Flexible heat-flow sensing sheets based on the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect using one-dimensional spin-current conducting films

Kirihara, Akihiro*; Kondo, Koichi*; Ishida, Masahiko*; Ihara, Kazuki*; Iwasaki, Yuma*; Someya, Hiroko*; Matsuba, Asuka*; Uchida, Kenichi*; Saito, Eiji; Yamamoto, Naoharu*; et al.

Scientific Reports (Internet), 6, p.23114_1 - 23114_7, 2016/03

https://doi.org/10.1038/srep23114

Heat-flow sensing is expected to be an important technological component of smart thermal management in the future. Conventionally, the thermoelectric (TE) conversion technique, which is based on the Seebeck effect, has been used to measure a heat flow by converting the flow into electric voltage. However, for ubiquitous heat-flow visualization, thin and flexible sensors with extremely low thermal resistance are highly desired. Recently, another type of TE effect, the longitudinal spin Seebeck effect (LSSE), has aroused great interest because the LSSE potentially offers favourable features for TE applications such as simple thin-film device structures. Here we demonstrate an LSSE-based flexible TE sheet that is especially suitable for a heat-flow sensing application. This TE sheet contained a NiZnFeO film which was formed on a flexible plastic sheet using a spray-coating method known as ferrite plating. The experimental results suggest that the ferrite-plated film, which has a columnar crystal structure aligned perpendicular to the film plane, functions as a unique one-dimensional spin- current conductor suitable for bendable LSSE-based sensors. This newly developed thin TE sheet may be attached to differently shaped heat sources without obstructing an innate heat flux, paving the way to versatile heat-flow measurements and management.

Genetic changes in progeny of bystander human fibroblasts after microbeam irradiation with X-rays, protons or carbon ions; The Relevance to cancer risk

Autsavapromporn, N.*; Plante, I.*; Liu, C.*; Konishi, Teruaki*; Usami, Noriko*; Funayama, Tomoo; Azzam, E.*; Murakami, Takeshi*; Suzuki, Masao*

International Journal of Radiation Biology, 91(1), p.62 - 70, 2015/01

https://doi.org/10.3109/09553002.2014.950715

Radiation-induced bystander effects have important implications in radiotherapy. Their persistence in normal cells may contribute to risk of health hazards, including cancer. This study investigates the role of radiation quality and gap junction intercellular communication (GJIC) in the propagation of harmful effects in progeny of bystander cells. Confluent human skin fibroblasts were exposed to microbeam radiations with different linear energy transfer (LET) by which 0.0360.4% of the cells were directly targeted by radiation. Following 20 population doublings, the cells were harvested and assayed for micronucleus formation, gene mutation and protein oxidation. The results showed that expression of stressful effects in the progeny of bystander cells is dependent on LET.

Radiation-quality-dependent bystander effects induced by the microbeams with different radiation sources

Suzuki, Masao*; Autsavapromporn, N.*; Usami, Noriko*; Funayama, Tomoo; Plante, I.*; Yokota, Yuichiro; Muto, Yasuko*; Suzuki, Michiyo; Ikeda, Hiroko; Hattori, Yuya; et al.

Journal of Radiation Research, 55(Suppl.1), P. i54, 2014/03

https://doi.org/10.1093/jrr/rrt219

Resonant X-ray scattering of PrRuP

Ishii, Kenji; Tsutsui, Satoshi*; Hao, L.*; Hasegawa, Tomoo*; Iwasa, Kazuaki*; Tsubota, Masami; Inami, Toshiya; Murakami, Yoichi*; Saha, S. R.*; Sugawara, Hitoshi*; et al.

Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 310(2, Part1), p.e178 - e180, 2007/03

PrRuP shows a metal-insulator (MI) transition at 62 K accompanied by a structural phase transition. Because LaRuP without electrons does not shows the MI transition, electrons in the Pr atom plays an important role in the transition. In order to elucidate a modulation of electronic states of Pr, we have carried out a resonant X-ray scattering study of PrRuP at Pr - and -edges. Below , resonant signal at the absorption main-edge was successfully observed at the superlattice reflections of the modulation vector in addition to the energy-independent component from the lattice distortion. Because the reflection contains the difference of anomalous scattering factors between two Pr atoms in the unit cell, two different electronic states are actually ordered below . Furthermore we found that the polarization of X-ray is mostly unrotated even at the resonance, which indicates that the resonant scattering in PrRuP is almost isotropic.

Induction of cell killing by bystander effect with argon ion microbeam irradiation

Suzuki, Masao*; Autsavapromporn, N.*; Funayama, Tomoo; Yokota, Yuichiro; Muto, Yasuko*; Ikeda, Hiroko; Suzuki, Michiyo; Hattori, Yuya; Sakashita, Tetsuya; Kobayashi, Yasuhiko; et al.

no journal, , 

To determine signal transduction factors that are expected to be secreted from microbeam-irradiated cells, the time course analysis of cell killing effect in microbeam irradiated cell population was carried out. To irradiate cell with heavy-ion microbeam, a collimating heavy-ion microbeam system of JAEA-Takasaki was used. After microbeam irradiation, the samples were incubated for 0.5, 3, 24 hours respectively, and the cell killing effect of the microbeam irradiation were measured by colony formation assay. The result suggested that some factors, which induces bystander cell killing, were secreted after argon-ion microbeam, and the factor can be inhibited by the addition of gap-junction inhibitor and DMSO, but not by the ascorbic acid.

P53-dependent cell-killing effect via bystander effect using carbon-ion microbeams simulating the spot scanning system with pencil beams at HIMAC

Suzuki, Masao*; Funayama, Tomoo; Yokota, Yuichiro; Suzuki, Michiyo; Ikeda, Hiroko; Sakashita, Tetsuya; Kobayashi, Yasuhiko; Murakami, Takeshi*

no journal, , 

We irradiated either 4-cell lines with wild-type P53 or 4-cell lines with mutated-type P53 using the microbeams of JAEA-Takasaki collimated by 20m in diameter. We can easily estimate the number of the directly irradiated cells to be just 0.04% of the total cells on the dish using the highly controlled microbeam irradiation system. The percent survival in the cells with wild-type P53 was around 90%, while almost 100% was observed in the cells with mutated-type P53. The results are consistent with the data using the carbon-ion broad beams with the shielding method at HIMAC. Our overall results showed that bystander cell-killing effect was observed in the cells with wild-type P53, but not in the P53-mutated cells. There is clear evidence that the spot scanning irradiation system of carbon ions enables the enhanced cell killing in cells with wild-type P53 gene via gap-junction mediated bystander effect.

Physical properties and microwave dielectric properties of carbon nanotube-containing alumina composite ceramic material

Segawa, Tomoomi; Kawaguchi, Koichi; Ishii, Katsunori; Yamada, Masaaki*; Tamaru, Ayaka*; Nagakawa, Genta*; Fukasawa, Tomonori*; Ishigami, Toru*; Fukui, Kunihiro*; Murakami, Hiroyuki*

no journal, , 

To compensate for heat dissipation through the vessel and reduced microwave absorption due to intermediate in the fabrication process of the metallic oxide powder by the microwave heating denitration method, alumina composite ceramic material containing CNT which has a high relative dielectric loss as the external heating source with self-heating by microwave heating. The CNT was observed by SEM of the CNT-containing alumina composite ceramic material to observe the CNT presence in the base material of alumina. The surface resistivities decreased significantly when the CNT content increased from 0.2 to 0.5 mass%, and there was not much of a significant difference when the CNT content increased from 0.5 to 1.0 mass%. These results are consistent with the results of the previous studies of the apparent dielectric loss that showed a trend toward an increase in the apparent dielectric loss as the CNT content increased from 0.2 to 0.5 mass% in the CNT-containing alumina composites.