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We present an approach for extremely fast, wafer-scale fabrication of chiral starfish metamaterials based on electron beam- and on-edge lithography. A millimeter sized array of both the planar chiral and the true 3D chiral starfish is realized, and their chiroptical performances are compared by circular dichroism meas…
Biodegradable polymers such as poly(L-lactide) (PLLA) have been widely utilized as materials for biomedical applications. However, the relatively poor mechanical properties of PLLA and its acid-induced cell inflammation brought about by the acidic byproducts during biodegradation pose severe problems. In this study, t…
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by cerebral accumulation of extracellular amyloid β (Aβ) and neurofibrillary tangles made of hyperphosphorylated tau protein, two main lesions which appear sequentially during the disease progression. In the last decade numerous studies have propos…
Resveratrol is a naturally occurring polyphenol, well known as a nutritional supplement due to its strong antioxidant properties associated with anti-inflammatory activity and possible prevention of cardiovascular diseases. In this work, the effect of resveratrol on thermal, thermo-oxidative, and photo-oxidative degra…
Rare‐earth silicate compounds, such as those in the Y 2 O 3 – SiO 2 system, are promising candidates for coatings of SiC‐based ceramics and ceramic matrix composites in combustion environments. The predicted lower activity of silica in these silicates will lead to less reactivity with the water vapor combustion produc…
We present first-principles modeling of water oxidation over various graphene systems, such as nitrogen-doped graphene; graphene monolayers on iron, nickel, and copper surfaces; and bi- and trilayer graphene on copper surfaces. It is shown that nitrogen-doped graphene and graphene over copper are better for this react…
In this Letter, we find that high efficient unidirectional transmission occurs for an array of prisms made of zero-refractive-index metamaterials. As a specific demonstration, we further design the device using Dirac-cone-like photonic crystals. The device can function for a broadband of spectrum. Numerical simulation…
Temperature‐stable relaxor dielectrics have been developed in the solid solution system: 0.45 Ba 0.8 Ca 0.2 TiO 3 –(0.55 − x ) Bi ( Mg 0.5 Ti 0.5 ) O 3 – x NaNbO 3 . Ceramics of composition x = 0 have a relative permittivity ɛ r = 950 ± 15% over a wide temperature range from +70°C to 600°C. Modification with NaNbO 3 a…
Basin-hopping sampling has been widely used for searching local minima on a potential energy surface. Reaction intermediates including reactants and products are also local minima composed of a reaction path, but their brute-force sampling is too demanding because of large degrees of freedom. We developed an efficient…
Nanoparticles with "sticky patches" have long been proposed as building blocks for the self-assembly of complex structures. The synthetic realizability of such patchy particles, however, greatly lags behind predictions of patterns they could form. Using computer simulations, we show that structures of the same genre c…
Obtaining monodisperse nanocrystals and determining their composition to the atomic level and their atomic structure is highly desirable but is generally lacking. Here, we report the discovery and comprehensive characterization of a 2.9 nm plasmonic nanocrystal with a composition of Au940±20(SCH2CH2Ph)160±4, which is…
X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy and spectromicroscopy have been extensively used to characterize biominerals. Using either Ca or C spectra, unique information has been obtained regarding amorphous biominerals and nanocrystal orientations. Building on these results, we demonstrate that recordi…
This article reports on changes in electric double layer charge storage capacity as a function of surface chemistry and graphitic structure of porous carbon electrodes. By subjecting 20 nm to 2.0 μm sized carbide-derived carbons (CDCs) synthesized at 800 °C to high-temperature vacuum annealing at 700-1800 °C, we produ…
Controlled directional spreading of a droplet on a smart high-adhesion surface was made possible by simply controlling anodic oxidation. The wettability gradient of the surface was controlled from 0.14 to 3.38° mm(-1) by adjusting the anodic oxidation conditions. When a water droplet made contact with the substrate, t…
Mg (hcp) single crystals exhibit an unusually high work-hardening rate when compressed along the c-axis at room temperature. Post-deformation investigation using bright-field and weak-beam dark-field techniques in a transmission electron microscope (TEM) and by high-angle annular dark-field imaging (HAADF) using a sca…
Optical absorption is the most fundamental optical property characterizing light-matter interactions in materials and can be most readily compared with theoretical predictions. However, determination of optical absorption cross-section of individual nanostructures is experimentally challenging due to the small extinct…
The circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) from [Eu(pda)2](-) (pda = 1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxylic acid) and [Eu(bda)2](-) (bda = 2,2'-bipyridine-6,6'-dicarboxylic acid) in aqueous solutions containing various amino acids was investigated. The europium(III) complexes exhibited bright-red luminescence assignabl…
Thermal properties were characterized for zirconium diboride produced by reactive hot pressing and compared to ZrB 2 ceramics that were hot pressed from commercial powders. No sintering additives were used in either process. Thermal conductivity was calculated from measured values of heat capacity, thermal diffusivity…
The experimental and theoretical analysis of linear and nonlinear optical properties of K 3 B 6 O 10 Br (KBOB), with a moderate birefringence that is suitable for UV coherent light generation and optical parametric oscillators, is presented in detail. The second-order nonlinear optical coefficients were measured by th…
We report on transport measurements of dual-gated, single-layer graphene devices in the quantum Hall regime, allowing for independent control of the filling factors in adjoining regions. Progress in device quality allows us to study scattering between edge states when the fourfold degeneracy of the Landau level is lif…