A Novel Technique for Controllable Fabrication of Multilayer Copper/Brass Block

Fabricating a dissimilar-metal block with micro/nano-multilayered structures is usually used by engineers and scientists because of their excellent mechanical properties. In the current work, multilayered copper/brass blocks were effectively fabricated by a synthetical DWFR technique, which includes the processes of diffusion welding, forging and rolling. Diffusion welding was used as the first operation to metallurgically bond the copper and brass sheets, with a Zn diffusion transition layer (thickness of ~100 μm), which can guarantee the bonding strength of copper/brass interfaces during the subsequent forging and rolling processes. After diffusion welding, the original copper/brass blocks were required to be forged, with its total thickness reduced to ~10 mm. This can further restrain the delamination of copper and brass layers during the final rolling process. Rolling was utilized as the ideal operation that can precisely tune the thickness of copper/brass laminate. This novel DWFR technique can easily tune the multilayered copper/brass blocks with controllable layer thickness (from ~250 to ~800 nm). The copper/brass interfaces were well-bonded, and the utilization efficiency of raw materials was very high (>95%).

Insertion of Iron Decorated Organic–Inorganic Cage-Like Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes between Clay Platelets by Langmuir Schaefer Deposition

Tuning the architecture of multilayer nanostructures by exploiting the properties of their constituents is a versatile way to develop multifunctional films. Herein, we report a bottom-up approach for the fabrication of highly ordered hybrid films consisting of dimethyldioctadecylammonium (DODA), iron decorated polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (POSS), and montmorillonite clay platelets. Clay platelets provided the template where Fe/POSS moieties were grafted by the use of the surfactant. Driven by the iron ions present, DODA adopted a staggered arrangement, which is essential to realize the controllable layer-by-layer growth of the film. The elemental composition of the film was studied by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and X-ray reflectivity confirmed the existence of smooth interfaces between the different layers.

Self-assembly of four generations of RNA dendrimers for drug shielding with controllable layer-by-layer release

Multifunctional RNA dendrimers have been developed as novel drug delivery platforms, which show shielding effect of loaded cargos and temperature triggered stepwise dissociation.

Supercritical hydrothermal synthesis of MoS2 nanosheets with controllable layer number and phase structure

Supercritical hydrothermal processing with different organic substances for different reaction times provides MoS2 with a controllable number of layers and morphology.