The scaling of the capacitance with radius is explored in detail for neutral atoms, and it is found that they behave much like macroscopic spherical capacitors. The quantum capacitances of atoms scale as a linear function of the mean radii of their highest occupied orbitals. The slopes of the linear scaling lines include a dimensionless constant of proportionality κ that is somewhat analogous t...

–The dielectric property of Nanocrystalline nickel is studied. Ni nanocrystal have been synthesized by the thermal decomposition of the Ni (acac)2 [Nickel (acetylacetonate)2], oleylamine complex as a precursor . Trioctylphosphine [CH3(CH2)7]3P was used as both solvent and surfactant for control the size of the nanoparticles. Characterization of the nanoparticles has been done by the XRD and TEM...

In this paper, the oil-in-gelatin based tissue-mimicking materials (TMMs) doped with carbon based materials including carbon nanotube, graphene ink or lignin were prepared. The volume percent for gelatin based mixtures and oil based mixtures were both around 50%, and the doping amounts were 2 wt %, 4 wt %, and 6 wt %. The effect of doping material and amount on the microwave dielectric properti...

here, the concept of quantum potential that has been illustrated in extended phase space (eps) in previous works is explored for its marginal behavior. unlike in configuration space, different representations of the quantum mechanics can be found in eps when exploiting appropriate canonical transformations. these canonical transformations revealed that there exist several representations in whi...

colloidal quantum dots offer broad tuning of semiconductor band structure via the quantum size effect. in this paper, we present a detailed investigation on the influence of the thickness of colloidal lead sulfide (pbs) nanocrystals (active layer) to the photovoltaic performance of colloidal quantum dot solar cells. the pbs nanocrystals (qds) were synthesized in a non-coordinating solvent, 1-oc...

The separation of slow nuclear and fast electronic polarization in problems related to electron mobility in polarizable media was considered by Pekar 70 years ago. Within dielectric continuum models, this separation leads to the Pekar factor in the free energy of solvation by the nuclear degrees of freedom. The main qualitative prediction of Pekar's perspective is a significant, by about a fact...

Ionic liquids (ILs) are salts with low melting point close to room temperature. They have interesting solvent properties and are able to dissolve some polar molecules. Polyvinyl formal-IL (1-Ethyl-3methylimidazoliumtosylate) nanocomposite electrolyte with layered filler was synthesized by solution cast technique. Changes in surface morphology have been observed using optical microscopy and scan...

Using the picosecond spectra-streak method we monitored the dynamics of preferential solvation of a charge-transfer dipole in binary mixtures of solvents strongly different in dielectric constant. The observed slow (0.25-l ns) spectra1 red-shift of the charge-transfer (exciplex) fluorescence is considered to be mainly due to the formation and the dielectric enrichment of the salvation shell aro...

Strong quantum confinement and low dielectric screening impart single-walled carbon nanotubes with exciton-binding energies substantially exceeding kBT at room temperature. Despite these large binding energies, reported photoluminescence quantum yields are typically low and some studies suggest that photoexcitation of carbon nanotube excitonic transitions can produce free charge carriers. Here ...

A statistical thermodynamic development is given of a new implicit solvent model that avoids the traditional system size limitations of computer simulation of macromolecular solutions with periodic boundary conditions. This implicit solvent model is based upon the quasi-chemical approach, distinct from the common integral equation trunk of the theory of liquid solutions. The idea is geometrical...