Lei Feng、Yu Liu、Jianyuan Hao 等 6 位作者2011-10-17Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics
Abstract A new class of thermoresponsive polyesters is prepared by alternating ring‐opening copolymerization of succinic anhydride (SA) and epoxide bearing oligo(ethylene glycol) (oligo‐EG) pendant chains with the number of repeat ethylene glycol unit ranging from 1 to 3. The copolymerization kinetics and their variou…
Synthesis and properties of polymersbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesAdvanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization
Huaizhou Zhao、Mani Pokharel、Gaohua Zhu 等 9 位作者2011-10-17Applied Physics Letters
In this report, thermal conductivity reduction by more than three orders of magnitude over its single crystal counterpart for the strongly correlated system FeSb2 through a nanostructure approach was presented, leading to a significant increase of thermoelectric figure-of-merit (ZT). For the samples processed with the…
Thermal Radiation and Cooling TechnologiesThermal properties of materialsAdvanced Thermoelectric Materials and Devices
Taichi Terashima、Nobuyuki Kurita、Megumi Tomita 等 15 位作者2011-10-17Physical Review Letters
We show that the Fermi surface (FS) in the antiferromagnetic phase of BaFe(2)As(2) is composed of one hole and two electron pockets, all of which are three dimensional and closed, in sharp contrast to the FS observed by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. Considerations on the carrier compensation and Sommerfel…
Intellectual Capital and Performance AnalysisIron-based superconductors researchPhysics of Superconductivity and Magnetism
Siyu Tu、Se Hye Kim、Jojo P. Joseph 等 5 位作者2011-10-17Journal of the American Chemical Society
The self-assembly of bolaamphiphile 1 into nanotubes containing a nanostructured electron donor/acceptor heterojunction is reported. In 10% MeOH/H(2)O, the tetraphenylporphyrin (TPP) and 1,4,5,8-naphthalenetetracarboxylic acid diimide chromophores engage in strong J-type π-π interactions within monolayer rings that fu…
Porphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistryLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Johan Carlström、Julien Garaud、Egor Babaev2011-10-17Physical Review B
The recent discovery of iron pnictide superconductors has resulted in a rapidly growing interest in multiband models with more than two bands. In this work we specifically focus on the properties of three-band Ginzburg-Landau models which do not have direct counterparts in more studied two-band models. First we derive…
Iron-based superconductors researchPhysics of Superconductivity and MagnetismSuperconductivity in MgB2 and Alloys
Dion Khodagholy、Moshe Gurfinkel、Eleni Stavrinidou 等 7 位作者2011-10-17Applied Physics Letters
A generic lithographic process is presented that allows the fabrication of high density organic electrochemical transistor arrays meant to interface with aqueous electrolytes. The channels of the transistors, which were 6 μm long, were made of the conducting polymer poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) doped with poly(sty…
Neuroscience and Neural EngineeringAnalytical Chemistry and SensorsConducting polymers and applications
Robert Niemann、Oleg Heczko、Ludwig Schultz 等 4 位作者2011-10-17arXiv
Giant caloric effects were reported in elasto-, electro- and magnetocaloric materials near phase transformations. Commonly, their entropy change is indirectly evaluated by a Maxwell relation. We report the fundamental failure of this approach. We analyze exemplarily the Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory alloy. An applied…
Materials Science
J. Vinson、J. Kas、F. Vila 等 5 位作者2011-10-17arXiv
Theoretical optical and x-ray spectra of model structures of water and ice are calculated using a many-body perturbation theory, Bethe-Salpeter equation (BSE) approach implemented in the valence- and core-excitation codes AI2NBSE and OCEAN. These codes use ab initio density functional theory wave functions from a plan…
Materials Science
R. H. Miwa、T. M. Schmidt、Wanderlã L. Scopel 等 4 位作者2011-10-17Applied Physics Letters
We have performed an ab initio theoretical investigation of a graphene sheet adsorbed on amorphous SiO2 surface (G/a-SiO2). We find that graphene adsorbs on the a-SiO2 surface through van der Waals interactions. The inhomogeneous topology of the a-SiO2 clean surface promotes a total charge density displacement on the…
Chemical and Physical Properties of MaterialsQuantum and electron transport phenomenaGraphene research and applications
Micheál D. Scanlon、Urszula Salaj‐Kosla、Serguei Belochapkine 等 7 位作者2011-10-17Langmuir
The high surface areas of nanostructured electrodes can provide for significantly enhanced surface loadings of electroactive materials. The fabrication and characterization of nanoporous gold (np-Au) substrates as electrodes for bioelectrochemical applications is described. Robust np-Au electrodes were prepared by spu…
