This Review discusses nanoskiving--a simple and inexpensive method of nanofabrication, which minimizes requirements for access to cleanrooms and associated facilities, and which makes it possible to fabricate nanostructures from materials, and of geometries, to which more familiar methods of nanofabrication are not applicable. Nanoskiving requires three steps: 1) deposition of a metallic, semic...

Hydrogels with tunable electrical and mechanical properties have a wide range of biological applications in tissue engineering, biosensing, and biorobotics. In this work, palladium-based metallic glass sub-micron wires (PdMGSMWs) were employed to enhance the conductivity and mechanical strength of gelatin methacryloyl (GelMA) gels. The values of electrical resistivity and stiffness of hybrid Ge...

The study of the strength of correlations in NaxCoO2 is extended to the x = 0 end of the phase diagram where Mott insulating behavior has been widely anticipated. Inclusion of correlation as modeled by the LDA+U approach leads to a Mott transition in the ag subband if U≥Uc=2.5 eV. Thus U smaller than Uc is required to model the metallic, nonmagnetic CoO2 compound reported by Tarascon and cowork...

We provide a numerical tool to quantitatively study the impact of nonlocality arising from free electrons in metals on the optical properties of metallo-dielectric multilayers. We found that scattering matrices are particularly well suited to take into account the electron response through the application of the hydrodynamic model. Though effects due to nonlocality are, in general, quite small,...

We investigate the hydrogen adsorbing characteristics of single-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) through fundamental molecular dynamics simulations that characterize the role of ambient pressure and temperature, the presence of surface charges on the CNTs, inclusion of metal ion interconnects, and nanocapillary effects. While the literature suggests that hydrogen spillover due to the presence of ...

We examined two Ayurvedic Rasayana formulations, claimed to facilitate ‘healthy ageing’, for their role in neuroprotection in fly models of polyQ (127Q and Huntington’s) and Alzheimer’s disorders. Our earlier findings showed that dietary supplement of Amalaki Rasayana, a preparation derived from Indian gooseberry fruits, and Rasa-Sindoor, an organo-metallic Bhasma prepared from mercury and sulp...

To achieve high selectivity for catalytic reactions between two or more reactants on a heterogeneous catalyst, the relative concentrations of the reactive intermediates on the surface must be optimized. If species compete for binding sites, their concentrations depend on their relative binding strengths to the surface. In this article we describe a general framework for predicting the relative ...

A first-principles approach to magnetic properties of diluted magnetic semiconductors (DMS) is presented that is based on the local spin-density approximation (LSDA) as implemented in the framework of the tight-binding linear muffin-tin orbital method, while the effect of randomness is described by the coherent potential approximation. Application of a real-space Greenfunction formalism yields ...