Topic: Advanced Materials for Engineering Applications
Nanomagnetic Materials: A review
Nanotechnology and nanostructured materials have the potential to significantly impact energy efficiency, storage, and production. Such applications can be used to monitor and remediate environmental problems, curb emissions from a wide range of sources, and [...]
Surface and Interface Characterization of Self-Assembled Copper Oxide Quantum Dots on SrTiO3(001) Surface
Thevuthasan S., Nachimuthu P., Kim Y.J., Lyubinetsky I., Lea A.S., Shutthanandan V., Engelhard M.H., Baer D.R., Shuh D.K., Lindle D.W., Pacific Northwest National laboratory, US
Interface controlled nucleation and growth of two and three dimensional nano structures show unique structural, optical, electronic and vibrational properties due to the quantum confinement of charge carriers. When the size is sufficiently small, the [...]
Nano-granular FePt-Ag Composite Films- Its Magnetic and Magnetotransport Properties
Ordered FePt films have a very high magnetic anisotropy [1]. By annealing FePt/Ag multilayer precursor films, isolated FePt nano particles have been obtained with high perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, which opens a window for ultra-high-density magnetic [...]
In-situ Sintering Studies on Nano-Alumina
Recently, a thermooptical measuring device (TOM) has been developed to in-situ monitor the thermal diffusivity, shrinkage and light scattering of materials during sintering1,2. The initial stage of sintering is difficult to study by conventional methods [...]
Molecular Dynamics Simulations on Nanocomposites Formed by Intermetallic Dispersoids of B2 Structure and Aluminum Matrices
Molecular dynamics simulations were performed in order to characterize the local lattice structure in the vicinity of the interfaces between nanosized B2 intermetallic aluminide dispersoids and aluminum matrices. The dispersoid materials selected for the present [...]
Preparation of Monodispersed Silica and Composite Spheres
Nanoscale crystallites of metals or semiconductors, exhibiting unusual size-dependent electronic, magnetic, optical, and catalytic properties due to the onset of quantum effects, are being heralded as the next-generation building blocks for modern materials design. However, [...]
Surface Modification of Al203 Fiber with Nanoparticles Using a Dry Mechanical Coating Technique
Coowanitwong N., Wu C-Y, Nguyen J., Cai M., Ruthkosky M., Rogers J., Feng L., Watano S., Yoshida T., University of Florida, US
Nanoparticles are of great interest to many industries due to their unique properties. One of the well-known properties is high surface area, which is critically essential to enhancing performance activity [1] and greatly vital to [...]
Multivariant Measurements for Thin Film Adhesion as a Function of Temperature and Thin Film Thickness
The progress of a proposed high-throughput combinatorial approach to the edge delamination test is reported. This approach can construct the adhesion reliability, as a function of temperature and film thickness (in the sub-micron range) in [...]