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Elsevier2015

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We investigate the buckling and post-buckling behavior of an elastic rod injected into a horizontal, frictional, cylindrical constraint through experiments, numerical simulations, and scaling analyses. Particular emphasis is given to the onset of helical b ...

Elsevier2015

Energy dissipation in concentrated monodisperse colloidal suspensions of silica particles in polyethylene glycol

Véronique Michaud, Mathieu Soutrenon

Highly concentrated colloidal suspensions exhibit a discontinuous shear-thickening behaviour. The transition from a low to a high viscosity state is associated to a large energy dissipation. This effect could find applications in structural damping while t ...

Springer2014

Colloidal Processing and Yield Stress Modeling Towards Dry Pressed Green Bodies for Transparent Polycrystalline Alumina

Paul Bowen, Michael Stuer

Colloidal processing is a key aspect in modern ceramic processing but most formulations are found empirically. The need for a better knowledge based design of suspension formulation can be achieved by using interparticle potential modelling linked to rheol ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Probing titanate nanowire surface acidity through methylene blue adsorption in colloidal suspension and on thin films

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The interaction of the cationic dye methylene blue (MB) with titanate nanowires (TiONWs) was investigated in different pH environments using visible spectroscopy and electrophoresis on thin films as well as in aqueous suspension. The surface charge of the ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Selective transport control on molecular velcro made from intrinsically disordered proteins

Sylvia Jeney

The selectivity and speed of many biological transport processes(1) transpire from a 'reduction of dimensionality'(2) that confines diffusion to one or two dimensions instead of three(3). This behaviour remains highly sought after on polymeric surfaces(4) ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Engineering of light confinement in strongly scattering disordered media

Laurent Balet, Massimo Gurioli

Disordered photonic materials can diffuse and localize light through random multiple scattering, offering opportunities to study mesoscopic phenomena, control light-matter interactions, and provide new strategies for photonic applications. Light transport ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Capillary particle assembly (CAPA) for plasmonic devices

Elmira Shahrabi

Signicant progress has been made to synthesis colloidal particles capable of controlling shape , dimensions and structures. These nanoparticles placement and integration on sur- faces is the main challenges of engineering approaches. Here, we investigate t ...

2014

Geochemical control on uranium(IV) mobility in a mining-impacted wetland

Rizlan Bernier-Latmani, Elena Suvorova Buffat, Alexandre Bagnoud, Yuheng Wang, Lydie Chesaux

Wetlands often act as sinks for uranium and other trace elements. Our previous work at a mining-impacted wetland in France showed that a labile noncrystalline U(IV) species consisting of U(IV) bound to Al-P-Fe-Si aggregates was predominant in the soil at l ...

2014

A new strategy for improving fluorescent immunoassays using photonic crystals

Hans Peter Herzig, Elsie Barakat

The most widely used substrates for fluorescent immunoassay are based on transparent materials such as glass or plastic with almost no optical functionality. Very recently, optical nanostructures made of metal on dielectrics have been proposed to perform p ...

2014

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