Radioactive decays at limits of nuclear stability

M Pfützner, M Karny, LV Grigorenko, K Riisager - Reviews of modern physics, 2012 - APS
The last decades brought impressive progress in synthesizing and studying properties of
nuclides located very far from the beta stability line. Among the most fundamental properties …

Microrheology of colloidal systems

AM Puertas, T Voigtmann - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Microrheology was proposed almost twenty years ago as a technique to obtain rheological
properties in soft matter from the microscopic motion of colloidal tracers used as probes …

New parametrization for the nuclear covariant energy density functional with a point-coupling interaction

PW Zhao, ZP Li, JM Yao, J Meng - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
A new parametrization PC-PK1 for the nuclear covariant energy density functional with
nonlinear point-coupling interaction is proposed by fitting to observables of 60 selected …

Nanoparticle diffusion in polymer nanocomposites

JT Kalathi, U Yamamoto, KS Schweizer, GS Grest… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations show that nanoparticle (NP) diffusivity in
weakly interacting mixtures of NPs and polymer melts has two very different classes of …

Hot brownian motion

D Rings, R Schachoff, M Selmke, F Cichos, K Kroy - Physical review letters, 2010 - APS
We derive the Markovian description for the nonequilibrium Brownian motion of a heated
nanoparticle in a simple solvent with a temperature-dependent viscosity. Our analytical …

Microscopic description of spherical to γ-soft shape transitions in Ba and Xe nuclei

ZP Li, T Nikšić, D Vretenar, J Meng - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2010 - APS
The rapid transition between spherical and γ-soft shapes in Ba and Xe nuclei in the mass
region A⩾ 130 is analyzed using excitation spectra and collective wave functions obtained …

Nanoscopic Interfacial Hydrogel Viscoelasticity Revealed from Comparison of Macroscopic and Microscopic Rheology

RF Schmidt, H Kiefer, R Dalgliesh, M Gradzielski… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Deviations between macrorheological and particle-based microrheological measurements
are often considered to be a nuisance and neglected. We study aqueous poly (ethylene …

Quadrupole deformation of light hypernuclei in a constrained relativistic mean field model: Shape evolution and shape polarization effect of the hyperon

BN Lu, EG Zhao, SG Zhou - Physical Review C—Nuclear Physics, 2011 - APS
The shapes of light normal nuclei and Λ hypernuclei are investigated in the (β, γ)
deformation plane by using a newly developed constrained relativistic mean field (RMF) …

The influence of inter-particle forces on diffusion at the nanoscale

F Giorgi, D Coglitore, JM Curran, D Gilliland, P Macko… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Van der Waals and electrostatic interactions are the dominant forces acting at the nanoscale
and they have been reported to directly influence a range of phenomena including surface …

Diffusion of thin nanorods in polymer melts

J Wang, TC O'Connor, GS Grest, Y Zheng… - …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The diffusion of monomerically thin nanorods in polymer melts is studied by molecular
dynamics simulations. We focus on the systems where the chains are long enough to screen …