Using self-assembled block copolymers as templates, catalytically active nanostructures with controlled size and space have been produced. A self-assembled polystyrene-b-polyferrocenylsilane thin film and monolayer of surface micelles of cobalt-complexed polystyrene-b-poly(2-vinylpyridine) are fully compatible with novolac-based conventional photoresists. Combining bottom-up self-assembly of ca...

This paper is concerned with the airway closure problem and investigates the quasi-steady deformation characteristics of strongly collapsed (buckled) airways occluded by liquid bridges of high surface tension. The airway wall is modeled as a thin-walled elastic shell, which deforms in response to an external pressure and to the compression due to the surface tension of the liquid bridge. The go...

We discuss the design and performance of a threshold Cerenkov counter for identiication of charged hadrons. The radiator is pressurized gas, which is contained in thin-walled cylindrical modules. A mirror system of novel design transports Cerenkov photons to photomultiplier tubes. This system is compact, contains relatively little material, and has a large fraction of active volume. A prototype...

Constitutive laws for shape-memory alloys subjected to multiaxial loading, which are based on direct experimental observations, are generally not available in the literature. Accordingly, in the present work, tension–torsion tests are conducted on thin-walled tubes (thickness/radius ratio of 1:10) of the polycrystalline superelastic/shape-memory alloy Nitinol using various loading/unloading pat...

Closed-form expressions for the Cauchy stress, microstress, moment-stress, and the torque-twist relationship in a twisted hollow circular tube are derived for a rigid-plastic strain-gradient plasticity. This is accomplished for any of the gradient-enhanced effective plastic strain measures from a considered broad class of these measures. Numerical results are given and discussed for the two mos...

Langmuir-Blodgett deposition has been used to form thin film networks of both metallic and semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes. These have been investigated to understand their physical, optical, and morphological properties. The electrical conductivities over the temperature range 80-350 K and across electrode gaps of 220 nm and 2 mm have been explored. In the case of semiconducting ...

We report femtosecond transient absorption kinetics measured for selected semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes at different temperatures between 77 and 290 K. The nanotubes are embedded in a thin polymethylmethacrylate film, and the dominance of individual species enabled to probe selectively the kinetics associated with two desired tube types, the (6,5) and (7,5) tubes. A strikingly s...