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Atom Probe Tomography: A Characterization Method for Three-dimensional Elemental Mapping at the Atomic Scale

  • Choi, Pyuck-Pa;Povstugar, Ivan
    • Journal of Powder Materials
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    • v.19 no.1
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    • pp.67-71
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    • 2012
  • The present paper gives an overview about the Atom Probe Tomography technique and its application to powder materials. The preparation of needle-shaped Atom Probe specimens from a single powder particle using focused-ion-beam milling is described. Selected experimental data on mechanically alloyed (and sintered) powder materials are presented, giving insight into the atomic-scale elemental redistribution occurring under powder metallurgical processing.

FOLLOW-UP OBSERVATIONS TOWARD PLANCK COLD CLUMPS WITH GROUND-BASED RADIO TELESCOPES

  • LIU, TIE;WU, YUEFANG;MARDONES, DIEGO;KIM, KEE-TAE;MENTEN, KARL M.;TATEMATSU, KEN;CUNNINGHAM, MARIA;JUVELA, MIKA;ZHANG, QIZHOU;GOLDSMITH, PAUL F;LIU, SHENG-YUAN;ZHANG, HUA-WEI;MENG, FANYI;LI, DI;LO, NADIA;GUAN, XIN;YUAN, JINGHUA;BELLOCHE, ARNAUD;HENKEL, CHRISTIAN;WYROWSKI, FRIEDRICH;GARAY, GUIDO;RISTORCELLI, ISABELLE;LEE, JEONG-EUN;WANG, KE;BRONFMAN, LEONARDO;TOTH, L. VIKTOR;SCHNEE, SCOTT;QIN, SHENGLI;AKHTER, SHAILA
    • Publications of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.30 no.2
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    • pp.79-82
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    • 2015
  • The physical and chemical properties of prestellar cores, especially massive ones, are still far from being well understood due to the lack of a large sample. The low dust temperature (< 14 K) of Planck cold clumps makes them promising candidates for prestellar objects or for sources at the very initial stages of protostellar collapse. We have been conducting a series of observations toward Planck cold clumps (PCCs) with ground-based radio telescopes. In general, when compared with other star forming samples (e.g. infrared dark clouds), PCCs are more quiescent, suggesting that most of them may be in the earliest phase of star formation. However, some PCCs are associated with protostars and molecular outflows, indicating that not all PCCs are in a prestellar phase. We have identified hundreds of starless dense clumps from a mapping survey with the Purple Mountain Observatory (PMO) 13.7-m telescope. Follow-up observations suggest that these dense clumps are ideal targets to search for prestellar objects.

Molecular Modeling Study on Morphine Derivatives Using Density Functional Methods and Molecular Descriptors (범밀도 함수법과 Molecular Descriptor를 이용한 모르핀 유도체에 대한 분자 모델링 연구)

  • Cotua, Jose;Cotes, Sandra;Castro, Pedro;Castro, Fernando;Mora, Liadys
    • Journal of the Korean Chemical Society
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    • v.54 no.4
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    • pp.363-373
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    • 2010
  • Computational studies were carried out on the opiates morphine, heroin, codeine, pentazocine, and buprenorphine, under the density functional theory. The geometric parameters of the pharmacophore and substituents were evaluated at the B3LYP/6-31+G(d) level of theory. The electronic structure calculations were performed using the same hybrid functional at the B3LYP/6-311++G (d,p) level of theory. The atomic charges were obtained by Mulliken population analysis. Given the reported biological activity, calculated partition coefficients, and electronic and geometric analysis, pentazocine and buprenorphine were chosen as models for proposed analogues. These analogues were then studied and compared with the model molecules. The study reveals that the geometry and electronic structure of the pharmacophore remains consistent in the presence of different substituents. Because the proposed analogues preserve the studied properties of the model molecules, it is likely that these analogues display biological activity.

Conjugated Oligomers Combining Fluorene and Thiophene Units : Towards Supramolecular Electronics

  • Leclere, Ph.;Surin, M.;Sonar, P.;Grimsdale, A.C.;Mllen, K.;Cavallini, M.;Biscarini, F.;Lazzaroni, R.
    • Proceedings of the Polymer Society of Korea Conference
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    • 2006.10a
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    • pp.228-228
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    • 2006
  • Conjugated oligomers, used as models for fluorene-thiophene copolymers, are compared in terms of the microscopic morphology of thin deposits and the optical properties. The AFM images and the solid-state absorption and emission spectra are interpreted in line with the structural data, in terms of the assembly of the conjugated molecules. The compound with a terthiophene central unit and fluorene end-groups shows well-defined monolayer-by-monolayer assembly into micrometer-long strip-like structures, with a crystalline herringbone-type organization within the monolayers. Polarized confocal microscopy indicates a strong orientation of the crystalline domains within the stripes. In contrast, the compound with a terfluorene central unit and thiophene end groups forms no textured aggregates. The difference in behavior between the two compounds most probably originates from their different capability of forming densely-packed assemblies of ${\pi-pi}$ interacting molecules. These assemblies are used as active elements in organic field effect transistors designed by using soft lithography technique.

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Acceleration of Relativstic Jets on Sub-parsec Scales

  • Lee, Sang-Sung;Lobanov, Andrei;Krichbaum, Thomas P.;Zensus, J. Anton
    • The Bulletin of The Korean Astronomical Society
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    • v.41 no.1
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    • pp.37.1-37.1
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    • 2016
  • Jets of compact radio sources are highly relativistic and Doppler boosted, making studies of their intrinsic properties difficult. Observed brightness temperatures can be used to study the intrinsic physical properties of the relativistic jets. The intrinsic properties of relativistic jets depend on inner jet models. We aimed to observationally test the inner jet models. The very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) cores of compact radio sources are optically thick at a given frequency. The distance of the core from the central engine is inversely proportional to the frequency. Under the equipartition condition between the magnetic field energy and particle energy densities, the absolute distance of the VLBI core can be predicted. We compiled the brightness temperatures of VLBI cores at various radio frequencies of 2, 8, 15, and 86~GHz. The brightness temperatures in the rest frame were investigated in the sub-parsec regions of the compact radio sources. From the vicinity of the central engine, the brightness temperatures increased slowly and then rose with steeper slope, indicating that the Lorentz factor increases along the jet. This implies that the jets are accelerated in the (sub-)parsec regions from the central engine.

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