Archaeologists are increasingly in need of quantitative measures of stone artefact retouch. Existing techniques fail to provide a generic measure of retouching for all chipped stone artefacts. A fast and reliable index is proposed which measures retouch in terms of the invasiveness of flake scars on the surfaces of complete stone artefacts. Unlike other measures, the index of invasiveness is we...

Flake-like Al-doped ZnO (AZO) nanostructures including dense AZO nanorods were obtained via a low-temperature (100°C) hydrothermal process. By doping and varying Al concentrations, the electrical conductivity (σ) and morphology of the AZO nanostructures can be readily controlled. The effect of σ and morphology of the AZO nanostructures on the performance of the inverted organic solar cells (IOS...

Predicting original flake mass is a major goal of lithic analysis. allows for researchers to make estimations remaining mass, lost and other features. All these measures relate the organization technology by past societies. The present work tests three different models predict log mass: multiple linear regression, random forest artificial neural networks (ANN). Estimations were performed using ...

Charge Transport in Organic Field-Effect Transistors In article number 2101701, Lukas Renn, Thomas Weitz, and co-workers develop organic transistor devices consisting of a monolayer-thin perylene-diimide n-type semiconductor on rectangular shaped h-BN flake. For some the semiconducting film is encapsulated between layers by stamping an additional flake top. transport measurements show signs int...

We report the colloidal synthesis of 2D SnTe nanosheets through precursor hot injection in a nonpolar solvent. During reaction, an important intermediate─Sn-template─is formed which defines confined growth SnTe. This “flake-like” structure gives first evidence for possible morphology formation prior to anion (TOP-Te). Additionally, we explore role each ligand reaction process. Thus, explain and...

Tantalum disulfide nanosheets have attracted great interest due to its electronic properties and device applications. Traditional solution-ased ultrasonic process is limited by ultrasound which may cause the disintegration into submicron-sized flake. Here, an efficient multi-step intercalation and ultrasound-free process has been successfully used to exfoliate 1T-TaS2. The obtained TaS2 nanoshe...

Two types of graphene oxide fibers are spun from high concentration aqueous dopes. Fibers extruded from large flake graphene oxide dope without drawing show unconventional 100% knot efficiency. Fibers spun from small sized graphene oxide dope with stable and continuous drawing yield in good intrinsic alignment with a record high tensile modulus of 47 GPa.

Bi2WO6 nanostructures were synthesized by a hydrothermal route, where the effect of various experimental parameters on the products was investigated. It is demonstrated that the sample morphology and size is highly dependent on the NaOH content (or pH value). At C NaOH = 0-0.0175 mol (pH range of 1-4), the prepared samples present flower-like hierarchical microspheres which are constructed from...

Single-layer oriented strand panels were fabricated under a combination of three alignment levels, four densities, and two resin contents. Flake orientation, density gradient across panel thickness, linear expansion (LE), and bending properties were measured. Flake orientation was characterized with the von Mises distribution using mean flake angle and concentration parameter. It was shown that...