Atomic-resolution spectroscopic imaging of ensembles of nanocatalyst particles across the life of a fuel cell

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Kavli Affiliate: Lena Fitting Kourkoutis | First 5 Authors: Huolin L. Xin, Julia A. Mundy, Zhongyi Liu, Randi Cabezas, Robert Hovden | Summary: The thousandfold increase in data-collection speed enabled by aberration-corrected optics allows us to overcome an electron microscopy paradox – how to obtain atomic-resolution chemical structure in individual nanoparticles, yet record a statistically […]


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Measuring the spatial extent of individual localized photonic states

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Kavli Affiliate: Kobus Kuipers | First 5 Authors: Marko Spasenovic, Daryl M. Beggs, Philippe Lalanne, Thomas F. Krauss, L. | Summary: We measure the spatial extent of individual localized photonic states in a slow-light photonic crystal waveguide. The size of the states is measured by perturbing each state individually through a local electromagnetic interaction with […]


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A photonic crystal nanocavity laser in an optically very thick slab

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Kavli Affiliate: Axel Scherer | First 5 Authors: Se-Heon Kim, Jingqing Huang, Axel Scherer, , | Summary: A photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavity formed in an optically very thick slab can support reasonably high-Q modes for lasing. Experimentally, we demonstrate room-temperature pulsed lasing operation from the PhC dipole mode emitting at 1324 nm, which is fabricated […]


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A photonic crystal nanocavity laser in an optically very thick slab

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Kavli Affiliate: Axel Scherer | First 5 Authors: Se-Heon Kim, Jingqing Huang, Axel Scherer, , | Summary: A photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavity formed in an optically very thick slab can support reasonably high-Q modes for lasing. Experimentally, we demonstrate room-temperature pulsed lasing operation from the PhC dipole mode emitting at 1324 nm, which is fabricated […]


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Ion association in low-polarity solvents: comparisons between theory, simulation, and experiment

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Kavli Affiliate: Jos W. Zwanikken | First 5 Authors: Chantal Valeriani, Philip J. Camp, Jos W. Zwanikken, René van Roij, Marjolein Dijkstra | Summary: The association of ions in electrolyte solutions at very low concentration and low temperature is studied using computer simulations and quasi-chemical ion-pairing theory. The specific case of the restricted primitive model […]


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Correlation functions quantify super-resolution images and estimate apparent clustering due to over-counting

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Kavli Affiliate: Barbara Baird | First 5 Authors: Sarah Veatch, Benjamin Machta, Sarah Shelby, Ethan Chiang, David Holowka | Summary: We present an analytical method to quantify clustering in super-resolution localization images of static surfaces in two dimensions. The method also describes how over-counting of labeled molecules contributes to apparent self-clustering and how the effective […]


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Opportunities and limitations of transition voltage spectroscopy: a theoretical analysis

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Kavli Affiliate: Joseph M. Thijssen | First 5 Authors: Fatemeh Mirjani, Joseph M. Thijssen, Sense Jan van der Molen, , | Summary: In molecular charge transport, transition voltage spectroscopy (TVS) holds the promise that molecular energy levels can be explored at bias voltages lower than required for resonant tunneling. We investigate the theoretical basis of […]


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Finite Phase-separation FRET II: Determination of domain size from simulated data

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Kavli Affiliate: Gerald W. Feigenson | First 5 Authors: Frederick A. Heberle, Gerald W. Feigenson, , , | Summary: We have developed a new model to describe FRET efficiency (E FRET) between freely-diffusing membrane probes in phase-separated bilayers (Finite Phase-separation FRET, or FP-FRET), that in principle applies to any system where phase domain dimensions are […]


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Finite Phase-separation FRET I: A quantitative model valid for bilayer nanodomains

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Kavli Affiliate: Gerald W. Feigenson | First 5 Authors: Frederick A. Heberle, Gerald W. Feigenson, , , | Summary: Multicomponent lipid mixtures exhibit complex phase behavior, including coexistence of nanoscopic fluid phases in ternary mixtures mimicking the composition of the outer leaflet of mammalian plasma membrane. The physical mechanisms responsible for the small size of […]


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Limited Perturbation of a DPPC Bilayer by Fluorescent Lipid Probes: A Molecular Dynamics Study

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Kavli Affiliate: Gerald W. Feigenson | First 5 Authors: Frederick A. Heberle, David G. Ackerman, Gerald W. Feigenson, , | Summary: The presence and the properties of lipid bilayer nanometer-scale domains might be important for understanding the membranes of living cells. We used molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate perturbations of a small patch of […]


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