Dieter Jendrossek、Giorgio Tomasi、R. M. Kroppenstedt1997-05-15FEMS Microbiology Letters
Using natural rubber latex as the sole source of carbon and energy 50 rubber-degrading bacteria were isolated. Out of those 50 isolates, 33 were identified as Streptomyces species and 8 as Micromonospora species. Screening of 1220 bacteria obtained from different culture collections revealed 46 additional rubber-degra…
Click Chemistry and Applicationsbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesCorrosion Behavior and Inhibition
C. M. Carbonaro、V. Fiorentini、S. Massidda1997-05-15arXiv
Extrinsic levels, formation energies, and relaxation geometries are calculated ab initio for oxygen vacancies in alpha-quartz SiO2. The vacancy is found to be thermodynamically stable in the charge states Q=+3, Q=0, Q=--2, and Q=-3. The charged states are stabilized by large and asymmetric distortions near the vacancy…
Materials Science
Kikuo Harigaya1997-05-15arXiv
Component of photoexcited states with large spatial extent is investigated for optical absorption spectra of the electroluminescent conjugated polymers by using the intermediate exciton theory. We calculate the ratio of oscillator strengths due to long-range excitons with respect to sum of all the oscillator strengths…
Soft Condensed MatterChemical Physicsphysics.opticsMaterials Science
Volker Schmidt1997-05-15Cambridge University Press eBooks
This monograph describes the theory and practice of electron spectrometry using synchrotron radiation. The book is in three parts. After a short review of background theory, neon is used to elucidate the principles of the photoelectron and Auger spectra. The second part of the book looks at experimental aspects, inclu…
Electron and X-Ray Spectroscopy TechniquesX-ray Spectroscopy and Fluorescence Analysis
Ce‐Wen Nan、R. Birringer、David R. Clarke 等 4 位作者1997-05-15OpenAlex
A methodology is introduced for predicting the effective thermal conductivity of arbitrary particulate composites with interfacial thermal resistance in terms of an effective medium approach combined with the essential concept of Kapitza thermal contact resistance. Results of the present model are compared to existing…
Advanced ceramic materials synthesisThermal properties of materialsComposite Material Mechanics
Efthimios Kaxiras1997-05-14arXiv
We discuss a generalization of the surface reconstruction arguments for the structure of intermediate size Si clusters, which leads to model geometries for the sizes 33, 39 (two isomers), 45 (two isomers), 49 (two isomers), 57 and 61 (two isomers). The common feature in all these models is a structure that closely res…
Materials Science
A. V. Postnikov、A. I. Poteryaev、G. Borstel1997-05-14arXiv
Nb-substituting Fe impurity in KNbO3 is studied in first-principles supercell calculations by the linear muffin-tin orbital method. Possible ways to account for the impurity charge compensation are discussed. Calculations are done in the local density approximation (LDA) and, for better description of Coulomb correlat…
Materials Science
Ming Yan、Richard A. Torres、Michael J. Runkel 等 7 位作者1997-05-13Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE
We report the experimental results of impurity contamination and laser-induced damage investigations on rapidly grown potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KDP) crystals. Using absorption spectroscopy and chemical analysis, we determined the impurity distribution in the different growing sectors of KDP single crystals. The…
Photorefractive and Nonlinear OpticsLaser Material Processing TechniquesNonlinear Optical Materials Research
Michael Hennig、Bernhard Grimm、Roberto Contestabile 等 5 位作者1997-05-13Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
The three-dimensional structure of glutamate-1-semialdehyde aminomutase (EC 5.4.3.8), an alpha2-dimeric enzyme from Synechococcus, has been determined by x-ray crystallography using heavy atom derivative phasing. The structure, refined at 2.4-A resolution to an R-factor of 18.7% and good stereochemistry, explains many…
Biochemical and Molecular ResearchAmino Acid Enzymes and MetabolismEnzyme Structure and Function
Paul D. Adams、Navraj S. Pannu、Randy J. Read 等 4 位作者1997-05-13Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Recently, the target function for crystallographic refinement has been improved through a maximum likelihood analysis, which makes proper allowance for the effects of data quality, model errors, and incompleteness. The maximum likelihood target reduces the significance of false local minima during the refinement proce…
Enzyme Structure and FunctionProtein Structure and DynamicsX-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
A. V. Postnikov、G. Borstel1997-05-13arXiv
