Structure transformation (disorder-bcc-fcc) in charged colloidal dispersions, as a manifestation of the Ostwald's step rule, was confirmed by means of reflection spectrum (RS) measurements in our previous study. By taking advantage of a reflection spectrum containing plenty of information about the crystallization behaviors, time-dependent changes of parameters associated with the crystal struc...

The formal conception of computation (FCC) holds that computational processes are not sensitive to semantic properties. FCC is popular, but it faces well-known difficulties. Accordingly, authors such as Block and Peacocke pursue a ‘semantically-laden’ alternative, according to which computation can be sensitive to semantics. I argue that computation is insensitive to semantics within a wide ran...

E cient and accurate information retrieval is one of the main issues in multimedia databases. In content-based multimedia retrieval databases, contents or features of the database objects are used for retrieval. To retrieve similar database objects, we often perform a nearest-neighbor search. A nearest-neighbor search is used to retrieve similar database objects with features nearest to the que...

We characterized the diffraction and crystal structure of a crystalline colloidal array (CCA) photonic crystal composed of 270 nm diameter polystyrene spheres which have a nearest neighbor spacing of approximately 540 nm. This CCA diffracts light in first order at approximately 1200 nm and shows strong diffraction in the visible spectral region from higher order planes. We quantitatively examin...

Various iron group alloys have been electrodeposited and evaluated for properties including corrosion resistance, microstructure, electrical resistivity, magnetoresistance and other magnetic properties. Corrosion resistance depends on deposit composition and microstructure, which are controlled by solution composition and deposition variables. Maximum corrosion resistance was observed for 50Ni5...

Giant hysteretic effects in the YHx hydrogen switchable mirror system are observed between x51.9 and x53 in pressure composition isotherms, optical and electrical properties, and mechanical stress. Polycrystalline Y films are studied by simultaneous in situ measurements of electrical resistivity, optical transmittance and x-ray diffractometry. These experiments are linked to optical microscopy ...

Applying pore size analysis, Monte Carlo simulations, and transition state theory, we study the molecular sieving properties of recently discovered crystalline exotic cubic carbon allotropes (Hu et al., J. Phys. Chem. C, 2012, 116, 24233-24238) at 298 K and infinite dilution. The fcc-C10 cubic carbon crystal shows unusual molecular sieving characteristics. The carbon cavities of the fcc-C10 cub...

The main focus of this research was to apply Metabolic Control Analysis to quantitative investigation of the regulation of respiration by components of the Mitochondrial Interactosome (MI, a supercomplex consisting of ATP Synthasome, mitochondrial creatine kinase (MtCK), voltage dependent anion channel (VDAC), and tubulin) in permeabilized cardiomyocytes. Flux control coefficients (FCC) were me...

Recent molecular dynamics simulations of the growth of @Ni0.8Fe0.2 /Au# multilayers have revealed the formation of misfit-strain-reducing dislocation structures very similar to those observed experimentally. Here we report similar simulations showing the formation of edge dislocations near the interfaces of vapor-deposited ~111! @NiFe/CoFe/Cu# multilayers. Unlike misfit dislocations that accomm...

We extend our recent study of adsorption on fcc (112) to fcc (335) surfaces, still considering only first- and second-neighbor interactions with repulsive first-neighbors. We consider the adsorbate-substrate interaction on the step sites of one of the two edges of the infinitely long terraces to be different from that on the remaining sites. The adsorption features on fcc (335) surfaces are ric...