Shunan Shan、Xiu-ying Wang、Nengqin Jia2011-10-03Nanoscale Research Letters
An interface-controlled reaction in normal microemulsions (water/ethanol/sodium oleate/oleic acid/n-hexane) was designed to prepare NaYF4:Yb3+, Er3+ upconversion nanoparticles. The phase diagram of the system was first studied to obtain the appropriate oil-in-water microemulsions. Transmission electron microscopy and…
Luminescence Properties of Advanced MaterialsLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsInorganic Fluorides and Related Compounds
Atsushi Yoshizawa、Michi Kamiyama、Tetsu Hirose2011-10-03Applied Physics Express
We prepared a host liquid crystal consisting of a practical nematic liquid crystal mixture and a small amount of a newly designed T-shaped compound. The host liquid crystal doped with a chiral dopant possessing high helical twisting power produces room-temperature amorphous blue phase III (BPIII). An in-plane-switchin…
Liquid Crystal Research AdvancementsPlant Reproductive BiologyMolecular spectroscopy and chirality
Kota Okazaki、Daisuke Nakamura、Mitsuhiro Higashihata 等 5 位作者2011-10-03Optics Express
We report the lasing characteristics of a single ZnO nanosheet optically pumped by ultraviolet laser beam. The ZnO nanosheets were synthesized by a carbothermal chemical vapor deposition method. The ZnO nanosheets dispersed on a silica glass substrate were excited by the third-harmonic of a Q-switched Nd:YAG laser (λ…
ZnO doping and propertiesQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesOptical properties and cooling technologies in crystalline materials
Ronald P. White、Jane E. G. Lipson2011-10-03Physical Review E
We propose a new, simple, thermodynamically based model in order to study the effect of film thickness on the glass transition of a polymer. The model equation of state incorporates the effect of a free surface by accounting for missing interactions, and is parametrized using experimental data for bulk samples, leavin…
Phase Equilibria and ThermodynamicsMaterial Dynamics and PropertiesTheoretical and Computational Physics
Shih‐I Lu、Cheng-Chang Chiu、Ying-Fung Wang2011-10-03The Journal of Chemical Physics
Against experimental values obtained from solution-phase dc electric field induced second-harmonic generation measurements at a fundamental wavelength of 1910 nm, the performance of 20 exchange-correlation functionals in density functional theory in evaluation of solvent modulated dynamic first hyperpolarizabilities o…
Nonlinear Optical Materials ResearchSpectroscopy and Quantum Chemical StudiesFree Radicals and Antioxidants
Yiren Chen、Hong Jiang、Dabing Li 等 8 位作者2011-10-03Nanoscale Research Letters
To improve the field emission performance of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), a simple and low-cost method was adopted in this article. We introduced copper particles for decorating the CNTs so as to form copper particle-CNT composites. The composites were fabricated by electrophoretic deposition technique which produced copp…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsNanotechnology research and applications
George Papanicolaou、A. F. Koutsomitopoulou、A. Sfakianakis2011-10-03Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abstract This study is focused on the investigation of the effect of thermal shock cycling on the mechanical properties of cellulose based reinforced polymer composites. Polymer composites reinforced with olive pits powder at different filler‐volume fractions were manufactured. An increase in the bending modulus on th…
Mechanical Behavior of CompositesPolymer Nanocomposites and PropertiesNatural Fiber Reinforced Composites
Лили Сун、Peng Wei、Jianhua Wei 等 5 位作者2011-10-03Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
The energetic stability, electronic and magnetic properties of chiral graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with hydrogen-terminated edges are investigated using density functional theory. Our calculations show that the percentage of carbon atoms at the zigzag sites (P(z)) is the key factor determining the electronic and magnet…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsGraphene research and applicationsQuantum and electron transport phenomena
Masato Senami、Yuji Ikeda、Akinori Fukushima 等 4 位作者2011-10-03AIP Advances
We investigate the adsorption of lithium atoms on the surface of the (12,0) single wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) by using ab initio quantum chemical calculations. The adsorption of one lithium atom on the inside of this SWCNT is favored compared to the outside. We check this feature by charge transfer and regional chem…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsChemical and Physical Properties of Materials
Ali E. Aliev、Yuri N. Gartstein、Ray H. Baughman2011-10-03Nanotechnology
The single-beam mirage effect, also known as photothermal deflection, is studied using a free-standing, highly aligned carbon nanotube aerogel sheet as the heat source. The extremely low thermal capacitance and high heat transfer ability of these transparent forest-drawn carbon nanotube sheets enables high frequency m…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesTransition Metal Oxide NanomaterialsThermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies
