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Adsorption of Poly(vinyl formamide-co-vinyl amine) (PVFA-co-PVAm) onto Metal Surfaces
The formation of stable metal/polymer joints is an enormous challenge in material sciences. Good adhesion requires an interphase which is able to...
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Visualization of Charge Domains on Polymer Surfaces
The tribo-electric charging of polymers is widely known and applied in many technical processes. However, the molecular and electronic reasons for...
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Rhombohedral PZT Thin Films Prepared by Sputtering
PZT thin films with a rhombohedral perovskite structure were successfully grown on (111) PLT/Pt/Ti/SiO2/Si and (111) Ir/SiO2/Si substrates. The...
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Correlation Between Domain Structures and Dielectric Properties in Single Crystals of Ferroelectric Solid Solutions
In the present chapter, the growth of single crystals in relaxor–PbTiO3 (PT) solid solution system by the flux method and the solution Bridgman...
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Relaxor Superlattices: Artificial Control of the Ordered–Disordered State of B-Site Ions in Perovskites
We have developed a new superlattice technique to artificially control the B-site ordering state. The technique has been applied to Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3,...
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Pb-Based Ferroelectric Thin Films Prepared by MOCVD
This Chapter focuses on the preparation and ferroelectric properties of Pb-based thin films and nanostructures. First, the growth behavior of...
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Chemical Solution Depositionof Layer-Structured Ferroelectric Thin Films
Ferroelectric rare-earth-doped Bi4Ti3O12 thin films have been successfully prepared on Si-based substrates by using metallo-organic precursor...
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Magnetism of Ultrathin Metal Films
The last two chapters have described the growth and structure of epitaxial films. Here, the basic aspects of ultrathin-film magnetism and their...
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Growth of Ultrathin Metal Films
Driven by the requirement to tailor film properties for many technological applications, our understanding of the atomic processes involved in...
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Phase behavior of phytanyl-chained akylglycoside/water systems
The aqueous phase behavior of novel alkylglycosides, AGs, that have a 3,7,11,15-tetramethylhexadecyl (phytanyl) group as their hydrophobic part was...
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Adsolubilization by mixtures of ionic and non-ionic surfactants
The adsolubilization of 2-naphthol by surfactant mixtures of ionic and non-ionic surfactants has been investigated for three systems; sodium dodecyl...
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Salt-induced aggregation in cationic liposome suspensions
The simple salt-induced aggregation of small unilamellar dioleoyltrimethylammoniumpropane [DOTAP] vesicles is investigated by measuring the change in...
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Enzymatic activity of lipase entrapped in CTAB/water/pentanol/hexane reverse micelles: a functional and microstructural investigation
The lipase VII (from Candida rugosa) activity was studied as a function of the content of pentanol and water in cethyltrimethylammonium bromide...
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Perfluoropolyether carboxylic salts in micellar solution and O/W microemulsions
High purity laboratory-scale samples of Cl(C3F6O) n CF2COOX salts are examined for their micellization in water, with n...
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5. Simulation of Active and Nonlinear Photonic Nano-Materials in the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) Framework
A numerical method is presented that unites three-dimensional finite-differnce time-domain (FDTD) computer simulations of active, nonlinear photonic...
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Characterization of Floating Surface Layers of Lipids and Lipopolymers by Surface-Sensitive Scattering
Nanotechnology and molecular (bio-)engineering are making ever deepening inroads into everybody’s daily life. Physicochemical and biotechnological...
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13. Parallel Implementation Strategiesfor Algorithms from Scientific Computing
Many applications from scientific computing are computationally intensive and can therefore benefit from a realization on a parallel or a distributed...
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Molecular Dynamics of Liquids in Confinement
Surface and confinement effects may have substantial effects on the molecular and collective dynamics of liquids. Within this chapter, we describe...
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Anisotropic Substrates
A prerequisite for infrared ellipsometry investigations of semiconductor layer structures is an accurate knowledge of the substrate materials’...
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Probe entrapment by vesicular systems in relation with the properties of the amphiphilic film
Two different vesicular systems were investigated as regards their ability to substantially retain a hydrophilic probe. The first system was a series...