We have investigated thermal conductivity of graphene laminate films deposited on polyethylene terephthalate substrates. Two types of graphene laminate were studied, as deposited and compressed, in order to determine the physical parameters affecting the heat conduction the most. The measurements were performed using the optothermal Raman technique and a set of suspended samples with the graphe...

We present fast sintering for silver (Ag) nanoparticle (NP) and flake layers printed using roll-to-roll (R2R) gravure printing. An infrared (IR) sintering module was applied to an R2R system to shorten the sintering duration of an R2R gravure-printed Ag layer. IR sintering of the conductive layer was improved by optimising the process condition. After printing of the Ag NP and Ag flake layers, ...

Bottom-up assembly of two-dimensional (2D) materials into macroscale morphologies with emergent properties requires control the material surroundings, so that energetically favorable conditions direct process. MXenes, a class recently developed 2D materials, have found new applications in areas such as electrochemical energy storage, nanoscale electronics, sensors, and biosensors. In this paper...

flake (flk), an N-ethyl-N-nitrosourea-induced recessive germ line mutation of C57BL/6 mice, impairs the clearance of skin infections by Streptococcus pyogenes and Staphylococcus aureus, gram-positive pathogens that elicit innate immune responses by activating Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2). Positional cloning and sequencing revealed that flk is a novel allele of the stearoyl coenzyme A desaturase ...

Hydroxyapatite formation was examined at the surface of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) modified with four functional groups, -COOH, -NH(2), -CH(3), and -OH. For COOH-SAM and NH(2)-SAM, scanning electron spectroscopic observation showed that flake-like sheet crystals covered the whole wafer and small broccoli-like crystals were observed occasionally on the flake-like crystal base layer. For CH...

This paper reviewed several recent progresses of the new powder metallurgy technology known as flake (FPM) including different processing routes, conventional FPM (C-FPM), slurry blending (SB), shift-speed ball milling (SSBM), and high-shear pre-dispersion SSBM (HSPD/SSBM). The name was derived from use metal powders obtained by low-speed (LSBM) spherical powder. In this case, uniformity reinfo...

Remarkable properties of layered metal dichalcogenides and their potential applications in various fields have raised intense interest worldwide. We report tens of microns-sized ultrathin single crystal SnS2 flakes grown on amorphous substrates using a simple one-step thermal coevaporation process. X-ray pole figure analysis reveals that a majority of flakes are oriented with the (0001) plane p...

We report the experimental evidence for the formation of multi-quantum dots in a hydrogenated single-layer graphene flake. The existence of multi-quantum dots is supported by the low-temperature measurements on a field effect transistor structure device. The resulting Coulomb blockade diamonds shown in the color scale plot together with the number of Coulomb peaks exhibit the characteristics of...

Flake fractures of the talus are uncommon injuries, usually associated with marked inversion or eversion of’ the foot and ankle, coupled with tearing of the medial [internal laterals or the lateral [fibuiar collateral] ligament or of both ligaments. \Vatson-Jones (1943), relating ninety-seven cases of fracture and fracture-dislocation of the talus and navicular hone in the Royal Air Force in tw...