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The formation energies of intrinsic defects in ZnO are calculated by a family of screened exchange and hybrid density functionals, which include different fractions of Fock exchange and range separation in the hybrids. All functionals improve on local-density methods and agree remarkably well for formation energies of…
Precise photochemical control of protein function can be achieved through the site-specific introduction of caging groups. Chemical and enzymatic methods, including in vitro translation and chemical ligation, have been used to photocage proteins in vitro. These methods have been extended to allow the introduction of c…
Despite increasing application of silver nanoparticles (NPs) in industry and consumer products, there is still little known about their potential toxicity, particularly to organisms in aquatic environments. To investigate the fate and effects of silver NPs in fish, rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) were exposed via…
Ionic liquids (ILs) have recently been demonstrated to be highly effective solvents for the dissolution of cellulose and lignocellulosic biomass. To date, there is no definitive rationale for selecting ionic liquids that are capable of dissolving these biopolymers. In this work, an all-atom force field for the IL 1-et…
Local laser excitation and temperature readout from the intensity ratio of Stokes to anti-Stokes Raman scattering signals are employed to study the thermal properties of a large graphene membrane. The concluded value of the heat conductivity coefficient kappa approximately 600 W/(m.K) is smaller than previously report…
The ability to engineer the band gap energy of semiconductor nanocrystals has led to the development of nanomaterials with many new exciting properties and applications. Band gap engineering has thus proven to be an effective tool in the design of new nanocrystal-based semiconductor devices. As reported in numerous pu…
The intrinsic doping level of graphene prepared by mechanical exfoliation and standard lithography procedures on thermally oxidized silicon varies significantly and seems to depend strongly on processing details and the substrate morphology. Moreover, transport properties of such graphene devices suffer from hystereti…
While few publications have documented the uptake of nanoparticles in plants, this is the first study describing uptake and distribution of the ultrasmall anatase TiO(2) in the plant model system Arabidopsis. We modified the nanoparticle surface with Alizarin red S and sucrose and demonstrated that nanoconjugates trav…
Although remarkable success has been achieved to mimic the mechanically excellent structure of nacre in laboratory-scale models, it remains difficult to foresee mainstream applications due to time-consuming sequential depositions or energy-intensive processes. Here, we introduce a surprisingly simple and rapid methodo…
Piezoelectrics have widespread use in today's sensor and actuator technologies. However, most commercially available piezoelectric materials, e.g., Pb [Zr(x)Ti(1-x)] O(3) (PZT), are comprised of more than 60 weight percent lead (Pb). Due to its harmful effects, there is a strong impetus to identify new lead-free repla…
Anticancer drugs embedded in or conjugated with inert nanocarriers, referred to as nanomedicines, show many therapeutic advantages over free drugs, but the inert carrier materials are the major component (generally more than 90%) in nanomedicines, causing low drug loading contents and thus excessive uses of parenteral…
The molecular design of light-harvesting antennae requires not only the segregation of a large number of chromophore units in a confined nanospace but also the cooperation of these units in achieving highly efficient energy transduction. This article describes the synthesis and functions of a polyphenylene-based conju…
Hydrogels have many different applications in the field of regenerative medicine. Biodegradable, injectable hydrogels could be utilized as delivery systems, cell carriers, and scaffolds for tissue engineering. Injectable hydrogels are an appealing scaffold because they are structurally similar to the extracellular mat…
Phosphorescence has rarely been observed in pure organic chromophore systems at room temperature. We herein report efficient phosphorescence from the crystals of benzophenone and its derivatives with a general formula of (X-C 6 H 4 ) 2 C═O (X = F, Cl, Br) as well as methyl 4-bromobenzoate and 4,4′-dibromobiphenyl unde…
The high work to volume ratio and the stress recovery of Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) thin films with temperature makes them an ideal choice for microactuators. However, these materials have not gained widespread acceptance due to issues associated with phase transformation. Primary concerns are rapid change in stress at…
The potential use of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) as micro-actuators promotes study of the behaviors of these materials at small length scales. The recovery of micro-indentations due to the shape memory effect has recently become an area of particular interest. Experimental observation indicates promising microactuation…
In recent years, the electrospinning process has become one of the most interesting processes to obtain nanofiber webs with interesting properties for uses in a wide variety of industrial sectors such as filtration, chemical barriers, medical devices, etc., as a consequence of the relatively high surface-to-volume rat…
Optical emission spectroscopy (OES) and spectroscopic temperature determination were carried out to study C(2)H(4)/C(2)H(2)/O(2) flames used for diamond deposition with and without an excitation by a wavelength-tunable CO(2) laser. Strong emissions from C(2) and CH radicals were observed in the visible range in all th…
In this study, different amounts of lubricant were applied to air-jet polyester, polyester-spun, core-spun (poly/poly) and cotton ring sewing threads having the same final count. Mechanical and frictional properties of these sewing threads were measured. An evaluation was made in order to determine the effect of the a…
A polymer-drug conjugate was developed by conjugating doxorubicin (DOX) to [alpha],[beta]-poly[(2-hydroxyethyl)-L-aspartamide] (PHEA) with a succinic spacer. The suitability of PHEA-DOX in intraperitoneal chemotherapy was investigated both in vitro and in vivo. The results showed that the release rate of DOX from PHEA…