A stretchable cotton–Ag nanowire–poly(dimethylsiloxane) (cotton–AgNWs–PDMS) conductor was fabricated by embedding the unique binary conductive network structure of cotton–AgNWs in PDMS through a simple dip-coating method. The binary conductive network structure was constructed based on cotton which had an interconnected and junction-free macroporous structure as the skeleton to support the two ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of introducing a safer non-touch suturing technique into an inner city emergency department. METHODS The rate of glove perforation, measured by electrical conductance, was used as a marker. Gloves (Bodyguards) used in suturing were collected over a two month period. Two half day suture workshops were then conducted in the emergency department and gloves were col...

We study point-contact tunneling in the integer quantum Hall state of bosons. This symmetry-protected topological state has electrical Hall conductivity equal to 2e/h and vanishing thermal Hall conductivity. In contrast to the integer quantum Hall state of fermions, a point contact can have a dramatic effect on the low energy physics. In the absence of disorder, a point-contact generically lead...

Molecular electronics is considered a promising approach for future nanoelectronic devices. In order that molecular junctions can be used as electrical switches or even memory devices, they need to be actuated between two distinct conductance states in a controlled and reproducible manner by external stimuli. Here we present a tripodal platform with a cantilever arm and a nitrile group at its e...

The conductance of multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) was found to be quantized. The experimental method involved measuring the conductance of nanotubes by replacing the tip of a scanning probe microscope with a nanotube fiber, which could be lowered into a liquid metal to establish a gentle electrical contact with a nanotube at the tip of the fiber. The conductance of arc-produced MWNTs is o...

A thermo-cyclically operated multi metal oxide gas sensor (MOG) array is introduced together with a novel signal analysis approach (SimSens) for identifying the emissions from overheated isolation cable materials thereby detecting the fires originated in electrical cabinets at early stages. The MOG array can yield specific conductance signatures appropriate to specifically identify gases. The o...

We report emergence of a new electrical material by growing photosynthetic biofilm on a Dirac material, graphene. The material showed new conducting as well as semiconducting properties. Frequency dependent capacitive spectra further indicated presence of electrical isosbestic points(at 0.8 and 9MHz), implying two state dieletric transitions at critical frequencies. A notable reult was a Schott...

Gold nanoparticle (Au NP) mirrors, which exhibit both high reflectance and electrical conductance, were self-assembled at a [heptane + 1,2-dichloroethane]/water liquid/liquid interface. The highest reflectance, as observed experimentally and confirmed by finite difference time domain calculations, occurred for Au NP films consisting of 60 nm diameter NPs and approximate monolayer surface covera...

We give an elementary, self-contained, and purely combinatorial proof of the Rayleigh monotonicity property of graphs. Consider a (linear, resistive) electrical network – this is a connected graph G = (V,E) and a set of positive real numbers y = {ye : e ∈ E} indexed by E. In this paper we allow graphs to have loops and/or multiple edges. The value of ye is interpreted as the electrical conducta...

The method of Greenwood and Williamson is extended to give a general solution for the coupled nonlinear problem of steady-state electrical and thermal conduction across an interface between two conductors of dissimilar materials, for both of which the electrical resistivity and thermal conductivity are functions of temperature. The method presented is sufficiently general to cover all combinati...