Interplay between superconductivity and ferromagnetism in crystalline nanowires

J Wang, M Singh, M Tian, N Kumar, B Liu, C Shi… - Nature Physics, 2010 - nature.com
The interaction between superconductivity and ferromagnetism, which entails incompatible
spin order, is one of the problems of fundamental interest in condensed-matter physics. In …

Solution-based synthetic strategies for one-dimensional metal-containing nanostructures

AL Tiano, C Koenigsmann, AC Santulli… - Chemical …, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
One-dimensional (1D) nanostructures, such as nanowires, nanotubes, nanorods, and
nanoribbons, have attracted significant attention stemming from the plethora of interesting …

A study of the tribological behavior of nano-ZnO-filled polyurethane composite coatings

HJ Song, ZZ Zhang, XH Men, ZZ Luo - Wear, 2010 - Elsevier
The two different morphologies of ZnO nanoparticles and ZnO whiskers were used as the
friction modifiers to improve the tribological behavior of the polyurethane (PU) composite …

Giant drop in the Bardeen-Cooper-Schrieffer coherence length induced by quantum size effects in superconducting nanowires

AA Shanenko, MD Croitoru, A Vagov, FM Peeters - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
The BCS coherence length in low-dimensional superconductors is dramatically modified by
quantum-size effects. In particular, for nanowires made of conventional superconducting …

Achieving the theoretical depairing current limit in superconducting nanomesh films

K Xu, P Cao, JR Heath - Nano letters, 2010 - ACS Publications
We show the theoretical depairing current limit can be achieved in a robust fashion in highly
ordered superconductor nanomesh films having spatial periodicities smaller than both the …

Large-scale fabrication of single crystalline tin nanowire arrays

B Luo, D Yang, M Liang, L Zhi - Nanoscale, 2010 - pubs.rsc.org
Large-scale fabrication of single crystalline tin nanowire arrays - Nanoscale (RSC
Publishing) DOI:10.1039/C0NR00206B Royal Society of Chemistry View PDF VersionPrevious …

Hollow nanocylinder: Multisubband superconductivity induced by quantum confinement

Y Chen, AA Shanenko, FM Peeters - Physical Review B—Condensed Matter …, 2010 - APS
Quantization of the transverse electron motion in high-quality superconducting metallic
nanowires and nanofilms results in the formation of well-distinguished single-electron …

Sample-size dependence of the superconducting transition of ribbon-shaped Pb nanocrystals studied by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

ZL Guan, YX Ning, CL Song, J Wang, JF Jia… - Physical Review B …, 2010 - APS
We have systematically investigated the superconductivity of single crystalline Pb
nanoribbons grown on Si substrates by using low temperature scanning tunneling …

Large critical magnetic field and tunneling anomaly behavior of superconducting carbon-coated Sn nanorods and nanoparticles

ZH Wang, DY Geng, Z Han, ZD Zhang - Journal of Applied Physics, 2010 - pubs.aip.org
The arc-discharge process is usually used to synthesize some kinds of metal nanocrystals or
nanoparticles all with high melting temperature. Here, the carbon-coated Sn (with a low …

Surface-stress-induced elongation of β-Sn metal nanowires: A density-functional study

YS Kim, SM Lee, JY Song - Applied surface science, 2010 - Elsevier
We investigated surface stabilities and stresses of β-Sn and their consequences to the
nanowire structure through density-functional theory calculations. β-Sn nanowires are well …