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Dynamics of Hydride Ions in Metal Hydride-Reduced BaTiO 3 Samples Investigated with Quasielastic Neutron Scattering

January 31, 2019
Author(s)
Carin Eklof-Osterberg, Reji Nedumkandathil, Ulrich Haussermann, Aleksander Jaworski, Andrew J. Pell, Madhu Sudan Tyagi, Niina H. Jalarvo, Bernhard Frick, Antonio Faraone, Maths Karlsson
Perovskite-type oxyhydrides, BaTiO 3-xH^ x, have been recently shown to exhibit hydride ion (H -) conductivity at elevated temperatures, but the underlying mechanism of hydride ion conduction and how it depends on temperature and oxygen vacancy

Understanding Material Characteristics through Signature Traits from He Pycnometry

January 30, 2019
Author(s)
Huong Giang T. Nguyen, Jarod C. Horn, Matthew Bleakney, Daniel W. Siderius, Laura Espinal
Although helium pycnometry is generally the method of choice for skeletal density measurements of porous materials, few studies have provided a wide range of case studies that demonstrate how to best interpret raw data and perform measurements using it

Structural, chemical, electrical and thermal properties of n-type NbFeSb

January 26, 2019
Author(s)
Dean Hobbis, Raphael P. Hermann, Hsin Wang, David S. Parker, Tribhuwan Pandey, Joshua B. Martin, Katharine L. Page, George S. Nolas
We report on the structural, chemical, electrical and thermal properties of n-type polycrystalline NbFeSb synthesized by induction melting of the elements. Although several studies on p-type conduction of this half-Heusler composition have recently been

Bottom-up Copper Filling of Millimeter Size Through Silicon Vias

January 12, 2019
Author(s)
Daniel Josell, Thomas P. Moffat, Lyle Menk, Andrew Hollowell, M Blain
This work demonstrates void-free Cu filling of millimeter size Through Silicon Vias (mm-TSV) in an acid copper sulfate electrolyte using a combination of a polyoxamine suppressor and chloride, analogous to previous work filling TSV that were an order of

In Situ Characterization of the Microstructural Evolution of Biopharmaceutical Solid-State Formulations with Implications for Protein Stability

January 7, 2019
Author(s)
Stijn H.S. Koshari, Purnendu K. Nayak, Shalini Burra, Isidro E. Zarraga, Karthikan Rajagopal, Yun Liu, Norman J. Wagner, Abraham M. Lenhoff
Lyophilized and spray-dried biopharmaceutical formulations are used to provide long-term stability for storage and transport, but questions remain about the molecular structure in these solid formulations and how this structure may be responsible for

Near-Surface Elemental Analysis of Solids by Neutron Depth Profiling

December 31, 2018
Author(s)
Jamie Weaver, Robert Gregory Downing
Neutron Depth Profiling (NDP) is an analytical nuclear technique for the determination of elemental mass as a function of depth into a sample's surface. It is suitable for characterizing a few select elements in most solid materials to depths of

Boehmite and Gibbsite Nanoplates for the Synthesis of Advanced Alumina Products

December 28, 2018
Author(s)
Xin Zhang, Patricia L. Huestis, Carolyn I. Pearce, Jian Zhi Hu, Katharine Page, Lawrence M Anovitz, Alexandr B. Aleksandrov, Micah P. Prange, Sebastien Kerisit, Mark E. Bowden, Wenwen Cui, Zheming Wang, Nicholas R. Jaegers, Trent R. Graham, Mateusz Dembowski, Hsiu-Wen Wang, Jue Liu, Alpha T. N'Diaye, Markus Bleuel, David F. Mildner, Thomas M. Orlando, Greg A. Kimmel, Jay A. La Verne, Sue B. Clark, Kevin M. Rosso
Boehmite (γ-AlOOH) and gibbsite (α-A;(OH) 3) are important archetype (oxy)hydroxides of aluminum in nature that also play diverse roles across a plethora of industrial applications. As a consequence, highly precise synthesis of these pure phases with

Effects of Ionic Strength, Salt, and pH on Aggregation of Boehmite Nanocrystals: Tumbler Small-Angle Neutron and X-ray Scattering and Imaging Analysis

