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The current ITER design employs beryllium, carbon fiber reinforced composite and tungsten as plasma facing materials. Since these materials are exposed to high heat fluxes during the operation, it is essential to perform high heat flux tests for R&D of ITER components. Static heat loads corresponding to cycling loads…
Template pre-organized oligopeptides were conjugated to poly(ethylene oxide) chains yielding peptide-polymer-building blocks that self assemble into fiber-like nanostructures having a maximum length in the range of a micrometer.
Composites of (LSM) and yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) were prepared by impregnating porous YSZ with salts of Sr, La, and Mn to 40 wt % LSM. The effect of calcination temperature on cathode performance at 973 K was then studied using both symmetric cells and solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs). Following calcination at 1…
This investigation details relatively short-term ( 500 h ) performance characteristics (in particular cathode conditioning and degradation) of anode-supported SOFCs utilizing La ( Sr ) Fe O 3 cathodes with platinum, silver, or gold current collectors. Conditioning or degradation characteristics were found to be highly…
Polygonal gold nanoplates are generated in situ in poly(vinyl alcohol) film through thermal treatment, the polymer serving as the reducing agent and stabilizer for the nanoparticle formation and enforcing preferential orientation of the plates. The rare pentagonal as well as the more commonly observed hexagonal, trian…
The synthesis of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes within micropatterned domains at surfaces and the performance of these functionalised surfaces in short-term bioadhesion assays under varying conditions are described. The polymer brushes show temperature dependent behaviour at surfaces as demonstrated by changes in…
Hollow spheres and shells of crystalline porous metal oxides have been nanocast using hollow spheres of mesoporous carbon as hard template. The metal oxides are fabricated from alkoxide precursors within the pore channels of the carbon templates. Remarkably, only one infiltration cycle was required to introduce (metal…
We report an unconventional chemical p- and n- doping scheme utilizing novel materials and a charge transfer mechanism to obtain air-stable, self-aligned, unipolar carbon nanotube transistors. This scheme in addition to introducing the tunability of the threshold voltage V,, increases the drive current 2-3 orders of m…
Strontium titanate SrTiO3(100), (110), and (111) single crystals, undoped or donor doped with up to 1 at% La, were isothermally equilibrated at temperatures between 1523 and 1773 K in synthetic air followed by two different methods of Sr tracer deposition: ion implantation of 87Sr and chemical solution deposition of a…
This study is an investigation to evaluate the in vivo degradation of gelatin hydrogels in terms of their number of cross-links. Various hydrogels were prepared from acidic gelatin, extracted from bovine bone, porcine skin or fish scale, and basic gelatin, extracted from porcine skin, through four types of cross-linki…
The synthesis and photophysical characterisation are reported of a series of cationic, neutral and anionic europium and terbium complexes based on structurally related, nonadentate ligands based on the cyclen macrocycle. Each complex incorporates a tetraazatriphenylene moiety and overall absolute emission quantum yiel…
We present an overview of template synthesis as it applies to our nanomaterials research. This bottom-up approach is motivated by our desire to find an alternative to the big, top-down approaches to nanoscience, such as clean-rooms and X-ray lithography. Using universally available templates and materials, and very mo…
Transmetallation reaction between hydrophobized silver nanoparticles with hydrophobized chloroaurate and chloroplatinate ions in chloroform results in the formation of hollow gold and platinum shell nanoparticles respectively.
With the increasing of electromagnetic pollution and the widely use of commercial and military products, there is an increasing interest in electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding. This paper mainly aims at electrical conductivity and EMI shielding effectiveness (SE) of the conducting composites made from silicon…
The performances of anode-supported solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) utilizing a -containing ferritic stainless steel (Crofer22 APU) as the cathode current collector were assessed. Three cathodes were considered: , , and (all samples incorporated a -doped interlayer between the cathode and the thin-film yttria-stablized…
An in situ colorimetric method, based on the CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage) system of colorimetry, has been successfully applied to the study of electrochromism in electrochemically deposited films of Prussian blue (iron(III) hexacyanoferrate(II), PB) on transmissive ITO/glass substrates for the first…
We investigated the effect of cold working on the elastic properties of a newly developed multi-functional β titanium alloy, GUM METAL, using in-situ XRD and EBSP analysis. Mechanical and physical properties are changed dramatically by cold working. The alloy has a low elastic modulus (40 GPa), high strength (more tha…
The hydrogen storage characteristics of thin film MgX compounds were investigated electrochemically. The successful preparation of these metastable, crystalline single-phase, MgX compounds was achieved by means of electron-beam deposition at room temperature. The reversible hydrogen storage capacity of these compounds…
The highly siliceous cell walls of diatoms are probably the most outstanding examples of nanostructured materials in nature. Previous in vitro experiments have shown that the biomolecules found in the cell walls of diatoms, namely polyamines and silaffins, are capable of catalysing the formation of silica nanospheres…
Many optical diagnostic approaches rely on changes in scattering and absorption properties to generate optical contrast between normal and diseased tissue. Recently, there has been increasing interest in using exogenous agents to enhance this intrinsic contrast with particular emphasis on the development for targeting…