Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a range of superlative electronic and electrochemical properties that facilitate applications in sensing, energy conversion, and storage. Graphene, a 2D allotrope of carbon, has exceptional surface area per unit mass and highly catalytic edges. To leverage these properties, efforts have been made to synthesize complex three-dimensional (3D) geometries of graphene, with an eye toward integration into functional electronic devices.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe distribution of tantalum and oxygen ions in electroformed and/or switched TaO -based resistive switching devices has been assessed by high-angle annular dark-field microscopy, X-ray energy-dispersive spectroscopy, and electron energy-loss spectroscopy. The experiments have been performed in the plan-view geometry on the cross-bar devices producing elemental distribution maps in the direction perpendicular to the electric field. The maps revealed an accumulation of +20% Ta in the inner part of the filament with a 3.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGraphene, a honeycomb sp hybridized carbon lattice, is a promising building block for hybrid-nanomaterials due to its electrical, mechanical, and optical properties. Graphene can be readily obtained through mechanical exfoliation, solution-based deposition of reduced graphene oxide (rGO), and chemical vapor deposition (CVD). The resulting graphene films' topology is two-dimensional (2D) surface.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe growth/coarsening kinetics of precipitates have been found by numerous researchers to show an apparent correspondence with the classical (Ostwald ripening) equation outlined by Lifshitz, Slyozov and (separately) Wagner for a diffusion controlled regime. Nevertheless, a significant disparity between the actual precipitate size distribution shape and that predicted by LSW is frequently observed in the interpretation of these results, the origin of which is unclear. Analysis of the literature indicates one likely cause for this deviation from LSW for precipitates is the "encounter" phenomenon described by Davies et al.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNanoscale platinum materials are essential components in many technologies, including catalytic converters and fuel cells. Combining Pt with other metals can enhance its performance and/or decrease the cost of the technology, and a wide range of strategies have been developed to capitalize on these advantages. However, wet chemical synthesis of Pt-containing nanoparticles (NPs) is challenging due to the diverse metal segregation and metal-metal redox processes possible under closely related experimental conditions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFHeterostructured photocatalysts comprised of microcrystalline (mc-) cores and nanostructured (ns-) shells were prepared by the sol-gel method. The ability of titania-coated ATiO3 (A = Fe, Pb) and AFeO3 (A = Bi, La, Y) catalysts to degrade methylene blue in visible light (λ > 420 nm) was compared. The catalysts with the titanate cores had enhanced photocatalytic activities for methylene blue degradation compared to their components alone, whereas the catalysts with ferrite cores did not.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA fast, simple procedure is described for obtaining an assembly of silver sulfide nanoparticles (Ag(2)S NPs) on a glass substrate through reaction of a template of an assembled layer of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) with hydrogen sulfide (H(2)S) gas. The Ag NP template was prepared by assembling a monolayer of spherical Ag NPs (mean diameter of 7.4 nm) on a polyethylenimine-treated glass substrate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper describes the implementation and functionality of a base-band network for the remote control of scientific instruments, in particular scanning and transmission electron microscopes. The base-band network is a hard-wired connection between keyboard and pointing devices from the remote computers to the CPU of the instrument computer; the video signal is then routed back to the remote user and to a high resolution projection system. The system is independent of software and hardware platform, and is highly reliable.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis paper derives analytical expressions for the magnetic and electrostatic phase shifts of a plane electron wave upon traversing a spherical, uniformly magnetized particle with a non-zero mean inner potential. The Aharonov-Bohm phase shift is represented in terms of dimensionless parameters. Standard Foucault and Fresnel Lorentz image simulations are presented for a range of particle sizes and saturation inductions.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPhys Rev B Condens Matter
December 1993