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Resistivity and thermoelectric power (TEP) measurements were conducted on single walled carbon nanotube (SWNT), polyvinylidene fluoride composite thin films of varying SWNT concentrations. This heterogeneous material was used in order to utilize the good electrical conductance of the nanotubes and the poor thermal con…
The degree of electron correlations remains a central issue in the iron-based superconductors. The parent iron pnictides are antiferromagnetic, and their bad-metal behavior has been interpreted in terms of proximity to a Mott transition. We study such a transition in multiorbital models on modulated lattices containin…
We demonstrate a facile localized reduction approach to synthesizing a Au nanoparticle-decorated Keggin ion/TiO(2) photococatalyst for improved solar light photocatalysis application. This has been achieved by exploiting the ability of TiO(2)-bound Keggin ions to act as a UV-switchable, highly localized reducing agent…
A major obstacle in creating viable tissue-engineered constructs using electrospinning is the lack of complete cellularization and vascularization due to the limited porosity in these densely packed fibrous scaffolds. One potential approach to circumvent this issue is the use of various gradients of chemical and bioph…
Fatigue failure due to repetitive loading of metallic devices is a pervasive engineering concern. The present work reveals extraordinary fatigue resistance in nanocrystalline (NC) alloys, which appears to be associated with the small (<100 nm) grain size inhibiting traditional cyclic damage processes. In this study, w…
Tissue-engineered neocartilage with appropriate biomechanical properties holds promise not only for graft applications but also as a model system for controlled studies of chondrogenesis. Our objective in the present research study is to better understand the impact of fiber diameter on the cellular activity of chondr…
We study the spatial fluctuations of transient creep deformation of materials as a function of time, both by Digital Image Correlation (DIC) measurements of paper samples and by numerical simulations of a crystal plasticity or discrete dislocation dynamics model. This model has a jamming or yielding phase transition,…
Uniform single layer graphene was grown on single-crystal Ir films a few nanometers thick which were prepared by pulsed laser deposition on sapphire wafers. These graphene layers have a single crystallographic orientation and a very low density of defects, as shown by diffraction, scanning tunnelling microscopy, and R…
We performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of the structure and properties of cerium‐containing phosphosilicate, aluminophosphate, and aluminophosphosilicate glasses based on recent spectroscopic data that revealed 95% of cerium ions in such glasses are Ce 3+ . New Ce 3+ ‐ and Ce 4+ ‐O 2− potentials were develop…
Abstract A careful analysis of the Raman spectra of the M′ x [M(CN) 6 ] y Prussian blue species has enabled a general model for the interpretation of the ν(CN) vibrational spectra. The spectral patterns are derived from those of the metal ions with local O h symmetry. Two limiting models are discussed. A ‘localized mo…
A two dimensional electronic system with novel electronic properties forms at the interface between the insulators LaAlO$_3$ and SrTiO$_3$. Samples fabricated until now have been found to be either magnetic or superconducting, depending on growth conditions. We combine transport measurements with high-resolution magne…
Taking advantage of vicinal (001) SrTiO${}_{3}$ substrates with different mean terrace widths, the heteroepitaxial growth of SrRuO${}_{3}$ in the step flow mode has been mapped as a function of mean step velocity. Transition between stable and unstable step flow is shown to occur at a well-defined critical step veloci…
Electric double-layer supercapacitors are a fast-rising class of high-power energy storage devices based on porous electrodes immersed in a concentrated electrolyte or ionic liquid. As yet there is no microscopic theory to describe their surprisingly large capacitance per unit volume (volumetric capacitance) of ~100 F…
We investigate the competition between glass formation and crystallization of open tetrahedral structures for particles with tetrahedral patchy interactions. We analyze the outcome of such competition as a function of the potential parameters. Specifically, we focus on the separate roles played by the interaction rang…
We extend our previous theoretical study of Mn-based orthorhombic metamagnets to those that possess large nearest neighbor Mn-Mn separations ($d{}_{1}\ensuremath{\gtrsim}3.22$ \AA{}). Based on our calculations, we design and synthesize a series of alloys, CoMnGe${}_{1\ensuremath{-}x}$P${}_{x}$, to experimentally demon…
We have investigated temperature dependence of the lattice parameters and the unit cell volume of ZnF2 by neutron diffraction and have discovered negative thermal expansion (NTE) at low temperature. To understand why this simple compound exhibits NTE we performed first principle calculations. These calculations reprod…
We present a method for decoupling epitaxial graphene grown on SiC(0001) by intercalation of a layer of fluorine at the interface. The fluorine atoms do not enter into a covalent bond with graphene but rather saturate the substrate Si bonds. This configuration of the fluorine atoms induces a remarkably large hole dens…
Fiber aligned frequency domain thermoreflectance (FAFDTR) is a simple noncontact optical technique for accurately measuring the thermal conductivity of thin films and bulk samples for a wide range of materials, including electrically conducting samples. FAFDTR is a single-sided measurement that requires minimal sample…
Device instabilities of graphene metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors such as hysteresis and Dirac point shifts have been attributed to charge trapping in the underlying substrate, especially in SiO2. In this letter, trapping time constants around 87 μs and 1.76 ms were identified using a short pulse cur…
We use first-principles computational methods to examine hole trapping in organic molecular crystals. We present a computational scheme based on the tuning of the fraction of exact exchange in hybrid density functional theory to eliminate the many-electron self-interaction error. With small organic molecules, we show…