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5 November 2025

In salt lake KCl cold decomposition–direct flotation for K-Na separation, octadecylamine hydrochloride (ODA-H) acts as a collector, reducing product purity and limiting high-end applications of salt lake KCl. To study KCl purification mechanism...

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  • Review
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54 Citations
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22 Pages

High- and Ultra-High-Purity Aluminum, a Review on Technical Production Methodologies

  • Danilo C. Curtolo,
  • Neng Xiong,
  • Semiramis Friedrich and
  • Bernd Friedrich

6 September 2021

Aluminum and aluminum-based alloys have been used for many years. In view of the increase in material purity requirements of advanced technology products, research regarding high-purity aluminum has gained significant attention in recent years. In th...

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1 Citations
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11 Pages

Static Crystallization, an Alternative Methodology for Synthesis of High-Purity Aluminum

  • Michaela Gotenbruck,
  • Danilo C. Curtolo,
  • Semiramis Friedrich,
  • Clemens J. Müller,
  • Nico Rademacher and
  • Bernd Friedrich

31 January 2023

Due to its outstanding properties and wide range of applications, high-purity to ultra-high-purity aluminum represents a strategic material for meeting the future challenges of the 21st century. The purification of aluminum towards higher purity leve...

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Preparation of High-Purity Silicon Carbide Ceramics by Hot Pressing Sintering

  • Chang Zou,
  • Yifan Xiao,
  • Lixia Li,
  • Jiagang Chen,
  • Wei Sun and
  • Xingzhong Guo

Wafer carriers, as one of the key components in semiconductor manufacturing processes, have strict purity requirements. In this work, high-strength and high-purity SiC ceramics were fabricated using hot pressing sintering (HPS) combined with particle...

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21 Citations
7,164 Views
21 Pages

Research Status of High-Purity Metals Prepared by Zone Refining

  • Liang Yu,
  • Xiaoan Kang,
  • Luona Chen,
  • Kun Luo,
  • Yanli Jiang and
  • Xiuling Cao

20 April 2021

The zone refining method is a physical method for effectively purifying metals. Increasing yield and reducing impurity content have always been the focus of its research. This article systematically summarizes the relevant research on the production...

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7 Citations
5,046 Views
10 Pages

The Isothermal Oxidation of High-Purity Aluminum at High Temperature

  • Eric N. Coker,
  • Burl Donaldson,
  • Walter Gill,
  • Nadir Yilmaz and
  • Francisco M. Vigil

24 December 2022

The isothermal oxidation in air of high purity aluminum sheet was studied as a function of temperature using Thermogravimetric Analysis simultaneously with Differential Scanning Calorimetry (TGA/DSC). The rates and extents of oxidation were found to...

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4 Citations
4,359 Views
11 Pages

Purification of High-Purity Tin via Vertical Zone Refining

  • Jiajun Wen,
  • Meizhen Wu,
  • Jubo Peng and
  • Hongxing Zheng

The present investigation delves into the potential of vertical zone refining as an effective purification technique for achieving high-purity tin (Sn) metal. The utilization of vertical zone refining offers distinct advantages over traditional horiz...

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9 Citations
4,054 Views
11 Pages

10 August 2019

In this study, radial crystallization purification method under induction was proposed for preparing 6N,7N ultra-high purity gallium crystal seed. The effect of cooling temperature on the morphology of the crystal seed, as well as the cooling water t...

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11 Citations
2,684 Views
16 Pages

Formation Mechanism of High-Purity Ti2AlN Powders under Microwave Sintering

  • Weihua Chen,
  • Jiancheng Tang,
  • Xinghao Lin,
  • Yunlong Ai and
  • Nan Ye

26 November 2020

In the present study, high-purity ternary-phase nitride (Ti2AlN) powders were synthesized through microwave sintering using TiH2, Al, and TiN powders as raw materials. X-ray diffraction (XRD), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), transmission ele...

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Process Design and Optimisation Analysis for the Production of Ultra-High-Purity Phosphine

  • Jingang Wang,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Jinyu Guo,
  • Shuyue Zhou,
  • Yawei Du and
  • Xuejiao Tang

With the increasing demand to scale the chip industry, attention is turning to the vital role that phosphanes and silanes play in semiconductor manufacturing processes such as chemical vapor deposition, plasma etching, and impurity doping. High-perfo...

