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Nanostructured materials can be defined as those materials whose structural elements - clusters, crystallites or molecules - have dimensions in the 1-100 nm range. The explosion in both academic and industrial interest over the past 20 years arises from th ...
Molecular statics simulations of crack growth in fully lamellar Ti-Al are performed to elucidate the role of lamellar structure in determining deformation and fracture toughness in nanoscale structures. The lamellar boundaries are highly effective in inhib ...
The internal reflection of an excited X-ray waveguide mode in a synthetic nanostructure, defined by electron-beam lithography, has been measured. In this device, the X-ray beam is first coupled into a conventional vertical thin-film waveguide structure and ...
This paper discusses the solid state and melt nanoscale structure of a series of novel poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) hybrid di- and triblock copolymers, which contain amphiphilic β-strand peptide sequences. The block copolymers have been prepared via solid-p ...
Thermoelectric power and conductivity measurements have been made as a function of temperature on a new nanostructured material, hydrogenated polymorphous silicon (pm-Si:H). The thermoelectric power is negative, so electrons are the dominant carriers. The ...
Semiconductor quantum wires (QWRs) are promising structures for optoelectronics applications, since they can provide quantum confinement for charge carriers in two dimensions. The advantage that they offer over conventional quantum wells (QWs) is due to th ...
A quasi one-dimensional model of spin transport in heterogeneous media based on the Boltzmann equation is presented in order to define the basic properties characterizing perpendicular spin transport in nanostructures. Experimental results are reviewed, fi ...
The physical and chemical properties of low-dimensional structures depend on their size and shape, and can be very different from those of bulk matter. If such structures have at least one dimension small enough that quantum-mechanical effects prevail, the ...
Using a first-principles approach, we study the incorporation of nitrogen at the Si(001)-SiO2 interface by calculating N Is core-level shifts for several relaxed interface models. The unusually large shift with oxide thickness of the principal peak in phot ...
The original magnetic properties of nanometre-sized particles are due to the distinct contributions of volume, surface and step atoms. To disentangle these contributions is an ongoing challenge of materials science. Here we introduce a method enabling the ...
