Concrete is seldom saturated due to its self-desiccation. Even the submerged concrete structures may remain unsaturated for quite a long time. It has been reported the saturation level of pore solution has significant effect on species penetration. However, very little work was proposed regarding the transport properties and serviceability of concrete structures made of blended cementitious mat...

This is a study of modeling urban environments from TM satellite images. Urban environments are so heterogeneous. It is necessary to simplify them as combinations of basic land cover materials in order to enable quantitative studies. The V-I-S model proposed by Ridd in 1995 is a conceptual model to simplify urban environments as combination of three basic ground components: vegetation, impervio...

A facile approach to synthesize Zn(x)Cu(y)InS(1.5+x+0.5y) nanocrystal emitters was presented. The compositions of these nanocrystals were precisely controlled, and the relative PL quantum yields were up to 40%, with tunable emissions in 450-640 nm.

Ba ferrite films with non-stoichiometric composition were deposited using Facing Targets Sputtering apparatus. The films with well c-axis orientation and remarkable perpendicular anisotropy were attained even at the substrate temperature below 600°C. Sufficiently large saturation magnetization 4 w o f 3.7 kGand small crystallite size below 20 nm were attained using the targets with Fe-excessive...

Finding new materials with targeted properties has traditionally been guided by intuition, and trial and error. With increasing chemical complexity, the combinatorial possibilities are too large for an Edisonian approach to be practical. Here we show how an adaptive design strategy, tightly coupled with experiments, can accelerate the discovery process by sequentially identifying the next exper...

In the field of metallic materials with amorphous structures, it is vitally important to understand the glass formation and to predict glass-forming ability (GFA) in terms of constituent elements and alloy compositions. In this study, an expression has been formulated from first-principles calculations to predict the trend of GFA by hybridizing both internal energies and atomic-scale defect str...

We present in this Letter a novel small set of ordered structures (SSOS) method that allows extremely efficient ab initio modeling of random multicomponent alloys. Using inverse II-III spinel oxides and equiatomic quinary bcc (so-called high entropy) alloys as examples, we demonstrate that a SSOS can achieve the same accuracy as a large supercell or a well-converged cluster expansion, but with ...

Methane concentrations in the pore waters of Eckernförde Bay in the German Baltic Sea generally reach gas bubble saturation values within the upper meter of the sediment column. The depth at which saturation occurs is controlled by a balance between rates of methane production, consumption (oxidation), and transport. The relative importance of anaerobic methane oxidation (AMO) in controlling di...

semiconducting oxides in 20011, research into functional oxide-based, one-dimensional nanostructures has rapidly expanded because of their unique and novel applications in optics, optoelectronics, catalysis, and piezoelectricity. Semiconducting oxide nanobelts are a unique group of quasi-one-dimensional nanomaterials, which have been systematically studied for a wide range of materials with dis...