December 26, 2018
Author(s)
L. M. Anovitz, X. Zhang, J. Soltis, E. Nakouzi, A. J. Krzysko, J. Chun, G. K. Schenter, T. R. Graham, K. M. Rosso, J. J. De Yoreo, A. G. Stack, Markus Bleuel, Cedric V. Gagnon, David F. Mildner, J. Ilavsky, I. Kuzmenko
The U.S. government currently spends significant resources annually managing the legacies of the Cold War, including 300 million liters of highly radioactive wastes stored in hundreds of tanks at the Hanford Site (WA) and the Savannah River Site (SC). The

Cooperative Dynamics in a Model DPPC Membrane Arise from Membrane Layer Interactions

December 19, 2018
Author(s)
Kiley Kennedy, Neha Shafique, Jack F. Douglas, Francis W. Starr
The dynamics of model membranes can be highly heterogeneous, especially in more ordered dense phases. Experimentally, monolayers are often studied as a model system to infer the properties of membranes. To better understand the origins of this

Super Charge Separation and High Voltage Phase in Na x MnO 2

December 12, 2018
Author(s)
Xi Chen, Yichao Wang, Kamila Wiaderek, Xiahan Sang, Olaf Borkiewicz, Karena Chapman, James LeBeau, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Xin Li
Na xMnO 2 shows Mnu3+^ and Mn^ 4+ charge separation with charge stripe ordering upon Na de-intercalation at x=5/8, similar to many colossal magnetoresistance materials. We show in this paper that, surprisingly, at lower Na compositions of 5/8 >x less than

A simple and robust approach to reducing contact resistance in organic devices

December 3, 2018
Author(s)
Lamport Zachary, Katrina Barth, Hyunsu Lee, Martin Guthold, Iain McCulloch, John E. Anthony, Lee J. Richter, Eliot Gann, Dean DeLongchamp, Oana Jurchescu
Efficient injection of charge carriers from the contacts into the semiconductor layer is crucial for achieving high-performance organic devices. The potential drop necessary to accomplish this process yields a resistance associated with the contacts

Molecular Sieving of Ethylene from Ethane using a Rigid Metal-Organic Framework

November 26, 2018
Author(s)
Rui-Biao Lin, Libo Li, Hao-Long Zhou, Hui Wu, Chaohui He, Shun Li, Rajamani Krishna, Jinping Li, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen
There are great challenges in developing efficient adsorbents to replace currently used and energy-intensive cryogenic distillation processes for olefin/paraffin separations, due to the similar physical properties of the two molecules. We report an

Analysis of Small Angle Neutron Scattering Spectra from Deformed Polymers with Spherical Harmonic Expansion Method and a Network Model

November 13, 2018
Author(s)
Zhi-Yuan Wang, Dejia Kong, Lincan Yang, Hongwei Ma, Fengmei Su, Kanae N. Ito, Yun Liu, Xuewu Wang, Zhe Wang
In this paper, we combine the recently proposed spherical harmonic expansion (SHE) method [Phys. Rev. X 2017, 7, 031003] with a modified network model to analyze the small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) spectra from deformed entangled polymers. Focusing

Hierarchically Patterned Elastomeric and Thermoplastic Polymer Films through Nanoimprinting and Ultraviolet Light Exposure

November 13, 2018
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas, Ying Chen, Manish Kulkarni, Allan Marshall, Alamgir Karim, ZiLu Wang, Xiaoteng Wang, Abdullah Al-Enizi, Ahmed Elzatahry, Andrey V. Dobrynin
We develop a simple and generally applicable method to fabricate hierarchical interfacial patterns in elastomer and thermoplastic polymer films through a combination of nanoimprinting and UVO microlithography. Using this method, tunable and hierarchically

Thermal Pulse for Rapid Surface Processing of Solid-State Electrolytes

November 10, 2018
Author(s)
Chengwei Wang, Hua Xie, Weiwei Ping, Jiaqi Dai, Jamie Weaver, Guolin Feng, Yonggang Yao, Shuaiming He, Howard Wang, Karen Gaskell, Liangbing Hu
Surface contamination and degradation are two main issues leading to performance decay of ceramic-based solid-state electrolytes (SSEs). The typical strategies used to clean surface contaminants and restore ceramic materials involve mechanical polishing or

