Keisuke Yamada、Shinya Kasai、Yoshinobu Nakatani 等 7 位作者2007-02-26arXiv
A magnetic vortex is a curling magnetic structure realized in a ferromagnetic disk, which is a promising candidate of a memory cell for future nonvolatile data storage devices. Thus, understanding of the stability and dynamical behaviour of the magnetic vortex is a major requirement for developing magnetic data storag…
Mesoscale and Nanoscale PhysicsMaterials Science
Marek Korkusinski、Irene Puerto Gimenez、Pawel Hawrylak 等 6 位作者2007-02-26arXiv
We analyze theoretically and experimentally the electronic structure and charging diagram of three coupled lateral quantum dots filled with electrons. Using the Hubbard model and real-space exact diagonalization techniques we show that the electronic properties of this artificial molecule can be understood using a set…
Materials ScienceMesoscale and Nanoscale Physics
Stuart Shapiro、P. Vorderwisch、K. Habicht 等 5 位作者2007-02-26Europhysics Letters (EPL)
An inelastic neutron scattering study of the lattice dynamics of the martensite phase of the ferromagnetic shape memory alloy, Ni 2 MnGa, reveals the presence of well-defined phasons associated with the charge density wave (CDW) resulting from Fermi surface (FS) nesting. The velocity and the temperature dependence of…
Shape Memory Alloy TransformationsOrganic and Molecular Conductors ResearchMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials
Khalid Saeed、Soo‐Young Park2007-02-26Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abstract Multiwalled carbon nanotube/polycaprolactone nanocomposites (MWNT/PCL) were prepared by in situ polymerization, whereby as‐received MWNTs (P‐MWNTs) and purified MWNTs (A‐MWNTs) were used as reinforcing materials. The A‐MWNTs were purified by nitric acid treatment, which introduced the carboxyl groups (COOH) o…
Conducting polymers and applicationsCarbon Nanotubes in CompositesPolymer Nanocomposites and Properties
Michael Schäferling、Otto S. Wolfbeis2007-02-26Chemistry - A European Journal
The determination of enzyme activities and the screening of enzyme regulators is a major task in clinical chemistry and drug development. A broad variety of enzymatic reactions is associated with the consumption of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), including, in particular, phosphorylation reactions catalyzed by kinases,…
Lanthanide and Transition Metal ComplexesMetal complexes synthesis and propertiesSynthesis and Reactivity of Heterocycles
K. H. Michel、B. Verberck、M. Hulman 等 5 位作者2007-02-26arXiv
The superposition of the quantum rotational motion (tunneling) of the encapsulated Sc2C2 complex with the classical rotational motion of the surrounding C84 molecule in a powder crystal of Sc2C2@C84 fullerite is investigated by theory. Since the quantum rotor is dragged along by the C84 molecule, any detection method…
Materials Science
Yoong Ahm Kim、Shingo Kamio、Takeyuki Tajiri 等 8 位作者2007-02-26Applied Physics Letters
The authors report a significant enhancement in the thermal conductivity of a conventional carbon fiber/phenolic resin composite system when adding highly crystalline multiwalled carbon nanotubes. They demonstrate that 7wt% of carbon nanotubes dispersed homogeneously in a phenolic resin acted as an effective thermal b…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesFiber-reinforced polymer compositesThermal properties of materials
K. Ramesha、A. Llobet、Thomas Proffen 等 5 位作者2007-02-26Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
Using high-resolution neutron powder diffraction we have determined the average and local structure of YCrO 3 in order to explain the recently reported properties of YCrO 3 . Unlike conventional ferroelectric systems, YCrO 3 is reported to possess a centrosymmetric crystal structure which is inconsistent with the deve…
Multiferroics and related materialsMagnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materialsAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics
Zhimou Yang、Gaolin Liang、Manlung Ma 等 5 位作者2007-02-26Small
A precursor of a β-peptide derivative transforms into a hydrogelator and forms supramolecular hydrogels upon phosphatase-catalyzed dephosphorylation. This new strategy works in vitro and in vivo (see image). The enzymatic hydrogelation in vivo indicates that the β-peptide-based hydrogel exhibits a longer lifetime than…
Chemical Synthesis and AnalysisAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Nobuo Ogata、Shinji Yamaguchi、Naoki Shimada 等 7 位作者2007-02-26Journal of Applied Polymer Science
Abstract A new melt‐electrospinning system equipped with a CO 2 ‐laser melting device was developed. Rod‐like samples were prepared from poly(lactide) pellets, and then fibers were produced from the samples using the new system. The effects of producing conditions on the fiber diameter were investigated. Furthermore,…
Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationAdvanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
Patrick H. -L. Sit、Christophe Bellin、Bernardo Barbiellini 等 8 位作者2007-02-26arXiv
A direct measure of hydrogen bonding in water under conditions ranging from the normal state to the supercritical regime is derived from the Compton scattering of inelastically-scattered X-rays. First, we show that a measure of the number of electrons $n_e$ involved in hydrogen bonding at varying thermodynamic conditi…
Soft Condensed MatterMaterials Science
E. Meloche、M. L. Plumer、C. M. Pinciuc2007-02-26arXiv
Results are presented for spin-wave dispersions in geometrically frustrated stacked triangular antiferromagnets with a thin film or semi-infinite geometry having either zero, easy-plane, or easy-axis anisotropy. Surface effects on the equilibrium spin configurations and excitation spectrum are investigated for the cas…
Materials Science
Hans-Joachim Fitting、Vsevolod S. Kortov、Guillaume Petite2007-02-26arXiv
Low-energy electrons scattered in the conduction band of a dielectric solid should behave like Bloch electrons and will interact with perturbations of the atomic lattice, i.e. with phonons. Thus the phonon-based description of low-energy scattering within an energy band structure of a solid bears certain advantages ag…
Materials Science
I. H. Inoue、S. Yasuda、H. Akinaga 等 4 位作者2007-02-26arXiv
Exotic features of a metal/oxide/metal (MOM) sandwich, which will be the basis for a drastically innovative nonvolatile memory device, is brought to light from a physical point of view. Here the insulator is one of the ubiquitous and classic binary-transition-metal oxides (TMO), such as Fe2O3, NiO, and CoO. The sandwi…
Materials ScienceStrongly Correlated Electrons
A. Al Salman、Andreas Tortschanoff、M. B. Mohamed 等 6 位作者2007-02-26Applied Physics Letters
The temperature dependence of the absorption and fluorescence spectra of colloidal CdSe nanocrystals was compared for three different shapes (dots, rods, and tetrapods) in the range of 4–300K. While the shift of the fluorescence maximum indicates little dependence on the shape, the authors find that the broadening of…
Chalcogenide Semiconductor Thin FilmsQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesNanocluster Synthesis and Applications
Baratunde A. Cola、Xianfan Xu、Timothy S. Fisher2007-02-26Applied Physics Letters
The thermal performance of an interface material comprised of a metal foil with dense, vertically oriented carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays synthesized on both of its surfaces is characterized for rough and smooth interfaces. The CNT/foil deforms in the interfaces by two mechanisms, CNT deformation and foil deformation, t…
Carbon Nanotubes in CompositesThermal properties of materialsGraphene research and applications
Yaping Dan、Yanyan Cao、Tom E. Mallouk 等 5 位作者2007-02-26arXiv
We measured the electronic properties and gas sensing response of nanowires containing segments of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)/poly(styrenesulfonate) (PEDOT/PSS) that were synthesized using anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) membranes. The nanowires have a "striped" structure of gold-PEDOT/PSS-gold and are typically 8 u…
Materials Science
Xibo Li、Hongyan Wang、Yang Xiang-Dong 等 5 位作者2007-02-26The Journal of Chemical Physics
The structures and stabilities of gold clusters with up to 14 atoms have been determined by density-functional theory. The structure optimizations and frequency analysis are performed with the Perdew-Wang 1991 gradient-corrected functional combined with the effective core potential and corresponding valence basis set…
Catalytic Processes in Materials ScienceNanocluster Synthesis and Applicationsnanoparticles nucleation surface interactions
Minoru Eto、Toshiaki Fujimori、Takayuki Nagashima 等 6 位作者2007-02-26arXiv
U(Nc) gauge theory with Nf fundamental scalars admits BPS junctions of domain walls. When the networks/webs of these walls contain loops, their size moduli give localized massless modes. We construct Kahler potential of their effective action. In the large size limit Kahler metric is well approximated by kinetic energ…
astro-phhep-thMaterials Science
Nicola Manini、Marco Cesaratto、Giuseppe E. Santoro 等 5 位作者2007-02-26arXiv
We analyze in some detail the recently discovered velocity quantization phenomena in the classical motion of an idealized one-dimensional solid lubricant, consisting of a harmonic chain interposed between two periodic sliders. The ratio w = v_cm/v_ext of the chain center-of-mass velocity to the externally imposed rela…
Materials Science