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A dense TiO 2 electron blocking layer was introduced on a conducting glass in CdS quantum dots sensitized solar cells to investigate electron leakage into the electrolyte. A ferricyanide/ferrocyanide redox couple was employed, as a model electrolyte, possessing a high standard rate constant. The analysis of the I – V…
Mechanically, chemically and optically stable gold island films were prepared on indium tin oxide (ITO) substrates by direct thermal evaporation of thin gold films (2-6 nm) without the need for pre- or post-coating. The effect of mild thermal annealing (150 °C, 12 h) or short high temperature annealing (500 °C, 1 min)…
High Resolution Image Download MS PowerPoint Slide Density functional theory calculations have been performed to determine the relationship between structures and reactivity of anatase and brookite TiO 2 surfaces. Brookite TiO 2 (210) has the same structural building block of anatase TiO 2 (101), but interatomic dista…
Amorphous Co−B-based catalyst powder, produced by chemical reduction of cobalt salts, was used as the target material for Co−B thin film catalyst preparation through pulsed laser deposition (PLD). A comparative kinetic analysis of the sodium borohydride (NaBH 4 ) hydrolysis by using Co−B catalyst added to the hydride…
We investigate the crossed Andreev reflections between two graphene leads connected by a narrow superconductor. When the leads are, respectively, of the n and p type, we find that electron elastic cotunneling and local Andreev reflection are both eliminated even in the absence of any valley-isospin or spin polarizatio…
Melamine-linked perylene bisimide dyes (MPBIs) bearing an ethylene or trimethylene group as linker moieties were synthesized, and their self-aggregation and coaggregation with cyanurates through complementary triple hydrogen bonds have been investigated. UV/vis studies revealed that both the MPBIs self-assemble in non…
The mechanism of the formation of heterovalent-substitution-induced defects as well as their influence on the magnetic properties of BiFeO3-based multiferroics has been studied. It has been shown that heterovalent A2+ substitution results in the formation of oxygen vacancies in the host lattices of both antiferromagne…
Carbon nanotube (CNT) and alumina dispersions were prepared separately in dimethylformamide (DMF) and ethanol by ultrasonication. The colloidal stability of the dispersions was monitored and a particle size analysis was performed to evaluate the size range of the agglomerates after different times. DMF was found to be…
In this paper, we discuss the synthesis and characterization of tungsten trioxide nanoparticles prepared by the arc discharge method in deionized (DI) water. The size and morphology of WO(3) nanoparticles prepared using different arc currents (25, 35 and 45 A) were studied. Dynamic light scattering (DLS) and scanning…
Commercially prepared cellulose acetate, cellulose acetate propionate, -butyrate, and -phthalate as well as cellulose acetates prepared in the laboratory scale with varying degree of substitution (DS) self-assemble into regular nanoparticles, ranging in size from 86 to 368 nm, by using two different techniques of nano…
We present a quantitative theory for a relaxation function in a simple glass-forming model (binary mixture of particles with different interaction parameters). It is shown that the slowing down is caused by the competition between locally favored regions (clusters) which are long lived but each of which relaxes as a s…
Optical properties of polymer capped gold nanoparticles of various sizes (diameter 3-6 nm) have been studied. We present a new scheme to extract size dependent variation of total dielectric function of gold nanoparticles from measured UV-Vis absorption data. The new scheme can also be used, in principle, for other rel…
The possible significance of oxide formation for the catalytic activity of transition metals in heterogeneous oxidation catalysis has evoked a lively discussion over the recent years. On the more noble transition metals (such as Pd, Pt, or Ag), the low stability of the common bulk oxides primarily suggests subnanomete…
Bandstructure effects in the electronic transport of strongly quantized silicon nanowire field-effect-transistors (FET) in various transport orientations are examined. A 10-band sp3d5s* semi-empirical atomistic tight-binding model coupled to a self consistent Poisson solver is used for the dispersion calculation. A se…
We report nonresonant x-ray Raman scattering (XRS) measurements on the boron $K$ edge of hexagonal boron nitride for transferred momentum $(\mathbf{q})$ from 2 to $9\text{ }{\text{\AA{}}}^{\ensuremath{-}1}$ along directions both in and out of the basal plane. A symmetry-based argument, together with real-space full mu…
The thermal-to-percolative crossover exponent ϕ, well-known for ferromagnetic systems, is studied extensively for Edwards-Anderson spin glasses. The scaling of defect energies are determined at the bond percolation threshold p_c, using an improved algorithm. Simulations extend to system sizes above N=10^8 in dimension…
Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrenesulfonate (PEDOT:PSS) is widely used as a semitransparent anode layer in organic light-emitting diodes and polymer photovoltaics. We use conductive atomic force microscopy (c-AFM) to map the electronic properties of PEDOT:PSS films during a variety of processing steps to bet…
We address the long standing problem of recovering dynamical information from noisy acoustic emission signals arising from peeling of an adhesive tape subject to constant traction velocity. Using phase space reconstruction procedure we demonstrate the deterministic chaotic dynamics by establishing the existence of cor…
We present periodic Density Functional Theory calculations of the electronic properties of molecular junctions formed by amine-, and thiol-terminated alkane chains attached to two metal (Au, Ag) electrodes. Based on extensive analysis that includes molecular monolayers of varying densities, we establish a relationship…
We observe using low-energy electron microscopy the self-assembly of monolayer-thick stripes of Au on W(110) near the transition temperature between stripes and the non-patterned (homogeneous) phase. We demonstrate that the amplitude of this Au stripe phase decreases with increasing temperature and vanishes at the ord…