In order to arrive at ultimately accurate results available with the LMTO method in the local density approximation, the stability of full-potential LMTO predictions for off-center displacements in KNbO3, as depending on the choice of basis and expansion cutoffs, has been thoroughly investigated. With the calculation…
Materials Science
Larry R. Dalton、Aaron W. Harper、Bruce H. Robinson1997-05-13Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Graphs of second harmonic generation coefficients and electro-optic coefficients (measured by ellipsometry, attenuated total reflection, and two-slit interference modulation) as a function of chromophore number density (chromophore loading) are experimentally observed to exhibit maxima for polymers containing chromoph…
Liquid Crystal Research AdvancementsSolid-state spectroscopy and crystallographyNonlinear Optical Materials Research
S. Hazra、A. Ghosh1997-05-12Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
The frequency dependence of the AC electrical conductivity of different compositions of bismuth cuprate glasses has been presented in the temperature range 80 - 400 K. The conductivity data have been analysed in terms of different theoretical models to determine the possible conduction mechanism. Analysis of the condu…
Glass properties and applicationsSolid-state spectroscopy and crystallographyPhase-change materials and chalcogenides
Kazuhiko Endo、Toru Tatsumi1997-05-12Applied Physics Letters
The effect on the thermal and dielectric properties of incorporating benzene rings in hydrogenated amorphous carbon (a-C:H) films was investigated. The benzene rings were introduced into a-C:H films by using plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition and aromatic source compounds. The a-C:H film that contained benzene…
Copper Interconnects and ReliabilityDiamond and Carbon-based Materials ResearchMetal and Thin Film Mechanics
M. Zarrabian、N. Fourches-Coulon、G. Turban 等 5 位作者1997-05-12Applied Physics Letters
Diamondlike carbon (DLC) thin films have been prepared by chemical vapor deposition assisted by electron cyclotron resonance plasma at low pressure with radio frequency (rf) power applied to the substrate. The microstructure studies by transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy show the exi…
Metal and Thin Film MechanicsForce Microscopy Techniques and ApplicationsDiamond and Carbon-based Materials Research
Richard Cole、Nathan J. Brooks、P. Weightman1997-05-12Physical Review Letters
We present the first experimental evidence for ``disorder broadening'' of core level x-ray photoemission line shapes in alloys. The broadening is attributed to variations in electrostatic potential. A model in which the charge on a site is assumed to be proportional to its number of unlike neighbors has recently been…
Surface and Thin Film PhenomenaAdvanced Materials Characterization TechniquesElectron and X-Ray Spectroscopy Techniques
Seong‐Woo Suh、Kathy Joseph、Gil Cohen 等 5 位作者1997-05-12Applied Physics Letters
We propose a novel method of measuring the cholesteric pitch of a liquid crystal (LC) in a circularly aligned configuration. The LC cell is made with one homogeneously rubbed surface and one circularly rubbed surface so that it produces a disclination line passing through the singularity created by the circular rubbin…
Liquid Crystal Research AdvancementsNeurobiology and Insect Physiology ResearchOptical Polarization and Ellipsometry
F. E. Pinkerton、T. W. Capehart、J. F. Herbst 等 5 位作者1997-05-12Applied Physics Letters
We have fabricated novel magnetostrictive composites consisting of SmFe2 embedded in an Fe or Al matrix which feature high magnetostriction and good mechanical strength. Hot pressed composites of 50% SmFe2/50% Fe or Al by volume have magnetostrictive strains parallel to the applied magnetic field, λ∥, between −280 and…
Magnetic Properties of AlloysMagnetic Properties and ApplicationsMagnetic properties of thin films
R. K. Watts、M.R.J. Gibbs、W.J. Karl 等 4 位作者1997-05-12Applied Physics Letters
Finite element modelling was applied to the bending behaviour of a cantilever coated with a magnetostrictive film. The model is verified by comparison with accepted analytical solutions, then extended to the more realistic case in which one end of the cantilever is rigidly clamped across the width. It is shown that th…
Adhesion, Friction, and Surface InteractionsMagnetic Properties and ApplicationsAdvanced Materials and Mechanics
Jean‐Luc Pozzo、André Samat、Robert Guglielmetti 等 5 位作者1997-05-12Helvetica Chimica Acta
Abstract New chromenes annulated with different six‐membered azaheterocycles were prepared, i.e. , the 3 H ‐pyra‐no[3,2‐ f ]quinolines 9/10 and 14 , the 8 H ‐pyrano[2,3‐ h ]isoquinoline 11 , the 8 H ‐pyrano[3,2‐ f ]quinazolme 12 , the 8‐ H ‐pyrano[3,2‐ f ]quinoxaline 13 , and the 2 H ‐pyrano[2,3‐ f ]isoquinoline 15. T…
Synthesis of Indole DerivativesSynthesis of Organic CompoundsPhotochromic and Fluorescence Chemistry