Pedro E. Ramírez-González、Leticia López-Flores、Heriberto Acuña-Campa 等 4 位作者2011-10-03Physical Review Letters
We employ the principle of dynamic equivalence between soft-sphere and hard-sphere fluids [Phys. Rev. E 68, 011405 (2003)] to describe the interplay of the effects of varying the density n, the temperature T, and the softness (characterized by a softness parameter ν(-1)) on the dynamics of glass-forming soft-sphere li…
Liquid Crystal Research AdvancementsMaterial Dynamics and PropertiesPickering emulsions and particle stabilization
Ronald Ulbricht、Sietse T. van der Post、Jonathan P. Goss 等 7 位作者2011-10-03Physical Review B
We report on the carrier dynamics and recombination pathways of photogenerated electrons in type Ib synthetic diamond using ultrafast spectroscopic techniques. Samples with controlled amounts of nitrogen defects were grown using the high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) method. Electrons were excited from single subst…
Semiconductor materials and devicesDiamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchAdvanced Fiber Laser Technologies
Chia-Ling Ho、Mao-Sung Wu2011-10-03The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Macroporous α-MnO 2 electrodes composed of nanowires were prepared by electrophoresis and electrodeposition with the help of monodispersed polystyrene spheres. The effects of macropore and conductive scaffold on the pseudocapacitive behavior of the MnO 2 nanowire electrodes were investigated by cyclic voltammogram (CV…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationConducting polymers and applications
Shouzhi Ma、Houkun Liang、Xiaohui Wang 等 6 位作者2011-10-03The Journal of Physical Chemistry C
Annealing has been extensively used to control crystal growth and physical properties of materials with unfortunately unclear mechanism and quantitative correlations. Here we present the “annealing temperature–grain size–band gap” correlation for ZnO nanocrystals with experimental evidence. Findings revealed that the…
ZnO doping and propertiesGas Sensing Nanomaterials and SensorsGa2O3 and related materials
Jie Dong、Xinru Zhang、Z. G. Yin 等 9 位作者2011-10-03ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
This article presents a facile and effective approach to the controllable growth of highly ordered and vertically aligned ZnO nanorod arrays on the GaN substrate via a hydrothermal route by using the TiO(2) ring template deriving from the polystyrene microsphere self-assembled monolayer. The size of TiO(2) ring templa…
ZnO doping and propertiesPerovskite Materials and ApplicationsAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
R. V. Gaynutdinov、S. V. Mitko、S. G. Yudin 等 5 位作者2011-10-03Applied Physics Letters
The polarization switching kinetics were measured at the nanoscale in continuous thin films of a ferroelectric copolymer of vinylidene fluoride and trifluoroethylene. The dependence of the switching rate on voltage for a 54-nm thick film exhibits extrinsic nucleation and domain-growth type kinetics with no true thresh…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsAcoustic Wave Resonator TechnologiesDielectric materials and actuators
Nana Ma、Shi‐Ling Sun、Chun‐Guang Liu 等 5 位作者2011-10-03The Journal of Physical Chemistry A
A second-order nonlinear optical (NLO) molecular switching with redox has been investigated in the present paper. The static first hyperpolarizabilities of 5-(BMes(2))-5'-(NPh(2))-2,2'-bipyridine (BNbpy) containing three-coordinate organoboron, Pt(II) chelate complex Pt(BNbpy)Ph(2), and their reduced forms have been c…
Metal complexes synthesis and propertiesPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistryNonlinear Optical Materials Research
Marcus Settles、Martin Etzrodt、Katja Kosanke 等 12 位作者2011-10-03PLoS ONE
OBJECTIVE: To explore the capacity of human CD1⁺CD16⁺⁺ and CD14⁺⁺CD16⁻ monocytes to phagocyte iron-oxide nanoparticles in vitro. METHODS: Human monocytes were labeled with four different magnetic nanoparticle preparations (Ferumoxides, SHU 555C, CLIO-680, MION-48) exhibiting distinct properties and cellular uptake was…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryImmunotherapy and Immune ResponsesImmune cells in cancer
Alia P. Schoen、David T. Schoen、Kelly N. L. Huggins 等 5 位作者2011-10-03Journal of the American Chemical Society
Natural systems often utilize a single protein to perform multiple functions. Control over functional specificity is achieved through interactions with other proteins at well-defined epitope binding sites to form a variety of functional coassemblies. Inspired by the biological use of epitope recognition to perform div…
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesDiatoms and Algae ResearchAdvanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
A. Ney、András Kovács、V. Ney 等 9 位作者2011-10-03New Journal of Physics
We have utilized a comprehensive set of experimental techniques such as transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and synchrotron-based x-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) and the respective x-ray linear dichroism and x-ray magnetic circular dichroism to characterize the correlation of structural, chemical and magnetic p…
ZnO doping and propertiesMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsElectronic and Structural Properties of Oxides