Michihiro Shirakawa、Norifumi Fujita、Takahiro Tani 等 8 位作者2007-04-03Chemistry - A European Journal
8-quinolinol/copper(II)-, palladium(II)-, and platinum(II)-chelate-based organogelators (1 M) and their nongelling reference compounds (2 M) were synthesized. Complexes 1 M could gelate various organic solvents at very low concentrations. Electron microscope measurements gave visual images of well-developed fibrous st…
Supramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsLuminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine Chemistry
Matej Praprotnik、Luigi Delle Site、Kurt Kremer2007-04-03The Journal of Chemical Physics
The authors report adaptive resolution molecular dynamics simulations of a flexible linear polymer in solution. The solvent, i.e., a liquid of tetrahedral molecules, is represented within a certain radius from the polymer's center of mass with a high level of detail, while a lower coarse-grained resolution is used for…
Material Dynamics and PropertiesBlock Copolymer Self-AssemblyRheology and Fluid Dynamics Studies
Ziyi Zhong、Jianyi Lin、Siew Pheng Teh 等 5 位作者2007-04-03Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract A rapid, simple, and efficient method for the preparation of highly dispersed supported Au catalysts has been developed. In the preparation, NaBH 4 is used to reduce the Au precursor, lysine is employed to cap the formed Au colloids, and a short sonication time is applied to facilitate dispersion and depositi…
Nanomaterials for catalytic reactionsCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCatalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Hong He、J. Wang、Jixuan Zhou 等 4 位作者2007-04-03Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract Multilayered multiferroic nanocomposite films of Pb(Zr 0.52 Ti 0.48 )O 3 (PZT) and Co 0.9 Zn 0.1 Fe 2 O 4 (CZFO) are prepared on general Pt/Ti/SiO 2 /Si substrates via a simple solution‐processing method. Structural characterization by X‐ray diffraction and electron microscopy techniques reveals good surface…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsMultiferroics and related materialsDielectric properties of ceramics
Kiyofumi Katagiri、Mineo Hashizume、Katsuhiko Ariga 等 5 位作者2007-04-03Chemistry - A European Journal
A novel class of organic-inorganic hybrids, the so-called cerasomes, which have a bilayer vesicular structure and a silicate surface, has been synthesized by combination of sol-gel reaction and self-assembly of organoalkoxysilanes with a molecular structure analogous to lipids. We have synthesized two cerasome-forming…
Polyoxometalates: Synthesis and ApplicationsMesoporous Materials and CatalysisSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Yu. M. Shukrinov、F. Mahfouzi、N. F. Pedersen2007-04-03arXiv
We study the breakpoint region on the outermost branch of current-voltage characteristics of the stacks with different number of intrinsic Josephson junctions. We show that at periodic boundary conditions the breakpoint region is absent for stacks with even number of junctions. For stacks with odd number of junctions…
SuperconductivityMaterials Science
Wolfgang H. Binder、Laura Petraru、Torsten Roth 等 7 位作者2007-04-03Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract Supramolecular gels consisting of trivalent polyisobutylene and bivalent poly(ethylene oxide) are generated. Strong hydrogen bonding interactions, affixed to the end‐group moieties of the respective polymers (binding constant K assn = 10 5 M –1 ), serve as molecular glue, leading to the formation of weak gels…
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applicationsSupramolecular Self-Assembly in MaterialsSupramolecular Chemistry and Complexes
O. Boulle、V. Cros、J. Grollier 等 9 位作者2007-04-03arXiv
The generation of oscillations in the microwave frequency range is one of the most important applications expected from spintronics devices exploiting the spin transfer phenomenon. We report transport and microwave power measurements on specially designed nanopillars for which a non-standard angular dependence of the…
Materials Science
Stéphane Lévesque、Molly S. Shoichet2007-04-03Bioconjugate Chemistry
Hydrogels derived from synthetic polymers have been previously engineered to degrade under the activity of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs). It is believed that these systems can act as extracellular-matrix (ECM) equivalents mimicking the degradation and remodeling of the ECM through the activity of cell-secreted enzy…
Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsProtease and Inhibitor MechanismsHydrogels: synthesis, properties, applications
Qing-Miao Hu、Karsten Reuter、Matthias Scheffler2007-04-03arXiv
It is shown that the errors of present-day exchange-correlation (xc) functionals are rather short ranged. For extended systems the correction can therefore be evaluated by analyzing properly chosen clusters and employing highest-quality quantum chemistry methods. The xc correction rapidly approaches a universal depend…
Materials Science
John R. Kirtley、Zhifeng Deng、Lan Luan 等 6 位作者2007-04-03arXiv
A recent advance in improving the spatial resolution of magnetic force microscopy (MFM) uses as sensor tips carbon nanotubes grown at the apex of conventional silicon cantilever pyramids and coated with a thin ferromagnetic layer. Magnetic images of high density vertically recorded media using these tips exhibit a dou…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Jan Schwerdtfeger、Edward Nadgorny、Frédéric Madani-Grasset 等 6 位作者2007-04-03Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment
Experimental investigations of plastic flow have demonstrated temporal intermittency as deformation proceeds in a series of intermittent bursts with scale-free size distribution. In the present investigation, a corresponding spatial intermittency is demonstrated for plastic flow of KCl single crystals. Deformation bur…
Force Microscopy Techniques and ApplicationsSurface and Thin Film PhenomenaMicrostructure and mechanical properties
Margareta Stark、Stefan Grip、Anna Rising 等 7 位作者2007-04-03Biomacromolecules
Strength, elasticity, and biocompatibility make spider silk an attractive resource for the production of artificial biomaterials. Spider silk proteins, spidroins, contain hundreds of repeated poly alanine/glycine-rich blocks and are difficult to produce recombinantly in soluble form. Most previous attempts to produce…
Biochemical and Structural CharacterizationAntimicrobial Peptides and ActivitiesSilk-based biomaterials and applications
Walt A. de Heer、Claire Berger、Xiaosong Wu 等 12 位作者2007-04-03arXiv
Graphene multilayers are grown epitaxially on single crystal silicon carbide. This system is composed of several graphene layers of which the first layer is electron doped due to the built-in electric field and the other layers are essentially undoped. Unlike graphite the charge carriers show Dirac particle properties…
Materials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Kalobaran Maiti2007-04-03arXiv
We investigate the growth of half metallic phase in a ferromagnetic material using state-of-the-art full potential linearized augmented plane wave method. To address the issue, we have substituted Ti at the Ru-sites in SrRuO3, where SrRuO3 is a ferromagnetic material. Calculated results establish Ti4+ valence states (…
Materials ScienceStrongly Correlated Electrons
Sandrine Bec、André Tonck、Jean-Marie Georges 等 4 位作者2007-04-03arXiv
The layered structure and the rheological properties of anti-wear films, generated in a rolling/sliding contact from lubricants containing zinc dialkyldithiophosphate (ZDTP) and/or molybdenum dialkyldithiocarbamate (MoDTC) additives, have been studied by dynamic nanoindentation experiments coupled with a simple modell…
Materials Science
S. C. Hendy2007-04-03arXiv
We construct a simple thermodynamic model to describe the melting of a supported metal nanoparticle with a spherically curved free surface both with and without surface melting. We use the model to investigate the results of recent molecular dynamics simulations, which suggest the melting temperature of a supported me…
Materials Science
Peter Brommer、Franz Gähler2007-04-03arXiv
We present a program called potfit which generates an effective atomic interaction potential by matching it to a set of reference data computed in first-principles calculations. It thus allows to perform large-scale atomistic simulations of materials with physically justified potentials. We describe the fundamental pr…
Materials Science
Daniel Crespy、M.A. Stark、Carola Hoffmann‐Richter 等 5 位作者2007-04-03Macromolecules
We describe a versatile method to obtain functional hollow nanoreactors with a hydrophilic liquid core. The synthesis of hollow polyurea, polythiourea, and polyurethane nanocapsules was performed by interfacial polycondensation or cross-linking reactions in inverse miniemulsion. The miniemulsions were built upon emuls…
Pickering emulsions and particle stabilizationDendrimers and Hyperbranched PolymersPolymer Surface Interaction Studies
Peng Jiang、J.‐J. Zhou、Huizheng Fang 等 6 位作者2007-04-03Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract The size‐ and morphology‐controlled growth of ZnO nanowire (NW) arrays is potentially of interest for the design of advanced catalysts and nanodevices. By adjusting the reaction temperature, shelled structures of ZnO made of bunched ZnO NW arrays are prepared, grown out of metallic Zn microspheres through a w…
Copper-based nanomaterials and applicationsZnO doping and propertiesGas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors