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Existence of ferromagnetism in bulk calcium compounds is discovered theoretically. First-principles calculations of calcium phosphide, calcium arsenide and calcium antimonide in the zinc-blende structure have been performed to show the half-metallic ground state in each optimized stable structure. Magnetism comes from…
A new class of materials for optical data storage and security data encryption is reported. Multidye colloid particles comprising different dyes in different phases are employed as the building blocks to produce a multicolored multiphase polymeric material. The incorporation of dyes in different phases minimizes energ…
Multicomponent Na2V6O16.3H2O (barnesite) single-crystalline nanobelts were synthesized by a direct reaction-crystallization growth of bulk V2O5 and NaF powders under hydrothermal treatment without using any templates or catalysts. This new strategy could be extended to prepare other one-dimensional multicomponent nano…
A semiclassical theory for magnetotrasport in a quantum Hall system near filling factor $ν= 1/2 $ based on the Composite Fermions physical picture is used to analyze the effect of local flattening of the Composite Fermion Fermi surface (CF-FS) upon magnetoacoustic oscllations. We report on calculations of the velocity…
Motivated by applications to quantum computer architectures we study the change in the exchange interaction between neighbouring phosphorus donor electrons in silicon due to the application of voltage biases to surface control electrodes. These voltage biases create electro-static fields within the crystal substrate,…
We report the evidence of proton incorporations in a newly-discovered cobalt oxyhydrate superconductor. During the hydration process for Na$_{0.32}$CoO$_{2}$ by the direct reaction with water liquid, it was shown that substantial NaOH was gradually liberated, indicating that H$^{+}$ is incorporated into the hydrated c…
We have studied the electronic and magnetic properties of Fe-Pt, Co-Pt and Ni-Pt alloy systems in ordered and disordered phases. The influence of various exchange-correlation functionals on values of equilibrium lattice parameters and magnetic moments in ordered Fe-Pt, Co-Pt and Ni-Pt alloys have been studied using li…
The handling and manipulation of carbon nanotubes continues to be a challenge to those interested in the application potential of these promising materials. To this end, we have developed a method to deposit pure nonoriented nanotube films over large flat areas on substrates of arbitrary composition. The method bears…
The spin-orbit interaction can cause a nonvanishing density of states (DOS) within the minority-spin band gap of half metals around the Fermi level. We examine the magnitude of the effect in Heusler alloys, zinc-blende half metals, and diluted magnetic semiconductors, using first-principles calculations. We find that…
When a high-power laser beam is focused into liquid, it results in a shock wave emission and cavitation bubble generation. Upon inserting a rigid substrate into the liquid, the bubbles migrate towards the substrate due to the Bjerknes attractive force. Due to bubble–substrate and/or bubble–free-surface interaction, a…
The interaction of $3d$ transition metal atoms and dimers with a single-walled armchair carbon nanotube has been investigated by first-principles density functional calculations. For Fe-, Co-, and Ni-doped (4,4) nanotubes, outside adsorption sites are the most favorable. The interactions are largely ferromagnetic for…
A capability for scanning electron microscopy of wet biological specimens is presented. A membrane that is transparent to electrons protects the fully hydrated sample from the vacuum. The result is a hybrid technique combining the ease of use and ability to see into cells of optical microscopy with the higher resoluti…
We have performed elastic diffuse neutron-scattering studies on the relaxor $\mathrm{Pb}({\mathrm{Mg}}_{1/3}{\mathrm{Nb}}_{2/3}){\mathrm{O}}_{3}.$ The measured intensity distribution near a (100) Bragg peak in the (hk0) scattering plane assumes the shape of a butterfly with extended intensity in the (110) and $(11\ifm…
Uniformly distributed ZnO nanorods have been grown by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition using a two-step process. By controlling the oxygen content in the gas mixture during the nucleation and growth steps, no catalyst is required for the formation of ZnO nanorods. High-resolution transmission electron microsc…
Freestanding single-crystal complete nanorings of zinc oxide were formed via a spontaneous self-coiling process during the growth of polar nanobelts. The nanoring appeared to be initiated by circular folding of a nanobelt, caused by long-range electrostatic interaction. Coaxial and uniradial loop-by-loop winding of th…
In Gram-negative bacteria, intercellular communication and virulence regulation is mediated by the diffusible chemical signal acyl-homoserine-L-lactone (AHL). The AHL synthase enzymes produce a variety of AHLs from the substrates S-adenosyl-L-methionine and acyl-acyl carrier protein. LasI, the AHL synthase from Pseudo…
Since excimer laser applications extend to deep and vacuum UV wavelengths at 193 nm and 157 nm, renewed research interest has recently arisen on fluoride thin films due to their unrivaled position as wide-band-gap material for the vacuum UV (VUV). In order to evaluate the development of mechanical stress in all dielec…
Not a creature from the ocean depths, but the product of synthetic chemistry aided by self-assembly is shown in the photomicrograph. The densely packed, hollow spheres with highly blistered surfaces offer the possibility of a useful encapsulation system which is simple, cheap, and endowed with a particularly high capt…
The image quality of ion-induced secondary electron images generated with a MeV nuclear microprobe has previously been severely limited by the large beam current fluctuations produced by Van de Graaff accelerators. In this article we report the use of a solid state Cockroft–Walton type accelerator (HVEE™ Singletron) t…
The interaction between platelet glycoprotein (GP) Ib alpha and von Willebrand factor (VWF) is essential for thrombus formation, leading to the arrest of bleeding. The N-terminal domain of GP Ib alpha, which contains the binding sites for VWF and alpha-thrombin, crystallized in the tetragonal space group P4(3) with on…