We present ultra low-cycle fatigue experiments of axisymmetric nano-crystalline gold films of nano-thickness deformed by a spherical indenter using a recently developed freestanding membrane test. Freestanding membranes of gold were centrally deflected using a spherical indenter attached to a MEMS load cell. Fabrication of the films for these experiments yielded films 100 nm thick and 500 μm in...

Normal aging is typically characterized by abnormal resting-state functional connectivity (FC), including decreasing connectivity within networks and increasing connectivity between networks, under the assumption that the FC over the scan time was stationary. In fact, the resting-state FC has been shown in recent years to vary over time even within minutes, thus showing the great potential of i...

Ruiying Li 1,2,*, Qiang Dong 1, Chong Jin 1 and Rui Kang 1,2 1 School of Reliability and Systems Engineering, Beihang University, No. 37, Xue Yuan Road, Beijing 100191, China; [email protected] (Q.D.); [email protected] (C.J.); [email protected] (R.K.) 2 Science and Technology on Reliability and Environmental Engineering Laboratory, No. 37, Xue Yuan Road, Beijing 100191, China * Corres...

I review the ways that have been proposed to measure the quark transversity distribution in the nucleon. I then explain a proposal, developed by Xuemin Jin, Jian Tang and myself, to measure transversity through the final state interaction between two mesons (ππ, KK, or πK) produced in the current fragmentation region in deep inelastic scattering on a transversely polarized nucleon.

Surface ligands play critical roles in nano-synthesis and thus it is of great importance expanding the scope suitable ligands. In this work, we explore phenynyl modulating Au-Au interface when growing Au domains on seeds. A patchy growth mode observed where emerging islands are flat-laying with holes branches. This distinctively different from conventional facet-controlled using weak ligands, n...

The resonance behavior of localized surface plasmons in silver and gold nanoparticles was studied in the visible and near-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Arrays of nano-sized gold (Au) and silver (Ag) particles with different properties were produced with electron-beam lithography technique over glass substrates. The effect of the particle size, shape variations, period, thick...