Francisco J. Arnold、Marcos S. Gonçalves、Leonardo Lorenzo Bravo Roger 等 4 位作者2014-08-27ECTI Transactions on Electrical Engineering Electronics and Communications
The electric impedance of piezoelectric ceramics is influenced by variations in the acoustic load. This situation is very common for ultrasonic applications in medicine where the irradiated media can present different interfaces and impedances to the propagating acoustic energy. In this work we analyzed the behavior o…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsUltrasonics and Acoustic Wave PropagationAcoustic Wave Resonator Technologies
Hoi-Yin Hui、Jay D. Sau、S. Das Sarma2014-08-27Physical Review B
Disorder is known to suppress the gap of a topological superconducting state that would support non-Abelian Majorana zero modes. In this paper, we study using the self-consistent Born approximation the robustness of the Majorana modes to disorder within a suitably extended Eilenberger theory, in which the spatial depe…
Graphene research and applicationsTopological Materials and PhenomenaAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics
Le Li、Zhiqin Yuan、Xinkai Peng 等 6 位作者2014-08-27Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society
Abstract In this study, we designed a system of integrating gold nanoparticles and cysteamine to detect Cu2+ based on a colorimetric strategy. The quantified limit of detection towards Cu2+ is 0.4 µM, which is ∼50 times lower than the maximum contamination level (∼20 µM) in drinking water permitted by US environmental…
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesMolecular Sensors and Ion DetectionAdvanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
Hadiseh Nasari、Mohammad Sadegh Abrishamian2014-08-27Journal of Applied Physics
The realization of electrically tunable beam focusing using a properly designed conductivity pattern along a strip on a background single graphene flake with operation in the terahertz regime is proposed and numerically investigated. The strip is illuminated with a guided surface plasmon polaritons (SPP) plane wave an…
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces ApplicationsPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon ResearchOptical Coatings and Gratings
Renbo Wei、HX Zhang、YN He 等 5 位作者2014-08-27Liquid Crystals
Nematic liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) actuators possessing both photoluminescent (PL) and stimuli-responsive functions were fabricated and studied. PL-dyes (1-pyrenemethyl acrylate and 4-bromo-2,6-bis-(1ʹ-methyl-benzimidazolyl) pyridine loaded with Eu(III) ion) were synthesised and characterised, and then the dye…
Liquid Crystal Research AdvancementsAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsAdvanced Materials and Mechanics
Tao Zhang、Hirofumi Matsuda、Haoshen Zhou2014-08-27ChemSusChem
A key challenge in processing carbon nanotubes and their composites for large-scale applications is aggregation. Cation-π stacking interactions have been discovered to disperse heavily entangled single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles in ionic liquids (ILs). In this work, we found that a dispersible, silky single…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationAdvanced Battery Materials and Technologies
K. Domen、Takaya Miyase、Katsumi Abe 等 5 位作者2014-08-27Journal of Display Technology
We performed constant positive gate bias stress tests on sputter-deposited amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (a-IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) fabricated with various annealing conditions. We found that the time evolution of threshold voltage shift (ΔVth) during the stress test exhibits two different behaviors; a power functio…
ZnO doping and propertiesThin-Film Transistor TechnologiesTransition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
Vân Hà Nguyễn、Hui Qi Chew、Bochao Su 等 4 位作者2014-08-27Inorganic Chemistry
A new anionic heteroleptic Ir(III)-dithiolate complex Ir(ppy)2(benzene-1,2-dithiolate) (ppy = 2-phenylpyridine, [IrSS](-)) undergoes very fast air oxidation to form a monosulfinate complex [IrSSO2](-), which can be further dioxygenated by O2 or H2O2 to give a disulfinate complex [IrSO2SO2](-), which has been character…
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes ResearchMagnetism in coordination complexesOrganic and Molecular Conductors Research
Stanislav Filippov、S. Sukrittanon、Y. J. Kuang 等 7 位作者2014-08-27Nano Letters
The III-V semiconductor nanowires (NWs) have a great potential for applications in a variety of future electronic and photonic devices with enhanced functionality. In this work, we employ polarization-resolved microphotoluminescence (μ-PL) spectroscopy to study polarization properties of light emissions from individua…
GaN-based semiconductor devices and materialsNanowire Synthesis and ApplicationsGa2O3 and related materials
Ravindra Y. Pawar、Satish K. Pardeshi2014-08-27Arabian Journal of Chemistry
BaFe 2 O 4 spinel type catalyst is synthesized by a simple and inexpensive one-step citrate gel combustion method, the only method to synthesize soft ferrite other than the Pechini method reported earlier. The precursor and oxide are well characterized by various techniques such as thermogravimetry–differential therma…
