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How does a liquid freeze if the geometry of its particles conflicts with the symmetry of the crystal it should naturally form? We study this question in the simplest model system of particles exhibiting such a symmetry mismatch: hard pentagons in two dimensions. Using isobaric and isotensic Monte Carlo simulations we…
Water-soluble poly(4-(2,3-dihydrothieno[3,4- b ][1,4]dioxin-2-yl-methoxy)-1-butanesulfonic acid (PEDOT-S) has been synthesized both chemically and electrochemically, and the properties of the resultant films have been examined and compared. In particular, it was found that PEDOT-S, deposited in conjunction with poly(a…
The functional form of the photoluminescence (PL) line shape from individual single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) species is found to contain a significant Lorentzian component and the Stokes shift is observed to be very small $(<8\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{meV})$, which suggests an excitonic dephasing mech…
The electronic screening length, the distance over which an electric field is attenuated in a material, imposes a lower physical bound on the lateral size scaling of semiconductor field effect devices. Alternatives will be needed to achieve devices whose characteristic dimensions approach a nanometer. In this work, we…
We demonstrate the dispersion and noncovalent functionalization of carbon nanotubes in water using peptide amphiphiles each consisting of a short hydrophobic alkyl tail coupled to a more hydrophilic peptide sequence. The assembly of peptide amphiphile molecules on the surfaces of carbon nanotubes adds biofunctionality…
[reaction: see text] The synthesis and some properties of two novel DTPA-bisamides are reported. These derivatives were designed as enzyme-activated contrast agents (CA) for magnetic resonance imaging. Both derivatives bear tyramido or 5-hydroxytryptamido groups that could be oligomerized in situ in the presence of pe…
By using combination of detailed experimental studies, we identify the metastable and stable energy levels of EL2 in semi-insulating GaAs. These results are discussed in the light of the recently proposed models for stable and metastable configurations of EL2 in GaAs.
The photoluminescence spectra of band-edge transitions in GaN is studied as a function of temperature. The parameters that describe the temperature dependence red-shift of the band-edge transition energy and the broadening of emission line are evaluated using different models. We find that the semi-empirical relation…
Fabrication of single nickel-nitrogen (NE8) defect centers in diamond by chemical vapor deposition is demonstrated. Under continuous-wave 745nm laser excitation single defects were induced to emit single photon pulses at 797nm with a linewidth of 1.5nm at room temperature. Photon antibunching of single centers was dem…
Supercapacitor electrodes based on pyrrole treated-functionalized single wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) were developed. High values of capacitance (350 F/g), power density (4.8 kW/kg), and energy density (3.3 kJ/kg) were obtained in 6 M KOH, and the capacitance is almost 7 times that of the control buckypaper. Specific…
A computational method is presented to resolve hydrodynamic interactions acting on solid particles immersed in incompressible host fluids. In this method, boundaries between solid particles and host fluids are replaced with a continuous interface by assuming a smoothed profile. This enabled us to calculate hydrodynami…
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy was conducted on a series of hydrous ruthenium oxides, RuO(2).xH(2)O, (x = 0.5, 0.3, 0) and a layered ruthenic acid hydrate (H(0.2)RuO(2.1).nH(2)O) in order to evaluate their protonic and electronic conduction. The capacitor response frequency was observed at lower frequency for…
The phase relationships of the In 2 O 3 −TiO 2 −CaO and In 2 O 3 −TiO 2 −SrO systems have been studied at 1350 °C in air. The In 2 O 3 −TiO 2 −CaO system contains a ternary compound Ti 6 In 6 CaO 22 crystallizing in an incommensurate structure. The In 2 O 3 −TiO 2 −SrO system, on the other hand, is a simple ternary ph…
Abstract Summary: A foaming apparatus for gas treatment is proposed. Despite a small amount of required liquid, the foaming column can be used not only for polluted gas treatment, but also for a specific type of water and for wastewater purification. In general, the electrical discharge may be applied directly to the…
Tyvelose is a unique 3,6-dideoxyhexose found in the O antigens of some pathogenic species of Yersinia and Salmonella. It is produced via a complex biochemical pathway that employs CDP-D-glucose as the starting ligand. CDP-D-glucose 4,6-dehydratase catalyzes the first irreversible step in the synthesis of this 3,6-dide…
We show that is possible to look at the glass transition as a percolation transition in phase space. This study has been carried out on a hydrated globular enzyme for which the thermodynamic transition and the percolative transition could have a functional significance. The approach adopted is based on the identity of…
Dynamical heterogeneity in a system of Gay-Berne ellipsoids near its isotropic-nematic (I-N) transition, and also in an equimolar mixture of Lennard-Jones spheres and Gay-Berne ellipsoids in deeply supercooled regime, is probed by the time evolution of non-Gaussian parameters (NGP). The appearance of a dominant second…
Photon correlation spectroscopy is used to study the internal dynamics of self-assembled charged peptide fibrils. Short neutral and charged polymeric aggregates have diffusive modes due to whole macromolecular motion. For long semiflexible fibrils the logarithm of the intermediate scattering function follows a q(2)t(3…
An approach for fabricating wide-bandwidth and highly reflective Bragg grating structures with the technique of holographic photopolymerization of a liquid crystal (LC) polymer composite is presented. The key to this fabrication method that distinguishes it from previous methods is the use of a nonreactive solvent, ac…
A technique for detecting power cable fault is described. The cable faults are usually characterized by degradation of the dielectric, either by water inclusion or physical cracking and associated voids. Voltage reflected at the fault is modeled as distorted echo. In this technique, a voltage step test signal propagat…