Isao Yamamoto et al2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The physical properties of agarose gel prepared under strong magnetic fields were investigated. The storage modulus was measured by the reflection method with an ultrasonic pulse. The measurement results of the gel's elasticity indicate that agarose gel has anisotropic properties. The elasticity and its anisotropy dep…
H H Rose2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
During recent years, the theory of charged particle optics together with advances in fabrication tolerances and experimental techniques has lead to very significant advances in high-performance electron microscopes. Here, we will describe which theoretical tools, inventions and designs have driven this development. We…
Zi R Yang et al2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
An in situ titanium trialuminide (Al3Ti)-particle-reinforced magnesium matrix composite has been successfully fabricated by the powder metallurgy of a Mg–Al–Ti system. The reaction processes and formation mechanism for synthesizing the composite were studied by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), x-ray diffractom…
Jun Tang, Zhaofei Li, Jing Ju, Ryotaro Kumashiro, Marcos A. Avila, Kouichirou Suekuni, Toshiro Takabatake, FangZhun Guo, Keisuke Kobayashi, Koji Akai and Katsumi Tanigaki2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Extensive soft x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy studies are performed on Ba8 Ga16 Ge30 (BGG) and Sr8Ga16Ge30 (SGG) single crystals ranging from Fermi to core levels, at a high-energy facility. Valence band x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) experiments with theoretical calculations revealed that the valence band i…
Saburo Takahashi and Sadamichi Maekawa2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Nonlocal spin transport in nanostructured devices with ferromagnetic injector (F1) and detector (F2) electrodes connected to a normal conductor (N) is studied. We reveal how the spin transport depends on interface resistance, electrode resistance, spin polarization and spin diffusion length, and obtain the conditions…
Long Li, Kotobu Nagai and Fuxing Yin2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Layered composite materials have become an increasingly interesting topic in industrial development. Cold roll bonding (CRB), as a solid phase method of bonding same or different metals by rolling at room temperature, has been widely used in manufacturing large layered composite sheets and foils. In this paper, we pro…
Injeti Gurrappa and Leo Binder2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Nanostructured materials have gained importance in recent years due to their significantly enhanced properties. In particular, electrochemistry has a special role in producing a variety of nanostructured materials. In the current review, we discuss the superiority of electrochemical deposition techniques in synthesizi…
Ganapathy Baskaran2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
Last century witnessed the birth of semiconductor electronics and nanotechnology. The physics behind these revolutionary developments is certain quantum mechanical behaviour of 'impurity state electrons' in crystalline 'band insulators', such as Si, Ge, GaAs and GaN, arising from intentionally added (doped) impurities…
Yoshiko Miura et al2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
A glycopolymer carrying trehalose was found to suppress the formation of amyloid fibrils from the amyloid β peptide (1–42) (Aβ), as evaluated by thioflavin T assay and atomic force microscopy. Glycopolymers carrying sugar alcohols also changed the aggregation properties of Aβ, and the inhibitory effect depended on the…
Chao-Hua Xue et al2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
By coating fibers with titania sol to generate a dual-size surface roughness, followed by hydrophobization with stearic acid, 1H,1H,2H,2H-perfluorodecyltrichlorosilane or their combination, hydrophilic cotton fabrics were made superhydrophobic. The surface wettability and topology of cotton fabrics were studied by con…
M Idrish Miah2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
On the basis of a spin drift-diffusion model, we show how the spin current is composed and find that spin drift and spin diffusion contribute additively to the spin current, where the spin diffusion current decreases with electric field while the spin drift current increases, demonstrating that the extension of the sp…
Kazuhiko Iwai, Akbar Eskandarpour, Manabu Usui and Kento Sugiura2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
A force and/or torque are induced in a material under the imposition of a magnetic field. Their magnitudes are different from those acting on the surrounding materials because of the difference in their physical properties. Therefore, a magnetic field is a powerful tool for controlling a second phase in a mother phase…
Roman Morgunov et al2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The Lorentzian and spin-scattering components of magnetoresistance were found and distinguished in Ge:Mn thin films. The suppression of microwave magnetoresistance by the limitation of the dimensionality of Ge nanowires doped with Mn has been revealed. Spin-wave resonance in the long-ordered magnetic state and ferroma…
Miwa Murakami, Tadashi Shimizu, Masataka Tansho and Yoshihiko Takano2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
This review summarizes recent results obtained by 11B solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) on boron-doped diamond, grown by the high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) or chemical vapor deposition techniques. Simple single-pulse experiments as well as advanced two-dimensional NMR experiments were applied to the…
Noriyuki Hirota et al2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
An in situ microscopic observation of the magnetic orientation process of feeble magnetic fibers was carried out under high magnetic fields of up to 10 T using a scanning laser microscope. In the experiment, carbon fibers and needle-like titania fibers with a length of 1 to 20 μm were used. The fibers were observed to…
Mohd Ambri Mohamed, Nobuhito Inami, Eiji Shikoh, Yoshiyuki Yamamoto, Hidenobu Hori and Akihiko Fujiwara2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
We describe an alternative method for realizing a carbon nanotube spin field-effect transistor device by the direct synthesis of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) on substrates by alcohol catalytic chemical vapor deposition. We observed hysteretic magnetoresistance (MR) at low temperatures due to spin-dependent t…
Naima Belayachi et al2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The macroscopic behaviour of rubber-modified polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) was investigated by taking into account the microdeformation mechanisms of rubber cavitation. The dependence of the macroscopic stress–strain behaviour of matrix deformation on the cavitation of rubber particles was discussed. A phenomenologic…
Yaochun Yao et al2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
The conventional method used for glass melting is air-fuel firing, which is inefficient, energy-intensive and time-consuming. In this study, an innovative in-flight melting technology was developed and applied to glass production for the purposes of energy conservation and environmental protection. Three types of heat…
Eric Beaugnon2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
A new mechanism based on the effect of local magnetic forces on diffusing ions around a growing ferromagnetic precipitate is proposed. A 3D simulation based only on physical parameters is undertaken in which main assumption is of interface limited growth controlled by the effect of both curvature and local magnetic fi…
Wei He, Sanjeev D Bhole and DaoLun Chen2008-01-01Science and Technology of Advanced Materials
A model was developed to describe the grain size dependence of hardness (or strength) in nanocrystalline materials by combining the Hall–Petch relationship for larger grains with a coherent polycrystal model for nanoscale grains and introducing a log-normal distribution of grain sizes. The transition from the Hall–Pet…