The influence of solvent on the temperature sensitivity of the electrode potential of thermally-chargeable supercapacitors (TCSs) is investigated. For large electrodes, the output voltage is positively correlated with the dielectric constant of solvent. When nanoporous carbon electrodes are used, different characteristics of system performance are observed, suggesting that possible size effects...

Thermally induced birefringence in laser crystals limits the power and beam quality of high-power solid-state lasers and amplifiers. It is known, that 100-cut Nd:YAG crystals have less thermally induced depolarization that 111-cut ones [1]. Using a scheme with two rods, imaging telescope and a 90° rotator [2] allows to compensate for the depolarization. In contrast to 111-cut rod, pump heating ...

Jiro Kumaki,1 Takeji Hashimoto,1,2 and Steve Granick3 1Hashimoto Polymer Phasing Project, ERATO, JRDC, Keihanna Plaza, Seika, Kyoto 619-02, Japan 2Division of Polymer Chemistry, Graduate School of Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-01, Japan 3Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 (Received 27 February 1996) Phase separation occurre...

We present a study of a phase-separation process induced by the presence of spatially correlated multiplicative noise. We develop a mean-field approach suitable for conserved-order-parameter systems and use it to obtain the phase diagram of the model. Mean-field results are compared with numerical simulations of the complete model in two dimensions. Additionally, a comparison between the noise-...

Phase separation in lipid bilayers that include negatively charged lipids is examined experimentally. We observed phase-separated structures and determined the membrane miscibility temperatures in several binary and ternary lipid mixtures of unsaturated neutral lipid, dioleoylphosphatidylcholine (DOPC), saturated neutral lipid, dipalmitoylphosphatidylcholine (DPPC), unsaturated charged lipid, d...

Understanding the phase separation mechanism of solid-state binary compounds induced by laser-material interaction is a challenge because of the complexity of the compound materials and short processing times. Here we present xenon chloride excimer laser-induced melt-mediated phase separation and surface reconstruction of single-crystal silicon carbide and study this process by high-resolution ...