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1 Citations
2,451 Views
11 Pages

Vibration Reduction in a Pulse Tube-Cooled High Purity Germanium Detector

  • Hongyan Wei,
  • Yuqiang Xun,
  • Jinghui Cai and
  • Lijuan Wang

10 February 2022

High-purity germanium (HPGe) is a vibration-sensitive, high-resolution detector. It has been found that microphonic noise induced by vibration and electromagnetic interference from EMC causes energy resolution degradation in HPGe detectors. In this p...

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28 Citations
18,166 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2023

Quartz deposits are widely dispersed in nature, but the presence of ore bodies capable of yielding high-purity quartz is exceedingly rare. As a result, the effective purification and processing of high-purity quartz from natural siliceous materials h...

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3 Citations
1,526 Views
12 Pages

Application of Quartz LA-ICP-MS Analysis in the Evaluation of High-Purity Quartz Deposits

  • Hongjie Wang,
  • Fangyue Wang,
  • Yan Zhao,
  • Xueyi Xu,
  • Baodi Wang,
  • Yu Fan,
  • Liang Zhang and
  • Feng Guo

10 April 2025

High-purity quartz is considered one of the world’s scarce mineral resources. During the evaluation process of high-purity quartz raw material deposits, metallurgical purification evaluation experiments are often required to assess the quality...

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Magnetic Susceptibility of High-Purity Molybdenum: Role of Trace Impurities and Theoretical Modeling

  • Chao Wang,
  • Zheng Tan,
  • Dan Jia,
  • Xin Xin,
  • Li Meng,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Likui Ning,
  • Song Ma and
  • Enze Liu

In this study, a modified Curie–Weiss model was established for the magnetic susceptibility of high-purity molybdenum and Mo–La alloy powders. The elemental composition was analyzed by GDMS, and combined with the M–T and M–H d...

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32 Citations
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28 Pages

30 May 2024

While numerous studies have explored the mineralogical characteristics and purification techniques of high-purity quartz (HPQ), discussions on impurity control during various purification processes and their applications in photovoltaics, electronics...

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2 Citations
711 Views
22 Pages

A Dual-Loop Modified Active Disturbance Rejection Control Scheme for a High-Purity Distillation Column

  • Xudong Song,
  • Yuedong Zhao,
  • Zihao Li,
  • Jingchao Song,
  • Zhenlong Wu,
  • Jingzhong Guo and
  • Jian Zhang

29 April 2025

High-purity distillation columns typically give rise to multi-variable, strongly coupled nonlinear systems with substantial time delay and significant inertia. The control performance of high-purity distillation columns crucially influences the purit...

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7 November 2025

Phosphine (PH3) is an important functional material that plays a pivotal role in semiconductor fields. As semiconductor technology rapidly advances toward smaller sizes and higher performance, the requirements for the purity of phosphine in chip manu...

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9 Citations
5,309 Views
15 Pages

14 April 2020

In this study, high-purity iron with purity of 99.987 wt.% was prepared employing a process of direct reduction–melting separation–slag refining. The iron ore after pelletizing and roasting was reduced by hydrogen to obtain direct reduced...

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9 Citations
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8 Pages

Microstructure Evolution in High Purity Aluminum Single Crystal Processed by Equal Channel Angular Pressing (ECAP)

  • Jinfang Dong,
  • Qing Dong,
  • Yongbing Dai,
  • Hui Xing,
  • Yanfeng Han,
  • Jianbo Ma,
  • Jiao Zhang,
  • Jun Wang and
  • Baode Sun

22 January 2017

Aluminum single crystal with 99.999% purity was deformed at room temperature by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) up to 16 passes. Grain size and misorientation of processed samples were quantitatively characterized by TEM and EBSD. The results s...

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7 Citations
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19 April 2023

The conventional V2O5 preparation processes include ion exchange, chemical precipitation, solvent extraction, and other processes. Given the long process and complex operation nature of traditional V2O5 production methods, we herein developed a short...

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2 Citations
1,178 Views
16 Pages

Preparation of High-Purity Quartz by Roasting–Water Quenching and Ultrasound-Assisted Acid Leaching Process

  • Liran Jiao,
  • Yong Huang,
  • Yingshuang Zhang,
  • Sining Li,
  • Yubin Liu,
  • Guirong Wei and
  • Linlong Wei

28 September 2025

High-purity quartz is a key material for photovoltaics, semiconductors, and optical fibers. The raw material for high-purity quartz mainly comes from natural crystal and pegmatite. It is an attractive research field to excavate alternative feedstocks...

