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Making films: Removal of most of the toluene from a two-phase toluene/water mixture causes nanoparticles present at the liquid–liquid interface to pack closely together in an ordered monolayer film (MLF). This MLF can be removed from the interface for further study.
We report a first-principles investigation of ultrathin BaTiO(3) films with SrRuO(3) electrodes. We find that the ionic relaxations in the metal-oxide electrode play a crucial role in stabilizing the ferroelectric phase. Comparison with frozen-phonon calculations shows that the degree of softness of the SrRuO(3) latti…
Manganese oxides ( R , A )MnO 3 ( R = La, Y, Bi or rare earth metal, A = non-trivalent doping element) have been one focus of research for two outstanding properties: (i) conduction electrons (if any) are highly spin-polarized and (ii) competing interactions of several electronic and lattice degrees of freedom lead to…
Imaging with subwavelength resolution using a periodic metal-dielectric layered structure is demonstrated. The structure operates in canalization regime as a transmission device and it does not involve negative refraction and amplification of evanescent modes. The thickness of the structure has to be an integer number…
Galfenol (Fe100-xGax, x = 6, 12.5, 17, 18.4, 19, 22) and Alfenol (Fe81Al19) alloy rods (~50 mm x 6 mm dia.) were annealed under compressive stresses up to 219 MPa at temperatures from 100°C to 700°C for 10 to 100 minutes. Because of the magnetostriction of the alloys, these heat treatments build in a uniaxial magnetic…
Highly aligned multi-wall carbon nanotube arrays up to 4 mm tall were synthesized on Si wafers using a chemical vapor deposition process with water delivery. Based on the long nanotube arrays, several prototype smart materials were developed including a biosensor, electrochemical actuator, and nanotube probes. The bio…
The use of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) is growing rapidly. They have been under serious development for aerospace applications for over 15 years, but are still restricted to niche areas and small scale applications. Very few applications have found their way into service. Whilst they have been predominantly aimed at ai…
The crystal morphology of silver laurate, silver stearate, and silver behenate is studied. The crystal structures form a homologous series for AgOOC n H 2 n - 1 (for n = even). These crystals are morphologically only isomorphous when grown at low supersaturation. The morphological importance of the top facets depends…
Abstract The crystal structures and spectroscopic (IR, Raman, UV/Vis) data for the complexes [C(NH 2 ) 3 ] 2 [Nd(HTTHA)] · 3H 2 O ( I ) and [C(NH 2 ) 3 ] 3 [Nd(TTHA)] · 6H 2 O ( II ) are presented. Crystals of I are triclinic, P $\bar {1}$ , a = 9.998(2), b = 10.730(2), c = 15.557(3) Å, α = 106.89(3)°, β = 90.27(3)°,…
Natural fiber-reinforced composites are currently used for various types of applications. However, to improve the fiber/resin bonding at the interface, some suitable chemical modification of the fibers is required. In the present study, an attempt has been made to use an inexpensive, easily available, and water-solubl…
We hereby report hydrothermal syntheses of new microstructures of semiconducting ZnO. Single-crystalline prismatic ZnO microboxes formed by nanowalls and hexagonal hollow microdisks closed by plates with micron-sized inorganic fullerene-like structures have been made in a base-free medium through a one-step hydrotherm…
The Debye-Stokes-Einstein (DSE) model of rotational diffusion predicts that the orientational correlation times tau l vary as [l(l+1)]-1, where l is the rank of the orientational time correlation function (given in terms of the Legendre polynomial of rank l). One often finds significant deviation from this prediction,…
This article reports results of endothelial cell interaction with atom beam source N-doped a-C:H (diamond-like carbon, DLC) as it compares with that of Si-doped DLC thin films. The RF plasma source exhibits up to 40% N-dissociation and N-atomic fluxes of approximately 0.85 x 10(18) atoms/s, which ensures better atomic…
LiAlH4 holds great promise for reversible hydrogen storage, where a fundamental understanding of hydrogen interaction with the metal elements is essential to further improve its properties. The present paper reports a first-principles study of its stability and electronic structure, using a full potential linearized a…
Potential applications involving high-temperature shape memory alloys have been growing in recent years. Even in those cases where promising new alloys have been identified, the knowledge base for such materials contains gaps crucial to their maturation and implementation in actuator and other applications. We begin t…
Static-lattice atomistic calculations have been used to study the solution energy for the incorporation of 13 foreign cations at 3 different lattice positions of 12 synthetic garnets. Trends have been obtained as a function of the ionic radius of the dopant cation, and the predictions about site preference have been c…
A nickel−phosphorus (Ni−P) hollow microfiber was obtained by simply immersing a recyclable hydrogen-bonded supramolecular fibrous template made of amphoteric azopyridine carboxylic acid in an HCl-acidic PdCl 2 aqueous solution and in a Ni−P electroless plating bath, followed by template removal in an alkaline aqueous…
A two-dimensional assembly of charged colloidal particles induced by an alternating electric field was studied in real space by means of digital video microscopy. Phase transitions occur from a highly ordered colloidal monolayer to an isotropic suspension by changing the field strength or frequency (in the appropriate…
The liquid-liquid transition (LLT) in a single-component liquid is one of the key open problems of condensed matter physics. Specifying the order parameter is a first step toward the physical understanding of this interesting phenomenon. Here we study the time evolution of the heat flux during the transformation of on…
The phase study of a Cd-Yb 1/1 approximant crystal over a wide pressure and temperature range is crucial for the comparison study between periodic and quasiperiodic crystals. The Cd(4) tetrahedra, the most inner part of the atomic clusters, exhibited various structural ordering in the orientation sensitive to pressure…