Ho‐Young Kim、L. Mahadevan2006-02-01Journal of Fluid Mechanics
When a paintbrush is dipped into a pot of paint and pulled out, surface tension forces cause the individual hairs in the brush to coalesce even as the brush becomes impregnated with paint. We study a simple model of this elastocapillary interaction in the context of the surface-tension-driven vertical rise of a liquid…
Surface Modification and SuperhydrophobicityFluid Dynamics and Heat TransferExperimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
Serge Bourbigot、Sophie Duquesne、Charafeddine Jama2006-02-01Macromolecular Symposia
Abstract The paper investigates critically the feasibility to make fire proof polymer using nanoparticles. It includes organoclay, polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS) and carbon nanotube (CNT). It is shown that they can be used to make material exhibiting low heat release rate (HRR) when they undergo heat. We…
Polymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesFlame retardant materials and propertiesSilicone and Siloxane Chemistry
Hui Xu、Lianhui Wang、Xu‐Hui Zhu 等 7 位作者2006-02-01The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
The chelate phosphine oxide ligand bis(2-(diphenylphosphino)phenyl) ether oxide (DPEPO) was used as a unit neutral ligand to prepare the complex Eu(TTA)(3)(DPEPO) 1 (TTA = 2-thenoyltrifluoroacetonate). Compound 1 has a photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield of 55.3%, which is more than the twice of the PL quantum yield…
Organic Light-Emitting Diodes ResearchMagnetism in coordination complexesLanthanide and Transition Metal Complexes
S. B. Dugdale、Robyn Watts、J. Laverock 等 10 位作者2006-02-01Physical Review Letters
The Fermi surface topology of the shape-memory alloy Ni0.62Al0.38 has been determined using Compton scattering. A large area of this Fermi surface can be made to nest with other areas by translation through a vector of approximately 0.18[1,1,0](2pi/a), which corresponds to the wave vector associated with martensitic p…
Shape Memory Alloy TransformationsIntermetallics and Advanced Alloy PropertiesPhase-change materials and chalcogenides
Maurizio Biasini、Jan Rusz2006-02-01arXiv
Measurements of the two dimensional angular correlation of the electron-positron annihilation radiation have been done in the past to detect the momentum spin density and the Fermi surface. We point out that the momentum spin density and the Fermi Surface of ferromagnetic metals can be revealed within great detail owi…
Materials Science
G. Herranz、M. Basletic、Manuel Bibès 等 11 位作者2006-02-01Physical Review B
We report on the growth of heterostructures composed of layers of the high-Curie temperature ferromagnet Co-doped $(\mathrm{La},\mathrm{Sr}){\mathrm{TiO}}_{3}$ (Co-LSTO) with high-mobility ${\mathrm{SrTiO}}_{3}$ (STO) substrates processed at low oxygen pressure. While perpendicular spin-dependent transport measurement…
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsAdvanced Condensed Matter PhysicsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
J. Liu、E. Girgis、P. Bach 等 7 位作者2006-02-01Journal of Applied Physics
We demonstrate tunnel magnetoresistance junctions based on a trilayer system consisting of an epitaxial NiMnSb, an aluminum oxide, and a CoFe trilayer. The junctions show a tunneling magnetoresistance of ΔR∕R of 8.7% at room temperature which increases to 14.7% at 4.2K. The layers show a clear separate switching and a…
Magnetic properties of thin filmsMultiferroics and related materialsHeusler alloys: electronic and magnetic properties
Beata Ziaja、Richard A. London、János Hajdu2006-02-01Journal of Applied Physics
We propose a simple formula for fitting the electron ionization mean free paths in solids both at high and at low electron energies. The free-electron-gas approximation used for predicting electron mean free paths is no longer valid at low impact energies [(E−EF)<50eV], as the band structure effects become sign…
Semiconductor materials and devicesX-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence AnalysisElectron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
Isa K. Mbaraka、Brent H. Shanks2006-02-01Journal of the American Oil Chemists Society
Abstract Natural oils and fats are emerging as a biobased alternative feedstock to conventional crude oil in the production of chemicals and transportation fuel. However, many of these biobased chemicals are not currently cost competitive with petrochemicals because of high raw material and production costs. To improv…
Mesoporous Materials and CatalysisCatalysis for Biomass ConversionCatalysis and Hydrodesulfurization Studies
Pekka Ikonen、Pavel A. Belov、Constantin Simovski 等 4 位作者2006-02-01Physical Review B
In this Brief Report we experimentally demonstrate a possibility to channel the near field distribution of a line source with sub-wavelength details through a layer of an electromagnetic crystal. Channeled intensity maximum having radius of $\ensuremath{\lambda}∕10$ has been obtained using an electrically dense lattic…
