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The fabrication of asymmetric monometallic nanocrystals with novel properties for plasmonics, nanophotonics and nanoelectronics. Asymmetric monometallic plasmonic nanocrystals are of both fundamental synthetic challenge and practical significance. In an example, a thiol-ligand mediated growth strategy that enables the synthesis of unprecedented Au Nanorod-Au Nanoparticle (AuNR-AuNP) dimers from pre-synthesized AuNR seeds. Using high-resolution electron microscopy and tomography, crystal structure and three-dimensional morphology of the dimer, as well as the growth pathway of the AuNP on the AuNR seed, was investigated for this example. The dimer exhibits an extraordinary broadband optical extinction spectrum spanning the UV, visible, and near infrared regions (300 - 1300 nm). This unexpected property makes the AuNR-AuNP dimer example useful for many nanophotonic applications. In two experiments, the dimer example was tested as a surface- enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate and a solar light harvester for photothermal conversion, in comparison with the mixture of AuNR and AuNP. In the SERS experiment, the dimer example showed an enhancement factor about 10 times higher than that of the mixture, when the excitation wavelength (660 nm) was off the two surface plasmon resonance (SPR) bands of the mixture. In the photothermal conversion experiment under simulated sunlight illumination, the dimer example exhibited an energy conversion efficiency about 1.4 times as high as that of the mixture.
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A pure and crystalline single-crystal nitrogen-functionalized graphene nano-flake powder comprising from 2 atomic % to at least 35 atomic % of total functionalized nitrogen within the graphene nano-flakes is disclosed. As well, the method of producing the nano-flakes that comprises injecting a carbon source into a thermal plasma system, dissociating the carbon source into carbon atomic species, transporting the carbon atomic species through a controlled nucleation zone to produce a crystalline graphene nano-flake structure, injecting the nitrogen source into the thermal plasma system dissociating the nitrogen source into nitrogen active species, and transporting the nitrogen atomic species to contact the crystalline graphene nano-flakes to produce the crystalline nitrogen-functionalized graphene nano-flakes is also disclosed. Finally, a multilayer composite comprising a carbon substrate and a layer of crystalline nitrogen- functionalized graphene nano-flakes is also described.
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Disclosed is a method suitable for efficiently producing silver nanowires with high aspect ratio. In this method, silver nanowires with aspect ratio of more than 300 and purity of more than 80% are produced through an acid compound mediated microwave-assisted wet chemistry method. Such silver nanowires are especially suitable for the application in the flexible transparent electrodes, as they can simultaneously improve the electrical conductivity and transparency.
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L'invention concerne un procédé de fabrication de nano-bâtonnets (2) de cobalt solide épitaxiés sur un support (5) solide, dans lequel : on immerge dans une solution métallique comprenant au moins un composé précurseur de cobalt à une concentration initiale dans un milieu solvant liquide, au moins une portion (8) de surface du support (5) solide, ladite portion (8) de surface étant formée de platine solide cristallin, on maintient lors d'une étape de croissance, ladite solution métallique avec le support (5) au repos dans un réacteur sous pression et dans des conditions aptes à permettre une croissance spontanée par épitaxie des nano-bâtonnets (2) de cobalt à partir de la(des)dite(s) portion(s) (8) de surface libre de platine dudit support (5).
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Methods for making and/or treating articles of semiconducting material are disclosed. In various methods, a first article of semiconducting material is provided, the first article of semiconducting material is heated sufficiently to melt the semiconducting material, and the melted semiconducting material is solidified in a direction substantially parallel to a shortest dimension of the melted article of semiconducting material. Articles of semiconducting materials made by methods described herein are also disclosed.
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Described herein are methods of controlling metal nanowire morphologies by adjusting the reaction conditions of a polyol synthesis. In particular, by purging the reaction with an inert gas, batch-to-batch consistency can be achieved.
