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Heat-capacity and neutron-diffraction studies of HD monolayers physisorbed on graphite
1992
Abstract The phase diagram of HD monolayers physisorbed on graphite is studied in detail by using heat-capacity and neutron-diffraction measurements. The following features are observed: At low coverages the system forms a commensurate (C) (√3 × √3)R30° phase and at coverages near monolayer completion an incommensurate (IC) two-dimensional solid phase. The order-disorder transition of the C phase belongs to the three-state Potts universality class. The C-IC transition occurs via two intermediate phases, i.e., the α phase and a novel phase, which is interpreted as an α-IC coexistence region. Though the molecule HD is a strongly incoherent neutron scatterer, for the first time elastic neutron…
Light-emitting electrochemical cells based on a supramolecularly-caged phenanthroline-based iridium complex.
2011
The complex [Ir(ppy)(2)(pphen)][PF(6)] (Hppy = 2-phenylpyridine, pphen = 2-phenyl-1,10-phenanthroline) has been prepared and evaluated as an electroluminescent component for light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs). Like in analogous LECs using bpy-based iridium(III) complexes a significant enhancement of the device stability is observed.
Photoinduced phenomena in corona poled polar organic films.
2005
Abstract Organic materials have received considerable attention because of their large dipole moments and optical nonlinearities. The optically induced switching of material properties is important for studying the optoelectronic effects including second harmonic generation. Organic materials for photonic applications contain chromophore dipole which consist of acceptor and donor groups bridged by a delocalized π-electron system. Both theoretical and experimental data show a reversible highly dipolar photoinduced intra molecular charge transfer in betaine type molecules accompanied by change of the sign and the value of the dipole moment. The arrangement of polar molecules in films is studi…
Gaseous sensors based on solid proton conductors
1992
Abstract he chemical sensors for different gaseous (alcohol, acetone, ammonia, water vapour) detection at room temperature are developed by using polycrystalline β-alumina and xerogel of antimonic acid hydrate (AAH). The sensitivity and selectivity of sensors depend on the ion-exchange and preparative methods. The possibility of producing different types of potentiometric, amperometric, voltammetric and resistance sensors on the basis of these ion-conducting materials is shown. More success is achieved by producing ammonia-sensitive devices on β-alumina as well as on AAH xerogel.
Semi-empirical simulations of surface relaxation for perovskite titanates
2000
The (100) and (110) surface relaxations are calculated for SrTiO 3 and BaTiO 3 perovskite thin films. By means of a semi-empirical shell model, the positions of atoms in 16 near-surface layers placed atop a slab of rigid ions are calculated. Surface rumpling and surface-induced dipole moments are calculated for all possible surface terminations. Our results for the (100) surface structure are in good agreement with ab-initio plane-wave pseudopotential calculations and LEED experiments. The surface energy for the Ba-, Sr-, TiO-terminated (110) surfaces is found to be much larger than that for the (100) surface. In contrast, the surface energy for the asymmetric O termination, where outermost…
Ultrafast Twisting of the Indoline Donor Unit Utilized in Solar Cell Dyes: Experimental and Theoretical Studies
2015
Previous time-resolved measurements on D149, the most-studied dye of the indoline family, had shown a fast time-component of 20–40 ps that had tentatively been attributed to structural relaxation. Using femtosecond transient absorption, we have investigated the isolated indoline donor unit (i.e., without acceptor group) and found an ultrafast decay characterized by two lifetimes of 3.5 and 23 ps. Density functional theory calculations show π-bonding and π*-antibonding character of the central ethylene group for the highest occupied and lowest unoccupied molecular orbitals (HOMO and LUMO), respectively. The LUMO is localized on the flexible vinyl-diphenyl region of the donor unit and a twist…
Template induced crystallization of biominerals on self-assembled monolayers of alkylthiols
1998
Abstract We have studied the templated crystallization of the three polymorphs of calcium carbonate on self-assembled monolayers of ω -substituted alkylthiols on gold surfaces. Our interest has been to model biomineralization processes by examining the effect of structured organic templates on heterogeneous nucleation at the inorganic–organic interphase. The crystallization of the three polymorphs was carried out from solution at two different temperatures. The crystals that were formed on the surface were examined using scanning electron microscopy. Phase quantification was achieved through Rietveld analysis of the X-ray diffraction profiles. This study provides significant clues on factor…
Calculations of the atomic structure of the KNbO3 (110) surface
2000
Abstract The O-terminated KNbO 3 (110) surface is modeled using a semi-empirical shell model and two different short-range interatomic potentials. We find this surface to be unstable with respect to a strong reconstruction and K-termination. This conclusion is confirmed by preliminary calculations using the ab initio linear combination of atomic orbitals (LCAO) formalism.
Characterization of MCM-48 Materials
2000
Mesoporous molecular sieves of MCM-48 type were prepared by conventional hydrothermal and novel room temperature syntheses. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) studies have shown that nonagglomerate...
Fast microscopic method for large scale determination of structure, morphology, and quality of thin colloidal crystals.
2006
We present a novel fast microscopic method to analyze the crystal structures of air-dried or suspended colloidal multilayer systems. Once typical lattice spacings of such films are in the range of visible light, characteristic Bragg scattering patterns are observed. If in microscopic observations these are excluded from image construction, a unique color coding for regions of different structures, morphologies, and layer numbers results. Incoherently scattering defect structures, however, may not be excluded from image construction and thus remain visible with high resolution.