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4 Citations
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18 Pages

High-purity copper is essential for fabricating advanced microelectronic devices, particularly integrated circuit interconnects. As the industry increasingly emphasizes scalable and efficient purification methods, this study investigates the multi-ph...

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11 August 2024

The efficiency and reproducibility of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) are significantly influenced by the purity of lead iodide (PbI2) in the raw materials used. Pb(OH)I has been identified as the primary impurity generated from PbI2 in water-based syn...

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1 Citations
2,855 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Addition of Tea Polyphenol Palmitate and Process Parameters on the Preparation of High-Purity EPA Ethyl Ester

  • Xuyang Ding,
  • Fujun Liu,
  • Rui Zheng,
  • Xuechen Pei,
  • Ziye Wang,
  • Dayong Zhou and
  • Fawen Yin

25 February 2023

High-purity eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) ethyl ester (EPA-EE) can be produced from an integrated technique consisting of saponification, ethyl esterification, urea complexation, molecular distillation and column separation. In order to improve the pur...

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Waste Quartz Crucible Crystallization-Induced Purification to Prepare High-Purity Cristobalite Sand

  • Tanlu Zhang,
  • Yehao Huang,
  • Hongjuan Sun,
  • Yu Tang and
  • Tongjiang Peng

10 November 2025

Waste quartz crucibles (WQCs), produced as by-products in the fabrication of monocrystalline silicon rods, have become a significant recycling target due to the rapid growth of the photovoltaic industry. WQCs serve as an excellent precursor for synth...

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3 Citations
2,996 Views
31 Pages

10 May 2019

The paper aims to describe a new technology of producing a gaseous mixture of type H2 + CO from cellulose waste that generates high purity hydrogen, without using technical oxygen. The physico-chemical process takes place in an installation designed...

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3 Citations
2,927 Views
15 Pages

21 October 2020

The production of high-purity aluminum nanoparticles (Al-NPs) is challenging due to the highly reactive nature of Al metals. Electromagnetic levitation gas condensation (ELGC) is a promising method to produce high-purity metallic particles as it avoi...

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1 Citations
1,329 Views
12 Pages

3 May 2025

This study introduces a green synthesis strategy for producing high-purity alumina (≥99.99%) through the controlled hydrolysis of aluminum isopropoxide, coupled with a novel impurity removal protocol to address persistent challenges in conventiona...

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Optimizing Vertical Zone Refining for Ultra-High-Purity Tin: Numerical Simulations and Experimental Analyses

  • Yu Yao,
  • Jiajun Wen,
  • Qi He,
  • Meizhen Wu,
  • Lishi Chen,
  • Yuxu Bao and
  • Hongxing Zheng

19 September 2024

This study investigates the application of the vertical zone refining process to produce ultra-high-purity tin. Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations were conducted using an Sn-1 wt.%Bi binary alloy to assess the effects of two key parameter...

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9 Citations
2,309 Views
13 Pages

25 January 2024

The utilization of lithium slag (LS), a solid waste generated during the production of lithium carbonate, poses challenges due to its high sulfur content. This study presents a novel approach to enhancing the value of LS by employing alkali fusion an...

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3 Citations
4,423 Views
12 Pages

Preparation of High-Purity Magnesium from Electrolytically Produced Crude Magnesium via Vacuum Distillation

  • Zhanshan Ma,
  • Shangrun Ma,
  • Fuxing Zhu,
  • Kaihua Li,
  • Zhuo Sheng,
  • Zhanjun Li and
  • Yaowu Wang

20 April 2023

Metallic Mg is an important strategic metal and its properties are greatly affected by impurities. Silicothermic reduction and electrolysis are the most used approaches to prepare metallic Mg. The products of these processes need to be further refine...

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Effects of Rolling Strategies on Microstructure Uniformity of High-Purity Tantalum Plates

  • Ziyi Zhu,
  • Junfeng Luo,
  • Jiali Gao,
  • Haishuang Lv,
  • Yuanyuan Jiang,
  • Jianghao Bai and
  • Jinjiang He

High-purity tantalum plates form inhomogeneous microstructures and texture gradients along the thickness through conventional rolling, which seriously affects the sputtering performance of the target. In this work, tantalum plates with a random micro...

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1 Citations
2,159 Views
9 Pages

29 January 2023

High-purity titanium has been subjected to dynamic compression with a strain rate of 103 s−1 to activate {112-2} and {112-4} contraction twins. Electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and high-resolution...

