Chiral Dirac fermion in a collinear antiferromagnet

Zhang, A.*; Deng, K.*; Sheng, J.*; Liu, P.*; Kumar, S.*; Shimada, Kenya*; Jiang, Z.*; Liu, Z.*; Shen, D.*; Li, J.*; et al.

Chinese Physics Letters, 40(12), p.126101_1 - 126101_8, 2023/12

https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307X/40/12/126101

A Colossal barocaloric effect induced by the creation of a high-pressure phase

Jiang, X.*; Hattori, Takanori; Xu, X.*; Li, M.*; Yu, C.*; Yu, D.*; Mole, R.*; Yano, Shinichiro*; Chen, J.*; He, L.*; et al.

Materials Horizons, 10(3), p.977 - 982, 2023/03

https://doi.org/10.1039/d2mh00905f

As a promising environment-friendly alternative to current vapor-compression refrigeration, solid-state refrigeration based on the barocaloric effect has been attracting world wide attention. Generally, both phases in which a barocaloric effect occurs are present at ambient pressure. Here, instead, we demonstrate that KPF exhibits a colossal barocaloric effect due to the creation of a high-pressure rhombohedral phase. The phase diagram is constructed based on pressure-dependent calorimetric, Raman scattering, and neutron diffraction measurements. The present study is expected to provide an alternative routine to colossal barocaloric effects through the creation of a high-pressure phase.

Metalloid substitution elevates simultaneously the strength and ductility of face-centered-cubic high-entropy alloys

Wei, D.*; Wang, L.*; Zhang, Y.*; Gong, W.; Tsuru, Tomohito; Lobzenko, I.; Jiang, J.*; Harjo, S.; Kawasaki, Takuro; Bae, J. W.*; et al.

Acta Materialia, 225, p.117571_1 - 117571_16, 2022/02

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117571

Fine structure in the decay of U

Sun, M. D.*; Liu, Z.*; Huang, T. H.*; Zhang, W. Q.*; Andreyev, A. N.; Ding, B.*; Wang, J. G.*; Liu, X. Y.*; Lu, H. Y.*; Hou, D. S.*; et al.

Physics Letters B, 800, p.135096_1 - 135096_5, 2020/01

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135096

Adsorption of ytterbium onto fungal cells; A pH-dependent contribution of phosphoryl functional group

Jiang, M. Y.*; Onuki, Toshihiko; Yamasaki, Shinya; Tanaka, Kazuya*; Utsunomiya, Satoshi*

Journal of Radioanalytical and Nuclear Chemistry, 295(3), p.2283 - 2287, 2013/03

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10967-012-2285-x

The adsorption of Ytterbium on the cells of yeast has been studied by batch type experiment by changing solution pH. The Yb adsorption species on the yeast cell wall of the was determined by extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopy combined with a linear combination analysis at various pHs. The results indicated that the contribution of Yb-phosphoryl species was constant between pH 3 and 5, strongly suggesting that most of the Yb was associated with undeprotonated phosphoryl functional groups.

Chemical states of fallout radioactive Cs in the soils deposited at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident

Kozai, Naofumi; Onuki, Toshihiko; Arisaka, Makoto; Watanabe, Masayuki; Sakamoto, Fuminori; Yamasaki, Shinya; Jiang, M.

Journal of Nuclear Science and Technology, 49(5), p.473 - 478, 2012/05

https://doi.org/10.1080/00223131.2012.677131

Chemical states of radioactive Cs in the contaminated soils by Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident has been characterized by the desorption experiments using appropriate reagents solutions and size fractionation of the contaminated soils. Approximately 70% of radioactive Cs in the residual fraction were associated with the size fractions larger than the elutriated one, even though mica-like minerals were contained in the elutriated one. These results strongly suggest that radioactive Cs was irreversibly associated with soil components other than mica like minerals in the contaminated soil.

Spectroscopy of Rf

Qian, J.*; Heinz, A.*; Khoo, T. L.*; Janssens, R. V. F.*; Peterson, D.*; Seweryniak, D.*; Ahmad, I.*; Asai, Masato; Back, B. B.*; Carpenter, M. P.*; et al.

Physical Review C, 79(6), p.064319_1 - 064319_13, 2009/06

https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevC.79.064319

-, -, and conversion electron spectroscopy experiments for Rf have been performed using Fragment Mass Analyzer at Argonne National Laboratory. A new isomer with a half-life of 160 s has been discovered in Rf, and it is interpreted as a three-quasiparticle high- isomer. Neutron configurations of one-quasiparticle states in No, the -decay daughter of Rf, have been assigned on the basis of -decay hindrance factors. Excitation energies of the 1/2[620] states in =151 isotones indicate that the deformed shell gap at =152 increases with the atomic number.

High-pressure X-ray diffraction of icosahedral Zr-Al-Ni-Cu-Ag quasicrystals

Jiang, J.*; Saksl, K.*; Rasmussen, H.*; Watanuki, Tetsu; Ishimatsu, Naoki; Shimomura, Osamu

Applied Physics Letters, 79(8), p.1112 - 1114, 2001/08

https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1394951

no abstracts in English

Biomineralization of REE phosphate nano-minerals by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Jiang, M.; Onuki, Toshihiko; Kozai, Naofumi; Tanaka, Kazuya; Suzuki, Yoshinori; Utsunomiya, Satoshi*

no journal, , 

We investigated association of Ce with yeast S. cerevisiae at pH of 3, 4, and 5. SEM analysis showed that nano-sized Ce bearing minerals were developed on the cell surface. TEM and SAED analyses showed that the Ce- bearing mineral is monazite.

SEM observation of biogenic nano-particles

Kozai, Naofumi; Jiang, M.; Utsunomiya, Satoshi*; Kuwabata, Susumu*; Onuki, Toshihiko

no journal, , 

We have observed biogenic nano-particles developed on cell surface of microorganism coated with ionic liquid by SEM. In the sample preparation, the microbial cells were coated with hydrophilic and hydrophobic ionic liquids. The biogenic nano-particles were clearly observed by SEM, when the sample were coated with hydrophilic ionic liquid. On the contrary, the cells were collapsed during SEM observation, when the sample were coated with hydrophobic ionic liquid. These results showed that the coating with hydrophilic ionic liquid is effective for analyzing nano-particles developed on microbial cell surface by SEM.