Metamaterials and Metasurfaces ApplicationsPhotonic Crystals and ApplicationsAdvanced Antenna and Metasurface Technologies
Alexander Tchernatinsky、Sharvil Desai、Gamini Sumanasekera 等 7 位作者2006-02-01Journal of Applied Physics
Our study of the adsorption of oxygen molecules on individual semiconductiong single-walled carbon nanotubes at ambient conditions reveals that the adsorption is physisorption, the resistance without O2 increases by approximately two orders of magnitude as compared to that with O2, and the sensitive response is due to…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsNanopore and Nanochannel Transport Studies
Jasper L. Dickson、Gaurav Gupta、Tommy S. Horozov 等 5 位作者2006-02-01Langmuir
A novel high-pressure apparatus and technique were developed to measure CO2/water/solid contact angles (theta) in situ for pressures up to 204 bar. For two glass substrates with different hydrophilicities, theta increased significantly with CO2 pressure. As the pressure was increased, an increase in the cohesive energ…
Surface Modification and SuperhydrophobicitySurfactants and Colloidal SystemsPickering emulsions and particle stabilization
M. M. Voronov、E. L. Ivchenko、A. N. Poddubny 等 4 位作者2006-02-01arXiv
We have studied theoretically optical reflection spectra from the Bragg multiple quantum well structures. We give an analytical explanation of the presence of two special frequencies in the spectra at which the reflection coefficient weakly depends on the quantum well number. The influence of the exciton nonradiative…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Yves Meheust、Kenneth Dahl Knudsen、Jon Otto Fossum2006-02-01arXiv
The wide-angle scattering of X-rays by anisotropic powders of nano-layered crystallites (nano-stacks) is addressed. Assuming that the orientation distribution probability function f of the nano-stacks only depends on the deviation of the crystallites' orientation from a fixed reference direction, we derive a relation…
Materials ScienceSoft Condensed Matter
A. N. Morozovska、E. A. Eliseev2006-02-01arXiv
We have modified Landau-Khalatnikov approach and shown that both the polar lattice and the screened charged defects determine the response of disordered ferroelectric-semiconductors. This system exhibits the spatially inhomogeneous switching under the external field while Landau-Khalatnikov model describes homogeneous…
Materials Science
Dennis P. Clougherty2006-02-01Physical Review Letters
It is demonstrated that under common conditions a molecular solid subject to Jahn-Teller interactions supports stable Q-ball-like nontopological solitons. Such solitons represent a localized lump of excess electric charge in periodic motion accompanied by a time-dependent shape distortion of a set of adjacent molecule…
Magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsOrganic and Molecular Conductors ResearchSolid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
Hongbo Zhao、S. Mazumdar、Chuanxiang Sheng 等 5 位作者2006-02-01Physical Review B
The nature of the primary photoexcitations in semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (S-SWCNTs) is of strong current interest. We have studied the emission spectra of S-SWCNTs and two different $\ensuremath{\pi}$-conjugated polymers in solutions and films, and have also performed ultrafast pump-probe spectrosco…
Organic Electronics and PhotovoltaicsCarbon Nanotubes in CompositesConducting polymers and applications
Shunichi Fukuzumi2006-02-01Bulletin of the Chemical Society of Japan
Abstract Bioinspired electron-transfer systems including artificial photosynthesis and respiration are presented herein together with some of their applications. First, multi-step electron-transfer systems composed of electron donor–acceptor ensembles have been developed, mimicking functions of the photosynthetic reac…
Electrocatalysts for Energy ConversionPhotosynthetic Processes and MechanismsPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
Alain Dufresne2006-02-01Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology
There are numerous examples where animals or plants synthesize extracellular high-performance skeletal biocomposites consisting of a matrix reinforced by fibrous biopolymers. Cellulose and chitin are classical examples of these reinforcing elements, which occur as whisker-like microfibrils that are biosynthesized and…
biodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesElectrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsPolysaccharides Composition and Applications
A. Umran Doğan、Meral Dogan、Müşerref Önal 等 6 位作者2006-02-01Clays and Clay Minerals
Abstract Specific surface area measurements of The Clay Minerals Society source clays were made by the Brunauer, Emmett and Teller (BET) method of adsorption of nitrogen gas. Two replicate measurements of specific surface area were performed for each source clay. All pair values were within 3%, which is very good agre…
Soil and Unsaturated FlowClay minerals and soil interactionsIron oxide chemistry and applications