Dispersing graphite into few-layers graphene sheets (GS) in water is very appealing as an environmental-friendly, low-cost, low-energy method of obtaining graphene. Very high GS concentrations in water (0.7 mg mL(-1)) were obtained by optimizing the nature of dispersant and the type of ultra-sonic generator. We find that a multi-step sonication procedure involving both tip and bath sources cons...

With the widespread and increasing use of data warehousing in industry, the design of effective data warehouses and their maintenance has become a focus of attention. Independently of this, the area of temporal databases has been an active area of research for well beyond a decade. This article identifies shortcomings of so-called star schemas, which are widely used in industrial warehousing, i...

There is a growing number of different research fields that are concerned with bibliographic data analysis. In many cases, data of interest can be described as heterogeneous information networks. To explore knowledge from that networks in a multidimensinal way, OLAP (Online Analytical Processing) analysis helps users to access data from different points of views. The ability of OLAP for analyzi...

Microfibers composed of azobenzene-based photochromic amorphous molecular materials, namely low molecular-mass photochromic materials with a glass-forming property, could be fabricated. These fibers were found to exhibit mechanical bending motion upon irradiation with a laser beam. In addition, the bending direction could be controlled by altering the polarization direction of the irradiated li...

One region of the electromagnetic spectrum that is relatively unexploited for materials characterization is the millimeter wave band frequencies roughly between 40 and 300 GHz . Millimeter wave techniques involve free-space noncontacting measurements which have a length scale that makes them ideal for characterizing bulk properties of multicomponent composites where the scale of homogeneity is ...

We show theoretically that networks of membrane memcapacitive systems-capacitors with memory made out of membrane materials-can be used to perform a complete set of logic gates in a massively parallel way by simply changing the external input amplitudes, but not the topology of the network. This polymorphism is an important characteristic of memcomputing (computing with memories) that closely r...

Reconfigurable nanostructures represent an exciting new direction for materials. Applications of reversible transformations between nanostructures induced by molecular conformations under external fields can be found in a broad range of advanced technologies including smart materials, electromagnetic sensors, and drug delivery. With recent breakthroughs in synthesis and fabrication techniques, ...

Introduction: Most modern electronic devices are solid state devices, the active components of which are constructed essentially entirely of inorganic materials. To date, and excepting important applications such as photo-resists in lithography, organic materials have played a rather secondary role in this technology. This situation is changing and considerable interest has developed in the pas...

The challenge of the semantic web is the provision of distributed information with well-defined meaning, understandable for different parties. e-Learning is efficient task relevant and just-in-time learning grown from the learning requirements of the new dynamically changing, distributed business world. In this paper we design an e-Learning system by using a semantic web and show how the semant...

Triangle meshes have a very strong position in the computer graphics. They are getting more popular even in the field of erosion simulation, where the volumetric representation used to prevail. The real-life erosion scenes are usually formed of multiple materials and so a reliable means of material definition is needed. This paper proposes several easy-to-use approaches for multiple material de...