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Biopolymers in the biosphere are well known to mediate the formation of a wide array of inorganic materials, such as bone, shells, lenses, and magnetic particles to name a few. Recently, in vitro experiments with biopolymers such as peptides, RNA, and DNA have shown that templating by these macromolecules can yield a…
Abstract The title of this note has a two-tiered interpretation. On the “use” level, it expresses my admiration for the ingenuity and elegance of Christopher Potts's paper, which is not diminished by the fact that I disagree with him practically across the board. On the “mention” level, my title denotes the key phrase…
We show that grains can be efficiently aligned by interacting with a subsonic gaseous flow. The alignment arises from grains having irregularities that scatter atoms with different efficiency in the right and left directions. The grains tend to align with long axes perpendicular to magnetic field, which corresponds to…
ZnO nanorod arrays on an ITO substrate and nanorod powder have been prepared via a chemical method in aqueous solution at low temperature. Two dimensions of composite nanorods in the arrays were obtained by controlling the reaction time. SEM, XRD, UV−vis transmission, and PL measurements have been utilized to characte…
We use scanning photocurrent microscopy (SPCM) to investigate the properties of internal p-n junctions in ambipolar carbon nanotube (CNT) transistors. Our SPCM images show strong signals near metal contacts whose polarity and positions change depending on the gate bias. SPCM images analyzed in conjunction with the ove…
Part I established, via extensive transmission electron microscopy investigations, that the type of dislocation structure formed in metals of medium-to-high stacking fault energy upon deformation in tension or rolling to moderate strain levels (≤0.8) depends strongly on crystallographic grain orientation. This paper a…
Numerical simulations of nonequilibrium chemical reactions in a pulsating air bubble have been performed for various ultrasonic frequencies (20 kHz, 100 kHz, 300 kHz, and 1 MHz) and pressure amplitudes (up to 10 bars). The results of the numerical simulations have indicated that the main oxidant is OH radical inside a…
While the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity is normally written in terms of an integral of the electronic Berry curvature over the occupied portions of the Brillouin zone, Haldane has recently pointed out that this quantity (or more precisely, its ``non-quantized part'') may alternatively be expressed as a Fermi-s…
We have bombarded graphite samples with protons at low temperatures and low fluences to attenuate the large thermal annealing produced during irradiation. The overall optimization of sample handling allowed us to find Curie temperatures ${T}_{c}\ensuremath{\gtrsim}350\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{K}$ at the fluen…
Physical vapor deposition of indomethacin (IMC) was used to prepare glasses with unusual thermodynamic and kinetic stability. By varying the substrate temperature during the deposition from 190 K to the glass transition temperature (Tg=315 K), it was determined that depositions near 0.85Tg (265 K) resulted in the most…
In this paper we characterize foams and tetrahedral structures in a unified way, by a simplified representation of both that conserves the system topology. The paper presents a workflow for an automated characterization of the topology of the void space, using a partition of the void space into polyhedral cells connec…
We have calculated electron spin interactions in chains of Sc@C82 endohedral fullerenes in isolation and inserted into a semiconducting or metallic single-walled carbon nanotube to form a peapod. Using hybrid density functional theory (DFT), we find that the spin resides mainly on the fullerene cage, whether or not th…
Sol-gel inks have been developed for direct-write assembly of functional oxide structures with sub-micron features. Highly uniform, planar and 3D micro-periodic structures (see figure) have been patterned that can be readily converted to titania upon calcination.
Abstract Super‐plasticity of single‐crystal beta‐SiC [111] nanowires for > 200 % elongation was observed by in situ axial‐tensile experiments in a scanning electron microscope. The SiC nanowires were characterized by a bamboo‐like structure appearing as the 3C structured segments intergrowth along the nanowire. The…
Stacked metamaterials consisting of gold cut-wires and a gold mirror are fabricated. The optical properties are determined. Plasmon hybridization allows for the intuitive attribution of the resonances in the optical spectra (see figure). Antisymmetric modes constitute magnetic resonances, which are suited for displayi…
To clarify the effect of grain orientation on the evolution of dislocation structures in metals of medium-to-high stacking fault energy, detailed TEM characterization of structures was carried out for more than 350 individual grains in Al and Cu deformed in tension or by cold rolling up to moderate strain levels (ϵvM…
The direct spinning of carbon nanotubes yields fibres with distinctly encouraging mechanical properties. While the best strength (2.2 N/tex) and stiffness (160 N/tex) promise competition for established carbon fibres, the maximum energy absorbed at fracture (46 J/g) is somewhat higher. The fibres consist of very long…
We propose that recent transport experiments revealing the existence of an energy gap in graphene nanoribbons may be understood in terms of Coulomb blockade. Electron interactions play a decisive role at the quantum dots which form due to the presence of necks arising from the roughness of the graphene edge. With the…
The Lotus has been the symbol of purity for thousands of years; contaminations and pathogens are washed off the surfaces of Lotus and some other plants with rain or even dew. After the introduction of scanning electron microscopy, we were able to resolve the mechanism behind this phenomenon. It took some further decad…
Abstract In recent years, organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) have emerged as attractive devices for a variety of applications, particularly in the area of sensing. While the electrical characteristics of OECTs are analogous to those of conventional organic field effect transistors, appropriate models for OECT…