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Characteristic rupture height of the mediating air film beneath an impacting drop on atomically smooth mica

Before a droplet can contact a surface during impact, it must first displace the air beneath it. Over a wide range of impact velocities, the droplet first squeezes the air into a thin film, enhancing its resistance to drainage; this slows the progress of t ...

Amer Physical Soc2023

Wetting Dynamics Beneath an Impacting Droplet

Ramin Kaviani

Many natural and industrial processes involve fluid flow at a three phase interface between liquid, solid and gas. When the liquid is forced to move rapidly over the solid surface, the physical mechanisms governing contact line motions are multi-phase and ...

EPFL2023

The effect of pore microstructure on strength and chloride ingress in blended cement based on low kaolin clay

Karen Scrivener, Diana Londoño Zuluaga

The objective of this study is to analyse the mechanical and durability properties of a high-performance mortars based on low grade kaolin clay and the effect of electrical conductivity and pore microstructure on the chloride penetration resistance. A tota ...

ELSEVIER2022

Zabinskiite, ideally Ca(Al0.5Ta0.5)(SiO4)O, a new mineral of the titanite group from the Pilawa Gorna pegmatite, the Gory Sowie Block, southwestern Poland

Philippe Buffat

Zabinskiite, ideally Ca(Al0.5Ta0.5)(SiO4) O, was found in a Variscan granitic pegmatite at Pilawa Gorna, Lower Silesia, SW Poland. The mineral occurs along with (Al, Ta, Nb)-and (Al, F)-bearing titanites, a pyrochlore-supergroup mineral and a K-mica in co ...

2017

Adsorbed and near surface structure of ionic liquids at a solid interface

Kislon Voitchovsky, Juan José Segura Sugranes

The structure of solid-ionic liquid (IL) interfaces has been characterised with unprecedented clarity by employing a range of atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging techniques and tip pressures appropriate for the system under study. Soft contact and amplit ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2013

Evaluation of silicate minerals for pH control during bioremediation: Application to chlorinated solvents

David Andrew Barry, Christof Holliger, Alessandro Brovelli, Elsa Marina Lacroix

Accurate control of groundwater pH is of critical importance for in situ biological treatment of chlorinated solvents. This study evaluated a novel approach for buffering subsurface pH that relies on the use of silicate minerals as a long-term source of al ...

2012

Al2O3 particle rounding in molten copper and Cu8wt%Al

Andreas Mortensen

We investigate processing-microstructure relationships in the production of Al2O3 particle reinforced copper composites by solidification processing. We show that during production of the composites by gas-pressure infiltration of packed Al2O3 particle pre ...

Springer US2012

Photocatalytic evaluation of TiO2/nylon systems prepared at different impregnation times

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi

TiO2/nylon fabrics were investigated for methanol degradation under UV light irradiation. TiO2 Degussa P-25 was supported on nylon by immersing the nylon in sol-gel TiO2 and silicone. The TiO2 layers on the nylon were explored as a function of the time of ...

Elsevier2011

Preparation, testing and performance of a TiO2/polyester photocatalyst for the degradation of gaseous methanol

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi

TiO2 modified polyester photocatalysts were prepared by immersion. drying and curing of the polyester in TiO2 containing suspensions under different experimental conditions. The structure of TiO2 layers on the polyester varied according to the time of imme ...

2010

Frictional Characteristics of Atomically Thin Sheets

Helmuth Berger

Using friction force microscopy, we compared the nanoscale frictional characteristics of atomically thin sheets of graphene, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), niobium diselenide, and hexagonal boron nitride exfoliated onto a weakly adherent substrate (silicon o ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2010

Design and fabrication of compositionally graded inorganic oxide thin films: Mechanical, optical and permeation characteristics

Yves Leterrier, Xavier Bulliard, Ji Hyun Kim

Different types of inorganic oxide films composed of a chemical composition gradient single layer were designed, fabricated and characterized. Compositionally graded thin films were created by power-controlled co-sputtering of alumina (Al2O3) and silica (S ...

Elsevier2010

Orbital Currents in Extended Hubbard Models of High-T-c Cuprate Superconductors

Frédéric Mila, Cédric Weber, Thierry Giamarchi

Motivated by the recent report of broken time-reversal symmetry and zero momentum magnetic scattering in underdoped cuprates, we investigate under which circumstances orbital currents circulating inside a unit cell might be stabilized in extended Hubbard m ...

2009

Influence of the (111) twinning on the formation of diamond cubic/diamond hexagonal heterostructures in Cu-catalyzed Si nanowires

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Père Roca i Cabarrocas

The occurrence of heterostructures of cubic silicon/hexagonal silicon as disks defined along the nanowire < 111 > growth direction is reviewed in detail for Si nanowires obtained using Cu as catalyst. Detailed measurements on the structural properties of b ...

American Institute of Physics2008

Conformation of Circular DNA in Two Dimensions

Giovanni Dietler, Guillaume Witz, Kristian Rechendorff

The conformation of circular DNA molecules of various lengths adsorbed in a 2D conformation on a mica surface is studied. The results confirm the conjecture that the critical exponent ν is topologically invariant and equal to the self-avoiding walk value ( ...

American Physical Society2008

Photocatalytic discoloration of Methyl Orange on innovative parylene–TiO2 flexible thin films under simulated sunlight

Albert Renken, Lioubov Kiwi, Juan Kiwi, Danièle Laub

Parylene films loaded with TiO2 are reported as hotocatalysts in azo dye discoloration processes. The TiO2 loading of the parylene film was 0.32% (w/w) and the amount of TiO2 on the film was about two orders of magnitude below the TiO2 added in suspension ...

2008

Fractal dimension and localization of DNA knots

Giovanni Dietler, Paolo De Los Rios, Guillaume Witz, Erika Ercolini

The scaling properties of DNA knots of different complexities were studied by atomic force microscope. Following two different protocols DNA knots are adsorbed onto a mica surface in regimes of (i) strong binding, that induces a kinetic trapping of the thr ...

American Physical Society2007