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The mass transportation mechanism in electric-biased carbon nanotubes (CNTs) is investigated experimentally. Except for the widely accepted electromigration mechanism, we find out the thermal effect can also induce the mass transportation in the form of thermomigration or thermal evaporation. Moreover, the convincing…
Carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforcement of polymer composites has not yielded optimum results in that the composite properties are typically compromised by poor dispersion and random orientation of CNTs in polymers. Given the short lengths available for nanotubes, opportunities lie in incorporating CNTs with other structu…
Poly(hexamethylene adipate)-PEO block copolymers (PHA-b-PEO) with different PEO contents were synthesized and processed to aqueous suspensions with high solid contents by a solvent displacement method followed by dialysis. The best suspension displayed a solid content of 16 wt.-% and an average particle size of 108 nm…
Abstract Poly(vinyl chloride) membranes were prepared via a phase inversion method, using N,N ‐dimethylacetamide (DMAc) as solvent, polyethylene glycol (PEG), polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), and sucrose as three typical additives and water as the coagulation medium. The phase diagrams of the PVC/DMAc/additives/water quate…
A stepwise anticancer drug delivery system based on an injectable supramolecular hydrogel was presented. In this system, poly(ethylene glycol)-b-poly(acrylic acid) (PEG-b-PAA) block copolymer nanoparticles containing cisplatin were released by erosion of the hydrogels and then the cisplatin was released from the nanop…
The emission of one or two Auger electrons, following Kr $3d$ inner-shell ionization by synchrotron light, has been investigated both experimentally and theoretically. All electrons emitted in the process are detected in coincidence and analyzed in energy thanks to a magnetic-bottle electron time-of-flight spectromete…
We report the development of a facile method for the synthesis of Ag(2)O crystals with systematic shape evolution from cubic to edge- and corner-truncated cubic, rhombicuboctahedral, edge- and corner-truncated octahedral, octahedral, and hexapod structures by mixing AgNO(3), NH(4)NO(3), and NaOH at molar ratios of 1:2…
Abstract A novel electrospinning process, bubble electrospinning, was used to produce porous nonwoven fibrous mats, of which the fiber diameter can range from nano‐ to microscales. The deformation of a charged bubble, from which multiple jets were ejected, was observed using a high‐speed motion camera. The effects of…
Nanotechnology offers many potential benefits to medical research by making pharmaceuticals more efficacious and by decreasing their adverse side-effects. Preclinical characterization of nanoparticles intended for medical applications is complicated--due to the variety of materials used, their unique surface propertie…
Particle size characterization is of particular importance to nanomedicine. The size similarity of nanoparticles to biological moieties is believed to impart many of their unique medical properties. Here we present a method for sample preparation and the determination of mean nanoparticle size (hydrodynamic diameter)…
The inhibitive action of ethanol extracts from leaves (LV), bark (BK) and roots (RT) of Nauclea latifolia on mild steel corrosion in H2SO4 solutions at 30–60 °C was studied using weight loss and gasometric techniques. The extracts were found to inhibit the corrosion of mild steel in H2SO4 solutions and the inhibition…
The layer-by-layer (LbL) technique has been widely used to construct different types of microcapsules based on the electrostatic interaction between charged polymers and proteins. However, in this review, we will mainly focus on the fabrication of microcapsules by using a covalent cross-linking method. The structure a…
A novel algorithm is proposed to study fluid properties in the isothermal–isobaric (NPT) ensemble. The major feature of this approach is that the constant pressure in the NPT ensemble is created by two auto-adjusting boundaries that allow the system volume to fluctuate. Relative to other methods used to create the NPT…
In this work, we introduce anisotropically shaped, ultrathin micro- and nano-capsules fabricated by layer-by-layer approach. The original cubic and tetrahedral shapes of the template particles were replicated to produce hollow capsules with well-defined edges. Introducing tannic acid as a component of LbL shells resul…
Abstract Poly( L ‐lactide) (PLLA) was prepared via melt blending and nucleated using three layered metal phosphonates, i.e. zinc phenylphosphonate (PPZn), calcium phenylphosphonate (PPCa) and barium phenylphosphonate (PPBa). The morphology, crystallization and enzymatic hydrolysis of PLLA nucleated using PPZn, PPCa an…
More accurate than mean-field methods and more scalable than quantum chemical methods, continuum quantum Monte Carlo (QMC) is an invaluable tool for predicting the properties of matter from fundamental principles. Because QMC algorithms offer multiple forms of parallelism, they're ideal candidates for acceleration in…
A novel distyryl BODIPY-fullerene dyad is prepared. Upon excitation at the distyryl BODIPY moiety, the dyad undergoes photoinduced electron transfer to give a charge-separated state with lifetimes of 476 ps and 730 ps in polar (benzonitrile) and nonpolar (toluene) solvents, respectively. Transient absorption measureme…
Owing in part to complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) scaling issues, the semiconductor industry is placing an increased emphasis on emerging materials and devices that may provide a solution beyond the 22-nm node. Single and few layers of carbon sheets (graphene) have been fabricated by a variety of techniq…
We propose a polarization modulation scheme of electromagnetic (EM) waves through reflection of a tunable metamaterial reflector/absorber. By constructing the metamaterial with resonant unit cells coupled by diodes, we demonstrate that the EM reflections for orthogonal polarized incident waves can be tuned independent…
Bmdsx is a sex-determining gene in the silkworm and is alternatively spliced in males and females. CE1 is a splicing silencer element responsible for the sex-specific splicing of Bmdsx. To identify sex-specific factors implicated in the sex-specific splicing of Bmdsx, we performed RNA affinity chromatography using CE1…