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A general method for the synthesis of butterfly-shaped difluoroboradiaza-s-indacenes with different substituents has been developed. The mixed AB dye was produced in two successive Knoevenagel reactions involving first 4-dimethylaminobenzaldehyde and second 4-hydroxybenzaldehyde. Two pathways to A(2)B(2) and ABCD deri…
Topological insulators in the Bi2Se3 family have an energy gap in the bulk and a gapless surface state consisting of a single Dirac cone. Low frequency optical absorption due to the surface state is universally determined by the fine structure constant. When the thickness of these three dimensional topological insulat…
Abstract The magnetic domain structure and Raman scattering have been studied in NiO single-crystals with three different (100), (110) and (111) orientations. Twin-domain structure was observed in NiO(100) and NiO(110) single-crystals using cross-polarized optical microscopy. We found that the ratio of the two-magnon…
Monodisperse polyhedral nanoparticles (NPs) and nanorods (NRs) of cerium dioxide, CeO 2, were synthesized by thermal decomposition of ammonium cerium(IV) nitrate, (NH 4 ) 2 Ce(NO 3 ) 6, at 180 °C in an organic solution of oleylamine (OAm) and/or oleic acid (OA). The 4 nm CeO 2 NPs were synthesized in diphenyl ether so…
A novel phosphorus- and nitrogen-containing compound (POPHA) has been synthesized by allowing phosphorus oxychloride to react with piperazine and 2-hydroxyethyl acrylate (HEA). Its structure was characterized by FTIR, 1 H NMR, and 31 P NMR. A series of UV-curable flame-retardant resins were obtained by blending POPHA…
The correlated oxide SmNiO3 (SNO) exhibits an insulator to metal transition (MIT) at 130 °C in bulk form. We report on synthesis and electron transport in SNO films deposited on LaAlO3 (LAO) and Si single crystals. X-ray diffraction studies show that compressively strained single-phase SNO grows epitaxially on LAO whi…
Using computer simulations, we investigate the homogeneous crystal nucleation in suspensions of colloidal hard dumbbells. The free energy barriers are determined by Monte Carlo simulations using the umbrella sampling technique. We calculate the nucleation rates for the plastic crystal and the aperiodic crystal phase u…
The electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy was employed to investigate the spin dynamics in triangular lattice antiferromagnets CuCr$_{1-x}$Mg$_{x}$O$_2$ with $x =$ 0 and 0.02. All spectra can be well fitted by a single Lorentzian lineshape. The analysis of the $g$ factor, the linewidth $\bigtriangleup H$, and the…
The evolution of the atomic structure of LaAlO_{3} grown on SrTiO_{3} was investigated using surface x-ray diffraction in conjunction with model-independent, phase-retrieval algorithms between two and five monolayers film thickness. A depolarizing buckling is observed between cation and oxygen positions in response to…
A novel strategy was developed to synthesize polymer-coated metal nanoparticles (NPs) through reduction of metal cations with 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (DOPA)-containing polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymers. Catechol redox chemistry was used to both synthesize metal NPs and simultaneously form a cross-linked shell of P…
We report the synthesis of monodisperse colloidal copper nanocrystals and subsequent solvent-dependent oxidation to form copper(I) oxide nanoparticles. The oxidation process was monitored by optical spectroscopy in the visible spectrum with the Cu nanocrystals exhibiting a surface plasmon feature that was replaced ove…
Differential growth processes play a prominent role in shaping leaves and biological tissues. Using both analytical and numerical calculations, we consider the shapes of closed, elastic strips which have been subjected to an inhomogeneous pattern of swelling. The stretching and bending energies of a closed strip are f…
The vibrational density of states of silicon nanoparticles in the range from 2.3 to 10.3 nm is studied with the help of molecular-dynamics simulations. From these simulations the vibrational density of states and frequencies of bulklike vibrational modes at high-symmetry points of the Brillouin zone have been derived.…
We have evaluated the performance of several density functional theory (DFT) functionals for the description of the ground-state electronic structure and charge transfer in donor/acceptor complexes. The tetrathiafulvalene-tetracyanoquinodimethane (TTF-TCNQ) complex has been considered as a model test case. Hybrid func…
The Zeeman splitting of a localized single spin can be used to construct a highly sensitive magnetometer offering almost atomic spatial resolution. While sub-μT sensitivity can be obtained in principle using pulsed techniques and long measurement times, a fast and easy method without laborious data postprocessing is d…
The structural, electronic, and optical properties of the semiconducting oxide SnO${}_{2}$ are investigated using first-principles calculations. We employ the ${G}_{0}{W}_{0}$ formalism based on hybrid-functional calculations to compute the quasiparticle band structure and density of states for which we find good agre…
Making even tiny diamonds valuable: Nanodiamonds (NDs) were covalently functionalized with hyperbranched polyglycerol (PG) by ring-opening polymerization to improve their suitability for biomedical applications (see scheme). The PG-grafted NDs were highly soluble not only in pure water (>20 mg mL−1), but also in a buf…
ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVCommunication to the...Communication to the EditorNEXTFast Photodegradable Block Copolymer Micelles for Burst ReleaseDehui Han, Xia Tong, and Yue Zhao*View Author Information Département de chimie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada J1K 2R1*Corresponding author. E-mai…
Plasmonic hotspots in single gold nanostars are located at the tips and can be excited selectively by laser light as evidenced by photoelectron emission microscopy. Selectivity is achieved through wavelength and polarization of the excitation light. Comparing photoelectron emission intensity and dark-field scattering…
We report the first observation of trions (charged excitons), three-particle bound states consisting of one electron and two holes, in hole-doped carbon nanotubes at room temperature. When p-type dopants are added to carbon nanotube solutions, the photoluminescence and absorption peaks of the trions appear far below t…