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When increasing EGR from low levels to a level that corresponds to low temperature combustion, soot emissions initially increase due to lower soot oxidation before decreasing to almost zero due to very low soot formation. At the EGR level where soot emissions start to increase, the NOx emissions are low, but not suffi…
Our research objective is to clarify the effect of the utilization of diesel fuels made from unconventional petroleum sources (GTL, Tar Sand, etc.) on the latest vehicle‛s emission and performance. The target properties studied are mainly cetane number and cyclic compounds. Two diesel vehicles and one engine were used…
A monolithically integrated micro-optical element consisting of a diffractive optical element (DOE) and a silicon-based 45 degrees micro-reflector is experimentally demonstrated to facilitate the optical alignment of non-coplanar fiber-to-fiber coupling. The slanted 45 degrees reflector with a depth of 216 microm is f…
An analysis of the increase in the beam-propagation factor, M2, of a higher order transverse mode beam caused by quartic phase aberration after transmission through a spherically aberrated lens is reported. The analysis shows that for a given beam size, the increase in the M2 parameter is less for a higher order trans…
Abstract We have studied the effect of the trimethylaluminum (TMA) precursor on the reduction of surface “native” oxides from GaAs substrates using medium energy ion scattering spectroscopy (MEIS), X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and electrical measurements. Our data show that after one single TMA pulse a subst…
Abstract The increasing use of plastics and their nonbiodegradability have raised environmental awareness and hence there is a need for the development of environmentally friendly degradable materials. One of the ways to reach this goal is via the modification of the synthetic polymer, modified polyethylene (MPE), wit…
This paper reports on experimental investigation of diesel combustion and exhaust emissions with Fischer-Tropsch (F-T) - biodiesel (BD) blended fuels. F-T fuel was used as a reference fuel for its superior properties to diesel fuel (DF). BD from non-edible jatropha oil was blended with F-T fuel. Using non-edible jatro…
We report here the direct observation of high resolution structures of assemblies of Alzheimer beta-amyloid oligomers and monomers using liquid atomic force microscopy (AFM). Visualization of nanoscale features of Abeta oligomers (also known as ADDLs) was carried out in tapping mode AFM in F12 solution. Our results in…
A systematic investigation of the structures and the dependence of the dipole polarizabilities on the composition of closed and open shell gallium arsenic clusters is presented. Our investigation focuses on nine gallium arsenide (GaAs) clusters with five and six total number of atoms of systematically varying composit…
The c-subunit of the enzyme, ATP synthase couples the proton movement through the a-subunit with its own rotation and subsequent rotation of the F1 ring to drive ATP synthesis. Here, we perform mus time-scale coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations of the c-subunit to characterize its structure and dynamics. Two…
The CRC Fuels for Advanced Combustion Engines working group has worked to identify a matrix of research diesel fuels for use in advanced combustion research applications. Nine fuels were specified and formulated to investigate the effects of cetane number aromatic content and 90% distillation fraction. Standard ASTM a…
Field-driven domain-wall motion and pinning in notched Permalloy nanowires have been observed using electron holography and Lorentz microscopy. Transverse domain walls (TDWs) were identified and different aspects of their behavior, including nucleation, injection, pinning, and depinning, were studied. The relative chi…
Advanced integration technologies enable the construction of Network-on-Chip (NoC) from two dimensions to three dimensions. Studies have shown that 3D NoCs can improve average communication performance because of the possibility of using the additional dimension to shorten communication distance. In this paper, we pre…
Metal organic fluorescent and phosphorescent emitters are widely used in organic light emitting devices (OLEDs). Iridium-based triplet emitters are known to undergo chemical reactions with other materials during OLED aging. The material tris(8-hydroxy-quinolinato)aluminum (Alq3), which is widely used as electron trans…
The present study describes the designed synthesis, X-ray structures, and magnetic properties of two 3D cyano-bridged heterobimetallic tungsten/molybdenum(IV)−copper(II) MOFs, {[μ 4 -M(CN) 8 ]Cu 2 (DPP) 4 } n (M = W 1, Mo 2; DPP = 1,3-Di(4-pyridyl)propane). Both MOFs 1 and 2 were constructed by interdiffusion approach…
Reaction mechanism for tautomerization process of a single naphthalocyanin molecule has been studied using density functional theory. It is found that tautomerization of the naphthalocyanin molecule is not a concerted reaction, but a step-wise process in that one hydrogen atom transfers after another. A stable interme…
Recent developments in diesel fuel injection equipment coupled with moves to using ULSD and biodiesel blends has seen an increase in the number of reports, from both engine manufacturers and fleet operators, regarding fuel system deposit issues. Preliminary work performed to characterise these deposits showed them to…
In this letter, we present a simple one-step, versatile, scalable chemical vapor deposition (CVD)-based process for the encapsulation and stabilization of a host of single or multicomponent supramolecular assemblies (proteoliposomes, microbubbles, lipid bilayers, and photosynthetic antennae complexes and other biologi…
Excitation energy transfer from host to guest is studied in spin-cast blends of 4,4′-bis(N-carbazolyl)biphenyl (CBP) and a phosphorescent fac-tris(2-phenylpyridyl)iridium(III)-cored dendrimer using time resolved fluorescence. The kinetics of energy transfer are consistent with homogeneous dispersion of the dendrimers…
We report the scaling behavior of Barkhausen avalanches [H. Barkhausen, Z. Phys. 20, 401 (1919).] along the hysteresis loop of a CoCrPt alloy film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy for every field step of 200 Oe. Individual Barkhausen avalanches are directly observed via soft x-ray microscopy with a spatial resol…