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Nonfouling surfaces capable of reducing protein adsorption are highly desirable in a wide range of applications. Coating of surfaces with poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), a water-soluble, nontoxic, and nonimmunogenic polymer, is most frequently used to reduce nonspecific protein adsorption. Here we show how to prepare dens…
Caught in a web: Photo-cross-linkable temperature-responsive polymer-based nanofiber webs have been synthesized that have the ability to capture, encapsulate, and release cells by dynamically transforming the fibrous structure into hydrogel-like structures by wrapping, swelling, and deswelling processes in response to…
We prepared a new two-dimensional oxyantimonide, BaTi(2)Sb(2)O, which shows a superconducting transition at 1.2 K, representing the first superconductivity in a system with Ti(3+) (d(1)) in a square lattice. The TiO(2)Sb(4) mixed anionic coordination stabilizes a unique half-filled Ti d(xy) orbital configuration in Ti…
Adsorption of organic molecules on well-oriented single crystal coinage metal surfaces fundamentally affects the energy distribution curve of ultra-violet photoelectron spectroscopy spectra. New features not present in the spectrum of the pristine metal can be assigned as "interface states" having some degree of molec…
Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) simulations were used to investigate an influence of electric field, parallel to single and multilayer graphene on its electron dispersion relations close to K point. It was shown that for both single layer and AAAA stacking multilayer graphene under influence of parallel fiel…
We use neutron inelastic scattering to characterize the acoustic phonons in the relaxor Pb(Mg${}_{1/3}$Nb${}_{2/3}$)O${}_{3}$ (PMN) and demonstrate the presence of a highly anisotropic damping mechanism that is directly related to short-range polar correlations. For a large range of temperatures above ${T}_{c}\ensurem…
The feasibility of fabricating polypropylene (PP) nanofibers has been explored by using different additives, such as sodium oleate (SO), poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) and poly(dimethyl siloxane) (PDMS), during melt electrospinning. PP of high melt flow index (1000) was used with PEG and PDMS for the reduction of the mel…
We study the ground-state properties of the S=1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg model on the Union Jack strip lattice by using the exact-diagonalization and density matrix renormalization group methods. We confirm a region of the intermediate-magnetization state between the Neel-like spin liquid state and the conventio…
The in vitro generation of a three-dimensional (3-D) myocardial tissue-like construct employing cells, biomaterials, and biomolecules is a promising strategy in cardiac tissue regeneration, drug testing, and tissue engineering applications. Despite significant progress in this field, current cardiac tissue models are…
A hypothesis that the local rotations of ReO${}_{6}$ octahedra persist in the crystallographically untilted ambient phase of ReO${}_{3}$ is examined by the high-resolution neutron time-of-flight total scattering based atomic pair distribution function analysis. Three candidate models were tested, $Pm$$\overline{3}$$m$…
A time domain finite element numerical study of impedance spectroscopy in composite electroceramics is presented. The simulations take into account the complexity of the realistic three dimensional granular structure including grains and grain boundaries. Two types of finite elements are used to represent the bulk (te…
We present a generally applicable parameter-free first-principles method to determine electronic spin relaxation times and apply it to the technologically important group-IV materials silicon, diamond and graphite. We concentrate on the Elliott-Yafet mechanism, where spin relaxation is induced by momentum scattering o…
The performance of ten density functional theory (DFT) methods in a prediction of the structure of four clay minerals, in which non-bonding interactions dominate in the layer stacking (dispersive forces in talc and pyrophyllite, and hydrogen bonds in lizardite and kaolinite), is reported. In a set of DFT methods follo…
Degradation of cellulose by anaerobic microbial consortium is brought about either by an exocellular process or by secretion of extracellular enzymes. In this work, a novel route for synthesis of nanocellulose is described where in an anaerobic microbial consortium enriched for cellulase producers is used for hydrolys…
Redox isomerism is observed for a lanthanide complex for the first time. Upon lowering the temperature, an electron of [{(dpp-bian)Yb(μ-Cl)(dme)}(2)] (1) is transferred from the metal to the ligand (see picture), giving rise to marked shortening of Yb-N bonds and a hysteretic jump in the magnetic moment. The crystal p…
A thermoelectric generator (TEG) is a low-voltage high-current dc power source with a linear V–I characteristic, and therefore, it is desirable to create a power converter with a topology and control method suited to these attributes. Due to the TEG’s low voltage, a topology that produces a high step-up gain for a mod…
Halloysite clay nanotubes are functionalized by exploiting the different charges between the inner positive and the outer negative surfaces; accordingly, a selective adsorption is pursued by employing anionic and cationic surfactants. The obtained hybrid materials dispersed in aqueous phase are studied from the physic…
The requirement that packings of frictionless hard spheres, arguably the simplest structural glass, cannot be compressed by rearranging their network of contacts is shown to yield a new constraint on their microscopic structure. This constraint takes the form a bound between the distribution of contact forces $P(f)$ a…
In recent years, there has been considerable interest and research activity in using gold nanoparticle materials for biomedical applications including biomolecular detection, bioimaging, drug delivery, and photothermal therapy. In order to apply gold nanoparticles in the real biological world, we need to have a better…
Polycrystalline samples of F-substituted LnOBiS2 (Ln = La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Yb) compounds were synthesized by solid-state reaction. The samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction measurements and found to have the ZrCuSiAs crystal structure. Electrical resistivity and magnetic susceptibility measurements were performe…