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Peptides offer interesting alternatives to conventional surfactants in applications where renewability, biocompatibility, or added functionality may be desired. This review offers a brief overview of different classes of surface-active peptides and lipopeptides, covering molecules obtained from natural sources as well…
This work focuses on synthetic methods to produce monodisperse Ni colloidal nanoparticles (NPs), in the 4-16 nm size range, and their structural characterization. Narrow size distribution nanoparticles were obtained by high-temperature reduction of a nickel salt and the production of tunable sizes of the Ni NPs was im…
In this work, we report a simple one-pot approach to prepare hollow Co microspheres via self-assembly of octahedron-like nanocrystals. Uniform hollow Co spherical assemblies, prepared via a facile solvothermal reduction approach in the presence of NaCl, were composed of ordered nanooctahedra with a thickness of about…
Previous self-consistent field theory (SCFT) calculations have predicted that the steric interaction between two polymer-grafted particles in good solvent can become attractive, but this conclusion has since been questioned. Here we reexamine the problem with a new numerical scheme using multiple coordinate systems, a…
Well-oriented ZnO nanorod arrays were successfully prepared using a seed growth method based on catalyst-free hydrothermal synthesis and characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy, optical spectroscopy, photoelectrochemistry, and X-ray diffraction techniques. Compared to ZnO nanoparticles or randomly…
We use a scanning tunneling microscope operating in a low temperature, ultrahigh vacuum environment to study the atomic structure of single layer films of Cu2N grown on Cu(100). The c(2x2) lattice of Cu2N is incommensurate, with a lattice constant of 3.72 +/- 0.02 angstrom that is 3% larger than the bare Cu(100) surfa…
It has been found experimentally that superhydrophobic surfaces exhibit strong anisotropic wetting behavior. This study reports a simple but robust thermodynamic methodology to investigate the anisotropic superhydrophobic behavior for parallel grooved surfaces. Free energy and its barrier and the corresponding contact…
This manuscript describes the low-temperature, solution-based doping of Mn 2+ ions into colloidal ZnO nanorods, and the yield of the products is in a gram scale. The structures and chemical compositions of the products were characterized by XRD, XPS, EDS, and FT-IR spectroscopy. The results demonstrate that Mn 2+ ions…
Shrimp waste is the most important chitin source for commercial use. In this study chitin and chitosan were extracted from Penaeus semisulcatus waste collected from a shrimp processing landing center situated at Persian Gulf in south of Iran by chemical and microbial methods. Chitin and chitosan were extracted by alka…
Conventional sintering of (Na 1− x K x ) 0.5 Bi 0.5 TiO 3 (abbreviated as NKBT x , x =18–22 mol%) lead‐free piezoelectric ceramics was investigated to clarify the optimal sintering temperature for densification and electrical properties. Both sintered density and electrical properties were sensitive to sintering tempe…
Erster Platz für Gold: Dichtefunktionalrechnungen zeigen, dass Goldnanopartikel aktivere Katalysatoren für die CO-Oxidation sind als andere Metallnanopartikel. Die hohe katalytische Aktivität nanometergroßer Goldcluster bei niedrigen Temperaturen rührt daher, dass niedrig koordinierte Metallatome die Reaktanten aktivi…
Nanodonuts! A hydrogen-bonded cyclic assembly (rosette, left) of a melamine featuring π-conjugated oligo(p-phenyleneethynylene) hierarchically self-organizes with a cyanurate in decane under dilute conditions to form toroidal nanostructures (right) with a diameter of 40 nm.
A non-linear conjugate gradient optimization scheme is used to obtain excitation energies within the Random Phase Approximation (RPA). The solutions to the RPA eigenvalue equation are located through a variational characterization using a modified Thouless functional, which is based upon an asymmetric Rayleigh quotien…
Innovative research and diagnostic techniques for biological testing have advanced during recent years because of the development of semiconductor nanocrystals. Although these commercially available, fluorescent nanocrystals have a protective organic coating, the inner core contains cadmium and selenium. Because these…
The electronic structure of the anomalous $δ$-phase of Pu is analyzed by a general and exact reformulation of the exchange energy of the $f$-shell. It is found that the dominating contribution to the exchange energy is a polarization of orbital spin-currents that preserves the time reversal symmetry, hence a non-magne…
We study the bias-dependent spin-transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions in the Stoner model by scattering theory. We show that the in-plane (Slonczewski type) torque vanishes and subsequently reverses its direction when the bias voltage becomes larger or the barrier wider than material and device-dependent criti…
The phase locking behavior of spin transfer nano-oscillators (STNOs) to an external microwave signal is experimentally studied as a function of the STNO intrinsic parameters. We extract the coupling strength from our data using the derived phase dynamics of a forced STNO. The predicted trends on the coupling strength…
Exponential band edges have been observed in a variety of materials, both crystalline and amorphous. In this Letter, we infer the structural origins of these tails in amorphous and defective crystalline Si by direct calculation with current ab initio methods. We find that exponential tails appear in relaxed models of…
We study theoretically the charge transport pumped by magnetization dynamics through epitaxial FIF and FNIF magnetic tunnel junctions (F: Ferromagnet, I: Insulator, N: Normal metal). We predict a small but measurable DC pumping voltage under ferromagnetic resonance conditions for collinear magnetization configurations…
The spectrally- and polarization-resolved absorption cross-sections of a single gold nanorod have been investigated using the spatial modulation spectroscopy technique. The ensemble of its optical features, that is, longitudinal and transverse surface plasmon resonances and interband absorption, has been quantitativel…