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A pressure sensor functionalised with vertically aligned carbon nanotubes is presented. The sensor is fabricated to have a multi-walled carbon-nanotube forest supported by a deflectable 8 µm-thick Parylene-C membrane that is suspended by the silicon frame. The responses of the fabricated sensors are experimentally cha…
A series of star-shaped pyrrole-fused tetrathiafulvalene (TTF) oligomers 1-3 was synthesized via an S(N)Ar reaction of fluorinated benzenes with the pyrrolyl sodium salts. Electrochemical and chemical oxidations of 1-3 revealed that a radical cation moiety on each TTF unit was successfully accumulated in all oligomers…
Atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) is commonly used to grow polymer brushes from Au surfaces, but the resulting film thicknesses are usually significantly less than with ATRP from SiO(2) substrates. On Au, growth of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) blocks from poly(tert-butyl acrylate) brushes occurs more rap…
We numerically analyze the scaling behavior of experimentally accessible dynamical relaxation forms for polymer networks modeled by a finite multihierarchical structure. In the framework of generalized Gaussian structures, by making use of the eigenvalue spectrum of the connectivity matrix, we determine the averaged m…
Adsorption of molecular oxygen on Cu(N) (N = 2-10) clusters is investigated using density functional theory under the generalized gradient approximation of Perdew-Burke-Ernzerhof. An extensive structure search is performed to identify low-energy conformations of Cu(N)O(2) complexes. Optimal adsorption sites are assign…
This work compares the time dependence of isothermal shape recovery in thermoset and thermoplastic shape memory polyurethanes (SMPUs) with comparable glass transition temperatures. In each case, tensile tests have been used to quantify the influence of various thermo-mechanical programming parameters (deformation temp…
Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles have been used as a source of zinc, an essential trace element in food industry and also widely applied to various cosmetic products. However, there are few researches demonstrating that the cellular uptake behaviours of ZnO with respect to the physicochemical characteristics such as par…
In this report, we used x-ray absorption, electron energy-loss, and magnetic analyses to demonstrate the effect of modification of ceria (CeO${}_{2\ensuremath{-}\mathrm{\ensuremath{\delta}}}$) nanocrystals with a particle size $D$ $=$ 3.5--14 nm by oleic acid surface ligands. We observe a shift of the electronic state…
In this brief, a direct adaptive controller (DAC) is proposed to control a shape memory alloy (SMA) actuator. The DAC, with its advantages in parameter tuning and noise robustness, was successfully applied to control an SMA actuator. The control signal in DAC was derived via a feedback linearization method. A radial b…
Metallic and metal oxide nanoparticles (Nps) have a wide range of applications in various settings including household, cosmetics and chemical industries, as well as for coatings. Nevertheless, an in-depth study of the potential toxic effects of these Nps is still needed, in order to fulfill the mandatory requirement…
The use and thus environmental release potential of metal-based nanoparticles have rapidly increased. Due to their size-dependent new properties, the fate and effect of nanomaterial may differ from those of the conventional form of corresponding material. The agglomeration and sedimentation were studied by spiking the…
A viscoelastic carbon nanotube (CNT) material has been created that shows creep recovery, similar to silicone rubber, from –190 to 970 °C where polymers breakdown. Excellent thermal resistance is demonstrated by sequential creep recovery tests across extreme temperatures and interpreted to originate from the contacts…
Dimethylnorbornene ester (DNE) is successfully used as a noncovalent adhesion promoter. DNE was confirmed to copolymerize with dicyclopentadiene (DCPD) to yield a copolymer with better adhesion to an EPON 828 epoxy matrix relative to poly(DCPD) alone. The mechanical properties of the copolymer were comparable to that…
Graphene is increasingly incorporated in polymers to enhance their mechanical, thermal and electrical properties. However, organic polymers are prone to degrade when exposed to UV radiation. Therefore, graphene in polymer nanocomposites could eventually be released into the environment during their life cycle, which m…
Abstract Microcellular polypropylene (PP) was prepared through chemical microcellular injection under different processing parameters. The effects of cell structure parameters on the mechanical properties of PP materials were analyzed by the microsphere model. The results show that the mechanical properties of microce…
Fluorescence decay times measured during the off-state of single CdSe/ZnS quantum dot blinking are found to decrease with increasing off-state duration, contradicting the charging model widely considered to explain the blinking phenomenon. The change in the nonradiative process of a short off-state duration compared t…
Abstract Nonisothermal crystallization behavior of linear and long chain branched (LCB) polyethylene (PE) samples having similar molecular weight but different long‐chain branching densities (LCBD) up to 0.44 C per 1000 carbons was investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) at various scanning rates. T…
Metallic nanotriangles arranged in a hexagonal lattice are common nanostructures used for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy. Such structures, generally made by nanosphere lithography or electron beam lithography (EBL), exhibit localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) at the junctions between two facing nanotriangl…
In recent years, researchers have proposed transformerless solutions for connecting renewable-energy power plants to the grid. Apart from lack of efficiency and increased cost and weight of the transformer, one of the reasons is the dc input current that causes transformer saturation. The purpose of this paper is the…
Contacts between aromatic surfaces and saccharide CH groups are common motifs in natural carbohydrate recognition. These CH-π interactions are modeled in "synthetic lectins" which employ oligophenyl units as apolar surfaces. Here we report the synthesis and study of new synthetic lectins with fluoro- and hydroxy-subst…