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ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUECommunication to the...Communication to the EditorNEXTPolymer Blend Compatibilization by Gradient Copolymer Addition during Melt Processing: Stabilization of Dispersed Phase to Static CoarseningJungki Kim, Maisha K. Gray, Hongying Zhou, SonBinh T. Nguyen, and John M. TorkelsonView Author I…
Wurtzite-type single-crystalline AlN nanotubes with carbon coatings on the outer and inner surfaces (see Figure) were synthesized in bulk quantities through a substitution carbonitridation chemical process using multiwalled carbon nanotubes as templates. The AlN nanotubes are approximately several micrometers in lengt…
Polystyrene (PS)-grafted silica nanoparticles were prepared by nitroxide-mediated polymerization of styrene using N - tert -butyl- N -[1-diethylphosphono(2,2-dimethylpropyl)] nitroxide (DEPN) as mediator. Two routes were investigated to graft the alkoxyamine initiator onto silica. In the first route, (acryloxypropyl)t…
An attractive read: Magnetic Mn12 clusters are patterned by molding a dispersion in a polymer matrix onto a structured master (e.g., a DVD). The protrusions of the polymer replica surface disappear on exposure to solvent vapor, and the clusters concentrate on the surface at the positions of the original protrusions. T…
A novel spironaphthoxazine SOFC molecule with a stable ring-opened photomerocyanine form by incorporating a ferrocene moiety to the parent spironaphthoxazine has been synthesized. Two-dimensional luminescence images obtained by confocal microscope employing fluorescence as read-out method (see Figure) and three-dimens…
Reaction of Cu(II), [gamma-SiW10O36]8-, and N3- affords three azido polyoxotungstate complexes. Two of them have been characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Complex KNaCs10[{gamma-SiW10O36Cu2(H2O)(N3)2}2].26H2O (1) is obtained as crystals in few hours after addition of CsCl. This linear tetranuclear Cu(II)…
The Keggin anion, PW12O40(3-), is one of the most representative polyoxometalates (POMs). In recent years increasing theoretical work focused on this family of compounds has explained or even predicted some of their properties using quantum mechanics methods. In this report we applied for the first time molecular dyna…
We present a detailed analysis of the ion hopping dynamics and the related nearby oxygen dynamics in a lithium meta silicate glass via molecular dynamics simulation. For this purpose we have developed numerical techniques to identify ion hops and to sample and average dynamic information of the particles involved. Thi…
The short-range organization around Ni atoms in orthorhombic $R\mathrm{Ni}{\mathrm{O}}_{3}$ ($R=\mathrm{Pr}$, Nd, Eu) perovskites has been studied over a wide temperature range by Ni $K$-edge x-ray-absorption spectroscopy. Our results demonstrate that two different Ni sites, with different average Ni-$\mathrm{O}$ bond…
We describe a swelling-based method to prepare sterically stabilized polymer colloids with different functional groups or biomolecules attached to their surface. It should be applicable to a variety of polymeric colloids, including magnetic particles, fluorescent particles, polystyrene particles, PMMA particles, and s…
Molybdenum disulfide nanowires and nanoribbons have been synthesized by a two-step, electrochemical/chemical synthetic method. In the first step, MoO(x) wires (a mixture of MoO(2) and MoO(3)) were electrodeposited size-selectively by electrochemical step-edge decoration on a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) s…
Theoretical methods based on density functional theory have been employed to search for Prussian blue analogues with Curie temperatures higher than the ones reached today. Our study suggests several possible cyano-bridged compounds as candidates to present stronger exchange coupling and higher ordering temperatures th…
We report here the first example of peptide-functionalized gold nanoparticles hydrolytically active against carboxylate esters. The active units are constituted by His-Phe-OH terminating thiols. The confinement of the catalytic units in the monolayer covering the nanoparticles triggers a cooperative hydrolytic mechani…
In a recent Letter the phase diagram of Co/Cu/Ni/Cu(100) and Co/Fe/Ni/Cu(100) trilayers was determined experimentally as well as theoretically. Whereas we do not object the presented results, we remark that published work was not commented on. Especially, much more information can be extracted out of the measurements…
The temperature dependence of the band gap of semiconducting single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) is calculated by direct evaluation of electron-phonon couplings within a "frozen-phonon" scheme. An interesting diameter and chirality dependence of E(g)(T) is obtained, including nonmonotonic behavior for certain tubes a…
We present experiments on the dynamic buckling and fragmentation of slender rods axially impacted by a projectile. By combining the results of Saint-Venant and elastic beam theory, we derive a preferred wavelength lambda for the buckling instability, and experimentally verify the resulting scaling law for a range of m…
We have studied the transient evolution of electrons distributed over two levels in a wide quantum well, with the two levels below the optical phonon energy, after an ultrafast interband excitation and cascade emission of optical phonons. If electrons are distributed near the top of the passive region, a temporal nega…
We present small-angle neutron scattering data proving that, on the insulating side of the metal-insulator transition, the doped perovskite cobaltite La(1-x)Sr(x)CoO(3) phase separates into ferromagnetic metallic clusters embedded in a nonferromagnetic matrix. This induces a hysteretic magnetoresistance, with temperat…
An environmentally harmless method of synthesizing extremely small CdSe and highly luminescent CdSe/CdS core–shell quantum dots (see Figure) with CdSe cores of 1.2–1.5 nm diameter is reported. The CdSe/CdS core–shell quantum dots exhibit 60–80 % quantum yield at room temperature. The emission peak is tunable from 445…
Landauer's formula relates the conductance of a quantum wire or interface to transmission probabilities. Total transmission probabilities are frequently calculated using Green function techniques and an expression first derived by Caroli. Alternatively, partial transmission probabilities can be calculated from the sca…