The intended use of a magnetic material, from information storage to power conversion, depends crucially on its domain structure, traditionally crafted during materials synthesis. By contrast, we show that an external magnetic field, applied transverse to the preferred magnetization of a model disordered uniaxial ferromagnet, is an isothermal regulator of domain pinning. At elevated temperature...

In this paper, we report careful transport and magnetic measurements on single crystals of deuterated k-~ET!2Cu@N~CN!2!#Br. By cooling the sample at different rates, it is found that cooling through 80 K has a dramatic effect on the normal state metal-insulator transition and the superconducting transition temperatures. In-plane resistivity depends strongly on the cooling rate for temperatures ...

Mechanistic interpretations of rates and in situ IR spectra combined with density functionals that account for van der Waals interactions of intermediates and transition states within confining voids show that associative routes mediate the formation of dimethyl ether from methanol on zeolitic acids at the temperatures and pressures of practical dehydration catalysis. Methoxy-mediated dissociat...

Spontaneous transition to superrotation in warm climates simulated by CAM3" (2010). [1] Recent paleoclimate proxy reconstructions show that tropical surface temperatures may have been as high as 35°–40°C in the Early Cenozoic. Here, we study the tropical atmospheric circulation's response to temperatures in this range using a full‐complexity atmospheric general circulation model (AGCM). We find...

We investigate the influence of order-parameter fluctuations on the transition between normal and mixed superconducting states at low temperatures. We show that in the case of clean quasi-two-dimensional superconductors the transition can be described by the functional of the Ginzburg-Landau type. We consider the large-N generalization of this functional and using the lowest Landau-level approx...

Phosphate glasses have special applications, but tra,ditionally never have had both durability and a low glass transition temperature (making them hard to work with). A composition study was used to find a more durable, easily fabricated phosphate glass with a low glass transition temperature. Batching, melting, casting, annealing and fabrication of test parts were performed. Glasses were chara...

The main gel-to-liquid-crystal (LC) phase transition temperature, T(m), of the lipid monolayer in hybrid bilayer membranes (HBMs) was investigated using vibrational sum frequency spectroscopy (VSFS). In the gel phase, the acyl chains of the lipid molecules assume an ordered, all-trans configuration, whereas in the LC phase, the acyl chains exhibit a significant number of disordered gauche confo...

The technique of Quantitative Structure Property Relationships has been applied to the glass transition temperatures of polyarylethersulphones. A general equation is reported that calculates the glass transition temperatures with acceptable accuracy (correlation coefficients of between 90-67%, indicating an error of 10-30% with regard to experimentally determined values) for a series of 42 repo...

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Huddling is a grouping behavior where animals maintain close bodily contact and save energy. We tested the hypothesis that this thermoregulatory behavior behaves as a system with continuous (second-order phase) transition called critical when the environmental temperature (driving parameter) is near a critical value. To do so, we followed theoretical and experimental approaches, examining data ...