Over the past few decades, prospect of energy generation from an oscillating piezoelectric patch has gained attention. A typical setup this kind would be a mounted on flexible plate that is exhibiting self-sustained flapping motion. Piezoelectric patches are generally multilayered consisting piezoelectric, substrate and electrode layers placed top each other. In paper, we first propose quasi-mo...

Boehm and Martire have shown that the Flory-Huggins (FH) lattice model applied to mixtures of squares and rigid rods in solvent on a two dimensional lattice gives different results depending on whether rods or squares are placed first onto the lattice. This correct derivation places the validity of the FH model itself into question since the final result should be independent of the order of pl...

Cobalt-doping a NiTi layered double hydroxide affords CoNiTi-LDH with smaller plate sizes and higher degree of order, which allows the band gap to shrink from 2.7 eV 2.4 eV. is active for both water oxidation reduction.

We investigated the effects of elastic heterogeneity on coseismic deformation associated with the 2011 Tohoku-oki earthquake, Japan, using a 3-D finite element model, incorporating the geometry of regional plate boundaries. Using a forward approach, we computed displacement fields for different elastic models with a given slip distribution. Three main structural models are considered to separat...