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Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 P. Süle , M. Menyhárd , K. Nordlund

The structure property of non-ideal Si/GaAs heterostructures that were integrated with the ultra-thin oxide (UO) tunneling interfacial layer has been systematically investigated. Si nanomembranes (NMs) were oxidized in different time…

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is a glassy polymer widely used in biomedical engineering, namely in microfluidics applications. However, PDMS is known to interact with hydrophobic chemicals. This interaction is exacerbated at the scale of…

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Atomistic computer simulations are applied to investigate the atomic structure, thermal stability, and diffusion processes in Al-Si interphase boundaries as a prototype of metal-ceramic interfaces in composite materials. Some of the most…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-24 Ian Chesser , Raj Koju , Akshay Vellore , Yuri Mishin

By means of three dimensional high-resolution hybrid simulations we study the properties of the magnetic field spectral anisotropies near and beyond ion kinetic scales. By using both a Fourier analysis and a local analysis based on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-18 Simone Landi , Luca Franci , Emanuele Papini , Andrea Verdini , Lorenzo Matteini , Petr Hellinger

Nanoscale diffusion at the interfaces in multilayers plays a vital role in controlling their physical properties for a variety of applications. In the present work depth-dependent interdiffusion in a Si/Fe/Si trilayer has been studied with…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-05-29 Ajay Gupta , Dileep Kumar , Vaishali Phatak

We study far from equilibrium transport of a periodically driven inertial Brownian particle moving in a periodic potential. As detected recently for a SQUID ratchet dynamics (Spiechowicz J. & Luczka J. Phys. Rev. E 91, 062104 (2015)), the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-12-07 Jakub Spiechowicz , Peter Hänggi , Jerzy Łuczka

Transport of nanoscale objects in complex, structured environments plays a key role in a wide range of processes, from biomolecular dynamics in extracellular spaces to transport in porous materials such as filters and catalysts. While…

In this work a stochastic model of gaseous transfer in polymer/CNT nanocomposites is presented. The model takes into account interfacial areas, i.e. polymer depletion regions. The local regime of transport is controlled by the density of…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-11-09 Polina Kalashnikova , Ilia Kalashnikov , Konstantin Khromov

We consider the translocation dynamics of a polymer chain forced through a nanopore by an external force on its head monomer on the trans side. For a proper theoretical treatment we generalize the iso-flux tension propagation (IFTP) theory…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-02-14 Jalal Sarabadani , Bappa Ghosh , Srabanti Chaudhury , Tapio Ala-Nissila

We consider a model system in which anomalous diffusion is generated by superposition of underlying linear modes with a broad range of relaxation times. In the language of Gaussian polymers, our model corresponds to Rouse (Fourier) modes…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-11 Assaf Amitai , Yacov Kantor , Mehran Kardar

We study diffusion and mixing in different linear fluid dynamics models, mainly related to incompressible flows. In this setting, mixing is a purely advective effect which causes a transfer of energy to high frequencies. When diffusion is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-06-11 Michele Coti Zelati , Matias G. Delgadino , Tarek M. Elgindi

The present study aims to understand the process of turbulent entrainment into a jet, as affected by background turbulence, using scalar statistics. Planar-laser-induced fluorescence was employed to capture the orthogonal cross sections of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-23 Khashayar F. Kohan , Susan J. Gaskin

We construct a simple phenomenological diffuse-interface model for composition-induced nanopatterning during ion sputtering of alloys. In simulations, this model reproduces without difficulties the high-aspect ratio structures and tilted…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-14 S. Le Roy , E. Søndergård , M. Kildemo , I. S. Nerbø , M. Plapp

We characterize the super-diffusive dynamics of tracer particles in an electrohydrodynamically driven emulsion of oil droplets in an immiscible oil medium, where the amplitude and frequency of an external electric field are the control…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Somayeh Khajehpour Tadavani , Anand Yethiraj

Anomalous diffusion, process in which the mean-squared displacement of system states is a non-linear function of time, is usually identified in real stochastic processes by comparing experimental and theoretical displacements at relatively…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2013-05-29 Serge F. Timashev , Yuriy S. Polyakov , Pavel I. Misurkin , Sergey G. Lakeev

In this paper, we investigate the microscopic dynamics of a polymer of length $N$ translocating through a narrow pore. Characterization of its purportedly anomalous dynamics has so far remained incomplete. We show that the polymer dynamics…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-07-25 Debabrata Panja , Gerard T. Barkema , Robin C. Ball

In cell membranes, proteins and lipids diffuse in a highly crowded and heterogeneous landscape, where aggregates and dense domains of proteins or lipids obstruct the path of diffusing molecules. In general, hindered motion gives rise to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2010-06-16 Margaret R. Horton , Felix Höfling , Joachim O. Rädler , Thomas Franosch

We analyse mobile-immobile transport of particles that switch between the mobile and immobile phases with finite rates. Despite this seemingly simple assumption of Poissonian switching we unveil a rich transport dynamics including…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-03-28 T. Doerries , A. V. Chechkin , R. Metzler

Understanding transition metal atoms' intercalation and diffusion behavior in two-dimensional (2D) materials is essential for advancing their potential in spintronics and other emerging technologies. In this study, we used density…