Reversible and drastic modulation of the transport properties in vanadium dioxide (VO2) nanowires by electric field-induced hydrogenation at room temperature was demonstrated using the nanogaps separated by humid air in field-effect transistors with planer-type gates (PG-FET). These PG-FETs allowed us to investigate behavior of revealed hydrogen intercalation and diffusion aspects with time and...

New aspects of substance separation by the laser driven diffusion of gaseous mixtures through capillaries are presented. By using the chopped radiation of a low power CO2 laser, the experimental dependence of the separation coefficient on the pulse frequency in mixtures containing resonant and non-resonant gases was investigated. The induced effects agree with a model in which the number densit...

A new type of fluorescence sensory material with high sensitivity, selectivity, and photostability has been developed for vapor probing of organic amines. The sensory material is primarily based on well-defined nanofibers fabricated from an n-type organic semiconductor molecule, N-(1-hexylheptyl)perylene-3,4,9,10-tetracarboxyl-3,4-anhydride-9,10-imide. Upon deposition onto a substrate, the enta...

Oxygen contamination of a polyacrylamide gel (PAG) dosimeter can have a significant detrimental effect upon the performance characteristics of the gel as a dosimeter. Oxygen contamination can occur during preparation, but can also arise from the diffusion of atmospheric oxygen through vessel walls. Even 'trace' amounts of oxygen present in any gaseous space (usually nitrogen filled) between the...

Bottom-up growth of microscopic pillars is observed at room temperature on GaN irradiated with a Ga+ beam in a gaseous XeF2 environment. Ion bombardment produces Ga droplets which evolve into pillars, each comprised of a spherical Ga cap atop a Ga-filled, gallium fluoride tapered tube (sheath). The structures form through an interdependent, self-ordering cycle of liquid cap growth and solid she...

This paper describes the fabrication of large (up to 45 cm(2)) arrays of microwells, with volumes as small as ∼3 fL/well and densities as high as 10(7) wells/cm(2). These arrays of microwells are formed by casting an elastomer, poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS), against "masters" prepared by photolithography; arrays of microwells in other polymers can be formed by using a master consisting of posts...

Nevertheless, in order to respond to the economic and environmental criteria, hydrogen production and storage have to be improved. This work focuses on gaseous storage under high pressure (700 bar) using a type III vessel (figure 1) that is to say composed of a metal liner – which prevents gas diffusion – and of a composite laminate wrapped by filament winding – which is used as a mechanical st...

The gaseous second messenger nitric oxide (NO), which readily diffuses in brain tissue, has been implicated in cerebellar long-term depression (LTD), a form of synaptic plasticity thought to be involved in cerebellar learning. Can NO diffusion facilitate cerebellar learning? The inferior olive (IO) cells, which provide the error signals necessary for modifying the granule cell-Purkinje cell (PC...

The study is devoted to mathematical models of mass transfer during diffusion combustion gaseous fuel. A numerical approach presented that makes it possible estimate the effect conditions on length a direct-flow flame. simplified method for calculating heat release in flame applied, taking into account fact chemical reactions are concentrated at front. Some results simulation processes and comp...

We are motivated to model chemical vapor deposition for metallic bipolar plates and optimization to deposit a homogeneous layer. Moreover a constraint to the deposition process is a very low pressure (nearly vacuum) and a low temperature (about 400 K). These constraints need to have a catalyst process, here in our apparatus we deal with a plasma source and precursor gases, see (Dobkin and Zuraw...