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Accurate strain measurement for single fibers is critical for many engineering applications. Typically, the crosshead displacement is used to calculate strain when performing mechanical testing, however there are complicating factors: slack in the specimen
Han Li, Christopher Sims, Rui Kang, Frank Biedermann, Jeffrey Fagan, Benjamin Flavel
Sorting single-chirality enantiomers is the ultimate goal for single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) separation. In this work, aqueous two-phase extraction (ATPE) is used to obtain highly purified (>80%) left- and right-handed (6,5) SWCNTs with limited
Nanna Hagstrom, Rahul Jangid, F. N. U. Meera, Diego Turenne, Jeffrey Brock, Erik Lamb, Boyan Stoychev, Justine Schlappa, Natalia Gerasimova, Benjamin Van Kuiken, Rafael Gort, Laurent Mercadier, Loic Le Guyader, Andrey Samartsev, Andreas Scherz, Giuseppe Mercurio, Hermann Durr, Alexander Reid, Monika Arora, Hans Nembach, Justin Shaw, Emmanuelle Jal, Eric Fullerton, Mark Keller, Roopali Kukreja, Stefano Bonetti, Thomas J. Silva, Ezio Iacocca
Symmetry is a powerful concept in physics, but its applicability to far-from-equilibrium states is still being understood. Recent attention has focused on how far-from-equilibrium states lead to spontaneous symmetry breaking. Conversely, ultrafast optical
Linking the physics of the relaxation behavior of visco-elastic fluids as they form arrested gel states to the underlying nano-scale structure and energetic interactions is essential for developing predictive controls. In this study, laponite suspensions
Christopher Rust, Pavel Shapturenka, Manuel Spari, Andreas Bacher, Qihao Jin, Han Li, Markus Guttmann, Ming Zheng, Tehseen Adel, Angela R. Hight Walker, Jeffrey Fagan, Benjamin Flavel
Dead-end filtration on polyvinylpyrrolidone-coated polycarbonate track-etched membranes has proven to be an effective method to prepare macroscopically (3.8 cm²) aligned thin films from solution-based single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). However, to make
Results are reported of an Interlaboratory Comparison between NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, Colorado, USA) and ATMS (Anand Technical Machine Services, Kabnur, India). The study consisted in testing in both locations
Derek Huang, Anthony Kotula, Chad R. Snyder, Kalman Migler
Motivated by the problem of brittle mechanical behavior in recycled blends of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and isotactic polypropylene (iPP), we employ optical microscopy, rheo-Raman, and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) to measure the
Sebastian Schenk, Oliver Krahn, Eric J. Cockayne, Holger Meyerheim, Marc de Boissieu, Stefan Foerster, Wolf Widdra
Dodecagonal oxide quasicrystals are well established as examples of long range aperiodic order in two dimensions. However, despite investigations by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), low-energy electron microscopy
The production and consumption of textile products traditionally follows a largely linear (take, make, use, discard) economic model. Textiles are currently being produced in greater volumes than ever before, even after accounting for population growth, and
Fariborz Kargar, Zahra Barani, Nicholas Sesing, Thuc Mai, Topojit Debnath, Huairuo Zhang, Yuhang Liu, Yanbing Zhu, Subhajit Ghosh, Adam Biacchi, Felipe H. da Jornada, Ludwig Bartels, Tehseen Adel, Angela R. Hight Walker, Albert Davydov, Tina Salguero, Roger Lake, Alexander Balandin
We report the polarization-dependent Raman spectrum of exfoliated MoI3, a van der Waals material with a "true one-dimensional" crystal structure that can be exfoliated to individual atomic chains. The temperature evolution of several Raman features reveals
Uyen Dang, Jake O'Hara, Hayden Evans, Daniel Olds, Juan Chamorro, Daniel Hickox-Young, Geneva Laurita, Robin Macaluso
Lone-pair driven distortions are a hallmark of many technologically-important lead (Pb)-based materials. The role of Pb 2+ in polar perovskites is well understood and easily manipulated for applications in piezo- and ferroelectricity, but the control of
There remains a need for rheological characterization of metal powder used for powder-spreading-based additive manufacturing (AM). Novel powder rheometers introduced to the commercial market for this purpose must be rigorously evaluated for repeatability
Edward Garboczi, Kai Lyu, Yufeng Gao, Changwen Miao, Xiaoyan Liu
Compared with overall air void content and size distribution, the spatial arrangement of air voids is probably of more importance in the durability of cement-based materials subjected to repeated freeze-thaw cycles. In this paper, using X-ray computed
Hayden Evans, Dinesh Mullangi, Zeyu Deng, Yuxiang Wang, Shing B. Peh, Fengxia Wei, John Wang, Craig Brown, Dan Zhao, Pieremanuele Canepa, Anthony K. Cheetham
A combination of gas adsorption and gas breakthrough measurements show that the metal-organic framework, Al(HCOO) 3 (ALF), which can be made inexpensively from commodity chemicals, exhibits excellent CO 2 adsorption capacities and outstanding CO 2/N 2
Alexandros Chremos, Jack F. Douglas, Peter Basser, Ferenc Horkay
Articular cartilage is a composite gel-like material found in animal and human joints and exhibits a unique load-bearing performance that has been challenging to reproduce in synthetic materials and in molecular dynamics simulations. We investigate a
Yaw S. Obeng, Kevin J. Coakley, Pavel Kabos, Stephane Moreau
We develop an empirical model for measured frequency-dependent insertion loss (|S21|). The model parameters are determined with a stochastic optimization implementation of the Leven-berg-Marquard method. We compare measured |S21| on TSV-interconnects from
We have studied the tailored micron-scale phase-separated bulk heterojunction (BHJ) morphology of the well-known polymer (PTB7-Th) and a narrow bandgap acceptor 2,2'-[[4,4,9,9-Tetrakis(4-hexylphenyl)-4,9-dihydro-s-indaceno [1,2-b:5,6-b']dithiophene-2,7
Ruikun Sun, Jie Yang, Yun Liu, Xiaobing Zuo, Andre Lee, Wei Yang, Yangyang Wang, Shiwang Cheng
The relaxation dynamics of deformed polystyrene (PS)/silica nanocomposites with non-attractive polymer-nanoparticle interactions are studied by a combination of small-angle scattering techniques and rheology. Small-angle x-ray scattering measurements and
Dean Hobbis, Kaya Wei, Hsin Wang, Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas
Materials with very low thermal conductivities continue to be of interest for a variety of applications. We synthesized CuSbS2 employing a mechanical alloying technique in order to investigate its physical properties. The trigonal pyramid arrangement of
Lisa Kilpatrick, Roger Bouillon, Clay Davis, Clark Henderson, Andrew N. Hoofnagle, Steven Pauwels, Dirk Vanderschueren, Etienne Waelkens, Hans Wildiers, James H. Yen, Karen W. Phinney
Objectives: Vitamin D-binding protein (VDBP), a serum transport protein for 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D], has three common proteoforms which have co-localized amino acid variations and glycosylation. A monoclonal immunoassay was found to differentially