C. Sabater、D. Gosálbez-Martínez、J. Fernández-Rossier 等 6 位作者2013-04-03arXiv
We report electrical conductance measurements of Bi nanocontacts created by repeated tip-surface indentation using a scanning tunneling microscope at temperatures of 4 K and 300 K. As a function of the elongation of the nanocontact we measure robust, tens of nanometers long plateaus of conductance G0 = 2e^2/h at room…
Materials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Manju Kurian、Divya S. Nair2013-04-03Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
The experimental conditions used in the preparation of nano crystalline mixed ferrite materials play an important role in the particle size of the product. In the present work a comparison is made on sol–gel auto combustion methods and co-precipitation methods by preparing Nickel Zinc Ferrite (Ni0.5Zn0.5Fe2O4) nano pa…
Electromagnetic wave absorption materialsIron oxide chemistry and applicationsMagnetic Properties and Synthesis of Ferrites
Diana Gaspar、Ana Pimentel、Tiago Mateus 等 12 位作者2013-04-03Scientific Reports
Metallic nanoparticles (NPs) have received recently considerable interest of photonic and photovoltaic communities. In this work, we report the optoelectronic properties of gold NPs (Au-NPs) obtained by depositing very thin gold layers on glass substrates through thermal evaporation electron-beam assisted process. The…
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsNonlinear Optical Materials StudiesLaser-Ablation Synthesis of Nanoparticles
László Temleitner、László Pusztai2013-04-03arXiv
Total scattering neutron powder diffraction measurements were performed on the tetragonal phase (a=6.4202(5) Å, c=9.5762(12) Å) of $CI_4$. The experiments were followed by Reverse Monte Carlo (for POWder diffraction (RMCPOW)) modeling. Detailed analyses of the resulting particle configurations revealed that the observ…
Materials Sciencecond-mat.dis-nn
Takahide Kubota、Siham Ouardi、Shigemi Mizukami 等 7 位作者2013-04-03Journal of Applied Physics
The composition dependence of the structural, magnetic, and transport properties of epitaxially grown Mn-Co-Ga films were investigated. The crystal structure was observed to change from tetragonal to cubic as the Co content was increased. In terms of the dependence of saturation magnetization on the Co content, relati…
Shape Memory Alloy TransformationsHeusler alloys: electronic and magnetic propertiesMagnetic Properties of Alloys
A. G. Touryanski、V. M. Senkov、S. S. Gizha 等 10 位作者2013-04-03arXiv
Application of the two-wavelength X-ray reflectometry to exploration of Ge/Si(001) hereostructures with dense chains of stacked Ge quantum dots is presented
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Sciencephysics.optics
G. A. Naumenko、A. P. Potylitsyn、M. V. Shevelev 等 5 位作者2013-04-03arXiv
Phase delays, spectral, orientation, and angular dependences of radiation refraction in metamaterial targets have been experimentally studied within the millimeter-wave range. It has been shown that angular and spectral dependences have a complicate structure, which demonstrated properties typical both for positive an…
Materials Sciencephysics.optics
Myung-Ho Bae、Zuanyi Li、Zlatan Aksamija 等 8 位作者2013-04-03arXiv
Heat flow in nanomaterials is an important area of study, with both fundamental and technological implications. However, little is known about heat flow in two-dimensional (2D) devices or interconnects with dimensions comparable to the phonon mean free path (mfp). Here, we find that short, quarter-micron graphene samp…
Materials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Mi Jiang、Warren E. Pickett、Richard T. Scalettar2013-04-03Physical Review B
Understanding the effects of electron-electron interactions in half-metallic magnets (HMs), which have band structures with one gapped spin channel and one metallic channel, poses fundamental theoretical issues as well as having importance for their potential applications. Here we use determinant quantum Monte Carlo t…
Heusler alloys: electronic and magnetic propertiesMagnetic properties of thin filmsMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
Vijaykumar Toutam、Himanshu Pandey、Sandeep Singh 等 4 位作者2013-04-03arXiv
Double ring formation on Co2MnSi (CMS) films is observed at electrical breakdown voltage during local anodic oxidation (LAO) using atomic force microscope (AFM). Corona effect and segregation of cobalt in the vicinity of the rings is studied using magnetic force microscopy and energy dispersive spectroscopy. Double ri…
Materials Science
Francesco Bertazzi、Xiangyu Zhou、Michele Goano 等 5 位作者2013-04-03arXiv
We propose an efficient reduced-order technique for electronic structure calculations of semiconductor nanostructures, suited for inclusion in full-band quantum transport simulators. The model is based on the linear combination of bulk bands obtained by the empirical pseudopotential method, combined with the use of pr…
Materials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Karol Szałowski2013-04-03Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
A form of indirect Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY)-like coupling between magnetic on-site impurities in armchair graphene nanoribbons is studied theoretically. The calculations are based on a tight-binding model for a finite nanoribbon system with periodic boundary conditions. A pronounced Friedel-oscillation-lik…
Graphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomenaTopological Materials and Phenomena
Y. Apertet、H. Ouerdane、O. Glavatskaya 等 5 位作者2013-04-03arXiv
We reply to the comment made by Su et al. on "Optimal working conditions for thermoelectric generators with realistic thermal coupling". In particular we justify the efficiency definition used in the main paper.