Control of polarity in multilayer MoTe2 field-effect transistors by channel thickness

November 9, 2018
Author(s)
Albert Davydov, Mona Zaghloul, Sergiy Krylyuk, Ratan K. Debnath, Asha Rani, Kyle J. DiCamillo, Payam Taheri
In this study, electronic properties of field-effect transistors (FETs) fabricated from exfoliated MoTe2 single crystals are investigated as a function of channel thickness. The conductivity type in FETs gradually changes from n-type for thick MoTe2 layers

A Metal?Organic Framework with Suitable Pore Size and Specific Functional Site for the Removal of Trace Propyne from Propylene

November 7, 2018
Author(s)
Libo Li, Hui-Min Wen, Chaohui He, Rui-Biao Lin, Rajamani Krishna, Hui Wu, Wei Zhou, Jinping Li, Banglin Chen
Removal of trace propylene (C 3H 4) from propylene/propyne (C 3H 4/C 3H 6) mixtures is more complicated and challenging than that of acetylene/ethylene (C 2H 2/C 2H 4) in view of their closer molecular sizes and physical properties. Research on C 3H 4C 3H

Tuning the Relaxation of Nano-Patterned Polymer Films with Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles: Observation of Entropy-Enthalpy Compensation

November 6, 2018
Author(s)
Sonal Bhadauriya, Xiaoteng Wang, Jack F. Douglas, Praveen Pitliya, Jianan Zhang, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Michael R. Bockstaller, Christopher Stafford, Alamgir Karim
Polymer films provide a versatile "plastic" material in which complex functional relief patterns can be imprinted with a resolution down to tens of nanometers. However, the utility of such patterned materials is limited by the tendency of imprinted

Tuning the Relaxation of Nanopatterned Polymer Films with Polymer-Grafted Nanoparticles: Observation of EntropyEnthalpy Compensation

November 6, 2018
Author(s)
Jack F. Douglas, Xiaoteng Wang, Sonal Bhadauriya, Ren Zhang, Praveen Pitliya, Dharmaraj Raghavan, Alamgir Karim
We show that the previously observed polymeric clustering of nanoparticles (NPs) with grafted chains within polymer matrices can be pattern-directed by nanoimprinting ultrathin nanocomposite films so that the NPs segregate to thicker film regions where

Chemical Selection of Emission State Configuration in a Quantum Light Emitter

November 1, 2018
Author(s)
Ming Zheng, Geyou Ao, Stephen K. Doorn
Covalently-introduced photoluminescent sp3 defects generate new emitting states and dramatically expand optical functionality of single-wall carbon nanotubes, opening routes to enhanced imaging, photon upconversion, and room-temperature single photon

Compositional Imaging and Analysis of Late Iron Age Glass from the Broborg Vitrified Hillfort, Sweden

October 31, 2018
Author(s)
Jamie Weaver, Scott A. Wight, Carolyn Pearce, John McCloy, Thomas Lam, Rolf Sjoblom, David Peeler, Michael Schweiger, Albert Kruger, Scott Whittaker, Edward Vicenzi
Numerous Iron Age hillforts were constructed throughout Europe on high ground to serve ancient settlements. The edifice walls of a small fraction of hillforts were vitrified as a result of high temperature activity, most likely to reinforce the walls

Ethane/Ethylene Separation in a Metal-Organic Framework with Iron-Peroxo Sites

October 26, 2018
Author(s)
Libo Li, Rui-Biao Lin, Rajamani Krishna, Hao Li, Shengchang Xiang, Hui Wu, Jinping Li, Wei Zhou, Banglin Chen
The separation of ethane from its corresponding ethylene is a very important challenging and energy-intensive process in the chemical industry. Herein we report a microporous metal-organic framework Fe 2(O 2)(dobdc) (dobdc 4-: 2,5-dioxido-1,4
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