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Wandering principal optical axes in van der Waals triclinic materials

Arslan Mazitov

Nature is abundant in material platforms with anisotropic permittivities arising from symmetry reduction that feature a variety of extraordinary optical effects. Principal optical axes are essential characteristics for these effects that define light-matte ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Impact of Annealing on ZrO2 Nanotubes for Photocatalytic Application

Sami Rtimi

This work aims to study the structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties of ZrO2 nanotubes (NTs) that have been synthesized using the electrochemical anodization method. The structural and morphological characteristics of unannealed and annealed (400 ...

MDPI2023

Room-temperature skyrmion phase in bulk Cu2OSeO3 under high pressures

Helmuth Berger

A skyrmion state in a noncentrosymmetric helimagnet displays topologically protected spin textures with profound technological implications for high-density information storage, ultrafast spintronics, and effective microwave devices. Usually, its equilibri ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Soft-phonon driven hexagonal-orthorhombic phase transition in BaVS3

Helmuth Berger

The lattice dynamics of low-dimensional BaVS3 is reported across the hexagonal-orthorhombic phase transition occurring at T-S = 250 K using a combination of the thermal diffuse scattering of x rays, inelastic x-ray scattering, and density functional theory ...

2019

Pressure dependence of the structure and electronic properties of Sr3Ir2O7

Henrik Moodysson Rønnow

We study the structural evolution of Sr3Ir2O7 as a function of pressure using x-ray diffraction. At a pressure of 54 GPa at room temperature, we observe a first-order structural phase transition, associated with a change from tetragonal to monoclinic symme ...

2016

The crystal structure of p-type transparent conductive oxide CuBO2

Fabio Trani

We employed ab initio global structural prediction algorithms to obtain the ground-state structure of CuBO2 This is a very promising p-type transparent conductive oxide that was synthesized recently, and thought to belong to the delafossite family. We prov ...

Cambridge University Press2013

Homologous Critical Behavior in the Molecular Frameworks Zn(CN)(2) and Cd(imidazolate)(2)

Philip Pattison

Using a combination of single-crystal and powder X-ray diffraction measurements, we study temperature- and pressure-driven structural distortions in zinc(II) cyanide (Zn(CN)(2)) and cadmium(II) imidazolate (Cd(im)(2)), two molecular frameworks with the ant ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Shock-induced deformation of Shergottites: Shock-pressures and perturbations of magmatic ages on Mars

Philippe Gillet, Pierre Beck

Shergottites and Chassignites practiced major deformation effects whose nature, magnitude and relevance were controversially evaluated and disputatively debated. Our studies of many shocked shergottites present, contrary to numerous previous reports, ample ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013

A new polymorph of dicesium tetracyanoplatinate monohydrate with unusual platinum stacking

Philip Pattison

We wish to report the discovery of a new and unexpected polymorph of dicesium tetracyanoplatinate. Short, linear chains of five platinum atoms (platinum “needles”) appear in a zigzag arrangement, interspersed by isolated tetracyanoplatinate ions. ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

Flame-assisted synthesis of nanoscale, amorphous and crystalline, spherical BiVO4 with visible-light photocatalytic activity

César Pulgarin, Nikola Castillo

The synthesis of bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) nanoparticles has drawn considerable attention to their application as a visible-light-driven photocatalyst. Several techniques are addressing the enlargement of surface area, but some of them can cause impurities ...

Elsevier2010

A general approach for determining the diffraction contrast factor of straight-line dislocations

Dislocations alter perfect crystalline order and produce anisotropic broadening of the X-ray diffraction profiles, which is described by the dislocation contrast factor. Owing to the lack of suitable mathematical tools to deal with dislocations in crystals ...

International Union of Crystallography2009

Medium-range structure of vitreous SiO2 obtained through first-principles investigation of vibrational spectra

Alfredo Pasquarello, Luigi Giacomazzi, Paolo Umari

Using a density-functional framework, we investigate the vibrational spectra of vitreous SiO2 to determine to what extent these spectra provide information about the medium-range structure of the oxide network. We carry out a comparative study involving th ...

2009

Pièce en céramique pigmentée

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink

NOVELTY - The component partially or wholly comprises pigmented ceramic. The pigment comprises nanoparticles of metal of group IB in periodic table, alkaline metals or their alloy, coated with a layer of silica such as crystalline silica. The crystalline s ...

2006

Nanoparticules à noyau métallique recouvert de silice

Heinrich Hofmann, Alke Fink

The invention relates to nanoparticles based on a metal, on a metal alloy or on a metal derivative coated with a silica layer, in which the silica is crystalline silica, in particular crystalline silica in the cristobalite form. They may be prepared from n ...

2006

The alpha(2)-polymorph of salicylideneaniline

Gervais Chapuis, Philip Pattison

N-Salicylideneaniline (SA), C13H11NO, belongs to the large family of aromatic Schiff bases. It is of particular importance owing to its reversible photoreactivity. SA forms two photochromic polymorphs, both with two non-coplanar benzene rings. In addition, ...

2005

Microemulsion mediated synthesis of nanocrystalline (K-x,Na1-x)NbO3 powders

Arnaud Magrez

The present study reports on the synthesis of nanocrystalline (K-x,Na1-x)NbO3 powders prepared via microemulsion mediated hydrolytic decomposition of mixed alkoxide solutions. Compositions with different K/Na ratios ranging between the two end members KNbO ...

2005