Jensen, Zach; Kim, Edward; Kwon, Soonhyoung; Gani, Terry Z.H.; Román-Leshkov, Yuriy; Moliner Marin, Manuel; Corma Canós, Avelino; Olivetti, Elsa(American Chemical Society, 2019-05-22)
[EN] Zeolites are porous, aluminosilicate materials with many industrial and "green" applications. Despite their industrial relevance, many aspects of zeolite synthesis remain poorly understood requiring costly trial and ...
Schwalbe-Koda, Daniel; Kwon, Soonhyoung; Paris, Cecilia; Bello-Jurado, Estefanía; Jensen, Zach; Olivetti, Elsa; Willhammar, Tom; Corma Canós, Avelino; Román-Leshkov, Yuriy; Moliner Marin, Manuel; Gomez-Bombarelli, Rafael(American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2021-10-15)
[EN] Zeolites are versatile catalysts and molecular sieves with large topological diversity, but managing phase competition in zeolite synthesis is an empirical, labor-intensive task. In this work, we controlled phase ...
Ardid-Ramírez, Joan Salvador; Wang, Xiao-Jing(Society for Neuroscience, 2013-12-11)
[EN] A hallmark of executive control is the brain's agility to shift between different tasks depending on the behavioral rule currently in play. In this work, we propose a "tweaking hypothesis" for task switching: a weak ...
García Chocano, Víctor Manuel; Sanchis, Lorenzo; Díaz Rubio, Ana; Martínez Pastor, Juan P.; Cervera Moreno, Francisco Salvador; Llopis Pontiveros, Rafael; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José(American Institute of Physics, 2011-08-16)
[EN] This Letter presents practical realization of a two-dimensional low loss acoustic cloak for airborne
sound obtained by inverse design. The cloak consists of 120 aluminum cylinders of 15 mm
diameter surrounding the ...
Soft acoustic metamaterials utilizing mesoporous structures have been proposed recently as a means for tuning the overall effective properties of the metamaterial and providing better coupling to the surrounding air. In ...
García Meca, Carlos; Carloni, Sante; Barceló, Carlos; Jannes, Gil Georges Paul; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José; Martínez Abietar, Alejandro José(Elsevier, 2014-08)
A recently developed technique known as analogue transformation acoustics has
allowed the extension of the transformational paradigm to general spacetime
transformations under which the acoustic equations are not form ...
Cai, Liang-Wu; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José(Acoustical Society of America, 2012-10)
The equivalence between a single mass-anisotropic layer and two isotropic layers is analyzed by studying two systems: one consists of an anisotropic layer sandwiched between two arbitrarily chosen isotropic media; and the ...
Rodríguez Fortuño, Francisco José; Engheta, Nader(American Physical Society, 2012-03-16)
[EN] We theoretically explore the possibility of reducing propagation loss in a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) waveguide, using mode combinations to achieve wall-avoiding field distributions along a certain propagation length. ...
This paper reports the design, fabrication, and experimental validation of a broadband acoustic cloak for the concealing of three-dimensional (3D) objects placed inside an open cavity with arbitrary surfaces. This 3D cavity ...
García Chocano, Víctor Manuel; Cabrera García, Suitberto; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José(American Institute of Physics, 2012-10-29)
Absorption of broadband noise by sonic crystals consisting of microperforated cylindrical shells is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The theoretical study has been performed in the framework of multiple scattering ...
[EN] Organic structure directing agents (OSDAs) play a crucial role in the synthesis of micro- and mesoporous materials especially in the case of zeolites. Despite the wide use of OSDAs, their interaction with zeolite ...
A structured cylindrical scatterer with low-frequency resonances in both the effective bulk modulus and the dynamical mass density is designed and characterized. The proposed scattering unit is made of a rigid cylinder ...
Sherfey, Jason S.; Soplata, Austin E.; Ardid-Ramírez, Joan Salvador; Roberts, Erik A.; Stanley, David A.; Pittman-Polletta, Benjamin R.; Kopell, Nancy J.(Frontiers Media SA, 2018-03-15)
[EN] DynaSim is an open-source MATLAB/GNU Octave toolbox for rapid prototyping of neural models and batch simulation management. It is designed to speed up and simplify the process of generating, sharing, and exploring ...
An elastic analog of graphene is introduced and analyzed. The system consists of a honeycomb arrangement of spring-mass resonators attached to a thin elastic layer, and the propagation properties of flexural waves along ...
[EN] The ability to manufacture metamaterials with exotic electromagnetic properties has potential for surprising new applications. Here we report how a specific type of metamaterial-one whose permittivity is near zero-exerts ...
[EN] We present a theoretical and experimental study of the effective permittivity of a photonic crystal (PC) made of parallel dielectric rods in the long-wavelength limit. Using the plane-wave expansion method we derive ...
Guild, Matthew; García Chocano, Víctor Manuel; Kan, Weiwei; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José(American Institute of Physics, 2014-12)
n this work, a recent theoretically predicted phenomenon of enhanced permittivity with electromagnetic waves using lossy materials is investigated for the analogous case of mass density and acoustic waves, which represents ...
Spiousas, Ignacio; Torrent Martí, Daniel; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José(American Institute of Physics, 2011-06-13)
This letter demonstrates the mechanical tuning of modes confined in two-dimensional acoustic cavities based on anisotropic metafluids. The employed metafluids have been designed with effective parameters such that the ...
Díaz Rubio, Ana; Hibbins, A.P.; Carbonell Olivares, Jorge; Sánchez-Dehesa Moreno-Cid, José(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2015-06-15)
This work presents an experimental demonstration of total absorption by a metal-dielectric metasurface. Following a theoretical proposal [Dıaz-Rubio et al., Phys. Rev. B 89, 245123 (2014)], we have designed and ...
The absorption of electromagnetic waves by a thin dielectric slab backed by a metasurface has been comprehensively studied and discussed at microwave frequencies. The metasurface consists of a metallic plate decorated with ...