Oscar R. Santos, Wladimir S. Braga, Danilo D. Luders, Newller M. Kimura, Manuel Simões e Antonio J. Palangana

Journal of Molecular Liquids – Volume: 197; Pages: 120–123; DOI: 10.1016/j.molliq.2014.05.005

The calamitic nematic (NC)–biaxial nematic (NB)–discotic nematic (ND) phase transitions are studied in a potassium laurate-decanol-potassium sulfate and water mixture by optical conoscopy. The NC−(ND+) phase is uniaxially negative (positive) […]

Qing Wen, Jun Shen, Rafal Gieleciak, Kirk H. Michaelian, Jurandir H. Rohling, Nelson G. C. Astrath e Mauro L. Baesso

International Journal of Thermophysics – Volume: 35; Issue: 5; Pages: 930-941; DOI: 10.1007/s10765-014-1604-6

Temperature coefficients of the refractive index (dn/dT) in the 25∘C to 35∘C temperature interval for hydrocarbon mixtures containing as many as 14 compounds were investigated in this […]

Julia G. Camilotti, Aloisi Somer, G. F. Costa, M. A. Ribeiro, Claudia Bonardi K. da Cruz, Gerson K. da Cruz, Sergio L. Gómez, Flavio L. Beltrame, Antonio Medina Neto, Francielle Sato, Nelson G. Castelli Astrath e Andressa Novatski

Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy – Volume: 121; Pages: 719–723; DOI: 10.1016/j.saa.2013.11.099

In this work, the phase-resolved […]

Luiz F. Cotica, Valdirlei F. Freitas, Daniel M. Silva, Karina Honjoya, Karen Honjoya, Ivair A. Santos, Verusca C. P. Fontanive, Najeh M. Khalil, Rubiana M. Mainardes, Erika S. Kioshima, Ruyan Guo e Amar S. Bhalla

Journal of Nano Research – Volume: 28; Pages: 131-140; DOI: 10.4028/www.scientific.net/JNanoR.28.131

In the search to reduce the side effects, toxicity and assuring the desired effectiveness of […]

Trifce Sandev, Irina Petreska e Ervin K. Lenzi

Journal of Mathematical Physics – Volume: 55; Issue: 9; page: 092105; DOI: 10.1063/1.4894059

We investigate a time-dependent Schrödinger-like equation in presence of a nonlocal term by using the method of variable separation and the Green function approach. We analyze the Green function for different forms of the memory kernel and […]

Luiz F. Cótica, Valdirlei F. Freitas, Otávio A. Protzek, José A. Eiras, Ducinei Garcia, Fabiano Yokaichiya, Ivair A. Santos, Ruyan Guo e Amar S. Bhalla

Journal of Applied Physics – Volume: 116; Issue: 3; Page: 034107; DOI: 10.1063/1.4890455

In this manuscript, X-ray and high-resolution neutron powder diffraction investigations, associated with Rietveld refinements, magnetic hysteresis curves and a modeling […]

Sérgio de Picoli Jr., M. del Castillo-Mussot, Haroldo V. Ribeiro, Ervin K. Lenzi e Renio S. Mendes

Scientific Reports – Volume: 4; Article Number: 4773; DOI: 10.1038/srep04773

Understanding the mechanisms and processes underlying the dynamics of collective violence is of considerable current interest. Recent studies indicated the presence of robust patterns characterizing the size and timing of violent events in […]

Nelson G. C. Astrath, Luis C. Malacarne, Mauro L. Baesso, Gustavo V. B. Lukasievicz e Stephen E. Bialkowski

Nature Communications – Volume: 5; Article number: 4363; DOI:10.1038/ncomms5363

The effect of radiation forces at the interface between dielectric materials has been a long-standing debate for over a century. Yet there has been so far only limited experimental verification in […]

Luis Humberto da C. Andrade, Sandro M. Lima, Rogério V. da Silva, Mauro L. Baesso, Yannick Guyotc e Luiz A. de Oliveira Nunes

Journal of Materials Chemistry C – Volume: 2; Issue 47; Pages: 10149-10156; DOI: 10.1039/C4TC01190B

The optical and colorimetric properties of a KCl:Eu2+/KCN crystal are analyzed in this paper to verify its potential for the development of white-light-emitting […]

Marcos R. Mauricio, Daniel S. Velasco, Marcos R. Guilherme, Marcos H. Kunita, Antonio Medina Neto, Antonio C. Bento e Adley F. Rubira

Materials Letters – Volume: 125; Pages: 75–77; DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2014.03.149

This work describes the preparation of composite films of zinc oxide (ZnO) embedded in a covalent copolymer substrate of triethylene glycol dimethacrylate and poly(ethyleneglycol) diacrylate. The ZnO-embedded […]