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The self-assembly of nanoparticles is an efficient and precise method to fabricate nanoscale devices. By manipulating iron oxide nanoparticles in suspension with an external field to form magnetically directed linear assemblies, we demonstrate the feasibility of using this structure to template the synthesis of PEDOT:…
Planar triazinium cationic species from vanadyl-assisted cyclization of 1-(2-thiazolylazo)-2-naphthol (H-TAN, 1), 1-(2-pyridylazo)-2-naphthol (H-PAN, 2), 2-(2'-thiazolylazo)-p-cresol (H-TAC, 3) and 6-(2'-thiazolylazo)-resorcinol (H-TAR, 5) were prepared and characterized. A dioxovanadium(V) species [VO(2)(TAR)] (4) wa…
The slow agglomeration of gold colloids of approximate diameter 30 nm in the presence of a small concentration of L-cysteine·HCl has been followed by multiple techniques, namely particle tracking analysis (PTA), differential centrifugal sedimentation (DCS), UV-visible spectroscopy (UV), second order spectroscopy (SOS)…
Core–shell polymeric particles consisting of biodegradable polylactide (PLA) arms emanating from a crosslinked polyurethane (PU) core were prepared in situ by a polymerization induced phase separation strategy. Sub-micron sized particles were spawned in dilute solution during polyurethane formation with simultaneous i…
One of the recent challenges in nanotechnology is the development of ‘catalyzed self-assembly’. So far successful cases are still scarce. In this work we report the delicate case of a cyclodextrin (CD) catalyzed self-assembly of the terthiophene-containing amphiphile TTC4L into microspheres. TT4CL can form precipitate…
In this manuscript, neat electrospun poly(o-methoxyaniline) (POMA) fibers were applied for the first time in the growth of neural stem cells. POMA was synthesized by chemical oxidative polymerization, followed by dissolving in tetrahydrofuran/dimethylformamide to prepare electrospinning solution. Subsequently, the sol…
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is a material with a great variety of industrial applications including high heat capacity, thermal conductivity and temperature stability. Clearly, it would be of great importance to find new stable and/or metastable modifications of zinc oxide, and investigate the influence of pressure and/or temper…
The colloidal gas–liquid phase behaviour has been studied for aqueous mixtures of well-defined spherical particles with short-ranged repulsions mixed with relatively monodisperse poly(ethylene oxide) polymers. We show that our set of experimental phase diagrams are in quantitative agreement with theoretical prediction…
Four new, non-symmetric, optically active, liquid crystal dimers in which cholesterol and three-ring salicylaldimine mesogenic cores are interlinked through a flexible even-parity (ω-oxyalkanoyloxy) spacer have been synthesized and characterized by polarising optical microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry, elec…
Results from an experimental study of the local hydrodynamic structure of liquid flow in a 37-cell model simulating a fuel assembly used in the AES-2006 reactor are presented. Special attention is paid to the effect of spacer grid on flow hydrodynamics. Data on variations of the local and integral values of the liquid…
The effect of the surface roughness of a substrate, in particular carbon fibre, on the growth of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was investigated using floating-catalyst chemical vapour deposition. Carbon fibres (CFs) with four different surface roughness levels were prepared using thermal treatments under an argon and air en…
A facile nonaqueous injection method has been developed for the construction of one-dimensional nanostructure consisting of a magnetic alloy (Ni-Cu) core and a plasmonic alloy (Au-Cu) shell. The obtained Ni-Cu@Au-Cu nanowires exhibit tunable optical and magnetic properties.
There has recently been a great deal of interest and excitement in applying graphene field effect transistors (GFETs) in digital and radio frequency (RF) circuits and systems. Peculiar output characteristics such as kinks and negative differential resistance (NDR) in a strong field are the unique transport properties…
Successful doping of anisotropic semiconductor nanocrystals with impurities offers an effective pathway to manipulate their physical properties and enhance the application performances. However, such doping into anisotropic nanocrystals is seldom reported because it needs simultaneous controls in the crystal growth fo…
A vapour–liquid phase coexistence with vanishing critical volume fraction (empty liquid) is predicted in some model systems of attractive hard ellipsoids. The trends in critical density and temperature do not depend on the ellipsoid shape and the range of the square-well attraction. Our theoretical and simulation stud…
We describe a gelation study of a series of different fatty acid–amino acid conjugated amphiphiles in various mixed solvent systems with water. Field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM), polarized optical microscopy (POM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD) study reveals that the self-organization of the amphiphile…
Structural characterization of individual nanosized boron-rich nanowires has been carried out through analysing the three-dimensional (3D) electron diffraction intensity distribution. Not only can the cyclic twinning structure of these nanowires be easily determined, the new approach also reveals the heterogeneous str…
We demonstrate that particles interacting via core-softened potentials exhibit a series of successive density anomalies upon isothermal compression, leading to oscillations in the diffusivity and thermal expansion coefficient, with the latter reaching negative values. These finite-temperature density anomalies are the…
Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) have been amine-functionalized by eco-friendly supercritical water oxidation. The facilely functionalized MWNTs have high solubility (~84 mg L(-1)) in water and 78% transmittance at 30-fold dilution. The Tyndall effect is also shown for several liquids.
Composite anodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) developed on yttria stabilised zirconia (YSZ) porous supports by infiltration of electrode materials has been successfully applied for various anode and cathode compositions, resulting in high performance SOFC devices. The focus of this study is the performance of the…