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  • Tunable time response of the nonlinearity of nanocomposites by doping semiconductor quantum dots

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      Original article citation: Opt. Express 17," 18858 , (2009).

    • Categories: Physics and Materials
    • Recommended by : Yong Zhang on 10/20/2009 02:30AM GMT
      
      Nanocomposite materials possess many remarkable advantages over traditional nonlinear optical materials. But the response time is usually slow, and can not be tuned. This recommended paper proposed a strategy to achieve tunable nonlinear response time for nanocomposite materials.
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  • Selective Band Structure Modulation of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Ionic Liquids

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      Original article citation: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131," 5364 - 5365, (2009).

    • Categories: Chemistry, Physics, and Materials
    • Recommended by : lianfeng sun on 08/09/2009 03:28AM GMT
      
      Energy harvesting from hydraulic energy into electric energy may enable the structure of water-filled SWCNT as a promising candidate for the synthetic nanoscale power harvesting device in the future. Before looking into further applications, this communication gives us a comprehensible explanation of the mechanism involved.
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  • Resonance capacity of surface plasmon on subwavelength metallic structures

    • Ying Gu, Liangliang Chen, Haixi Zhang, Qihuang Gong
      Original article citation: Europhys. Lett. 83," 27004 , (2008).

    • Categories: Physics and Materials
    • Recommended by : Limin Tong on 08/13/2008 02:50AM GMT
      
      Plasmonics — the coupling between the light and the collective oscillation of free electrons in metal — becomes one of the important branches in nanooptics due to its applications in nanodevices breaking through the diffraction limit. In this paper, Qihuang Gong and co-workers at Peking University in Beijing have provided a new method, Green’s matrix method, to directly design the surface plasmon resonances in irregular nanometer metals. By introducing the resonance capacity associated to the electric energy of a resonant nanostructure, the researchers can select those strong resonances with respect to the parameter dielectric permittivity. They used this resonance capacity to study the optical antenna and good agreement with previously reported experimental results is obtained. They also gave us an elegant way to understand the electrostatic limit. If the dimension of structure is largely below the wavelength, the resonance peaks become insensitive to the illumination wavelength. Starting from a given geometry, the proposed technique can give us the plasmon resonances information at some wavelength. Conversely, at a specific wavelength, it can also determine the geometry to which the real metal can access. So it is extremely useful to design the plasmonic structures with optical resonances in a specific spectral region.
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  • Attosecond ionization gating for isolated attosecond electron wave packet and broadband attosecond xuv pulses

    • Pengfei Lan, Peixiang Lu, Wei Cao, Yuhua Li, Xinlin Wang
      Original article citation: Phys. Rev. A 76," (2007).

    • Categories: Physics and Chemistry
    • Recommended by : Feng He on 04/17/2008 08:29PM GMT
      
      Attosecond laser pulse is the most fast camera, with which people can capture the electron motion inside the atom or molecule. However, it's a big challenge to generate ultrashort, high power attosecond pulses. In this paper, Pengfei Lu et.al. present an interesting strategy to obtain an isolated attosecond pulse, which could be realized in the current laser technology. For this reason, I strongly recommend this paper to be appeared in Nature China.
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  • Bipartite network projection and personal recommendation

    • Tao Zhou, Jie Ren, Matúš Medo, Yi-Cheng Zhang
      Original article citation: Phys. Rev. E 76," (2007).

    • Categories: Physics and Biotechnology
    • Recommended by : Da-Ren He on 02/19/2008 12:36AM GMT
      
      This paper proposes a new information processing method which is applicable to situations in many scientific disciplines, especially for recommendation systems.
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  • Hard and wear-resistant titanium nitride coatings for cemented carbide cutting tools by pulsed high energy density plasma

    • Z Peng
      Original article citation: Acta Materialia 51," 3085 - 3094, (2003).

    • Categories: Materials and Physics
    • Recommended by : Xiang Yu on 11/20/2007 02:46PM GMT
      
      Some original idea and interesting finding in it.
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  • Nano-effects, quantum-like properties in electrospun nanofibers

    • J HE, Y WAN, L XU
      Original article citation: Chaos, Solitons & Fractals 33," 26 - 37, (2007).

    • Categories: Materials, Biotechnology, and Physics
    • Recommended by : Yong Liu on 11/15/2007 12:32AM GMT
      
      It is an excellent papers in nanoscience field. This research reveals that fascinating phenomena arise when the diameter of the electrospun nanofibers is less than 100 nm. The nano-effect has been demonstrated for unusual strength, high surface energy, surface reactivity, high thermal and electric conductivity. Dragline silk is made of many nano-fibers with diameter of about 20 nm, thus it can make full use of nano-effects. It is a challenge to developing technologies capable of preparing for nanofibers within 100 nm.
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  • Structural and functional analysis of the anti-parallel strands in the lumenal loop of the major light-harvesting chlorophyll a/b complex of photosystem II (LHCIIb) by site-directed mutagenesis

    • C. Liu, Y. Zhang, D. Cao, Y. He, T. Kuang, C. Yang
      Original article citation: Journal of Biological Chemistry doi:10.1074/jbc.M705736200 (2007)

    • Categories: Chemistry and Physics
    • Recommended by : wei zeng on 11/01/2007 06:20AM GMT
      
      The light-harvesting chlorophyll (Chl) a/b binding protein of photosystem II (LHCIIb) fulfils multiple functions, such as light harvesting and energy dissipation under different illuminations. The crystal structure of LHCIIb at the near atomic resolution reveals an anti-parallel strands structure. This paper studies the structural and functional significances of this structure.
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  • Molecular mechanism for metal-independent production of hydroxyl radicals by hydrogen peroxide and halogenated quinones

    • B.-Z. Zhu, B. Kalyanaraman, G.-B. Jiang
      Original article citation: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences doi:10.1073/pnas.0704030104 (2007)

    • Categories: Chemistry, Earth & Environment, Materials, and Physics
    • Recommended by : wei zeng on 11/01/2007 06:07AM GMT
      
      The authors previously showed that hydroxyl radicals (HO•) can be produced by H2O2 and halogenated quinones independent of redox-active transition metal ions. In this paper, they described a possible molecular mechanism.
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  • Development of a new chinese bra sizing system based on breast anthropometric measurements

    • R ZHENG, W YU, J FAN
      Original article citation: International Journal of Industrial Ergonomics 37," (2007).

    • Categories: Physics and Materials
    • Recommended by the Editor: Felix Cheung on 08/30/2007 03:14AM GMT
      
      The conventional bra sizing system was developed in 1935. However, women’s breast has very complex 3D geometry, and a Hong Kong study thereby propose a new bra sizing system for Chinese women.
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