Photonic crystal cavities with tunable surface area via multiple-hole defects were investigated for increased resonance wavelength shins upon exposure to variable-index analytes. Sensitivity was improved by 10% compar...
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In ionomeric polymers, the accumulation or depletion of excess charges (ions) at the electrodes under an applied voltage will generate strain in these regions. This can be made use of for electromechanical transductio...
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In ionomeric polymers, the accumulation or depletion of excess charges (ions) at the electrodes under an applied voltage will generate strain in these regions. This can be made use of for electromechanical transduction devices such as actuators and sensors. The paper investigates a new type of CNC for IPCNC actuators, in which the CNC is fabricated by a self-assembled layer-by-layer (LBL) nanocomposites. The thinness of the CNC electrode layer (~ 0.4 μm) and large strain (~ 7%) of this type of IPCNC actuator result in a high bending actuation speed (~ 0.1 s) with high bending actuation.
Enzymatic glucose sensors based on luminescent microparticles rely on the reaction of glucose and oxygen with glucose oxidase, where the internal oxygen level is transduced via oxygen-sensitive phosphors. These sensor...
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Enzymatic glucose sensors based on luminescent microparticles rely on the reaction of glucose and oxygen with glucose oxidase, where the internal oxygen level is transduced via oxygen-sensitive phosphors. These sensors utilize nanofilm coatings comprising polyelectrolyte multilayers deposited using self-assembly to control transport of glucose, enabling tuning of the range and sensitivity by changing the coating thickness. In this work, it was also found that salt concentrations, which influence thickness and density of nanofilm coatings during multilayer deposition, also influence range, sensitivity, and degradation rate of these sensors.
We have formulated the problem of generating dense packings of nonoverlapping, nontiling nonspherical particles within an adaptive fundamental cell subject to periodic boundary conditions as an optimization problem ca...
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We have formulated the problem of generating dense packings of nonoverlapping, nontiling nonspherical particles within an adaptive fundamental cell subject to periodic boundary conditions as an optimization problem called the adaptive-shrinking cell (ASC) formulation [S. Torquato and Y. Jiao, Phys. Rev. E 80, 041104 (2009)]. Because the objective function and impenetrability constraints can be exactly linearized for sphere packings with a size distribution in d-dimensional Euclidean space Rd, it is most suitable and natural to solve the corresponding ASC optimization problem using sequential-linear-programming (SLP) techniques. We implement an SLP solution to produce robustly a wide spectrum of jammed sphere packings in Rd for d=2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 with a diversity of disorder and densities up to the respective maximal densities. A novel feature of this deterministic algorithm is that it can produce a broad range of inherent structures (locally maximally dense and mechanically stable packings), besides the usual disordered ones (such as the maximally random jammed state), with very small computational cost compared to that of the best known packing algorithms by tuning the radius of the influence sphere. For example, in three dimensions, we show that it can produce with high probability a variety of strictly jammed packings with a packing density anywhere in the wide range [0.6, 0.7408…], where π/18=0.7408… corresponds to the density of the densest packing. We also apply the algorithm to generate various disordered packings as well as the maximally dense packings for d=2, 4, 5, and 6. Our jammed sphere packings are characterized and compared to the corresponding packings generated by the well-known Lubachevsky-Stillinger (LS) molecular-dynamics packing algorithm. Compared to the LS procedure, our SLP protocol is able to ensure that the final packings are truly jammed, produces disordered jammed packings with anomalously low densities, and is appreciably more robust an
The electronic and electromechanical properties of complex oxide superlattices are closely linked to the evolution of the structure and electrical polarization of the component layers in applied electric fields. Effor...
