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We demonstrate that an increase of the molecular mass of a cylinder-forming PS-PMMA block copolymer (BCP), and thus the Flory-Huggins interaction strength N, allows us to robustly form surface patterns having the technologically interesting perpendicular
Debra J. Audus, Ahmed M. Hassan, Edward J. Garboczi, Jack F. Douglas
With advances in anisotropic particle synthesis, particle shape is now a feasible parameter for tuning suspension properties. However, there is a need to determine how these newly synthesized particles affect suspension properties and a need to solve the
Purification of single-chirality single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)from their synthetic mixture is a prerequisite for many applications. DNA-controlled carbon nanotube (CNT) purification has evolved over a decade along with other separation techniques
Hui Gui, Jason K. Streit, Jeffrey Fagan, Angela R. Hight Walker, Chongwu Zhou, Ming Zheng
This work expands the redox chemistry of single-wall carbon nanotube (SWCNT) by investigating its role in a number of SWCNT sorting processes. Using a polyethylene glycol (PEG)/dextran (DX) aqueous two-phase system, we show that electron-transfer reaction
Edward Garboczi, Aaron Forster, Jan Miller, Chen-Luh Lin, Cesar Chan, Kumar Natesaiyer, David Song, Suman Sinha-Ray
A combined computational/experimental materials science technique was developed for acquiring the structure of a rigid organic foam (ROHACELL) using X-ray computed tomography with appropriate image analysis, computing the elastic moduli using large-scale
Robert R. Keller, Katherine P. Rice, Mark Stoykovich
Transmission electron backscatter diffraction (t-EBSD), also known as transmission electron forward scatter diffraction (t-EFSD) or transmission Kikuchi diffraction in the SEM (TKD-SEM), can provide significant improvements in spatial resolution over
As part of an international project to benchmark facilities for measuring the strain dependence of critical current in ITER Nb 3Sn strands, direct measurement of local strain exerted on Nb 3Sn filaments was attempted at cryogenic temperature by means of
Riu Dong, Yanjun Fang, Jungseok Chae, Jun Dai, Zhengguo Xiao, Qingfeng Dong, Yongbo Yuan, Andrea Centrone, Xiaocheng Zeng, Jinsong Huang
Methylammonium lead triiodide (CH3NH3PbI3) perovskite is an emerging low-cost, solution processable material which attracts great interest for enabling the fabrication of high performance optoelectronic devices such as solar cells, room temperature lasers
Jack F. Douglas, Beatriz Betancourt, Paul Hanakata, Francis W. Starr
The study of glass-formation is largely framed by semi-empirical models that emphasize the importance of emergent material elasticity, progressively growing cooperative motion accompanying the drop of cofigurational entropy or the vanishing of accessible
Flexible polyurethane foam (PUF) is coated by layer-by-layer (LbL) assembly using branched polyethyleneimine (BPEI), poly(acrylic acid) (PAA), and two different charged nanoparticles, such as sodium montmorillonite (Na-MMT) and layered double hydroxide
Ana Trapote-Barreira, Lionel Porcar, Jordi Cama, J. M. Soler, Andrew J. Allen
Flow-through experiments were conducted to study the calcium-silicate-hydrate (C-S-H) gel dissolution kinetics under a CO2-free atmosphere at room temperature (22 ± 2) ºC in the pH range from 10 to 13 relevant to cement media. During C-S-H gel dissolution
Rick D. Davis, Yu-Chin Li, Michelle R. Gervasio, Yeon S. Kim
In this manuscript, natural materials were combined into a single pot to produce flexible, highly fire resistant, and bioinspired coatings on flexible polyurethane foam (PUF). In one step, PUF was coated with a fire protective layer constructed of a
Shonali Nazare, Christopher W. Meyer, Daniel M. Madrzykowski
Firefighters working inside a burning structure often experience burns related to hot water vapor inside firefighter protective clothing (FFPC). For these burns to occur, the water vapor is heated by the high temperatures outside the FFPC and it diffuses
Thermomechanical processes such as fatigue and shock have been suggested to cause and contribute to rock breakdown on Earth, and on other planetary bodies, particularly airless bodies in the inner solar system. In this study, we modeled grain-scale
Although we often think about crystalline materials in terms of highly organized arrays of atoms, molecules or even colloidal particles, many of the important properties of this diverse class of materials relating to their catalytic behavior, thermodynamic
Katherine P. Rice, Stephen E. Russek, Roy H. Geiss, Justin Shaw, Robert J. Usselman, Eric R. Evarts, Thomas J. Silva, Hans Nembach, Elke Arenholz, Yves U. Idzerda
High quality 5 nm cubic Tb-doped magnetite nanoparticles have been synthesized by a modified wet-chemical method to investigate tailoring of magnetic properties for imaging and biomedical applications. We show that the Tb is incorporated into the
Andrew J. Allen, Janos Hajdu, Anke R. Kaysser-Pyzalla
It is now one year since all International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) journals became online only, and this is just one of the developments during the International Year of Crystallography, IYCr 2014. Perhaps, most conspicuously, IUCrs new flagship
Shonali Nazare, William M. Pitts, Szabolcs Matko, Rick D. Davis
This study reports on the smoldering propensity of commercially available barrier fabrics (BFs) in a small-scale mock-up configuration. Most BFs are smolder resistant when tested alone over a standard flexible polyurethane foam (FPUF). However, when
Shonali Nazare, William M. Pitts, Szabolcs Matko, Rick D. Davis
This study reports on the smoldering propensity of commercially available barrier fabrics (BFs) in a small-scale upholstered seating mock-up configuration. Most commercially available BFs are smolder resistant when tested alone over a standard flexible
Ziyao Zhou, Morgan Trassin, Ya Gao, Yuan Gao, Diana Qiu, Khalid Ashraf, Tianxiang Nan, Xi Yang, Samuel R. Bowden, Daniel T. Pierce, Mark D. Stiles, John Unguris, Ming Liu, Brandon Howe, Gail Brown, Sayeef Salahuddin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Nian Sun
A question of fundamental importance in multiferroic materials, such as BiFeO3, is whether the canted moment arising from the Dzyalozhinski-Moriya coupling is switchable with the application of an electric field. Since this canted moment is weak, directly
Nichole Nadermann, Edwin P. Chan, Christopher M. Stafford
We study the water transport and swelling properties of an ultrathin polyamide selective layer with a hydroxyl-rich polymer coating, i.e., a polymer bilayer, using quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation (QCM-D). Specifically, we use QCM-D to measure
Ratan K. Debnath, Ting Xie, Baomei Wen, Wei Li, Abhishek Motayed, Nhan V. Nguyen
This paper presents a high efficiency heterojunction p-NiO/n-ZnO thin film ultraviolent (UV) photodetector fabricated on conductive glass substrates. The devices are fabricated by using a simple spin-coating layer-by-layer method from precursor solutions
Hyunbok Lee, Egle Puodziukynaite, Dean DeLongchamp, Todd Emrick, Alejandro Briseno
We demonstrate the use of poly(sulfobetaine methacrylate) (PSBMA), and its pyrene-containing copolymer, as solution-processable work function reducers for inverted organic electronic devices. A notable feature of PSBMA is its orthogonal solubility relative
Zhen-Hua Ge, Kaya Wei, Hutton Lewis, Joshua Martin, George S. Nolas
A simple hydrothermal approach was employed to synthesize SnSe nanorods. Micro sized flower shaped crystals were obtained under reaction temperatures below 180°C and nanorods were obtained at a reaction temperature of 180°C, the "flowers" changed to rods