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Micro, Volume 2, Issue 4

2022 December - 11 articles

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Articles (11)

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
10,772 Views
20 Pages

Resurgence of Electron Quantum Tunneling Sensors

  • Aishwaryadev Banerjee and
  • Carlos H. Mastrangelo

13 December 2022

Quantum tunneling sensors are typically ultra-sensitive devices that have been specifically designed to convert a stimulus into an electronic signal using the wondrous principles of quantum mechanical tunneling. In the early 1990s, William Kaiser dev...

(This article belongs to the Collection Microsystem and Nanosystem Research for Sensors, Actuators and Energy Conversion Devices)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,165 Views
9 Pages

Supramolecular Aggregation Processes on Carbon Surfaces Occurring in Bovine Serum Albumin Solutions

  • Aleksei Salanov,
  • Alexandra Serkova,
  • Anastasia Zhirnova,
  • Larisa Perminova and
  • Galina Kovalenko

9 December 2022

The processes of supramolecular aggregation occurring on carbon surfaces in aqueous solutions of bovine serum albumin (BSA) during drying were studied using modern scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The carbon materials studied were highly oriented...

(This article belongs to the Section Analysis Methods and Instruments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,259 Views
7 Pages

The Yield of Cherenkov and Scintillation Radiation Generated by the 2.7 MeV Electron Beam in Plate PMMA Samples

  • Boris Alekseev,
  • Viktor Tarasenko,
  • Evgeniy Baksht,
  • Alexaner Potylitsyn,
  • Alexander Burachenko,
  • Michail Shevelev,
  • Sergey Uglov and
  • Artem Vukolov

25 November 2022

In this paper, we have investigated characteristics of ultraviolet and visible radiation generated by the 2.7 MeV electrons. It is shown that the Cherenkov radiation (ChR) intensity predominates over scintillations including wavelength shifting and c...

(This article belongs to the Section Analysis Methods and Instruments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,374 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2022

Significant advancement has occurred in the detection methods of solution-based analytes. High-pressure liquid chromatography, gas chromatography, and other systems used for analyses are quite expensive. Therefore, there is a need for new methods and...

(This article belongs to the Section Microscale Materials Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,938 Views
17 Pages

Sonochemical Synthesis of Silica-Supported Iron Oxide Nanostructures and Their Application as Catalysts in Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis

  • Lyufei Chen,
  • Emily Costa,
  • Pradheep Kileti,
  • Rina Tannenbaum,
  • Jake Lindberg and
  • Devinder Mahajan

21 November 2022

The emphasis on climate change requires processes to be more efficient to minimize CO2 emissions, and nanostructured materials as catalysts could play a crucial role due to their high surface area per unit volume. Herein, we report the synthesis of s...

(This article belongs to the Section Microscale Materials Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,434 Views
12 Pages

31 October 2022

Speckle interferometry techniques based on the phase-detection method have been widely used to observe microstructures beyond the diffraction limit, and the observations of hard solid samples such as microspheres and micro-characters have been previo...

(This article belongs to the Collection Advances in Microtechnology for Cell/Tissue Engineering and Biosensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,614 Views
15 Pages

Microstructural Evolution of T91 in High Temperature Conditions and under Combined Effect of Stress and Temperature

  • Andrea Tonti,
  • Daniela Lega,
  • Alessandra Antonini,
  • Antonello Alvino,
  • Loriana Ricciardi and
  • Luana Campanile

27 October 2022

ASTM A213 T91 steel is widely used in power plants and petrochemical industry for long-term service components. Due to its high resistance to creep, thermomechanical fatigue and corrosion, the use of grade 91 steel allows usual plant service paramete...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Microscale and Nanoscale Researches in Italy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,973 Views
16 Pages

9 October 2022

Conventional capillary gas chromatography (GC) columns, which have circular symmetry in cross-section and uniformity in length, are well modeled mathematically by the GC rate theory. However, even after adaptation, the theory has limited applicabilit...

(This article belongs to the Section Analysis Methods and Instruments)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,365 Views
14 Pages

Nanoindentation and Atomic Force Microscopy Derived Mechanical and Microgeometrical Properties of Tooth Root Cementum

  • Evgeniy Sadyrin,
  • Vasilina Lapitskaya,
  • Tatyana Kuznetsova,
  • Diana Yogina,
  • Stanislav Maksyukov and
  • Sergei Aizikovich

9 October 2022

In the present research, nanoindentation, atomic-force microscopy and optical microscopy were used to study the mechanical and microgeometrical parameters of tooth tissues. A nanoindentation test unit equipped with Berkovich indenter was used to dete...

(This article belongs to the Section Microscale Biology and Medicines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,554 Views
11 Pages

Identification of MEMS Geometric Uncertainties through Homogenization

  • David Faraci,
  • Valentina Zega,
  • Alessandro Nastro and
  • Claudia Comi

23 September 2022

Fabrication imperfections strongly influence the functioning of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) if not taken into account during the design process. They must be indeed identified or precisely predicted to guarantee a proper compensation duri...

(This article belongs to the Collection Microsystem and Nanosystem Research for Sensors, Actuators and Energy Conversion Devices)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,439 Views
15 Pages

21 September 2022

In this work, orthorhombic (α-BiNbO4) and triclinic bismuth niobate (β-BiNbO4) ceramics were prepared by a wet chemical route. The structure of the obtained powders was characterised by X-ray diffraction and the morphology by scanning elec...

(This article belongs to the Section Microscale Materials Science)
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