Adam M. Jakob、Thomas A. Schmedake2006-06-14Chemistry of Materials
Monodisperse aminopropylsilica spheres were grown via a modified Stöber process with varying amounts of tetraethyl orthosilicate and (aminopropyl)triethoxysilane (APTES). Upon calcination, the spheres become luminescent, with the emission maximum dependent on the original APTES concentration. This provides a simple on…
Photonic Crystals and ApplicationsMesoporous Materials and CatalysisDiatoms and Algae Research
D. J. Voorn、W. Ming、Alex M. van Herk2006-06-14Macromolecules
There has been increasing interest for encapsulation of fine inorganic powders with organic molecules or polymers to afford various desired physical properties. Inorganic platelets such as layered silicates have been extensively investigated as polymer-clay nanocomposites over the past decade.1 One often-employed stra…
Adsorption, diffusion, and thermodynamic properties of materialsClay minerals and soil interactionsPolymer Nanocomposites and Properties
Ting Liao、Jingyang Wang、Yanchun Zhou2006-06-14Physical Review B
Deformation and failure modes were studied for ${\mathrm{Ti}}_{2}\mathrm{Al}\mathrm{C}$ and ${\mathrm{Ti}}_{2}\mathrm{Al}\mathrm{N}$ by deforming the materials from elasticity to structural instability using the first-principles density functional calculations. We found that the $\mathrm{Ti}{\mathrm{C}}_{0.5}∕\mathrm{…
Metal and Thin Film MechanicsMXene and MAX Phase MaterialsBoron and Carbon Nanomaterials Research
Meiwen Cao、Xiaoyan Song、Qianqian Zhang 等 5 位作者2006-06-14The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
Highly antireflective porous silicon surfaces with superhydrophobicity were obtained by means of chemical etching and fluoroalkylsilane self-assembly. The results show that wettability and reflectivity of these surfaces strongly depend on the etching method and the resultant surface morphology. All of the four resulta…
Surface Modification and SuperhydrophobicityNanowire Synthesis and ApplicationsSilicon Nanostructures and Photoluminescence
Jiun‐Tai Chen、Kichul Shin、Julie M. Leiston‐Belanger 等 5 位作者2006-06-14Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract Amorphous carbon nanotubes have been prepared by casting thin films of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) and polystyrene‐ block ‐polyacrylonitrile (PS‐ b ‐PAN) within a porous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membrane followed by pyrolysis. Raman and wide‐ angle X‐ray diffraction (WAXD) measurements indicate that the carbon…
Graphene research and applicationsCarbon Nanotubes in CompositesAnodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures
Li-Hsin Chang、Natarajan Sasirekha、Yu‐Wen Chen 等 4 位作者2006-06-14Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research
A series of nanosized gold supported on CeO 2, MnO 2, and MnO 2 −CeO 2 composite oxides have been prepared by a deposition−precipitation (DP) method and the effects of Mn/Ce atomic ratio on Au/MnO 2 −CeO 2 catalysts and calcination temperature after loading gold for preferential oxidation of CO (PROX) in H 2 stream ha…
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceCatalysts for Methane ReformingCatalysis and Oxidation Reactions
Sivashankar Krishnamoorthy、Raphaël Pugin、Juergen Brügger 等 5 位作者2006-06-14Advanced Functional Materials
Abstract The controlled tuning of the characteristic dimensions of two‐dimensional arrays of block‐copolymer reverse micelles deposited on silicon surfaces is demonstrated. The polymer used is polystyrene‐ block ‐poly(2‐vinylpyridine) (91 500‐ b ‐105 000 g mol –1 ). Reverse micelles of this polymer with different aggr…
Advanced Polymer Synthesis and CharacterizationBlock Copolymer Self-AssemblyAnodic Oxide Films and Nanostructures
Youngjean Jung、Kevin T. Chu、Salvatore Torquato2006-06-14arXiv
In this paper, we study triply periodic surfaces with minimal surface area under a constraint in the volume fraction of the regions (phases) that the surface separates. Using a variational level set method formulation, we present a theoretical characterization of and a numerical algorithm for computing these surfaces.…
math.OCMaterials Science
Yoji Ohashi2006-06-14arXiv
Effects of superconducting fluctuations on the Fulde-Ferrell (FF) state are discussed in a spatially isotropic three-dimensional superconductor under a magnetic field. For this system, Shimahara recently showed that within the phenomenological Ginzburg-Landau theory, the long-range order of the FF state is suppressed…
Materials Science
A. Simon、J. Ravez2006-06-14Comptes Rendus Chimie
Non-linear properties of tetragonal tungsten bronze materials are related to solid-state chemistry. This family is very prolific, with its five different cationic or anionic crystallographic sites. The physical characteristics are correlated to composition and chemical bonding. Some effective or potential applications…
Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric MaterialsX-ray Diffraction in CrystallographyCrystal Structures and Properties
Meng‐Fei Luo、Zong-Lan Yan、Ling-Yun Jin 等 4 位作者2006-06-14The Journal of Physical Chemistry B
The difference between the surface and the bulk shell of Ce(x)Pr(1-x)O(2-delta) mixed oxides was studied by Raman spectroscopy with four different excitation lasers. Two Raman peaks appear at 465 and 570 cm(-1) under all of the four lasers. The former is attributed to the Raman active F(2g) mode of CeO2, while the lat…
Catalysis and Oxidation ReactionsLuminescence Properties of Advanced MaterialsCatalytic Processes in Materials Science
R. Stadler、K. W. Jacobsen2006-06-14arXiv
The alignment of the Fermi level of a metal electrode within the gap of the hi ghest occupied (HOMO) and lowest unoccupied orbital (LUMO) of a molecule is a key quantity in molecular electronics, which can vary the electron transparency of a single molecule junction by orders of magnitude. We present a quantitative an…
Materials Science
Matteo Calandra、Francesco Mauri2006-06-14arXiv
Using density functional theory we investigate the occurrence of superconductivity in AC$_6$ with A=Mg,Ca,Sr,Ba. We predict that at zero pressure, Ba and Sr should be superconducting with critical temperatures (T$_c$) 0.2 K and 3.0 K, respectively. We study the pressure dependence of T$_c$ assuming the same symmetry f…
Materials ScienceSuperconductivity
Sanjoy Datta、Sudhakar Yarlagadda2006-06-14arXiv
Among the mechanisms for lattice structural deformation, the electron-phonon interaction mediated Peierls charge-density-wave (CDW) instability in single band low-dimensional systems is perhaps the most ubiquitous. The standard mean-field picture predicts that the CDW transition occurs at all fillings and all values o…
Materials ScienceStrongly Correlated Electrons
Guanghui Zhou、Wenhu Liao2006-06-14arXiv
We investigate theoretically the electronic structure and transport for a two-level quantum wire with Rashba spin-orbit coupling (SOC) under the irradiation of an external laser field at low temperatures. The photon-induced transitions between SOC-splitted subbands with the same lateral confinement quantum numbers and…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Fedwa El-Mellouhi、Normand Mousseau2006-06-14arXiv
The dominant charge state for the Ga vacancy in GaAs has been the subject of a long debate, with experiments proposing $-$1, $-$2 or $-$3 as the best answer. We revisit this problem using {\it ab initio} calculations to compute the effects of temperature on the Gibbs free energy of formation, and we find that the ther…
Materials Science
Junichiro Mizusaki、Hiroaki Tagawa、Takatoshi Saito 等 12 位作者2006-06-14Journal of The Electrochemical Society
To study the reaction kinetics at the anode of solid‐oxide fuel cells, a nickel stripe pattern was prepared on the surface of yttria‐stabilized zirconia (YSZ) [8 mole percent (m/o) ] by an ionized cluster beam (ICB) method and photolithography. Due to grain growth of nickel film at high temperatures, the minimum possi…
Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel CellsHigh-Temperature Coating BehaviorsElectrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Gang Wu、Jinming Dong2006-06-14Physical Review B
The vibrational modes of some single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) intramolecular junctions (IMJs) have been calculated using the latest Brenner reactive empirical bond order (REBO) potential, based on which their nonresonant Raman spectra have been further calculated using the empirical bond polarizability model. It is…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesMechanical and Optical ResonatorsFullerene Chemistry and Applications
S. Reich、G. Leitus、Y. Feldman2006-06-14arXiv
Direct magnetization measurements of thin gold films are presented. These measurements integrate the signal from the thin film under study and the magnetic contribution of the film's interface with the substrate. The diamagnetic contribution to the signal from the bulk substrate is of the same order as the noise level…
Materials Science
Changgan Zeng、Yugui Yao、Qian Niu 等 4 位作者2006-06-14arXiv
The anomalous Hall effect is investigated experimentally and theoretically for ferromagnetic thin films of Mn$_5$Ge$_3$. We have separated the intrinsic and extrinsic contributions to the experimental anomalous Hall effect, and calculated the intrinsic anomalous Hall conductivity from the Berry curvature of the Bloch…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science