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The invention relates to a method for the controlled growth of a graphene film, characterised in that said method comprises the following steps: forming, at the surface of a substrate (S1), a layer of a metal having a phase diagram with carbon such that, beyond a threshold ratio of molar concentration CM/CM+CC, with CM being the molar concentration of the metal in the metal/carbon mixture and CC being the molar concentration of carbon in said mixture, a solid homogenous composition can be obtained; exposing the metal layer to a controlled flow of carbon atoms or carbon radicals or carbon ions at a temperature such that the resultant molar concentration ratio is higher than the threshold ratio in order to obtain a solid solution of the carbon in the metal; an operation for modifying the phase of the mixture into two phases of metal and graphite, thus leading to the formation of at least one lower graphene film (31) at the interface of the metal layer including carbon atoms and the substrate, and the formation of an upper graphene film (30) at the surface of the metal layer.
Abstract translation:本发明涉及一种用于石墨烯膜的受控生长的方法,其特征在于所述方法包括以下步骤:在基底(S1)的表面上形成具有碳的相图的金属层,使得 ,超过CM / CM + CC摩尔浓度的阈值比率,其中CM是金属/碳混合物中金属的摩尔浓度,CC是所述混合物中碳的摩尔浓度,可以获得固体均质组合物; 在一定温度下使金属层暴露于受控的碳原子或碳自由基或碳离子流中,使得所得摩尔浓度比高于阈值比以获得碳在金属中的固溶体; 用于将混合物的相改变成金属和石墨两相的操作,由此导致在包括碳原子和基板的金属层的界面处形成至少一个下石墨烯膜(31),并且形成 在金属层的表面处的上石墨烯膜(30)。
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Die Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Herstellung eines Bead-Einkristalls. Der Bead-Einkristall wird durch Elektronenstrahlheizen mindestens eines Drahtes im Vakuum geformt . Vorteilhaft werden auf diese Weise Bead-Einkristalle umfassend Ag, Al, Cr, Cu, Ir, Mo, Nb, Ni, Pd, Pt, Re, Rh, Ru, Ta, W oder umfassend Metalllegierungen, insbesondere umfassend Ag/Au-, Pt/Rh- oder Pt/Re- Legierungen, bereit gestellt. Die Bead-Einkristalle werden vorzugsweise in der Oberflächenforschung, der Dünnschichttechnik und in der Elektrochemie verwendet.
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Sytems and methods for local synthesis of silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes, as well as electric field (28) assisted selfassembly of silicon nanowires and carbon nanotubes, are described. By employing localized heating in the growth of the nanowire or nanotubes(36), the structures can be systhesized on a device in a room temperature chamber(12) with out the device being subjected to overall heating. The method is localized and selective and provides for a suspended microstrucutre to achieve the thermal requirement for vapor deposition sysnthesis (16), while the remainder of the chip or substrate (40) remains at room temperature. Furthermore, by employing electric field assisted self-assembly techniques according to the present invention, itis not necessary to grow the nanotubes and nanowires and spearately cnnect them to a device. Instead, the present invetion provides for self-assembly of the nanotubes and nanowires onthe devices themselves, thus providing for nano- to micro- integration.
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On production of Ni-Mn-Ga single crystals, the fusion of the pure metal in arc furnaces is known, whereupon significant amounts of manganese are lost due to the high partial pressure thereof. The solidified metal is then fused and crystallised in a Bridgman or Czochralski method. During this process the manganese is also lost. A further disadvantage of the known method is the formation of pores and occlusions. This problem is conventionally resolved by the use of repeated fusion. The aim of the invention is a simple method and an arrangement for crystal growth from fused metals or fused solutions and crystallisation by conventional methods, permitting the production of larger, purer, pore- and occlusion-free single crystals from metals and intermetallic compounds and alloys. Said aim is achieved for the method for crystal growth from fused metals or fused solutions and crystallisation with the crystallisation occurring by controlled solidification, whereby the fused metal or used solution is brought into contact with a slag-forming flux and completely enclosed by the same. The metal phase is purified by dissolution of impurities in the slag. Also due to the complete enclosure, a contact between the fused metal or fused solution and the crucible is prevented and the evaporation of volatile components of the fused metal or fused solution reduced. The method is suitable for the crystal growth of numerous metals, inter-metallic compounds and alloys, in particular for the production of single crystal aircraft turbine blades with particularly low sulphur concentrations in the blades.