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Accelerated Bottom-up Gold Filling of Trenches

July 12, 2019
Author(s)
Daniel Josell, Maureen E. Williams, Stephen J. Ambrozik, Chen Zhang, Thomas P. Moffat
This work extends previously detailed void-free, bottom-up feature filling in a near-neutral Na3Au(SO3)2 + Na2SO3 electrolyte containing micromolar concentrations of Bi. Bottom-up electrodeposition in 17 m and 45 m tall trenches is demonstrated using

Disordered Heterogeneous Materials

July 1, 2019
Author(s)
Andrew J. Allen
This chapter describes the use of diffraction-based methods to characterize amorphous or disordered heterogeneous materials. Quantitative materials microstructure characterization using small-angle scattering methods is emphasized. While these techniques

Characterization of Colloidal Nanocrystal Surface Structure using Small Angle Neutron Scattering and Efficient Bayesian Parameter Estimation

June 28, 2019
Author(s)
Samuel W. Winslow, Wenbi Shcherbakov-Wu, Yun Liu, William A. Tisdale, James W. Swan
Complete structural characterization of colloidal nanocrystals is challenging due to rapid variation in the electronic, vibrational, and elemental properties across the nanocrystal surface. while electron microscopy and X-ray scattering techniques can

Short-Range Charge Density Wave Order in TaS2

June 25, 2019
Author(s)
Jaydeep D. Joshi, Heather M. Hill, Sugata Chowdhury, Christos D. Malliakas, Francesca M. Tavazza, Utpal Chatterjee, Angela R. Hight Walker, Patrick M. Vora
2H-TaS2 undergoes a charge density wave (CDW) transition at T_CDW ~ 75 K, however key questions regarding the onset of CDW order remain under debate. In this study, we explore the CDW transition through a combination of temperature and excitation-dependent

Effects of Field Annealing on MnN/CoFeB Exchange Bias Systems

June 24, 2019
Author(s)
Patrick A Quarterman, I. Hallsteinsen, M. Dunz, M. Meinert, E. Arenholz, Julie A. Borchers, Alexander J. Grutter
We report the effects of nitrogen diffusion on exchange bias in MnN/CoFeB heterostructures as a function of MnN thickness and field annealing temperature. We find that competing effects occur in which high-temperature annealing enhances exchange bias in

Effect of Adjacent Hydrophilic Polymer Thin Films on Physical Aging and Residual Stress in Thin Films of Poly(butylnorbornene-ran-hydroxyhexafluoroisopropyl norbornene)

June 22, 2019
Author(s)
Elizabeth A. Lewis, Christopher Stafford, Bryan D. Vogt
The properties of thin supported polymer films can be dramatically impacted by the substrate upon which it resides. A simple way to alter the properties of the substrate (chemistry, rigidity, dynamics) is by coating it with an immiscible polymer. Here we

Analysis of Different Computational Techniques for Calculating the Polarizability Tensors of Stem Cells with Realistic Three-Dimensional Morphologies

June 21, 2019
Author(s)
Edward Garboczi, Jack Douglas, Beatriz Pazmino, Ahmed M. Hassan, Somen Baidya
Recent advances in synthetic biomaterial microenvironment design has enabled researchers to mimic the natural in vivo environment of the cell and, therefore, quantify the effect of the environment on the morphologies of stem cells. Recently, the National

The Art in Science of MicroTAS 2018

June 21, 2019
Author(s)
Gregory A. Cooksey
The 2018 MicroTAS conference (the 22nd International Conference of Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences) took us to Kaohsiung, Taiwan, for an inspiring mix of science and culture. The Art in Science competition, sponsored by Lab on a Chip

Crystallographic and Optical Properties of Ba(Co1-xZnx)SiO4 (x = 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8)

June 20, 2019
Author(s)
Rola M. Derbeshi, Winnie Wong-Ng, Jude Anike, Wei Fang Liu, Nacole B. King, Shouyu Wang, James A. Kaduk, Yucheng Lan
Structural characterization and X-ray reference powder pattern determination have been condcuted for the Co- and Zn-containing tridymite derivatives Ba(Co1-xZnx)SiO4 (x = 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8). The bright blue series of Ba(Co1-xZnx)SiO4 crystallized in the

An Atom Probe Tomograph Incorporating a Wavelength-Tuneable Femtosecond-Pulsed Coherent Extreme Ultraviolet Light Source

June 19, 2019
Author(s)
Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Luis Miaja Avila, Paul T. Blanchard, David R. Diercks, Brian Gorman, Norman A. Sanford
Pulsed coherent extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation is a potential promising alternative to pulsed infra-red, visible, and near- ultraviolet laser sources for atom probe tomography. In addition to having the benefit of high absorption across the periodic

Bottom-up Gold Filling of High Aspect Ratio Trenches

June 19, 2019
Author(s)
Stephen J. Ambrozik, Thomas P. Moffat, Daniel Josell, Chen Zhang, Houxian Miao
This work demonstrates bottom-up superconformal Au filling of trenches as tall as seventeen micrometers. Deposition is conducted in a near-neutral Na3Au(SO3)2 + Na2SO3 electrolyte containing a micromolar concentration of Bi3+, known to accelerate the Au

