• Adiabatic magnetocaloric effect in Ni50Mn35In15 ribbons 

      Álvarez Alonso, Pablo; Aguilar Ortiz, Christian Omar; Camarillo García, Juan Pablo Ramón; Salazar Jaramillo, Daniel; Flores Zúñiga, Horacio; Chernenko, Volodymyr (2016-11)
      "Heusler-type Ni-Mn-based metamagnetic shape memory alloys (MetaMSMAs) are promising candidates for magnetic refrigeration. To increase heat exchange rate and efficiency of cooling, the material should have a high ...
    • An anticorrosive magnesium/carbon nanotube composite 

      Endo, Morinobu; Hayashi, Takuya; Itoh, Isao; Kim, Yoong Ahm; Shimamoto, Daisuke; Muramatsu, Hiroyukim; Shimizu, Yasuo; Morimoto, Shingo; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio; Iinou, Satoshi; Koide, S. (2008-02)
      "Here, we report a drastically improved anticorrosive characteristic of magnesium alloy composites with the introduction of multiwalled carbon nanotubes. Highly depressed corrosion of nanotube-filled magnesium composite ...
    • CdSe quantum dot-decorated double walled carbon nanotubes: the effect of chemical moieties 

      Kim, Yoong Ahm; Muramatsu, Hiroyukim; Park, Ki-chul; Shimamoto, Daisuke; Jung, Yong-chae; Kim, Jin-hee; Hayashi, Takuya; Saito, Yasunori; Endo, Morinobu; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio; Dresselhaus, Mildred (2008-08)
      "We report that fluorine atoms on the outer tubes of double walled carbon nanotubes (DWNTs) are more effective for nucleating and growing CdSe nanoparticles than oxygen-containing functional groups. The CdSe particles with ...
    • Controlled growth of one-dimensional clusters of molybdenum atoms using double-walled carbon nanotube templating 

      Tao, Yousheng; Muramatsu, Hiroyukim; Hayashi, Takuya; Kim, Yoong Ahm; Shimamoto, Daisuke; Endo, Morinobu; Kaneko, Katsumi; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio; Dresselhaus, Mildred (2009)
      "We report the controlled growth of one-dimensional clusters of molybdenum atoms inside the inner cores of double-walled carbon nanotubes. A combined characterization including high resolution transmission electron microscopy, ...
    • Design of graphene electronic devices using nanoribbons of different widths 

      Gerardo Naumis; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio; Terrones Maldonado, Humberto; Gaggero Sager, Luis Manuel (2009-10)
      "We present a simple design of a field effect transistor based on graphene nanoribbons, taking advantage of the metallic and semiconductor nature of nanoribbons with different widths. Such device could be constructed by ...
    • Diameter-selective separation of double-walled carbon nanotubes 

      Kim, Jin-hee; Kataoka, Masaskazu; Kim, Yoong Ahm; Shimamoto, Daisuke; Muramatsu, Hiroyukim; Hayashi, Takuya; Endo, Morinobu; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio; Dresselhaus, Mildred (2008-12)
      "Here, we report a simple and effective way of separating double-walled carbon nanotubes as a function of their diameter using individually dispersed nanotube solutions with the aid of long and random single-stranded DNA. ...
    • Dibenzothiophene adsorption at boron doped carbon nanoribbons studied within density functional theory 

      López Albarrán, Pablo; Navarro Santos, Pedro; Garcia Ramirez, Mario Alberto; Ricardo Chávez, José Luis (2015-07)
      "The adsorption of dibenzothiophene (DBT) on bare and boron-doped armchair carbon nanoribbons (ACNRs) is being investigated in the framework of the density functional theory by implementing periodic boundary conditions ...
    • Elastocaloric and magnetocaloric effects in Ni-Mn-Sn(Cu) shape-memory alloy 

      Castillo Villa, Pedro Osmany; Mañosa, Lluis; Planes, Antoni; Soto-Parra, Daniel Enrique; Sánchez Llamazares, José Luis; Flores Zúñiga, Horacio; Frontera, Carlos (2013-02)
      "We have studied magnetocaloric and elastocaloric properties of a Ni-Mn-Sn(Cu) metamagnetic shape-memory alloy undergoing a magneto-structural transition (martensitic type) close to room temperature. Changes of entropy ...
    • Elastocaloric effect in Ti-Ni shape-memory wires associated with the B2 ↔ B19' and B2 ↔ R structural transitions 

      Soto-Parra, Daniel Enrique; Vives, Eduard; Mañosa, Lluis; Matutes Aquino, José Andrés; Flores Zúñiga, Horacio; Planes, Antoni (2016-02)
      "We have studied the elastocaloric properties of Ti-Ni shape-memory wires subjected to specific heat treatments to decouple the B2 <-> R transition from the B2 <-> B19' one. The entropy values at moderate stresses (similar ...
    • Enhanced refrigerant capacity and magnetic entropy flattening using a two-amorphous FeZrB(Cu) composite 

      Álvarez Alonso, Pablo; Sánchez Llamazares, José Luis; Gorria, Pedro; Blanco Rodríguez, Jesús Angel (2011-12)
      "The temperature dependence of the isothermal magnetic entropy change, Delta S-M, and the magnetic field dependence of the refrigerant capacity, RC, have been investigated in a composite system xA + (1 - x) B, based on ...
    • Enhanced refrigerant capacity in Gd-Al-Co microwires with a biphase nanocrystalline/amorphous structure 

