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While measurements of the polar dependence of the surface free energy are easily available, measurements of the whole polar dependence of the surface stress of a crystal do not exist. In this paper is presented a new procedure that allows, for the first time, the experimental determination of the surface stress polar…
A simple and general method for the preparation of ultrathin, large-area, free-standing films of nanofibrous composite materials was developed. First, positively charged cadmium hydroxide nanostrands of 1.9 nm in diameter and micrometers in length were prepared by mixing dilute aqueous solutions of cadmium chloride an…
The uptake of carbon dioxide was studied in porous organic solid, p-tert-butylcalix[4]dihydroquinone, in which all calixarenes are self-assembled in a tubular fashion via strong hydrogen bonds. the BET surface area of porous material was found to be 230 m2/g. This represents another rare example in which purely organi…
This paper investigates faceting mechanisms induced by electromigration in the regime where atomic steps are transparent. For this purpose we study several vicinal orientations by means of in-situ (optical diffraction, electronic microscopy) as well as ex-situ (AFM, microprofilometry) visualization techniques. The dat…
Under hydrothermal conditions, we have prepared boehmite (γ-AlOOH) with two distinct nanostructures—2D nanoplatelets and 1D nanowires (or nanowire bundles)—simply by manipulating the acidity of the reaction solution without adding any templates or seeds. The 2D nanoplatelets with a thickness of ~20 nm and the 1D nanow…
The authors study the distance dependence of the rate of electronic excitation energy transfer from a dye molecule to a metal nanoparticle. Using the spherical jellium model, they evaluate the rates corresponding to the excitation of l=1, 2, and 3 modes of the nanoparticle. The calculation takes into account both the…
In view of potential applications of magnetic particles in biomedicine and electromagnetic devices, we made use of the classical Stöber method—base-catalyzed hydrolysis and condensation of tetraethoxysilane (TEOS)—to encapsulate FeNi nanoparticles within a silica shell. An original stirring system under high power ult…
Electron relaxation, induced by acoustic phonons, is studied for coupled quantum rings in the presence of external fields, both electric and magnetic. We address the problem of a single electron in vertically coupled GaAs quantum rings. Electron-phonon interaction is accounted for both deformation potential and piezoe…
Experimental determination of absolute surface energies remains a challenge. We propose a simple method based on two independent measurements on 3D and 2D equilibrium shapes completed by the analysis of the thermal fluctuation of an isolated step. Using then basic equations (Wulff' theorem, Gibbs-Thomson equation, the…
Using time-dependent density-functional theory we calculate from first principles the rate of energy transfer from a moving proton or antiproton to the electrons of an insulating material, LiF. The behavior of the electronic stopping power versus projectile velocity displays an effective threshold velocity of ~0.2 a.u…
We study both theoretically and experimentally switching dynamics in asymmetric surface stabilized ferroelectric liquid crystal cells where the bounding surfaces are treated differently to produce asymmetry in their anchoring properties. Our electro-optic measurements of the switching voltage thresholds, V+ and -V{-},…
Spherical silica-based mesoporous materials encapsulating magnetic nanoparticles have been synthesized following an aerosol-assisted route. The influence of nonionic surfactant P123 concentration in the structural and textural parameters has been investigated. Moreover, the effect of adding different amounts of magnet…
The nature of the charge order in the charge frustrated compound ${\mathrm{LuFe}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{4}$ and its effect on magnetocapacitance were examined on the basis of first-principles electronic structure calculations and Monte Carlo simulations of electrostatic energy. Our work shows that two different types of ch…
Superhydrophobic nanofiber films were created from electrospun nanofibers with undulated surfaces at multiple scales in micrometers and nanometers. The electrospun nanofibers were produced out of aqueous solutions which contained water-soluble polymers and different colloids: monodisperse silica or polystyrene microsp…
Since their discovery, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been considered to be promising candidates for polymer-based solar cells, but their functional incorporation and utilization in such devices have been limited due to processing bottlenecks. Here, we demonstrate the realization of controlled placement of a single-wall…
With high-resolution photoemission spectroscopy measurements, the density of states (DOS) near the Fermi level (E(F)) of double perovskite Sr(2)FeMoO(6) having different degrees of Fe/Mo antisite disorder has been investigated with varying temperature. The DOS near E(F) showed a systematic depletion with increasing de…
Using recently proposed improvements of Reflection Electron Microsopy (REM) we study in perfectly controlled thermodynamics conditions spiral shapes and spirals on Si(111) surface. It is shown that the new method named low distortion reflection electron microscopy (LODREM) is a powerful instrument, resolving in much m…
In this chapter we review our findings on the bonding structure and growth mechanisms of carbon-based thin solid films with fullerene-like (FL) microstructure. The so-called FL arrangements arise from the curvature and cross-linking of basal planes in graphitic-like structures, partially resembling that of molecular f…
Alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) monoliths with well-defined macropores and mesostructured skeletons have been synthesized via a spontaneous route from the aqueous and ethanolic solution of aluminum salts in the presence of propylene oxide and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO). The addition of propylene oxide to the starting solution con…
The minimal conductivity of graphene is a quantity measured in the dc limit. It is shown, using the Kubo formula, that the actual value of the minimal conductivity is sensitive to the order in which certain limits are taken. If the dc limit is taken before the integration over energies is performed, the minimal conduc…