Small: Vol 21, No 2 - Wiley Online Library
This review covers MXene synthesis, MXene-based nanocomposites, and small molecule oxidations (e.g., methanol, ethanol, furfural, urea, hydrazine, benzyl alcohol, formic acid) as OER alternatives, …
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A tool for generating bacterial genomes from metagenomes with nanopore long read sequencing (⭐ 69)
Dynamics of Coulomb-correlated electron-hole pairs in disordered semiconductor nanowires
The dynamics of optically generated electron-hole pairs is investigated in a disordered semiconductor nanowire. The particle pairs are generated by short laser pulses and their dynamics is followed using the Heisenberg equation of motion. Is is sho...
Silicon Oxide Electron-Emitting Nanodiodes
Electrically driven on-chip electron sources that do not need to be heated have been long pursued because the current thermionic electron sources show the problems of high power consumption, slow temporal response, bulky size, etc., but their realiza...
Ampere - Wikipedia
cA centiampere 102 A hA hectoampere 10−3 A mA milliampere 103 A kA kiloampere 10−6 A μA microampere 106 A MA megaampere 10−9 A nA nanoampere 109 A GA gigaampere
Generator of Neural Network Potential for Molecular Dynamics: Constructing Robust and Accu…
Neural network potentials (NNPs) enable large-scale molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of systems containing >10,000 atoms with the accuracy comparable to ab initio methods and play a crucial role in material studies. Although NNPs are valuable for...
Emergent surface superconductivity of nanosized Dirac puddles in a topological insulator
Surfaces of three-dimensional topological insulators have emerged as one of the most remarkable states of condensed quantum matter1-5 where exotic electronic phases of Dirac particles should arise1,6-8. Here we report a discovery of surface supercond...
Robustness of Majorana modes to potential disorder in Fe chains on a superconducting Rashb…
Majorana modes offer great potential for fault-tolerant quantum computation due to their topological protection. However, for superconductor-semiconductor nanowire hybrids, intrinsic disorder makes the unambiguous detection of Majorana modes difficul...
Nanodomains in biomembranes with recycling
Cell membranes are out of thermodynamic equilibrium notably because of membrane recycling, i.e. active exchange of material with the cytosol. We propose an analytically tractable model of biomembrane predicting the effects of recycling on the size of...
Generalized Kerker Effects in Nanophotonics and Meta-Optics
The original Kerker effect was introduced for a hypothetical magnetic sphere, and initially it did not attract much attention due to a lack of magnetic materials required. Rejuvenated by the recent explosive development of the field of metamaterials...
Circuit with small-capacitance high-quality Nb Josephson junctions
We have developed a fabrication process for nanoscale tunnel junctions which includes focused-ion-beam etching from different directions. By applying the process to a Nb/(Al-)Al_2O_3/Nb trilayer, we have fabricated a Nb single-electron transistor (...
Nanoscale Electrodynamic Response of Nb Superconductors
Our objective is to study the extreme and local electrodynamic properties of Niobium (Nb), and to relate these properties to specific defects that limit the ultimate RF performance of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities made from Nb. Speci...
Generic model for Cooper pair splitting
A superconductor connected to normal leads allows to generate Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen pairs by Cooper pair splitting. It has been realized with quantum dots either defined in carbon nanotubes or InAs nanowires. After establishing the presence of Coop...
Nanotransformation and current fluctuations in exciton condensate junctions
We analyze the nonlinear transport properties of a bilayer exciton condensate that is contacted by four metallic leads by calculating the full counting statistics of electron transport for arbitrary system parameters. Despite its formal similarity to...
Auxiliary Optics For meV-IXS at SPring-8: KB, Analyzer Masks, Soller Slit & Screen, BPM
This paper discusses several optical elements now in use at BL43LXU, the RIKEN Quantum NanoDynamics Beamline, of the RIKEN SPring-8 Center. BL43LXU is dedicated to meV-resolved inelastic x-rays scattering using spherical analyzers operating between 1...
Synthesis and Characterization of Two-dimensional Cs2AgInCl6 Nanoplates as Building Blocks…
Breaking crystal symmetry is essential for engineering emissive double perovskite metal halides. The goal is to overcome their inherently indirect and disallowed optical transitions. Here we introduce a synthesis for silver - Cs2AgInCl6 two-dimension...
Statistical model of the powder flow regulation by nanomaterials
Fine powders often tend to agglomerate due to van der Waals forces between the particles. These forces can be reduced significantly by covering the particles with nanoscaled adsorbates, as shown by recent experiments. In the present work a quantita...
Vanta - Wikipedia
Vanta may refer to: Vantaa, a city in Finland Nvidia Vanta, a graphics accelerator manufactured by Nvidia Vertically aligned carbon nanotube arrays, an
Vantablack | Darkest Material, Color, Applications, Car, & Watch ...
Vantablack is a brand name for super-black coatings that absorb nearly 100 percent of light, developed by Surrey NanoSystems. It is one of the darkest synthetic materials, making 3D objects appear flat …
Vantablack - Wikipedia
below 1% in the visible spectrum. The name is a compound of the acronym VANTA (vertically aligned nanotube arrays) and black. The original Vantablack
Vantablack - Wikipedia
As Vantablack is composed of carbon nanotubes that absorb exceptionally high levels of visible light, it is widely considered one of the darkest pigments created.