      Shen, Hongexian; Xing, Dawei; Sánchez Llamazares, José Luis; Sánchez Valdés, Cesar Fidel; Belliveau, H. F.; Wang, Huan; Qin, Faxiang; Liu, Yanfen; Sun, Jianfei; Srikanth, Hariharan; Phan, Manhhuong (2016-02)
      "A class of biphase nanocrystalline/amorphous Gd(50+5x)Al(30-5x)Co20 (x = 0, 1, 2) microwires fabricated directly by melt-extraction is reported. High resolution transmission electron microscopy and Fourier function transform ...
    • Enhanced refrigerant capacity in two-phase nanocrystalline/amorphous NdPrFe17 melt-spun ribbons 

      Sánchez Valdés, Cesar Fidel; Ibarra Gaytán, Pablo Jesús; Sánchez Llamazares, José Luis; Ávalos Borja, Miguel; Álvarez Alonso, Pablo; Gorria, Pedro; Blanco Rodríguez, Jesús Angel (2014-05)
      "he magnetocaloric properties of NdPrFe17 melt-spun ribbons composed of nanocrystallites surrounded by an intergranular amorphous phase have been studied. The nanocomposite shows two successive second-order magnetic phase ...
    • Enhanced thermal conductivity of carbon fiber/phenolic resin composites by the introduction of carbon nanotubes 

      Kim, Yoong Ahm; Kamio, S.; Tajiri, Takeyuki; Hayashi, Takuya; Song, Sungmoo; Endo, Morinobu; Terrones Maldonado, Mauricio; Dresselhaus, Mildred (2007-02)
      "The authors report a significant enhancement in the thermal conductivity of a conventional carbon fiber/phenolic resin composite system when adding highly crystalline multiwalled carbon nanotubes. They demonstrate that ...
    • Evolution of spherical cavitation bubbles: parametric and closed-form solutions 

      Mancas, Stefan C; Rosu Barbus, Haret-Codratian (2016)
      "We present an analysis of the Rayleigh-Plesset equation for a three dimensional vacuous bubble in water. In the simplest case when the effects of surface tension are neglected, the known parametric solutions for the radius ...
    • Giant magnetocaloric effect in melt-spun Ni-Mn-Ga ribbons with magneto-multistructural transformation 

      Li, Zongbin; Zhang, Yudong; Sánchez Valdés, Cesar Fidel; Sánchez Llamazares, José Luis; Esling, Claude; Zhao, Xiang; Zuo, Liang (2014-01)
      "Magnetic refrigeration based on the magnetocaloric effect (MCE) may provide an energy-efficient and environment-friendly alternative to the conventional gas compression/expansion cooling technology. For potential applications, ...
    • High-magnetic field characterization of magnetocaloric effect in FeZrB(Cu) amorphous ribbons 

      Álvarez Alonso, Pablo; Sánchez Llamazares, José Luis; Sánchez Valdés, Cesar Fidel; Fernández-Gubieda Ruiz, María Luisa; Gorria, Pedro; Blanco Rodríguez, Jesús Angel (2015-05)
      "The magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of a series of Fe-rich FeZrB(Cu) amorphous ribbons were investigated under magnetic field values up to mu H-0 of 8 T. A correlation between the saturation magnetization and the ...
    • High-quality InN films on MgO (100) substrates: the key role of 30 degrees in-plane rotation 

      Compeán García, Vicente Damián; Orozco Hinostroza, Ignacio Everardo; Escobosa Echavarria, Arturo; López Luna, Edgar; Rodríguez Vázquez, Angel Gabriel (2014-05)
      "High crystalline layers of InN were grown on MgO(100) substrates by gas source molecular beam epitaxy. Good quality films were obtained by means of an in-plane rotation process induced by the annealing of an InN buffer ...
    • Interplay between the magnetic and magneto-transport properties of 3D interconnected nanowire networks 

      Santa Clara Gomes, Tristan da Câmara; De la Torre Medina, Joaquín; Velázquez Galván, Yenni Guadalupe; Martínez Huerta, Juan Manuel; Encinas Oropesa, Armando; Piraux, Luc (2016-07)
      "We have explored the interplay between the magnetic and magneto-transport properties of 3D interconnected nanowire networks made of various magnetic metals by electrodeposition into nanoporous membranes with crossed ...
    • Kinetic arrest of direct and reverse martensitic transformation and exchange bias effect in Mn49.5Ni40.4In10.1 melt spun ribbons 

      Sánchez Llamazares, José Luis; Hernando, Blanca; Suñol, Joan Josep.; Garcia, Carlos; Ross, Caroline A. (2010-05)
      "Phase coexistence phenomena related to direct and reverse martensitic transformation have been studied in melt spun ribbons of the magnetic shape memory alloy Mn49.5Ni40.4In10.1. For magnetic fields above 10 kOe martensitic ...
    • Magnetic entropy change and refrigerant capacity of rapidly solidified TbNi2 alloy ribbons 

      Sánchez Llamazares, José Luis; Sánchez Valdés, Cesar Fidel; Ibarra Gaytán, Pablo Jesús; Álvarez Alonso, Pablo; Gorria, Pedro; Blanco Rodríguez, Jesús Angel (2013-05)
      "The magnetocaloric effect in TbNi2 alloy ribbons synthesized by rapid solidification was investigated. This material crystallizes in a superstructure of the cubic Laves phase structure type C15 (space group F-43m). The ...