The electronic and electromechanical properties of complex oxide superlattices are closely linked to the evolution of the structure and electrical polarization of the component layers in applied electric fields. Efforts to deduce the responses of the individual components of the superlattice to applied fields have focused on theoretical approaches because of the limitations of available experimental techniques. Time-resolved x-ray microdiffraction provides a precise crystallographic probe of each component using the shift in wave vector and change in intensity of superlattice satellite reflections. We report in detail the methods to measure and analyze the x-ray diffraction patterns in applied electric field and their application to a 2-unit-cell BaTiO3/4-unit-cell CaTiO3 superlattice. We find that the overall piezoelectric distortion is shared between the two components. Theoretical predictions of the electromechanical properties of a superlattice with the same composition constrained to tetragonal symmetry are in excellent agreement with the experiments. Lattice instability analysis, however, suggests that the low-temperature ground state could exhibit antiferrodistortive rotations of TiO6 octahedra within and/or at the interfaces of the CaTiO3 component.
Fe2Al5 contains a Fe-Al matrix through which are threaded disordered one-dimensional chains of overlapping Al sites. We report magnetic, nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR), and specific-heat measurements addressing its ...
Fe2Al5 contains a Fe-Al matrix through which are threaded disordered one-dimensional chains of overlapping Al sites. We report magnetic, nuclear-magnetic-resonance (NMR), and specific-heat measurements addressing its magnetic and vibrational properties. The Curie-type susceptibility is found to be due to dilute moments, likely due to wrong-site Fe atoms. A27l NMR shift and spin-lattice relaxation measurements confirm these to be indirectly coupled through a Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yoshida-type interaction. Specific-heat results indicate a large density of low-energy vibrational modes. These excitations generate a linear-T contribution to the specific heat, which however freezes out below about 10 K. These results are attributed to the presence of anharmonic vibrational modes associated with the disordered structural chains.
The aspartic protease cathepsin E has been shown to induce apoptosis in cancer cells under physiological conditions. Therefore, cathepsin E-activity-enhancing peptides functioning in the physiological pH range are val...
This paper describes the influence of ballast resistor and field screening on the electron field emission behavior of nano-diamond emitter arrays fabricated on micropatterned silicon pillars. Arrays of 50 × 50 si...
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This paper describes the influence of ballast resistor and field screening on the electron field emission behavior of nano-diamond emitter arrays fabricated on micropatterned silicon pillars. Arrays of 50 × 50 silicon pillars with different ballast resistances, pillar separations, capped with nano-diamond, have been fabricated on different silicon substrates as cathode for field emission testing. The goal of this study is to evaluate the fabrication method and electron emission characteristics in this configuration for field emission applications. The electron field emission results have been compared to observe the effect of the ballast resistive behavior and array spacing of micropatterned silicon pillars on the nano-diamond field emission behaviors.
In 2007, the University of Windsor established formal learning outcomes for their cooperative education program and implemented new educational strategies to support the achievement of those outcomes. To gauge the eff...
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In 2007, the University of Windsor established formal learning outcomes for their cooperative education program and implemented new educational strategies to support the achievement of those outcomes. To gauge the effect of the newly implemented activities on the achievement of the learning outcomes, a survey was developed and administered to students and alumni of the unrevised program (control group) and, more recently in 2009, to students participating in the revised program (experimental group). The survey questions were designed to assess respondents' perceptions of the effect that co-op had on: their academic and career-related goals and motivation;identification of personal strengths, weaknesses and preferences;understanding of academic theory and technical knowledge;development of attributes;and the ability to effectively contribute in the workplace through identified soft and transferable industry-related skills. Students participating in co-op at the University of Windsor may complete regular or extended length work terms. Regular work terms are generally four-months in length, while extended work terms are at least eight months long, although many companies request co-op students for twelve to sixteen month periods. The survey demographics included a question about work term duration, so that the effects of work term length on learning outcomes achievement might also be examined. Although the survey revealed some positive trends related to learning outcomes achievement for control versus experimental groups, they were not at statistically significant levels. However, if the analysis was limited to students who had completed extended work terms, three areas showed changes at statistically significant levels. Decreases in positive response levels were seen for the experimental group with respect to students' abilities to identify personal weaknesses related to their academic options and personal preferences related to workplace options. An increase in posit
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