In order to study the importance of surface phonons on the electron-phonon relaxation in plasmonic nanoparticles, the effect of size, shape, and materials have recently been studied. Gold and silver nanoparticles have shown no dependence on size and shape while copper nanoparticles have shown some size dependence. This suggests that the bulk phonons, which are sensitive to the bulk-phase struct...

Nuclear emulsions of the Ilford K series, exposed to X-rays from 15 to 150 kVp and systematically underdeveloped, exhibit supralinear blackness--exposure curves ranging from 1- to 4-hit in character, and whose shape is the same at all excitation voltages. Processing can be so adjusted that the curve shape is well represented by the alpha--beta model, and matches an experimental dose--response c...

[1] In this, the first of a pair of papers which address the simulation and automated measurement of well-sorted natural granular material, a method is presented for simulation of two-phase (solid, void) assemblages of discrete non-cohesive particles. The purpose is to have a flexible, yet computationally and theoretically simple, suite of tools with well constrained and well known statistical ...

An elastoviscoplastic finite element model of aluminum alloys is used to compare mechanical response among meshes formed with several different grain shapes. Tetrahedral elements are used to form grains of cubic, rhombic dodecahedral and truncated octahedral shape. The influence of the grain shape on the aggregate response is examined in terms of the stress variation and the aggregate elastic m...

An attempt was made to adapt the domain-wall size model to the explanation of magnetization mechanisms in real polycrystalline hard ferrites (SrFelzOle). Some new data concerning the total anisotropy specifically for polycrystals were discussed and its value deduced from natural spin resonance measurements. It was observed that samples with different Heg grain size and shape, can present differ...

Introduction: Ice grain size controls the geodynamic evolution of the ice I shells of large to mid-sized icy satellites. Grain size controls the viscosity of ice [1,2], and thus, the heat flux from the outer ice I shell by controlling the likelihood and efficiency of convection. In addition, the rheology of ice controls the depth to the brittle/ductile transition, which is a key control on endo...

based on the randic suggestion of the resolution of a structure into shape, size, and function an index representing structure-catabolic fate relationships of amino acids is constructed. the index obtained by multiplying three factors; (nb2 + nr), nc and m; representing shape, size and function respectively, where nb2 = number of double bonds, nr = number of rings, nc = number of carbon atoms, ...