physics.class-phcond-mat.otherMaterials Science
Lang Feng、Rémi Dreyfus、Ruojie Sha 等 5 位作者2013-04-03Advanced Materials
A simple and effective way to make DNA patchy particles is reported. A small patch of DNA strands is "stamped" from a gold surface onto colloidal particles of different sizes by streptavidin-biotin bonds. These DNA patchy particles provide direction-selective and thermoreversible interactions, and hence can lead to un…
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsPickering emulsions and particle stabilizationPolymer Surface Interaction Studies
Sara Paunonen2013-04-03BioResources
Cellulose derivatives, i.e. cellulose functionalized in a solvent state with various side groups, are an important source of biomaterials for food packaging. This review considers the following materials: i) cellophane, ii) cellulose acetate, iii) methylcellulose, and iv) carboxymethylcellulose. Mechanical and barrier…
Advanced Cellulose Research StudiesLignin and Wood ChemistryNanocomposite Films for Food Packaging
Gulden Camci‐Unal、Neslihan Alemdar、Nasim Annabi 等 4 位作者2013-04-03Polymer International
Due to the increasing demand to generate thick and vascularized tissue engineered constructs, novel strategies are currently being developed. An emerging example is the generation of oxygen-releasing biomaterials to tackle mass transport and diffusion limitations within engineered tissue-like constructs. Biomaterials…
3D Printing in Biomedical ResearchElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsTissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Eri Uesugi、Hidenori Goto、Ritsuko Eguchi 等 5 位作者2013-04-03Scientific Reports
Ionic-liquid gates have a high carrier density due to their atomically thin electric double layer (EDL) and extremely large geometrical capacitance Cg. However, a high carrier density in graphene has not been achieved even with ionic-liquid gates because the EDL capacitance CEDL between the ionic liquid and graphene i…
Supercapacitor Materials and FabricationAdvancements in Battery MaterialsGraphene research and applications
Rong Yu、Qimiao Si2013-04-03Physical Review Letters
We study a multiorbital model for the alkaline iron selenides K(1-x)Fe(2-y)Se(2) using a slave-spin method. With or without ordered vacancies, we identify a metal-to-Mott-insulator transition at the commensurate filling of six 3d electrons per iron ion. For Hund's couplings beyond a threshold value, this occurs via an…
Rare-earth and actinide compoundsIron-based superconductors researchPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Manuel Decker、Christian Kremers、Alexander Minovich 等 9 位作者2013-04-03Optics Express
We study the optical response of a metamaterial surface created by a lattice of split-ring resonators covered with a nematic liquid crystal and demonstrate millisecond timescale switching between electric and magnetic resonances of the metasurface. This is achieved due to a high sensitivity of liquid-crystal molecular…
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces ApplicationsPlasmonic and Surface Plasmon ResearchAdvanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
Sergio Domínguez-Medina、Jan Blankenburg、Jana Olson 等 5 位作者2013-04-03ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
We find that citrate-stabilized gold nanoparticles aggregate and precipitate in saline solutions below the NaCl concentration of many bodily fluids and blood plasma. Our experiments indicate that this is due to complexation of the citrate anions with Na + cations in solution. A dramatically enhanced colloidal stabilit…
Nanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsNanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryGold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications