Benjamin Geffroy、Chiraz Ladhar、Sébastien Cambier 等 6 位作者2011-03-21Nanotoxicology
The impact of a daily ration of food containing gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) of two sizes (12 and 50 nm) was investigated in the zebrafish Danio rerio at very low doses (from 36-106 ng gold/fish/day). AuNP exposure resulted in various dysfunctions at the sub cellular scale, and AuNP concentration in food, AuNP size and…
Nanoparticles: synthesis and applicationsEnvironmental Toxicology and EcotoxicologyHeavy Metal Exposure and Toxicity
Melissa K. M. Leung、Georgina K. Such、Angus P. R. Johnston 等 8 位作者2011-03-21Small
Nano-/micrometer-scaled films and capsules made of low-fouling materials such as poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) are of interest for drug delivery and tissue engineering applications. Herein, the assembly and degradation of low-fouling, alkyne-functionalized PEG (PEG(Alk) ) multilayer films and capsules, which are prepare…
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applicationsbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesPolymer Surface Interaction Studies
Marshall Cox、Alon A. Gorodetsky、Bumjung Kim 等 8 位作者2011-03-21Applied Physics Letters
A laminated single-layer graphene is demonstrated as a cathode for organic photovoltaic devices. The measured properties indicate that graphene offers two potential advantages over conventional photovoltaic electrode materials; work function matching via contact doping, and increased power conversion efficiency due to…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesGraphene research and applicationsMolecular Junctions and Nanostructures
Hui He、Pui‐Chi Lo、Sin‐Lui Yeung 等 5 位作者2011-03-21Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
A series of pegylated distyryl boron dipyrromethenes have been prepared and characterized. Their in vitro photodynamic activities in Tween 80 emulsions have also been investigated against HT29 human colorectal carcinoma cells. The derivative having five triethylene glycol chains (compound 8) exhibits the highest photo…
Molecular Sensors and Ion DetectionPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistryLuminescence and Fluorescent Materials
Benjamin Matt、Séverine Renaudineau、Lise‐Marie Chamoreau 等 6 位作者2011-03-21The Journal of Organic Chemistry
A new series of polyoxometalate-based hybrids has been synthesized. These covalently linked organic-inorganic materials represent valuable elementary building blocks ready for postfunctionalization, using classical organic reactions and couplings. This approach is exemplified by the grafting of an organic chromophore…
Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and ApplicationsPolyoxometalates: Synthesis and ApplicationsChemical Synthesis and Reactions
Daeha Joung、Lei Zhai、Saiful I. Khondaker2011-03-21Physical Review B
We show that the low-temperature electron transport properties of chemically functionalized graphene can be explained as sequential tunneling of charges through a two-dimensional array of graphene quantum dots (GQDs). Below 15 K, a total suppression of current due to Coulomb blockade through a GQD array was observed.…
Graphene research and applicationsCarbon and Quantum Dots ApplicationsGraphene and Nanomaterials Applications
Virginia Martínez、Pedro Garcı́a、José L. Garcı́a 等 4 位作者2011-03-21Microbial Biotechnology
The development of efficient recovery processes is essential to reduce the cost of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) production. In this work, a programmed self-disruptive Pseudomonas putida BXHL strain, derived from the prototype medium-chain-length PHA producer bacterium P. putida KT2440, was constructed as a proof of co…
Enzyme Catalysis and Immobilizationbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesMicrobial Metabolic Engineering and Bioproduction
Katsuyoshi Ikeda、Shuto Suzuki、Kohei Uosaki2011-03-21Nano Letters
Among electromagnetic and chemical (CM) contributions to surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), the former is becoming controllable according to the recent progress in nanofabrication of plasmonic metal structures. However, it is still difficult to control the latter effect. Here, the degree of each contribution to…
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesNanocluster Synthesis and Applications
Lihui Dong、Lihui Dong、Lingling Zhang 等 13 位作者2011-03-21ACS Catalysis
CuO/VO x /Ti 0.5 Sn 0.5 O 2 catalysts were prepared by an impregnation method and were tested on a NO + CO model reaction. Both copper oxide and vanadium oxide can be highly dispersed on Ti 0.5 Sn 0.5 O 2 (denoted as TS, hereafter) support. The dispersed oxides form V−O−Cu species when coexisting in the catalyst syste…
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCatalysis and Oxidation ReactionsCopper-based nanomaterials and applications
Yichi Zhang、Heng Wang、Stephan Kräemer 等 10 位作者2011-03-21ACS Nano
An ideal thermoelectric material would be a semiconductor with high electrical conductivity and relatively low thermal conductivity: an "electron crystal, phonon glass". Introducing nanoscale heterostructures into the bulk TE matrix is one way of achieving this intuitively anomalous electron/phonon transport behavior.…
Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and DevicesChalcogenide Semiconductor Thin FilmsThermal properties of materials
Chen Chen、Caiyun Nan、Dingsheng Wang 等 11 位作者2011-03-21Angewandte Chemie International Edition
A caged catalyst: Noble-metal and oxide nanoparticles can be assembled to obtain high-temperature-stable mesoporous multicomponent nanocomposite colloidal spheres (MMNCSs; see picture). CO oxidation and cyclohexene hydroconversion were selected to examine the catalytic activity, selectivity, and thermal stability of t…
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceMesoporous Materials and CatalysisCatalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Eran Bouchbinder、Efim A. Brener、Itay Barel 等 4 位作者2011-03-21arXiv
We propose an elasto-plastic inspired friction model which incorporates interfacial stiffness. Steady state sliding friction is characterized by a generic nonmonotonic behavior, including both velocity weakening and strengthening branches. In 1D and upon the application of sideway loading, we demonstrate the existence…
Materials ScienceSoft Condensed Matter
Massimiliano Bartolomei、Estela Carmona-Novillo、Marta I. Hernández 等 6 位作者2011-03-21arXiv
Recent data have determined that the structure of the high pressure $ε$ phase of solid oxygen consists of clusters composed of four O$_2$ molecules. This finding has opened the question about the nature of the intermolecular interactions within the molecular oxygen tetramer. We use multiconfigurational ab initio calcu…
Materials Sciencephysics.atm-clusChemical Physics
F. Gomez-Marlasca、N. Ghenzi、P. Stoliar 等 7 位作者2011-03-21Applied Physics Letters
We present a pulsing protocol that significantly increases the endurance of a titanium-manganite interface used as a binary memory cell. The core of this protocol is an algorithm that searches for the proper values for the set and reset pulses, canceling the drift in the resistance values. A set of experiments show th…
Advanced Memory and Neural ComputingMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsTransition Metal Oxide Nanomaterials
Chieh-Jen Ku、Ziqing Duan、Pavel Ivanoff Reyes 等 7 位作者2011-03-21Applied Physics Letters
The effects of the Mg composition (x=0, 0.06, and 0.10) on the electrical characteristics and thermal stability of MgxZn1−xO thin film transistors (TFTs) are investigated. The Mg0.06Zn0.94O TFT shows the smallest subthreshold slope and highest field effect mobility. The O1s spectra of x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy…
ZnO doping and propertiesThin-Film Transistor TechnologiesGa2O3 and related materials
Chun‐Long Chen、Jiahui Qi、Ronald N. Zuckermann 等 4 位作者2011-03-21Journal of the American Chemical Society
In nature, living organisms use peptides and proteins to precisely control the nucleation and growth of inorganic minerals and sequester CO(2)via mineralization of CaCO(3). Here we report the exploitation of a novel class of sequence-specific non-natural polymers called peptoids as tunable agents that dramatically con…
Paleontology and Stratigraphy of FossilsCalcium Carbonate Crystallization and InhibitionCephalopods and Marine Biology
M. Wada、Shuichi Murakami、Frank Freimuth 等 4 位作者2011-03-21Physical Review B
We theoretically study the generic behavior of the penetration depth of the edge states in two-dimensional quantum spin Hall systems. We found that the momentum-space width of the edge-state dispersion scales with the inverse of the penetration depth. As an example of well-localized edge states, we take the Bi(111) ul…
Graphene research and applicationsTopological Materials and PhenomenaQuantum many-body systems
J. B. Park、W. Xiong、Yanfang Gao 等 10 位作者2011-03-21Applied Physics Letters
Rapid single-step fabrication of graphene patterns was developed using laser-induced chemical vapor deposition (LCVD). A laser beam irradiates a thin nickel foil in a CH4 and H2 environment to induce a local temperature rise, thereby allowing the direct writing of graphene patterns in precisely controlled positions at…
Graphene research and applicationsDiamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchGraphene and Nanomaterials Applications
Morgan Brassel、Élie Bretin2011-03-21Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences
This paper is concerned with the motion of a time-dependent hypersurface ∂Ω(t) in ℝd that evolves with a normal velocity where κ is the mean curvature of ∂Ω(t), and g is an external forcing term. Phase field approximation of this motion leads to the Allen–Cahn equation where ε is an approximation parameter, W a double…
Nonlinear Partial Differential EquationsSolidification and crystal growth phenomenaAdvanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
Sheng‐Guo Lu、Brigita Rožič、Qiming Zhang 等 5 位作者2011-03-21Applied Physics Letters
The electrocaloric effect (ECE) of the ferroelectric poly(vinylidene-fluoride/trifluoroethylene) 55/45 mol % copolymer was directly measured over a broad temperature range using a specially designed calorimetry method. The data reveal a large ECE occurring at the ferroelectric-paraelectric (FE–PE) phase transition whe…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsAcoustic Wave Resonator TechnologiesDielectric materials and actuators