Publications related to Coulomb's law

Universal Casimir attraction between filaments at the cell scale

The electromagnetic Casimir interaction between dielectric objects immersed in salted water includes a universal contribution that is not screened by the solvent and therefore long-ranged. Here, we study the geometry of two parallel dielectric cylinders. W ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2024

Possible restoration of particle-hole symmetry in the 5/2-quantized Hall state at small magnetic field

Frédéric Mila, Loïc Jean Pierre Herviou

Motivated by the experimental observation of a quantized 5/2 thermal conductance at filling nu = 5/2, a result incompatible with both the Pfaffian and the anti-Pfaffian states, we have pushed the expansion of the effective Hamiltonian of the 5/2-quantized ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Charging and ion ejection dynamics of large helium nanodroplets exposed to intense femtosecond soft X-ray pulses

Christoph Bostedt, Camila Bacellar Cases Da Silveira, Daniela Rupp

Ion ejection from charged helium nanodroplets exposed to intense femtosecond soft X-ray pulses is studied by single-pulse ion time-of-flight (TOF) spectroscopy in coincidence with small-angle X-ray scattering. Scattering images encode the droplet size and ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Waveguide modes spatially resolved by low-loss STEM-EELS

Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander

In an era of new developments in nanomaterials analysis enabled by the unprecedented spatial and energy resolutions of electron energy-loss spectroscopy in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM-EELS), it remains that the vast majority of work ...

2021

Discrete Helmholtz charge distribution at liquid-liquid interfaces: Electrocapillarity, capacitance and non-linear spectroscopy studies

Hubert Girault, Grégoire Clément Gschwend

The structure of the polarised interface between two immiscible electrolyte solutions (ITIES) has usually been deduced from electrocapillarity and capacitance measurements. However, these two methods only offer an indirect access to the surface change dens ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2020

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering study of Ca3Ru2O7

Qian Wang, Claudia Giuseppina Fatuzzo, Thorsten Schmitt, Johan Juul Chang, Yi Tseng

We present a combined oxygen K-edge x-ray absorption spectroscopy and resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) study of the bilayer ruthenate Ca3Ru2O7. Our RIXS experiments on Ca3Ru2O7 were carried out on the overlapping planar and interplanar oxygen res ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Interplay of anomalous strain relaxation and minimization of polarization changes at nitride semiconductor heterointerfaces

Nicolas Grandjean, Jean-François Carlin, Raphaël Butté, Yi Wang

We present a methodology to quantify polarization and electron affinity changes at interfaces by combining scanning tunneling spectroscopy, off-axis electron holography in transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and self-consistent calculations of the elec ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Jamming with Tunable Roughness

Matthieu Wyart, Carolina Brito Carvalho dos Santos

We introduce a new model to study the effect of surface roughness on the jamming transition. By performing numerical simulations, we show that for a smooth surface, the jamming transition density and the contact number at the transition point both increase ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

On the stability and necessary electrophoretic mobility of bare oil nanodroplets in water

Sylvie Roke, Saranya Pullanchery Sankara Narayanan, Halil Ibrahim Okur, Hilton Barbosa De Aguiar, Sergey Kulik

Hydrophobic oil droplets, particles, and air bubbles can be dispersed in water as kinetically stabilized dispersions. It has been established since the 19th century that such objects harbor a negative electrostatic potential roughly twice larger than the t ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Accuracy of Molecular Simulation-Based Predictions of k(off) Values: A Metadynamics Study

Ursula Röthlisberger, Simone Meloni, Viacheslav Bolnykh, Michele Parrinello, Paolo Carloni

The k(off) values of ligands unbinding to proteins are key parameters for drug discovery. Their predictions based on molecular simulation may under- or overestimate experiment in a system- and/or technique-dependent way. Here we use an established method-i ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Physical vapour deposition of cyanine salts and their first application in organic electronic devices

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Antonia Neels, Léo Duchêne, Donatas Gesevicius

A symmetrical trimethine indocyanine dye chromophore was modified with the bistriflylimide anion to study the changes in Coulomb interactions, thermal stability and the volatility of the organic salt. The bulky bistriflylimide anion minimizes electrostatic ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Topology-Driven Single-Molecule Conductance of Carbon Nanothreads

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Ganna Gryn'ova

Highly conductive single-molecule junctions typically involve pi-conjugated molecular bridges, whose frontier molecular orbital energy levels can be fine-tuned to best match the Fermi level of the leads. Fully saturated wires, e.g., alkanes, are typically ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Cylindrical Dielectric Elastomer Actuator for Cardiac Assist Device

Jonathan André Jean-Marie Chavanne

This work has been triggered because of the need for a new way to relieve the heart. Current solutions are based on invasive systems. The main problem of such assistance is infectious risks. State of the art to define an alternative has allowed highlightin ...

EPFL2019

Electrical transport in onion-like carbon-PMMA nanocomposites

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Claudio Grimaldi, Maryam Majidian

We report electrical conductivity measurements of polymethyl-methacrylate filled by onion-like carbon particles with a primary particle size of approximate to 5 nm. We show that the conductivity sigma is exceptionally high even at very low loadings and tha ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019

Self-sensing, tunable monolayer MoS2 nanoelectromechanical resonators

Andras Kis, Dumitru Dumcenco, Guilherme Migliato Marega, Sajedeh Manzeli

Excellent mechanical properties and the presence of piezoresistivity make single layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) viable candidates for integration in nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). We report on the realization of electromechanical ...

Nature Research2019

Grain boundaries and quantum transport in monolayer MoS2

Kolyo Marinov

The growing research on two-dimensional materials reveals their exceptional physical properties and enormous potential for future applications and investigation of advanced physics phenomena. They represent the ultimate limit in terms of active channel thi ...

EPFL2018

Atomistic simulation of bio-relevant ionic and organic species interacting with rutile - Towards the understanding of apatite formation

Azade Yazdan Yar

Atomistic simulation methods, namely molecular dynamics and well-tempered metadynamics, are used in this thesis to investigate apatite formation from different aspects. First, ions which are more abundant in SBFs under physiological conditions were identif ...

EPFL2018

An ultra-fast mechanically active cell culture substrate

Herbert Shea, Alexandre Poulin, Cristina Martin Olmos, Matthias Imboden, Samuel Rosset, Francesca Sorba

We present a mechanically active cell culture substrate that produces complex strain patterns and generates extremely high strain rates. The transparent miniaturized cell stretcher is compatible with live cell microscopy and provides a very compact and por ...

Nature Research2018

Vectorial scanning force microscopy using a nanowire sensor

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Gözde Tütüncüoglu, Nicola Rossi

Self-assembled nanowire (NW) crystals can be grown into nearly defect-free nanomechanical resonators with exceptional properties, including small motional mass, high resonant frequency and low dissipation. Furthermore, by virtue of slight asymmetries in ge ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Variation of the Fermi level and the Electrostatic Force of a Metallic Nanoparticle upon Colliding with an Electrode

Hubert Girault, Pekka Eero Peljo

When a metallic nanoparticle (NP) comes in close contact with an electrode, its Fermi level equilibrates with that of the electrode if their separation is less than the cut-off distance for electron tunnelling. In the absence of chemical reactions in solut ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017