Time resolved imaging and fluorescent assays were used to examine the biological response of confluent cell cultures to pulsed laser microbeam cell lysis using cavitation bubbles generated by Nd:YAG nanosecond laser p...
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The Collaborative Large-scale engineering Analysis Network for Environmental Research (CLEANER) Project Office has been established with funding from the National science Foundation (NSF) to the University of Illinois...
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The controlled self-assembly of thiol stabilized gold nanocrystals in a mediating solvent and confined within mesoporous alumina was probed in situ with small angle x-ray scattering. The evolution of the self-assembly...
The controlled self-assembly of thiol stabilized gold nanocrystals in a mediating solvent and confined within mesoporous alumina was probed in situ with small angle x-ray scattering. The evolution of the self-assembly process was controlled reversibly via regulated changes in the amount of solvent condensed from an undersaturated vapor. Analysis indicated that the nanoparticles self-assembled into cylindrical monolayers within the porous template. Nanoparticle nearest-neighbor separation within the monolayer increased and the ordering decreased with the controlled addition of solvent. The process was reversible with the removal of solvent. Isotropic clusters of nanoparticles were also observed to form temporarily during desorption of the liquid solvent and disappeared upon complete removal of liquid. Measurements of the absorption and desorption of the solvent showed strong hysteresis upon thermal cycling. In addition, the capillary filling transition for the solvent in the nanoparticle-doped pores was shifted to larger chemical potential, relative to the liquid/vapor coexistence, by a factor of 4 as compared to the expected value for the same system without nanoparticles.
High energy synchrotron x-rays (124.63 keV) are used to investigate the initial stages of the devitrification for the Zr70Pd20Cu10 metallic glass prepared by melt-spinning (MS). Due to the excellent signal:noise, we a...
High energy synchrotron x-rays (124.63 keV) are used to investigate the initial stages of the devitrification for the Zr70Pd20Cu10 metallic glass prepared by melt-spinning (MS). Due to the excellent signal:noise, we are able to determine the initial nucleating phase by analyzing the differences in the total scattering function S(Q) as a function of time at a temperature ~ 50 K below the crystallization temperature. The alloy undergoes a structural relaxation prior to nucleation and growth. Devitrification proceeds from nucleation of the icosahedral phase. The differential pair distribution function (dPDF) indicates that the as-quenched alloy may have icosahedral-like order which undergoes local rearrangement to true icosahedral order at an annealing temperature 50 K below the crystallization temperature. More importantly, time-resolved high-energy synchrotron is shown to have excellent sensitivity to the initial atomic rearrangements preceding nucleation in metallic glasses.
Spinel tin nitride (Sn 3 N 4 ) was prepared by high-pressure solid-state metathesis reactions. Tin tetraiodide was reacted with lithium nitride and ammonium chloride in a piston–cylinder apparatus at 623 K and 2.5 GP...
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Spinel tin nitride (Sn 3 N 4 ) was prepared by high-pressure solid-state metathesis reactions. Tin tetraiodide was reacted with lithium nitride and ammonium chloride in a piston–cylinder apparatus at 623 K and 2.5 GPa. Powder X-ray diffraction combined with Rietveld refinement confirmed the spinel structure, with a lattice constant of a = 9.0144(1) Å. Raman spectroscopy revealed five active vibrational modes at 160, 252, 416, 524, and 622 cm −1 , which are consistent with the spinel structure. Mid-infrared spectroscopy exhibited only a Sn–N stretching mode at 547 cm −1 . Transmission electron microscopy was used to reveal particle size and morphology. Electron probe microanalysis was used to verify the elemental composition.
Drugs have been released from an array of reservoirs in a biodegradable, polymeric microdevice. The reservoirs are formed in a polylactic acid (PLA) substrate and covered with a thin polymer membrane of a faster degra...
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We demonstrate the use of Monte Carlo simulations to generate photon scattering density functions (PSDFs) that represent the tissue volume sampled by steady-state and frequency-domain photon migration. We use these re...
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We demonstrate the use of Monte Carlo simulations to generate photon scattering density functions (PSDFs) that represent the tissue volume sampled by steady-state and frequency-domain photon migration. We use these results to illustrate how scaling laws can be developed to determine the mean sampling depth of the multiply scattered photons detected by photon migration methods that remain valid outside the bounds of the standard diffusion approximation, i.e., at small source-detector separations and in media where the optical absorption is significant relative to scattering. Using both the PSDF computation and the newly formulated scaling laws, we focus on a comprehensive description of the effects of source modulation frequency, optical absorption, and source-detector separation on the depth of the sampled tissue volume as well as the sensitivity of frequency-domain photon migration measurements to the presence of a localized absorption heterogeneity.
The rate at which a facetted tetragonal cavity of nonequilibrium shape approaches a cubic equilibrium (Wulff) shape via surface diffusion was modeled. The shape relaxation rate of a facetted “stretched cylinder” was...
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The rate at which a facetted tetragonal cavity of nonequilibrium shape approaches a cubic equilibrium (Wulff) shape via surface diffusion was modeled. The shape relaxation rate of a facetted “stretched cylinder” was also modeled. For the first geometry, only an approximate solution based on linearizing the mean potential difference between the source and sink facets was obtained. For the stretched cylinder, both an approximate and an exact solution can be obtained; the approximate solution underestimates the evolution rate by a factor of ∼2. To assess the applicability of the models, nonequilibrium shape pores of identical initial geometry (∼20 μm × 20 μm × 0.5 μm) were introduced into (0001), {10[Onemacr]2}, {1120}, and {100} surfaces of sapphire single crystals using microfabrication techniques, ion-beam etching, and hot pressing. The large (∼20 μm × 20 μm) faces of the pore are low-index surfaces whose nature is dictated by the wafer orientation. A series of anneals was performed at 1900°C, and the approach of the pore shape to an equilibrium shape was monitored. The kinetics of shape evolution are highly sensitive to the crystallographic orientation and stability of the low-index surface that dominates the initial pore shape. The measured variations of the pore aspect ratio were compared to those predicted by the kinetic model. The observations suggest that when the initial bounding surface is unstable, shape relaxation may be controlled by diffusion. However, surface-attachment-limited kinetics (SALK) appears to play a major role in determining the pore shape evolution rate in cases where the initial bounding surfaces have orientations that are part of the Wulff shape.
M. Aichele, Y. Gebremichael, F. W. Starr, J. Baschnagel, S. C. Glotzer; Publisher’s Note: “Polymer-specific effects of bulk relaxation and stringlike correlated
M. Aichele, Y. Gebremichael, F. W. Starr, J. Baschnagel, S. C. Glotzer; Publisher’s Note: “Polymer-specific effects of bulk relaxation and stringlike correlated
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