Time-Dependent Elastic Tensor of Cellulose Nanocrystal Probed by Hydrostatic Pressure and Uniaxial Stretching

Hydrostatic compression and high-pressure elastic constants of coesite silica

Using density-functional theory, we computed all the independent elastic constants of coesite, a high-pressure polymorph of silica, as functions of pressure up to 15 GPa. The results are in good agreement with experimental measurements under ambient conditions. Also, the predicted pressure-dependent elastic properties are consistent with x-ray data in the literature concerning lattice strains a...

The metastable state of nucleocapsids of enveloped viruses as probed by high hydrostatic pressure.

Enveloped viruses fuse their membranes with cellular membranes to transfer their genomes into cells at the beginning of infection. What is not clear, however, is the role of the envelope (lipid bilayer and glycoproteins) in the stability of the viral particle. To address this question, we compared the stability between enveloped and nucleocapsid particles of the alphavirus Mayaro using hydrosta...

Hydrostatic and uniaxial pressure dependence of superconducting transition temperature of KFe2As2 single crystals

We present heat capacity, c-axis thermal expansion and pressure-dependent, low-field, temperature-dependent magnetization for pressures up to ∼12 kbar, data for KFe2As2 single crystals. Tc decreases under pressure with dTc/dP≈−0.10 K/kbar. The inferred uniaxial, c-axis, pressure derivative is positive, dTc/dpc≈0.11 K/kbar. The data are analyzed in comparison with those for overdoped Fe-based su...

Surface interactions between nanocrystal cellulose and liposomes

Geometric approach to the pressure tensor and the elastic constants.

Expressions are obtained for the pressure tensor in the canonical and the microcanonical ensemble for both isolated and periodic systems, using the same geometric approach to thermodynamic derivatives as has been used previously to define the configurational temperature. The inherent freedom of the method leads to a straightforward proof of the equivalence of atomic and molecular pressures, for...