at different temperatures at the organic-aqueous interface have been investigated by X-ray diffraction, electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy, and electronic spectroscopy. The films are smooth and continuous over relatively large length scales and are generally app…
This work shows that optical switching between the spiro (SP) and merocyanine (MC) states of different photochromes specifically labeled to G-actin can be used to rapidly and reversibly modulate specific dipolar interactions within the conjugate. Members of a common spirobenzopyran photochrome and a related spironapht…
ZnO films on c-sapphire with and without an MgO buffer were grown by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy. ZnO with an MgO buffer was two dimensionally grown, while ZnO without an MgO buffer was grown three dimensionally, which was confirmed by in situ RHEED (reflection high energy electron diffraction) and AFM (ato…
We report on an extensive study on light propagation in Fibonacci quasicrystals, with special focus on the optical states around the fundamental band gap of the structure. The samples are fabricated using free-standing porous silicon and experiments are performed using an ultrafast time-resolved transmission technique…
The competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange for Ni–Gd and Ni–Ni interactions, respectively, leads to spin frustration and a degenerate S=13/2 spin ground state for the symmetric [GdNi6] cluster in (NMe4)[GdNi6(pro)12](ClO4)4 (Hpro=proline; octahedral core shown). The influence of the Ni–Ni cou…
The low-spin (LS-LS, S = 0) diamagnetic form of the binuclear spin crossover complex {[Fe(bt)(NCS)(2)](2)(bpm)} was selectively photoconverted into two distinct macroscopic phases at different excitation wavelengths (1342 or 647.1 nm). These long-lived metastable phases have been identified, respectively, as the symme…
In proteins, the proline ring exists predominantly in two discrete states. However, there is also a small but significant amount of flexibility in the proline ring of high-resolution protein structures. We have found that this side-chain flexibility is coupled to the backbone conformation. To study this coupling, we h…
Single crystal zinc oxide is a wide band gap semiconductor with great potential for a variety of commercial applications including substrates, UV photodetectors, acoustic wave devices, light emitting diodes, laser diodes, and high frequency electronic devices. ZnO is unique in that it has a very high exciton binding e…
The role of hydrogen in nitrogen-doped ZnO thin films was studied by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) absorption and modeled by first-principles calculations to understand the difficulty of doping ZnO p-type with nitrogen. Nitrogen-doped ZnO films were fabricated by low-pressure metal-organic chemical vapor depositio…
Ferroelectricity and large dielectric constant at room temperature have been demonstrated for cocrystals of phenazine and anilic acids constructing supramolecular assemblies. Deuteration of the anilic acids gives rise to an increase by more than 50 K in the transition temperature, which exceeds room temperature for th…
Monolithic pure silica gels with hierarchical macro-mesoporous structure have been synthesized via a spontaneous sol−gel process from silicon alkoxide using a structure-directing agent and a micelle-swelling agent. A monolithic body with well-defined co-continuous macropores is a result of concurrent phase separation…
High-resolution synchrotron powder diffraction measurements were carried out at the 32-ID beamline of the Advanced Photon Source of Argonne National Laboratory in order to clarify the structure of geological aragonite, a widely abundant polymorph of CaCO(3). The investigated crystals were practically free of impurity…
A calibration free measurement method for determination of the magnetization loss of superconducting samples exposed to the external AC magnetic field is presented. The idea is based on the measurement of the part of the power which is supplied by the AC source to the AC magnet generating the magnetic field, in which…
We have studied the In$_{x}$Ga$_{1-x}$As/In$_{y}$Al$_{1-y}$As (001) interface using first-principles ab-initio pseudopotential calculations, focusing on the effects of alloy composition and strain state on the electronic properties. In particular we estimate a valence band offset (VBO) of 0.11 eV (InGaAs higher), incl…
In order to realize controlled p-type doping in ZnO the role of extrinsic and intrinsic donors has to be clarified. The extrinsic n-type dopants Al, Ga and In are commonly found in bulk ZnO crystals, but hydrogen also appears in relevant concentrations eventually controlling the residual n-type carrier concentrations…
ZrW 2 O 8 is obtained as microparticulate powder following traditional methods or as nanoparticulate powder using an inverse micelle sol−gel synthesis strategy. As-prepared ZrW 2 O 8 powders, surface-derivatized with (3-aminopropyl)siloxy linker molecules, disperse well in BTDA-ODA polyamic acid resins to give thermal…
Abstract The deformation systems in hexagonal close-packed (hcp) metals are not as symmetrically distributed as in cubic ones. Furthermore, because the primary slip systems are not as numerous and are limited to deformations in the <a> direction, twinning competes with slip in plastic deformation and can…
Magnetic oxide semiconductors, oxide semiconductors doped with transition metal elements, are one of the candidates for a high Curie temperature ferromagnetic semiconductor that is important to realize semiconductor spintronics at room temperature. We review in this paper recent progress of research on various magneti…
BaZrO3 is by far the most inert crucible material that has been used for melt processing of high quality single crystal YBCO superconductors. To overcome the processing difficulties of existing solid-state methods, solution processing methods are increasingly important in powder synthesis. This study investigates seve…
Recently the developments in the field of II–VI-oxides have been spectacular. Various epitaxial methods have been used to grow epitaxial ZnO layers. Not only epilayers but also sufficiently good-quality multiple quantum wells (MQWs) have been grown by laser molecular-beam epitaxy (laser-MBE). We mainly discuss the exp…