Flexible, all metal-oxide capacitors for printed electronics

In this research the use of micron and nanoparticle metal oxide materials for conductive and dielectric screen printing inks were investigated. Screen printed parallel plate capacitors were fabricated to research the applications of these inks. Conductive, micron-particle indium tin oxide (ITO) screen printing inks were formulated for the conductive plates. A dielectric, nanoparticle aluminium oxide (Al2O3) ink was formulated for the dielectric barrier. Capacitors of varying sizes (1cm2 – 9cm2 ) were printed onto flexible polyethylene terephthalate (PET) sheets. The effect of dielectric layer thickness was investigated to find the optimal fabrication process. Impedance analysis was performed on the capacitors to characterise both the performance of the capacitors and the dielectric ink. Analysis of the capacitors was also performed under flex (up to 30% strain) to investigate the effect of bending on the electronic properties. The capacitors were found to be highly stable under bending enabling their use in flexible printed electronics applications

The US Electron Ion Collider Accelerator Designs

With the completion of the National Academies of Sciences Assessment of a US Electron-Ion Collider, the prospects for construction of such a facility have taken a step forward. This paper provides an overview of the two site-specific EIC designs: JLEIC (Jefferson Lab) and eRHIC (BNL) as well as brief overview of ongoing EIC R&D

The present and future of QCD

This White Paper presents an overview of the current status and future perspective of QCD research, based on the community inputs and scientific conclusions from the 2022 Hot and Cold QCD Town Meeting. We present the progress made in the last decade toward a deep understanding of both the fundamental structure of the sub-atomic matter of nucleon and nucleus in cold QCD, and the hot QCD matter in heavy ion collisions. We identify key questions of QCD research and plausible paths to obtaining answers to those questions in the near future, hence defining priorities of our research over the coming decades

Printed, fully metal oxide, capacitive humidity sensors using conductive indium tin oxide inks

© In this research, fully metal oxide, capacitive humidity sensors for printed electronic applications have been designed and fabricated through the development of conductive indium tin oxide and dielectric aluminum oxide inks for the screen-printing process. Sensors were printed in a parallel plate configuration in 4 and 9 cm2 conductive plate areas. Typically, commercially available discrete humidity sensors have a sensitivity in the range of 0.2-0.5 pF/RH%, whereas the printed humidity sensors presented in this paper have sensitivities of 0.85-7.76 pF/RH% depending on the sensor size, allowing for customizable properties. Response times were measured using a weighted average and found to be 21.4 s on average and recovery times were 4.8 s on average. The sensing performance was highly linear (R2 > 0.97) for sensors of all sizes across the measured humidity range of 5-95%. Impedance spectroscopy was used to determine the sensing mechanism, and the mechanism was simulated and matched with experimental data. The sensing mechanism analysis shows that the sensing is primarily dictated by alumina at a lower relative humidity. The ITO contributes through increasing the ionic conductivity at a higher relative humidity, contributing to the high linearity of the sensor

Structure-activity relationships for the antileishmanial and antitrypanosomal activities of 1'-substituted 9-anilinoacridines.

Members of the class of 9-anilinoacridine topoisomerase II inhibitors bearing lipophilic electron-donating 1'-anilino substituents are active against both the promastigote and amastigote forms of the parasite Leishmania major. A series of analogues of the known 1'-NHhexyl lead compound were prepared and evaluated against L. major in macrophage culture to further develop structure-activity relationships (SAR). Toxicity toward mammalian cells was measured in a human leukemia cell line, and the ratio of the two IC50 values (IC50(J)/IC50(L)) was used as a measure of the in vitro therapeutic index (IVTI). A 3,6-diNMe2 substitution pattern on the acridine greatly increased toxicity to L. major without altering mammalian toxicity, increasing IVTIs over that of the lead compound. The 2-OMe, 6-Cl acridine substitution pattern used in the antimalarial drug mepacrine also resulted in potent antileishmanial activity and high IVTIs. Earlier suggestions of the utility of 2'-OR groups in lowering mammalian cytotoxicity were not borne out in this wider study. A series of very lipophilic 1'-NRR (symmetric dialkylamino)-substituted analogues showed relatively high antileishmanial potency, but no clear trend was apparent across the series, and none were superior to the 1'-NH(CH2)5Me subclass. Subsets of the most active 1'-N(R)(CH2)5Me- and 1'-N(alkyl)2-substituted compounds against L. major were also evaluated against Leishmania donovani, Trypanosoma cruzi, and Trypanosoma brucei, but no consistent SAR could be discerned in these physiologically diverse test systems. The present study has confirmed earlier conclusions that lipophilic electron-donating groups at the 1'-position of 9-anilinoacridines provide high activity against L. major, but the SAR patterns observed do not carry over to the other parasites studied