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Many spiders depend upon webs to capture prey. Web function results from architecture and mechanical performance of the silk. We hypothesized that the common house spider, Achaearanea tepidariorum, would alter the mechanical performance of its cobweb in response to different prey by varying the structural and material…
Vibrational dephasing of the lowest energy electronic excitations in the perfect (16,16) graphene nanoribbon (GNR) and those with the C2-bond insertion and rotation defects is studied with ab initio molecular dynamics. Compared to single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) of similar size, GNRs shows very different prope…
Poly(beta-hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) are biodegradable polyesters produced by a wide range of bacteria. The structures of these polymers may be tuned by controlling the carbon source composition in the feed stock, but the range of functional groups accessible in this manner is limited to those that the organism is able…
The usual beam splitter of multilayer-coated film with a wideband spectrum is not easy to achieve. We describe the realization of a wideband transmission two-port beam splitter based on a binary fused-silica phase grating. To achieve high efficiency and equality in the diffracted 0th and -1st orders, the grating profi…
Polyethylenimine (PEI)-protected Prussian blue nanocubes have been simply synthesized by heating an acidic mixture of PEI, FeCl 3, K 3Fe(CN) 6, and KCl. The experiment results presented here demonstrate that the pH of the mixture plays an important role in controlling the shape and composition of the resultant product.
Experimental and computational results for different ruthenium nitrosyl porphyrin complexes [(Por)Ru(NO)(X)] ( n+ ) (where Por (2-) = tetraphenylporphyrin dianion (TPP (2 (-) )) or octaethylporphyrin dianion (OEP (2-)) and X = H 2O ( n = 1, 2, 3) or pyridine, 4-cyanopyridine, or 4- N,N-dimethylaminopyridine ( n = 1, 0…
Superhydrophobic surfaces were prepared from solutions of isotactic polypropylenes of various molecular weights using soft chemistry. Varying the conditions of the experiments (polymer concentration and initial amount of the coated solution) allowed us to optimize the superhydrophobic behavior of the polymer film. Res…
We present the measurements for the diffusion of bridging oxygen vacancy (OV) crossover Ti rows via OV pairs (OVPs). Using a high-resolution scanning tunneling microscope (STM), we show that the OVs can be moved along the bridging oxygen rows driven by the STM tip at voltages higher than 3.0 V on TiO(2)(110)-(1x1) sur…
Functionalization of carbon nanotubes is considered as an essential step to enable their manipulation and application in potential end-use products. In this paper we introduce a new approach to functionalize multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) by applying an amidation-type grafting reaction with amino-functionalized…
We investigate a quarter-filled two-band Hubbard model involving a crystal-field splitting, which lifts the orbital degeneracy as well as an interorbital hopping (interband hybridization). Both terms are relevant to the realistic description of correlated materials such as transition-metal oxides. The nature of the Mo…
It is theoretically shown that the excess liquid-liquid interfacial tension between two electrolyte solutions as a function of the ionic strength I behaves asymptotically as O(-sqrt[I]) for small I and as O(+/-I) for large I. The former regime is dominated by the electrostatic potential due to an unequal partitioning…
Reduction potentials of several M(2+/3+) (M = Ru, Os) octahedral complexes, namely, [M(H2O)6](2+/3+), [MCl6](4-/3-), [M(NH3)6](2+/3+), [M(en)3](2+/3+) [M(bipy)3](2+/3+), and [M(CN)6](4-/3-), were calculated using the CASSCF/CASPT2/CASSI and MRCI methods including spin-orbit coupling (SOC) by means of first-order quasi…
CO-vering gold: An organometallic approach to the synthesis of CO-protected Au–Fe nanoparticles led to solutions of colloids with hydrodynamic diameters between 4 and 300 nm, from which [Au21{Fe(CO)4}10]5− (picture: metal frame; Au yellow, Fe green), [Au22{Fe(CO)4}12]6−, [Au28{Fe(CO)3}4{Fe(CO)4}10]8−, and [Au34{Fe(CO)…
A hierarchical strategy for producing mesoscopic objects from discrete amphiphilic (porphyrin)Sn molecules is demonstrated. Vigorous stirring and/or microwave heating produced uniform porphyrin nanocrystals, whose morphology can be easily modulated. These nanocrystals can then be assembled together into macroscopic pr…
The VUV−vis spectroscopic properties of Gd 3+ in Na(Y,Gd)FPO 4 are reported. The photon cascade emission was observed under 8 S 7/2 → 6 G J excitation in which 6 G J → 6 P J, 6 I J emissions of Gd 3+ in the orange/red and near-IR range are followed by ultraviolet emission of 6 P J → 8 S 7/2 transitions. We demonstrate…
An improved process for the preparation of SrAl 2 O 4:Eu,Dy phosphors was developed by introducing a precalcination process for the precursor synthesized via the coprecipitation method. The structural and initial photoluminescent characteristics of these SrAl 2 O 4:Eu,Dy phosphors were investigated using X-ray powder…
Micrometer-sized monodisperse anisotropic polymer particles, with disk, rod, fenestrated hexagon (hexnut), and boomerang shapes, were synthesized using the particle replication in nonwetting templates (PRINT) process, and investigations were conducted on aqueous suspensions of these particles when subjected to alterna…
The thermochemistry of chlorinated gamma-alumina surfaces is explored by means of density functional calculations as a function of relevant reaction conditions used in experiments and in high-octane fuel production in the refining industry such as hydrocarbon isomerization and reforming. The role of chlorine as a dope…
The viscosity of aqueous solutions of sucrose and trehalose is analyzed over a wide range of concentrations and temperatures covering the normal liquid and supercooled liquid regions, close to the glass transition temperature. These sugar solutions are fragile systems whose viscosity exhibits temperature dependence wi…
Arguably the most important liquid in our existence, water continues to attract enormous efforts to understand its underlying structure, dynamics and thermodynamics. These properties become increasingly complex and controversial as we progress into and below the ‘no man's land' where bulk water can only exist as cryst…