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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Based on the knowledge that cavitation in a nozzle enhances the atomization of fuel spray, fuel modification is conducted by blending Dimethyl Ether (DME). Because the boiling point of DME is -24.8°C, it may easily take place during the cavitation in an injection nozzle. Furthermo…
We report on a method for directed assembly of integrated carbon nanotube circuits using selective area chemical vapor deposition on prepatterned catalyst electrodes. The circuits consist of a multiwall carbon nanotube bridging a pair of electrodes, forming a metal/carbon nanotube/metal structure. Electron-beam lithog…
<div class="htmlview paragraph">Increasingly stringent emissions legislation has resulted in a requirement for aftertreatment technologies capable of removing nitrogenous oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) from lean exhaust environments.</div> <div class="htmlview paragraph">Non-thermal plasma…
The mechanisms of brittle-to-ductile transition of fracture in intrinsically brittle crystalline solids such as structural steel have been of great technological interest for a long time. While much useful phenomenology on this important bifurcation behavior has evolved through material testing and alloy development t…
We present a simple shadow mask method to fabricate electrodes with nanometer scale separation. Metal wires with gaps are made by incorporating multiwall carbon nanotubes or single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) bundles into a trilayer electron beam lithography process. The simple, highly controllable, and scaleable meth…
Silica colloids with a diameter of 240–360 nm, grown by wet chemical synthesis using ethanol, ammonia, water, and tetraethoxysilane, were implanted with 350 keV Er ions, to peak concentrations of 0.2–1.1 at. % and put onto a silicon or glass substrate. After annealing at 700–900 °C the colloids show clear room-tempera…
Highly spin-polarized chromium dioxide (CrO2) thin films were deposited on (100) TiO2 substrates by chemical vapor deposition using chromyl chloride as a precursor. The spin polarization, as measured by the point contact Andreev reflection technique, was 81±3%. X-ray diffraction θ/2θ scans indicated the films grew com…
A relaxation process, with the associated phenomenology of sound attenuation and sound velocity dispersion, is found in a simulated harmonic Lennard-Jones glass. We propose to identify this process with the so-called microscopic (or, instantaneous) relaxation process observed in real glasses and supercooled liquids. A…
<div class="htmlview paragraph">Results of engine bench tests and vehicle programs on light-duty and heavy-duty diesels have confirmed that a bimetallic platinum and cerium diesel fuel borne catalyst (FBC) can reduce engine out emissions and improve the performance of diesel oxidation catalysts and diesel partic…
<div class="htmlview paragraph">We report on a comprehensive fuel additive study where two different detergent chemistry types, Mannichs and polyetheramines, are ranked with regard to injector deposit control in a research direct-injected gasoline (DIG) engine. The engine used was a conventional dual-sparkplug,…
We report on the experimental observation of STM-induced photon emission in ultrahigh vacuum on a network of 4-nm silver spheres. The spheres are covered by a dielectric, electrically insulating, organic layer and deposited on Au(111). The bias-dependent spatial distribution of the photon emission rates reveals the el…
<div class="htmlview paragraph">Ultra low emissions and high performance combustion was achieved with a combination of high EGR, a three-way catalyst, and a highly oxygenated liquid fuel, neat dimethoxy methane (DMM), in an ordinary DI diesel engine. The smokeless nature of neat DMM effectively allowed stoichiom…
A "breather excitation" is observed directly by electron spin resonance in the quantum spin chain Cu benzoate, in which an unexpected field-induced gap has recently been found. The nonlinear field dependence of the resonance field agrees well with the formula based on a quantum sine-Gordon model. The power-law tempera…
The temperature dependence of the dielectric nonlinearities in a PMN single crystal and in 9/65/35 PLZT ceramics has been determined by measuring the first and third harmonic response as well as the dielectric behavior as a function of the dc electric field. In zero field a paraelectric-to-glass, and, in a high enough…
β- Si 3 N 4 powders were shock compressed and quenched from 12 to 115 GPa. β-Si3N4 transforms to the spinel-type Si3N4 (c-Si3N4) by a fast reconstructive process at pressures above about 20 GPa. The yield of c-Si3N4 recovered from 50 GPa and about 2400 K reaches about 80% and the grain sizes are about 10–50 nm. It is…
In situ catalytic thermal decomposition method was used for producing aligned multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) in bulk quantities on stable and electrically conducting substrates. Very low turn-on electric fields of 0.75 V/μm and low threshold fields of ∼1.6 V/μm (for current density of 10 mA/cm2) were obtained fr…
We present a unified theory of luminescence spectra for highly excited semiconductors, which is applicable both to the electron-hole BCS state and to the exciton Bose-Einstein condensate. The crossover behavior between electron-hole BCS state and exciton Bose-Einstein condensate clearly manifests itself in the calcula…
Multi-band Gutzwiller-correlated wave functions reconcile the contrasting concepts of itinerant band electrons versus electrons localized in partially filled atomic shells. The approximate evaluation of these variational ground states becomes exact in the limit of large coordination number. The result allows the ident…
Two families of passive seismic control devices exploiting the peculiar properties of shape memory alloy (SMA) kernel components have been implemented and tested within the MANSIDE project (Memory Alloys for New Seismic Isolation and Energy Dissipation Devices). They are special braces for framed structures and isolat…
We present a paradigm for fatigue in ferroelectric perovskite oxides: That of a structural phase transition in which oxygen vacancies order into two-dimensional planar arrays capable of pinning domain wall motion.