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Rheology of ballistic clay: the effect of temperature and shear history

May 9, 2017
Author(s)
Ran Tao, Kirk D. Rice, Aaron M. Forster
Ballistic clay is used as a backing material for standards-based ballistic resistance tests for the purposes of providing a measure of the energy transferred to the body when a threat is defeated. However, this material exhibits complex thermomechanical

Tuning Biocompatible Block Copolymer Micelles by Varying Solvent Composition: Core/Corona Structure and Solvent Uptake

May 4, 2017
Author(s)
Tyler J. Cooksey, Avantika Singh, Kim Mai Le, Shu Wang, Elizabeth Kelley, Lilin He, Sameer Vajjala Kesava, Enrique D. Gomez, Bryce E. Kidd, Louis A. Madsen, Megan L. Robertson
The structural properties and solvent uptake of biocompatible poly(ethylene oxide-b/}-ε-caprolactone) (PEO-PCL) diblock copolymers in deuterated water (D 2O)/tetrahydrofuran (THF d8) mixtures were investigated with a combination of small-angle neutron

Physical properties of madocite: A quaternary chalcogenide with very low thermal conductivity

April 25, 2017
Author(s)
Kaya Wei, Joshua B. Martin, Satofumi Maruyama, Lukasz Wojtas, Takao Mori, George S. Nolas
The madocite Pb17(Sb0.75As0.25)16S41 was synthesized by reaction of binary compounds and densified using hot pressing. The optical band-gap, thermal stability, and temperature-dependent heat capacity and thermal conductivity are reported for the first time

Using Terahertz Waves to Identify the Presence of Goethite via Antiferromagnetic Resonance

April 24, 2017
Author(s)
Edward J. Garboczi, David F. Plusquellic, Robert D. McMichael, Virgil Provenzano, Paul E. Stutzman, Jack T. Surek, Shin G. Chou, Shuangzhen Wang
Virtually every corrosion detection method reports only the presence of a material phase denoting probable corrosion, not its spectral signature. A signature specific to the type of iron oxide corrosion would not only confirm the presence of corrosion but

Diffusion of water in silica in the absence of stresses

April 21, 2017
Author(s)
Sheldon M. Wiederhorn
In this paper we consider the diffusion of water vapour into silica glass at relatively low temperatures, 25°C to ≈500°C. Extensive studies of such diffusion by others have shown that water diffusion from inert gases behaves differently than diffusion from

CH3NH3PbI3 perovskites: Ferroelasticity revealed

April 14, 2017
Author(s)
Evgheni Strelcov, Qingfeng Dong, Tao Li, Jungseok Chae, Yuchuan Shao, Yehao Deng, Alexei Gruveman, Jinsong Huang, Andrea Centrone
Ferrolectricity has been proposed as a plausible meachanism to explain the high photovoltaic conversion efficiency in organic-inorganic perovskites; however, convincing experimental evidence in support to this hypothesis is still missing. Identifying and

Dielectric Characterization of Confined Water in Chiral Cellulose Nanocrystal Films

April 10, 2017
Author(s)
Bharath N. Natarajan, Caglar Emiroglu, Jan Obrzut, Douglas M. Fox, Beatriz Pazmino, Jack F. Douglas, Jeffrey W. Gilman
A known deterrent to a large scale development and use of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) is their affinity for moisture, which has a profound effect on dispersion, wetting, interfacial adhesion, matrix crystallization and water uptake. To quantify the

BC8 Silicon (Si-III) is a narrow-gap semiconductor

April 7, 2017
Author(s)
Haidong Zhang, Hanyu Liu, Kaya Wei, Oleksandr Kurakevych, Zhenxian Liu, Yann Godec, Joshua B. Martin, Michael Guerrette, George S. Nolas, Timothy A. Strobel
Large-volume, phase-pure synthesis of BC8 silicon (Ia3 ̅, cI16) has enabled bulk measurements of optical, electronic and thermal properties. Unlike previous reports that conclude BC8-Si is semimetallic, we demonstrate that this phase is a direct band gap

Small Particle Driven Chain Disentanglements in Polymer Nanocomposites

April 5, 2017
Author(s)
Erkan NMN Senses, Siyam M. Ansar, Christopher L. Kitchens, Yimin NMN Mao, Suresh Narayanan, Bharath NMN Natarajan, Antonio Faraone
Using neutron spin-echo spectroscopy, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and bulk rheology, we studied the effect of particle size on the single chain dynamics, particle mobility, and bulk viscosity in athermal polyethylene oxide-gold nanoparticle

Structural Polymorphism in "Kesterite" Cu 2 ZnSnS 4 : Raman Spectroscopy and First-principles Calculations Analysis

March 20, 2017
Author(s)
Mirjana NMN Dimitrievska, Federica Boero, Alexander P. Litvinchuk, Simona Delsante, Gabriella Borzone, Alejandro Perez-Rodriguez, Victor Izquierdo-Roca
This work presents a comprehensive analysis of the structural and vibrational properties of the kesterite Cu 2ZnSnS 4 (CZTS, I-4 space group) as well as its polymorphs with the space group P-42c and P-42m, from both experimental and theoretical point of

29Si NMR and SAXS investigation of the hybrid organic-inorganic glasses obtained by consolidation of the melting gels

March 15, 2017
Author(s)
Andrei Jitianu, Sylvian Cadars, Fan Zhang, Gabriela Rodriguez, Quentin Picard, Mario Aparicio, Jadra Mosa, Lisa C. Klein
This study is focused on structural characterization of hybrid glasses obtained by consolidation of melting gels. The melting gels were prepared in molar ratios of methyltriethoxysilane (MTES) and dimethyldiethoxysilane (DMDES) of 75%MTES-25%DMDES and 65

PEE-PEO Block Copolymer Exchange Rate Between Mixed Micelles is Detergent and Temperature Activated

March 10, 2017
Author(s)
Allen B. Schantz, Patrick O. Saboe, Ian T. Sines, Hee-Young Lee, Kyle J. M. Bishop, Janna K. Maranas, Paul Butler, Manish Kumar
We examine the kinetics of polymer chain exchange between mixed polymer-detergent micelles, a system relevant to the synthesis of protein-containing biomimetic membranes. Although chain exchange between polymer aggregates in water occurs too slowly to

Comparison of 2-D and 3-D shape analysis of concrete aggregate fines from VSI crushing

March 1, 2017
Author(s)
Edward J. Garboczi, Kenneth A. Snyder, Rolands Cepuritis, Stefan Jacobsen
The shape of concrete aggregate fines, with particle sizes between 3 µm and 250 µm, produced by high-speed vertical shaft impact (VSI) crushing of 10 different rock types from quarries in Norway, has been studied by both dynamic image analysis (DIA), which

Lateral Magnetically Modulated Multilayers by Combining Ion Implantation and Lithography

March 1, 2017
Author(s)
Enric Menendez, Hiwa Modarresi, Claire Petermann, Josep Nogues, Neus Domingo, Haoliang Liu, Brian Kirby, Amir Syed Mohd, Zahir Salhi, Earl Babcock, Stefan Mattauch, Chris Van Haesendonck, Andre Vantomme, Kristiaan Temst
The combination of lithography and ion implantation is demonstrated to be a suitable method to prepare lateral multilayers. A laterally, compositionally and magnetically, modulated microscale patter consisting of alternating C (1.6υm-wide) and Co-CoO (2
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