Workshop 9: Control Cells or Not

June 17, 2019
Author(s)
Paul Wallace, Jonni S. Moore, Derek Jones, Litwin Virginia, Lili Wang, Yanli Liu
"Control Cells or Not" was an educational workshop that used surveys, lectures, and discussions to identify problems and solutions related to using commercially available control cell products and lab-developed approaches. Collective efforts are proposed

Morphology of a thermally stable small molecule OPV blend comprising a liquid crystalline donor and fullerene acceptor

June 4, 2019
Author(s)
Alexander J. Bourque, Sebastian Engmann, Allison Fuster, Chad R. Snyder, Lee J. Richter, Paul B. Geraghty, David J. Jones
Recently organic photovoltaic (OPV) devices comprising the small molecule liquid-crystalline donor, benzodithiophene-quaterthiophene-rhodanine (BQR), were demonstrated to achieve high performance when thermally processed, avoiding the need for slow-drying

Accelerated Weathering Parameters for Some Aromatic Engineering Thermoplastics

May 24, 2019
Author(s)
Li Piin Sung, James E. Pickett, Olga Kuvshinnikova, Brett Ermi
Samples of polycarbonate (PC), poly(butylene terephthalate) (PBT), a PC/PBT blend, and poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN), all containing 3 % TiO2 (by mass), were exposed in the NIST (National Institutes of Standards and Technology) SPHERE (Simulated

Controlled Growth of Polyamide Films atop Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Hydrogels using Gel- Liquid Interfacial Polymerization

May 22, 2019
Author(s)
Mengyuan Wang, Christopher Stafford, Lewis M. Cox, Adrienne K. Blevins, Masoud Aghajani, Jason Killgore, Yifu Ding
Interfacially polymerized polyamide (PA) layers dictate the permselective performance of thin film composite (TFC) membranes. Extensive effort has been focused on understanding and ultimately controlling the structure and morphology of the PA layers on

Nanoscale Particle Motion Reveals Polymer Mobility Gradient in Nanocomposites

May 21, 2019
Author(s)
Erkan Senses, Suresh Narayanan, Antonio Faraone
Polymer mobility near nanoparticle surfaces has been extensively discussed, however, direct experimental observation in the nanocomposite melts has been a difficult task. Here, by taking advantage of large dynamical asymmetry between miscible matrix and

Stable Postfullerene Solar Cells via Direct C-H Arylation Polymerization. Morphology-Performance Relationships

May 16, 2019
Author(s)
Subhrangsu Mukherjee, Thomas Aldrich, Weigang Zhu, Lee J. Richter, Eliot Gann, Dean DeLongchamp, Antonio Facchetti, Ferdinand Melkonyan, Tobin Marks
The scope of the environmentally benign direct C-H arylation polymerization (DARP) process is validated and significantly extended in the synthesis of a high-performance benzodithiophene- based copolymer series, PBDT(Ar)-FTTE, with previously untested and

Superionic UO2: A Model Anharmonic Crystalline Material

May 7, 2019
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas, Hao Zhang, Xinyi Wang, Alexandros Chremos
Crystalline materials at elevated temperatures and pressures can exhibit properties more reminiscent of simple liquids than ideal crystalline materials, an attribute making these materials useful in diverse applications. Superionic crystalline materials

Understanding the Static Interfacial Polymer Layer by Exploring the Dispersion States of Nanocomposites

May 5, 2019
Author(s)
Anne-Caroline Genix, Vera Bocharova, Bobby Carroll, Michelle Lehmann, Tomonori Saito, Susan T. Krueger, Lilin He, Philippe Dieudonne-George, Alexei P. Sokolov, Julian Oberdisse
The dynamic and static properties of the interfacial region between polymer and nanoparticles have wide-ranging consequences on performances of nanomaterials. The thickness and density of the static layer are particularly difficult to assess experimentally

Magnetic Order Effects on the Electronic Structure of KMMnSd2^ (M=Cu,Li) with the ThCr 2 Si 2 -Type Structure

April 30, 2019
Author(s)
Austin Virtue, Xiuquan Zhou, Brandon Wilfong, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Keith Taddei, Peter Zavalij, Limin Wang, Efrain E. Rodriguez
We propose three magnetic structures for KCuMnS^26 with the ThCr 2Si 2-type structure. Powder samples of KCuMnS 2 and KLiMnS 2 were prepared for structural studies and magnetization measurements. In both compounds, the Mn 2+ site is alloyed by either Cu +

Nanomechanics of cellulose deformation reveal molecular defects that facilitate natural deconstruction

April 29, 2019
Author(s)
Peter Ciesielski, Ryan Wagner, Vivek Bharadwaj, Jason Killgore, Ashutosh Mittal, Gregg Beckham, Stephen Decker, Michael Himmel, Michael Crowley
Technologies surrounding utilization and processing of cellulosic materials have been important to human society for millennia. As with many materials, achieving a molecular-level understanding of the formation, characteristics, and functionality of
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