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We developed a multilevel lithography process to fabricate graphene p-n-p junctions with contactless, suspended top gates. This fabrication procedure minimizes damage or doping to the single atomic layer, which is only exposed to conventional resists and developers. The process does not require special equipment for d…
Nanoscience, where physics, chemistry, biology and materials science converge, deals with the manipulation and characterization of matter at molecular to micron scale. Nanotechnology is the emerging engineering discipline that applies nanoscience to create products. Because of their size, nanomaterials have the abilit…
A state of an electron in a quantum wire or a thin film becomes metastable, when a static electric field is applied perpendicular to the wire direction or the film surface. The state decays via tunneling through the created potential barrier. An additionally applied magnetic field, perpendicular to the electric field,…
We present a method to compute the Fermi function of the Hamiltonian for a system of independent fermions, based on an exact decomposition of the grand-canonical potential. This scheme does not rely on the localization of the orbitals and is insensitive to ill-conditioned Hamiltonians. It lends itself naturally to lin…
A weakly charged flexible polyelectrolyte chain in a neutral spherical cavity is analyzed using self-consistent field theory (SCFT) within an explicit solvent model. Assuming the radial symmetry for the system, it is found that the confinement of the chain leads to creation of a charge density wave along with the deve…
We report the observation that thermoelectric thin films of La-doped SrTiO 3 grown on SrTiO 3 substrates yield anomalously high values of thermopower to give extraordinary values of power factor at 300 K. Thin films of Sr 0.98 La 0.02 TiO 3 , grown via pulsed laser deposition at low temperature and low pressure 450 C,…
We have studied the binding of NO to small Rh clusters, containing one to five atoms, using density functional theory in both spin-polarized and non-spin-polarized forms. We find that NO bonds more strongly to Rh clusters than it does to Rh(100) or Rh(111), suggesting that Rh clusters may be good catalysts for NO redu…
High-performance Sb excess Yb0.2Co4Sb12+y (y=0,0.3,0.6,1.0) bulk materials with nanostructure have been prepared by combining melt spinning technique with spark plasma sintering. Average grain size of the bulk samples is about 150nm when y=0 and 0.3, and the grain size increases with the increase of y. Moderately supe…
Quick establishment of a confluent and stable endothelial cells (ECs) layer in the lumen of vascular grafts is critical for long-term patency of small-diameter vascular grafts. The objective of the study was to fabricate tubular nanofiber scaffolds, incorporate ECs onto the lumen of the scaffolds, and establish an ani…
A series of new bis(guanidinate) alkoxide Group 3 metal complexes [Ln((Me3Si)2NC(NiPr)2)2(OR)] (R=OtBu, Ln=Y, Nd, Sm, Lu; R=OiPr, Ln=Y, Nd, Lu) has been synthesized. X-ray structural determinations revealed that bis(guanidinate) tert-butoxides are monomeric complexes. The isopropoxide complex [Y((Me3Si)2NC(NiPr)2)2(Oi…
A series of electronic and structural transitions are predicted in molten lithium from first principles. A new phase with tetrahedral local order characteristic of $sp^3$ bonded materials and poor electrical conductivity is found at pressures above 150 GPa and temperatures as high as 1000 K. Despite the lack of covale…
Excitation and photoluminescence spectra of high purity and Si-doped β-Ga2O3 single crystals are investigated. Emission peaks in the UV and blue wavelength regions are observed. These are excited at two bands, which can be differentiated by polarized light. The features of the spectra are independent of excitation and…
Paclitaxel–polylactide nanoconjugates were prepared by the site-specific polymerization of lactide mediated by a paclitaxel–metal complex followed by nanoprecipitation (see scheme). The resulting nanoconjugates have nearly 100 % paclitaxel incorporation efficiencies and predefined drug loadings, and are less than 100…
The existence of semiconductors exhibiting long-range ferromagnetic ordering at room temperature still is controversial. One particularly important issue is the presence of secondary magnetic phases such as clusters, segregations, etc... These are often tedious to detect, leading to contradictory interpretations. We s…
Conceptual framework behind the intrinsic spin Hall effect in three-dimensional conductors is discussed. Theory suggests how the spin Hall current should depend on symmetry and orientation of the crystal.
In viscous particulate liquids, such as suspensions and polymer solutions, the large-distance steady-state flow due to a local disturbance is commonly described in terms of hydrodynamic screening -- beyond a correlation length $ξ$ the response drops from that of the pure solvent, characterized by its viscosity $η_0$,…
Boron-doped multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) were synthesized using a methanol solution of boric acid as a source material. Accurate measurements of the electrical resistivity of an individual boron-doped MWNT was performed with a four-point contact, which was fabricated using an electron beam lithography techniqu…
In a recent paper [arXiv:0804.3569], Takatoshi Nomura {\it et al.} reported a structural phase transition near 150 K in LaOFeAs and used space group "Cmma" to describe their X-ray diffraction data. However, they did not discuss how their proposed structure compares with the early neutron study by Cruz {\it et al.}[arX…
We demonstrate an approach to significantly reduce the electrical resistivity in a polyurethane shape-memory polymer (SMP) filled with randomly distributed carbon black (CB). With an additional small amount of randomly distributed Ni microparticles (0.5vol%) in the SMP/CB composite, its electrical resistivity is only…
Silver nanocubes are self-assembled into unique structures via hydrophobic interactions. The structures could be predesigned by selectively functionalizing the faces of each nanocube with hydrophobic and hydrophilic self-assembled monolayers (SAMs). The cubic lattice shown in this SEM image was formed at an air-water…