This work investigates the movement of anions during potentiostatic controlled reduction of novel composite materials consisting of high surface area cellulose substrates, extracted from the Cladophora sp. algae, coated with thin ( approximately 50 nm) layers of the intrinsically conducting polymer (ICP) polypyrrole. The coating was achieved by chemical polymerization of pyrrole on the cellulos...

The addition of properly selected elements, coupled in nanoscale multilayer structures can further enhance the properties of TiAlN coatings and bring new high performance. The incorporation of Y in the nanoscale pseudo-superlattice TiAlCrN/TiAlYN with typical period of 1.7 nm not only improves the oxidation resistance but also effectively reduces the coefficient of friction of the coating from ...

Cathodic vacuum arc plasmas can be used to produce well adherent, dense, highquality films and coatings provided macroparticles are removed from the plasma. Both plasma and macroparticles are produced at cathode spots, and in most cases both can easily be observed because they emit light. The nature of this light emission is briefly discussed. Using open, curved solenoids as magnetic filters, o...

Architecture Oscar Corcho, Pinar Alper, Ioannis Kotsiopoulos, Paolo Missier, Sean Bechhofer and Carole Goble School of Computer Science The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK @cs.man.ac.uk Abstract The Grid's vision, of sharing diverse resources in a flexible, coordinated and secure manner through dynamic formation and disbanding of vir...

A widely discussed hypothesis in neuroscience is that transiently active ensembles of neurons, known as "cell assemblies," underlie numerous operations of the brain, from encoding memories to reasoning. However, the mechanisms responsible for the formation and disbanding of cell assemblies and temporal evolution of cell assembly sequences are not well understood. I introduce and review three in...