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceMagnetic Properties and Synthesis of FerritesNanomaterials for catalytic reactions
Jun Zhang、Michael Dolg2014-08-27Chemistry - A European Journal
By state-of-the-art quantum chemical methods, we show that for bulky functional groups like cyclohexane, [20]fullerene, dodecahedrane, and C60, the attractive dispersion interaction can have a greater impact on stereochemistry than the repulsive steric effect, making the compact isomer the more stable one. In particul…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsFullerene Chemistry and Applications
Anastassia A. Vorobieva、Mohammad Shahneawz Khan、Patrice Soumillion2014-08-27Journal of Biological Chemistry
The enzymes of the β-decarboxylating dehydrogenase superfamily catalyze the oxidative decarboxylation of D-malate-based substrates with various specificities. Here, we show that, in addition to its natural function affording bacterial growth on D-malate as a carbon source, the D-malate dehydrogenase of Escherichia col…
Protein Structure and DynamicsMicrobial Metabolic Engineering and BioproductionEnzyme Structure and Function
Jinzhi Sheng、Qidong Li、Qiulong Wei 等 9 位作者2014-08-27Nano Research
The main drawbacks of vanadium oxide as a cathode material are its low conductivity, low practical capacity and poor cycling stability. Adding Cr can improve its conductivity and a metastable amorphous state may provide higher capacity and stability. In this work, metastable amorphous Cr-V-O nanoparticles have been su…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationTransition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
A. Taschin、P. Bartolini、R. Eramo 等 5 位作者2014-08-27The Journal of Chemical Physics
The time-resolved optical Kerr effect spectroscopy (OKE) is a powerful experimental tool enabling accurate investigations of the dynamic phenomena in molecular liquids. We introduced innovative experimental and fitting procedures, that enable a safe deconvolution of sample response function from the instrumental funct…
Advanced Chemical Physics StudiesMaterial Dynamics and PropertiesSpectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
S. Vasanthavel、S. Kannan2014-08-27Journal of the American Ceramic Society
This study has been aimed at the phase stabilization of tetragonal Zirconia ( t ‐ ZrO 2 ) by the additions of Ca 2+ and PO 4 3− through an in situ synthetic approach. A wide range of variations have been attempted in which the precursor concentrations of Ca 2+ and PO 4 3− have been maintained constant for every synthe…
Bone Tissue Engineering MaterialsFerroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsChemical Synthesis and Characterization
Sindrila Dutta Banik、Amalendu Chandra2014-08-27The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) Schiff base, a versatile cofactor, exhibits a tautomeric equilibrium that involves an intramolecular proton transfer between the N-protonated zwitterionic ketoenamine tautomer and the O-protonated covalent enolimine tautomer. It has been postulated that for the catalytic activity, the PLP…
Protein Structure and DynamicsEnzyme Structure and FunctionElectron Spin Resonance Studies
N. Cuevas2014-08-27Geophysics
ABSTRACT This paper studies the problem of electromagnetic fields observed outside of an infinite metallic casing due to dipolar excitations inside the pipe. Closed-form expressions are derived for the hertz vector potential driving the solution of the boundary value problem. The results indicates that the fields outs…
Geophysical and Geoelectrical MethodsMagnetic Properties and ApplicationsNon-Destructive Testing Techniques
Jeffrey A. Herron、Peter Ferrin、Manos Mavrikakis2014-08-27The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Dimethyl ether is an attractive alternative to petroleum fuels due to its physical properties, comparable energy density to methanol and ethanol, and minimal deleterious environmental/toxicological effects. For direct fuel cells, it has a number of advantages over other prominent fuels, including easier storage with r…
Electrocatalysts for Energy ConversionCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCatalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Microsugar Chang、Yue‐Wern Huang、Robert S. Aronstam 等 4 位作者2014-08-27Current Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Cellular and nuclear delivery of biomolecules is limited by low membrane permeability. Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) can be covalently linked to cargos to improve cellular internalization. Our work indicates that arginine-rich CPPs are also able to interact with a variety of cargos, including DNA, RNA, proteins and…
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesRNA Interference and Gene DeliverySilk-based biomaterials and applications
Adam P. Rago、Michael Duggan、John Beagle 等 16 位作者2014-08-27The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care
BACKGROUND: Intracavitary noncompressible hemorrhage remains a significant cause of preventable death on the battlefield and in the homeland. We previously demonstrated the hemostatic efficacy of an in situ self-expanding poly(urea)urethane foam in a severe, closed-cavity, hepatoportal exsanguination model in swine. W…
Polymer Surface Interaction StudiesTrauma, Hemostasis, Coagulopathy, ResuscitationHemostasis and retained surgical items