Nanoporous metals and alloysSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationElectrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Paweł W. Majewski、Manesh Gopinadhan、Chinedum O. Osuji2011-10-17Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics
Abstract Block copolymers (BCPs) offer an exciting range of structures and functions that are of potential utility in existing as well as emerging technologies. Although this is generally acknowledged, with few exceptions, viable strategies for establishing scalable and robust control of BCP microstructure are underde…
Polymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesAdvanced Polymer Synthesis and CharacterizationBlock Copolymer Self-Assembly
L. V. C. Assali、W.V.M. Machado、João F. Justo2011-10-17Physical Review B
First principles calculations have been used to investigate the trends on the properties of isolated 3$d$ transition metal impurities (from Sc to Cu) in diamond. Those impurities have small formation energies in the substitutional or double semivacancy sites and large energies in the interstitial site. Going from Sc t…
Diamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchSemiconductor materials and devicesBoron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
Jun Yao、Lin Zhong、Douglas Natelson 等 4 位作者2011-10-17arXiv
The nature of the conducting filaments in many resistive switching systems has been elusive. Through in situ transmission electron microscopy, we image the real-time formation and evolution of the filament in a silicon oxide resistive switch. The electroforming process is revealed to involve the local enrichment of si…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Evangelos Th. Papaioannou、Vassilios Kapaklis、Emil Melander 等 10 位作者2011-10-17arXiv
The influence of surface plasmons on the magneto-optic activity in a two-dimensional hexagonal array is addressed. The experiments were performed using hexagonal array of circular holes in a ferromagnetic Ni film. Well pronounced troughs are observed in the optical reflectivity, resulting from the presence of surface…
Materials Science
Meletios Mexis、Sylvain Sergent、Thierry Guillet 等 12 位作者2011-10-17arXiv
We compare the quality factor values of the whispery gallery modes of microdisks incorporating GaN quantum dots (QDs) grown on AlN and AlGaN barriers by performing room temperature photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy. The PL measurements show a large number of high Q factor (Q) resonant modes on the whole spectrum whi…
Materials Sciencecond-mat.other
Zhi Ma、Jing Yuan、Chentao Cao 等 5 位作者2011-10-17arXiv
Ni coated SiO2 and SiO2 coated Ni composite particles with core-shell structures were designed, prepared and their microwave absorption properties were characterized. The comparison study of the shell effect on the effective electromagnetic parameters reveals that the effective permittivity/permeability was crucially…
Materials Science
Corentin Jorel、Philippe Feautrier、Jean-Claude Villegier2011-10-17arXiv
Superconducting Tunnel Junctions (STJ's) are currently being developed as photon detectors for a wide range of applications. Interest comes from their ability to cumulate photon counting with chromaticity (i.e. energy resolution) from the near infrared (2 $μ$m) to the X-rays wavelengths and good quantum efficiency up…
Materials Science
Li Wang、Guchang Han2011-10-17arXiv
The downtrack responses of a differential reader to various magnetic patterns have been investigated micromagnetically. The differential signals can well discriminate the "0" and "1" readback bits and the waveforms obtained resemble the counterparts for longitudinal media or for perpendicular media after differentiati…
Materials Science
Oleg O. Kit、Lars Pastewka、Pekka Koskinen2011-10-17Physical Review B
Many nanostructures today are low-dimensional and flimsy, and therefore get easily distorted. Distortion-induced symmetry breaking makes conventional, translation-periodic simulations invalid, which has triggered developments for new methods. Revised periodic boundary conditions (RPBC) is a simple method that enables…
Surface and Thin Film PhenomenaGraphene research and applicationsAluminum Alloys Composites Properties
Pratyush Tiwary、Axel van de Walle2011-10-17arXiv
We propose a hybrid deterministic and stochastic approach to achieve extended time scales in atomistic simulations that combines the strengths of molecular dynamics (MD) and Monte Carlo (MC) simulations in an easy-to-implement way. The method exploits the rare event nature of the dynamics similar to most current accel…
physics.comp-phMaterials Sciencecond-mat.stat-mech