Graphite and hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) are two prominent members of the family of layered materials possessing a hexagonal lattice structure. While graphite has nonpolar homonuclear C-C intralayer bonds, h-BN presents highly polar B-N bonds resulting in different optimal stacking modes of the two materials in the bulk form. Furthermore, the static polarizabilities of the constituent atoms ...

This study examines the role of cavitation in drying cementitious materials. Classical nucleation theory is used to understand and parameters that influence pressures. The water desorption isotherms indicate both heterogeneous homogeneous occur during saturated cement pastes commonly observed large moisture loss at 0.3 pv/psat can be explained by cavitation. suggested gel porosity inner product...

A model with interlayer pairing is proposed to explain the sinusoidal modulation of the resonant neutron scattering in high temperature superconductors. It is found that the interlayer pairing has s-wave symmetry in the CuO2 plane and has comparable magnitude with the d-wave intralayer pairing. It is also found that the interlayer pairing mainly affects momentum close to the hot spots on the Fe...

We investigate the relationship of the spontaneously interlayer coherent ‘‘111’’ state of quantum Hall bilayers at total filling factor n51 to ‘‘mutual’’ composite fermions, in which vortices in one layer are bound to electrons in the other. Pairing of the mutual composite fermions leads to the low-energy properties of the 111 state, as we explicitly demonstrate using field-theoretic techniques...

Abstract Single- and multilayer graphene sheets (MLGSs) are projectile-resisting materials that can be bombarded by nanoparticles to produce graphene sheets of various sizes and distributions of nanopores. These sheets are used in a variety of applications, including DNA sequencing, water desalination, and phase separation. Here, the impact-withstanding efficiency of graphene nanosheets and the...

In this paper, we investigate the effect of self-awareness (interlayer interaction) for information-epidemic dynamics with simplicial complexes both near and away from epidemic threshold. It is shown that, contrary to previous views, plays a key role small homogeneous networks, multiple susceptibility peaks can emerge in layer under combined self-awareness, even two types completely opposite me...

Cu foam has previously been investigated and verified to be an excellent interlayer candidate for relieving high residual stress within C/C composite-Nb brazed joints. However, the optimized geometric structure of brazing never properly since it was always employed as a reactant acquiring homogeneous distribution interfacial structures in In this work, graphene reinforced composite (G-Cu f ) in...

In this paper, the top-contact (TC) pentacene-based organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) with a tetrafluorotetracyanoquinodimethane (F₄TCNQ)-doped pentacene interlayer between the source/drain electrodes and the pentacene channel layer were fabricated using the co-evaporation method. Compared with a pentacene-based OTFT without an interlayer, OTFTs with an F₄TCNQ:pentacene ratio of 1:1 showed co...

Magnetic interlayer coupling is one of the central phenomena in spintronics. It has been predicted that the sign of interlayer coupling can be manipulated by electric fields, instead of electric currents, thereby offering a promising low energy magnetization switching mechanism. Here we present the experimental demonstration of voltage-controlled interlayer coupling in a new perpendicular magne...

In many layered metals, coherent propagation of electronic excitations is often confined to the highly conducting planes. While strong electron correlations and/or proximity to an ordered phase are believed to be the drivers of this electron confinement, it is still not known what triggers the loss of interlayer coherence in a number of layered systems with strong magnetic fluctuations, such as...