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Scanning electron microscope (SEM) observation shows that tumblebug’s elytra are a kind of chitin fibre reinforced biocomposite. In the biocomposite, the chitin fibres possess a laminated microstructure and distribute in a kind of particular helicoidal pattern. More careful observation indicates that there is a kind o…
Atomistic simulations have been used to investigate the effect of a spatially distinct defect, i.e. stacking fault tetrahedron (SFT), on the inception of plastic deformation in a perfect copper single crystal during nanoindentation. An SFT positioned within a volume under significant stress from indentation lowers the…
Abstract Multiferroic materials, which show simultaneous ferroelectric and magnetic ordering, exhibit unusual physical properties–and in turn promise new device applications–as a result of the coupling between their dual order parameters. BiFeO3 is currently considered the most promising candidate material for device…
We study the rotational dynamics of a supercooled molecular liquid by means of molecular dynamics simulations. The system under investigation is composed of rigid diatomic molecules with an associate dipole moment. At room temperature, orientational correlations decrease rapidly with increasing distances. Upon cooling…
A nice piece of KIT: The first synthesis of a new bimetallic 3D-cage-type mesoporous catalyst CuAl-KIT-5 and its remarkable performance for the highly selective synthesis of ortho-prenylated phenols and chromans is reported. As a service to our authors and readers, this journal provides supporting information supplied…
The water-soluble and high-quality ZnS:Mn 2+ /ZnS core–shell nanoparticles were synthesized by chemical precipitation method in an air atmosphere. The poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) was used as a surfactant. Structural, morphology and optical properties were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), transmission ele…
Abstract Off‐grade poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) of industrial manufacturers was partially depolymerized using excess ethylene glycol in the presence of manganese acetate as a transesterification catalyst to synthesize PET oligomers. Influences of reaction time, Ethylene Glycol (EG)/PET molar ratio, catalyst conc…
Deep level transient spectroscopy of both majority and minority carrier traps is performed in a n-type, nitrogen doped homoepitaxial ZnO layer grown on a m-plane by molecular beam epitaxy. Deep levels, most of them being not detected in undoped ZnO, lie close to the band edges with ionization energies in the range 0.1…
The authors report clear evidence of radiative and nonradiative energy transfer from CdSe quantum dots to Nd3+ ions in a glass system synthesized by melting method. An efficient control of energy transfer can be obtained by controlling the mean radius of the CdSe quantum dots. Increase of about 100% of the near infrar…
We compare nanoscale frictional characteristics of three types of chemically treated graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) via atomic force microscope. Measurements in both ambient and low humidity conditions demonstrate that covalently bonded functional groups have a significant impact on the frictional response of GNRs. The m…
Mutation of Arg427 and Arg472 in Rhizobium etli pyruvate carboxylase to serine or lysine greatly increased the activation constant (K(a)) of acetyl CoA, with the increase being greater for the Arg472 mutants. These results indicate that while both these residues are involved in the binding of acetyl CoA to the enzyme,…
Colloidal synthesis of inorganic materials is usually achieved in solvents under milder conditions of temperature than those usually used for the preparation of bulk compounds. As commonly shown on oxide nanoparticles with sizes of more than typically 20 nm, this leads to particles exhibiting an altered crystallinity…
A micelle-assisted wet-chemistry route is developed to synthesize pure and Zn-doped lead sulfide (PbS) quantum dots (QDs) and nanocrystals (NCs) under microwave irradiation. The formation mechanism includes three major steps, initialization of π-bonded complex, transformation into a micelle structure, and the dissipat…
The geometric structures and relative stabilities of small iridium oxide nanoclusters, Ir(m)O(n) (m = 1-5 and n = 1-2m), have been systematically investigated using density functional theory (DFT) calculations at the B3LYP level. Our results show that the lowest-energy structures of these clusters can be obtained by t…
A facile catalyst-free approach for synthesis of reduced graphene oxide-carbon nanotube (RGO-CNT) hybrid materials was presented by acetylene-assisted annealing graphene oxide. The weight ratio of CNTs to RGO can be adjusted by regulating the annealing temperature, and it can be tuned in a relatively wide range of 0.3…
WbdD is a bifunctional kinase/methyltransferase that is responsible for regulation of lipopolysaccharide O antigen polysaccharide chain length in Escherichia coli serotype O9a. Solving the crystal structure of this protein proved to be a challenge because the available crystals belonging to space group I23 only diffra…
Cutting costs with copper: Facile dissociation of hydrogen molecules on isolated Pd atoms followed by diffusion to the dominating Cu surface are the two key ingredients for a novel class of bifunctional catalysts. The resulting H atoms are weakly bound to the catalyst surface and are readily available for subsequent s…
The effects of SiC ceramic particles on the macromorphologies, microstructures and mechanical properties of tungsten inert gas welded AZ31 magnesium alloy joints with Cr2O3 flux coating were investigated. The results showed that an increase in the amount of SiC ceramic particles contained in the Cr2O3 flux coating led…
PURPOSE: A simulation of buildup factors for ordinary concrete, steel, lead, plate glass, lead glass, and gypsum wallboard in broad beam geometry for photons energies from 10 keV to 150 keV at 5 keV intervals is presented. METHODS: Monte Carlo N-particle radiation transport computer code has been used to determine the…
Recent electrochemical experiments on gold-based photonic metamaterials have shown a sizable reversible tuning and modulation of plasmonic resonances. Here, we study the mechanism of the electrochemical modulation by measuring the change of the resonance transmittance and resonance frequency during underpotential depo…