Simulating Real-time Tyre Contact Patch Dynamics via Nanopiezoelectric Sensor Arrays. Adap…
Hi everyone, I am a Robotics & Control Systems Engineer. I recently reached out to the moderation team about sharing a simulation tool I built, and they encouraged me to provide a detailed breakd...
On the Role of Flexibility in Linker-Mediated DNA Hydrogels
Three-dimensional DNA networks, composed of tri- or higher valent nanostars with sticky, single-stranded DNA overhangs, have been previously studied in the context of designing thermally responsive, viscoelastic hydrogels. In this work, we use linker...
A Landau-Squire Nanojet
Fluid jets are found in nature at all length scales, from microscopic to cosmological. Here we report on an electroosmotically driven jet from a single glass nanopore about 75 nm in radius with a maximum flow rate ~15 pL/s. A novel anemometry techniq...
Domain walls within domain walls in wide ferromagnetic strips
We carry out large-scale micromagnetic simulations which demonstrate that due to topological constraints, internal domain walls (Bloch lines) within extended domain walls are more robust than domain walls in nanowires. Thus, the possibility of spintr...
Density Functional Theory study of the low-energy electronic structures and properties of…
Gold clusters Aun of size n = 2 to 12 atoms were studied by the density-functional theory with an ab-initio pseudopotential and a generalized gradient approximation. Geometry optimizations starting from a number of initial candidate geometries were...
Nanometer resolution imaging and tracking of fluorescent molecules with minimal photon flu…
We introduce MINFLUX, a concept for localizing photon emitters in space. By probing the emitter with a local intensity minimum of excitation light, MINFLUX minimizes the fluorescence photons needed for high localization precision. A 22-fold reduction...
Low-loss far-infrared surface phonon polaritons in suspended SrTiO3 nanomembranes
Phonon polaritons (PhPs), excitations arising from the coupling of light with lattice vibrations, enable light confinement and local field enhancement, which is essential for various photonic and thermal applications. To date, PhPs with high confinem...
Discriminative Addressing of Versatile Nanodiamonds via Physically-Enabled Classifier in C…
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers show great potentials for nanoscale bio-sensing and bio-imaging. Nevertheless, their envisioned bio-applications suffer from intrinsic background noise due to unavoidable light scattering and autofluorescence in cells an...
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seemingly becomes possessed by Liquid Snake as the nanomachines from Liquid's arm (which Ocelot took to replace his own arm after Gray Fox slices it off in
The nano-structural inhomogeneity of dynamic hydrogen bond network of water
In the present study, water is considered as a dynamic network between molecules at distances not exceeding 3.2 angstroms. The instantaneous configurations obtained by using the molecular dynamics method have been sequentially analyzed, the mutual or...
Pre-heating effect on the catalytic growth of partially filled carbon nanotubes by chemica…
The surface reconstruction of the Fe catalyst films due to high temperature processing in hydrogen prior to nanotube nucleation and its effect on the growth morphologies of partially filled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) synthesized using atmospheric pressu...
Small | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology Journal | Wiley Online Library
Small is a nanoscience & nanotechnology journal providing the very best forum for fundamental and interdisciplinary applied research at the nano- and microscale, covering chemistry, energy, physical …
On the Enhanced Reverse Beta Processes in Graphene-Iron Composite Nanostructures at High T…
Strong dense many-spin interactions have been proposed to organize novel orbital dynamics (the Little Effect) for novel chemical and catalytic phenomena. The recent determinations of the relativistic and quantum Hall effects of carriers in graphene...
Ultra-sensitive nanometric flat pigment for binocular stereoscopic image
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with tantalizing layer-dependent electronic and optical properties have emerged as a new paradigm for integrated flat opto-electronic devices. However, daunting challenges remain in determi...
Ultra-sensitive nanoscale magnetic field sensors based on resonant spin filtering
Solid state magnetic field sensors based on magneto-resistance modulation find direct applications in communication devices, specifically in proximity detection, rotational reference detection and current sensing. In this work, we propose sensor stru...
Ultra-sensitive hybrid diamond nanothermometer
Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamond are promising quantum sensors for their long spin coherence time under ambient conditions. However, their spin resonances are relatively insensitive to non-magnetic parameters such as temperature. A magnetic-n...
MAQRO -- BPS 2023 Research Campaign Whitepaper
The objective of the proposed MAQRO mission is to harness space for achieving long free-fall times, extreme vacuum, nano-gravity, and cryogenic temperatures to test the foundations of physics in macroscopic quantum experiments. This will result in th...
Silk-Nano-Fibroin Aerogels: A Bio-Derived, Amine-Rich Platform for Rapid and Reversible CO…
Despite growing interest in bio-based materials, rapid, low-temperature CO2 capture using amine-rich natural sorbents has received limited attention. In recent years, various porous solid sorbents have drawn significant research interest as promising...