Marine Physical Laboratory, SIO, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0238, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Marine Physical Laboratory, SIO,UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0238, USA, e-mail: [email protected] Marine Physical Laboratory, SIO, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0238, USA, e-mail: [email protected] SACLANT Undersea Research Centre, 19138 La Spezia, Italy, e-mail: [email protected] Marine Physical Laboratory, SI...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS Silica-coated magnetic nanoparticle (SiO(2)-MNP) prepared by the sol-gel method was studied as a nanocarrier for targeted delivery of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). The nanocarrier consists of a superparamagnetic iron oxide core and an SiO(2) shell and is characterized by transmission electron microscopy, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction, su...

BACKGROUND Rice husk, an agricultural bioresource, is utilized as a non-metallic bio-precursor to synthesize biogenic hierarchical TiO₂/SiO₂ (BH-TiO₂/SiO₂) and the products are applied to dye degradation. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS The as-prepared BH-TiO₂/SiO₂ samples are characterized by X-ray diffraction(XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS), nitrogen-adsorption measurement, UV-vi...

The precise design of Si-based materials at the nanometer scale is a quite complex issue but of utmost importance for their present and potential applications. This paper reports the first attempt to address the electrochemical reduction of SiO₂ at the nanometer scale. SiO₂ nanoparticles are first covered with a uniform carbon layer with controlled thickness at an accuracy of a few nanometers, ...

Ultra-thin silicon dioxide films have been deposited on an oxygen-covered Mo(ll0) surface at room temperature by evaporating silicon in an oxygen background (1 X 10W5 Torr). The growth mechanism and structural properties of the 50, films were characterized with temperature programmed desorption, Auger electron, electron energy loss, and infrared reflection-absorption spectroscopies. The interac...

In order to clearly understand the details of ZrO₂ formation during ablation, high intensity continuous laser was chosen to irradiate ZrB₂/SiC. The results reveal that there are two different modes of ZrO₂ formation depending on whether liquid SiO₂ is present. When liquid SiO₂ is present, ZrO₂ generated by the oxidation of ZrB₂ is firstly dissolved into SiO₂. Then, ZrO₂ will precipitate again, ...

We developed plasmonic dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) with tailor-designed Au-TiO₂ nanostructures integrated into the photoanode. Mutually antagonistic Au-TiO₂ core-shell structures supported on SiO₂ spheres (SiO₂@TiO₂@AuNP and SiO₂@AuNP@TiO₂) were prepared and incorporated as additives into the photoanodes of the DSSCs. The DSSCs employing the nanocrystalline-TiO₂ (nc-TiO₂)/SiO₂@TiO₂@AuNP ...

We have developed a non–local radiative transfer code to study the effects of line overlaps between different molecular species on the emergent line intensities from interstellar and circumstellar clouds. The numerical method solves the transfer of radiation and the statistical equilibrium populations for the different molecules simultaneously, and allows a direct comparison between the intensi...

We present the results of SiO millimeter-line observations of a sample of known SiO maser sources covering a wide dust-temperature range. A cold part of the sample was selected from the SiO maser sources found in our recent SiO maser survey of cold dusty objects. The aim of the present research is to investigate the causes of the correlation between infrared colors and SiO maser intensity ratio...

Using the Plateau de Bure interferometer, we searched for thermal SiO J=1-2 absorption at 86 GHz from the diffuse and translucent clouds which lie toward our sample of extragalactic continuum sources. SiO is present at a level N(SiO)/N(HCO+) ≈ 0.01 − 0.1, or N(SiO)/N(H2) ≈ 2 × 10−11 − 2 × 10−10. N(SiO) declines with increasing N(HCO+) and with increasing thermal pressure measured in the J=1-0 l...