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9 Citations
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11 Pages

19 July 2021

High-purity (99.999%) nickel with lamellar-structure grains (LG) was obtained by room-temperature rolling and cryorolling in this research, and then annealed at different temperatures (75 °C, 160 °C, and 245 °C). The microstructure was characterized...

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4 Citations
1,534 Views
14 Pages

17 February 2025

High-purity germanium (HPGe) detectors occupy a prominent position in fields such as radiation detection and aerospace because of their excellent energy resolution and wide detection range. To achieve a broader detection range, conventional HPGe dete...

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12 Citations
4,209 Views
18 Pages

19 October 2024

This study investigates the potential of two quartz vein ores from the Hunza District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, as raw materials to obtain 4N8 high-purity quartz (HPQ) sand. Various quartz purification processes were examined, including ore calcin...

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1 Citations
1,616 Views
13 Pages

27 July 2025

High-purity quartz (HPQ), an indispensable industrial mineral, serves as a critical raw material for advanced technology sectors. Derived from natural quartz precursors through processing, HPQ preparation efficiency fundamentally depends on raw mater...

  • Article
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16 Citations
8,253 Views
11 Pages

Study on Phase Transformation Orientation Relationship of HCP-FCC during Rolling of High Purity Titanium

  • Fengmei Bai,
  • Qingliang Zhu,
  • Jiaming Shen,
  • Zhihan Lu,
  • Liqiang Zhang,
  • Naqash Ali,
  • Hongwei Zhou and
  • Xianghua Liu

24 September 2021

High purity titanium (Ti) thin strip was prepared by rolling with large deformation and was characterized by the means of Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), selected area diffraction (SAED) pattern, high-resolution (HRTEM) analysis, as well as T...

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26 Citations
7,376 Views
19 Pages

19 July 2024

This study focuses on the purification and evaluation of the high-purity quartz (HPQ) potential of vein quartz ore from Pakistan. Vein quartz is grayish-white and translucent, with its mineral composition mainly comprising quartz crystal. Processed q...

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7 Citations
3,948 Views
13 Pages

23 February 2023

This paper describes a leaching-purifying-precipitation process to recover magnesium from serpentine acid-leaching solution and to synthesize high purity Mg(OH)2 and 4MgCO3·Mg(OH)2·4H2O. Fe, Al, and Cr in the leaching solution were remo...

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18 Pages

12 December 2025

The performance of ultra-high-purity copper sputtering targets is critical for nanoscale integrated circuit fabrication, yet challenges such as dynamic recovery and recrystallization hinder grain refinement and texture control. In the present work, c...

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3 Citations
2,496 Views
10 Pages

High-Mode Purity 1 μm Cylindrical Vector Beam All-Fiber Laser Based on a Symmetric Two-Mode Coupler

  • Boyi Yang,
  • Siqi Pei,
  • Tianyu Zhang,
  • Yizhuo Zhang,
  • He Hao,
  • Kun Zhang,
  • Xuesheng Liu,
  • Tian Lan,
  • Anru Yan and
  • Zhiyong Wang
  • + 1 author

26 May 2023

Cylindrical vector beams (CVBs) are the product of polarization modulation of optical fields, and possess both unique focusing characteristics and excellent properties applicable to machining, imaging, communication and other fields. Mode selection c...

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1 Citations
591 Views
11 Pages

31 October 2025

Cesium halide perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) have emerged as promising materials for application in high-color-purity displays due to their exceptional optoelectronic properties, which include narrow emission linewidths, tunable bandgaps, and high ph...

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11 Citations
4,788 Views
16 Pages

5 August 2020

A heat transfer model and a cellular Automation-Finite Element (CAFE) coupling model were established to analyze the solid/liquid (S/L) interface and solidification structure evolution of high purity copper Direct-chill (DC) casting billet under diff...

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11 Citations
2,850 Views
13 Pages

13 September 2021

The microstructure and texture distribution of ultra-high purity Cu-0.1Al alloy target play a key role in the quality of the sputtering film. The Cu-0.1Al alloy sheets were processed by unidirectional (UR) and cross rolling (CR), and X-ray diffractio...

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10 Citations
2,915 Views
11 Pages

High Thermal Stability and Color Purity of Y2SrAl4SiO12: Eu3+ Garnet-Variant-Structured Phosphor for Warm White Light LED-Lamp

  • Xinhua Chen,
  • Qingliang Xu,
  • Fayaz Hussain,
  • Chen Yang,
  • Weiqin Sheng,
  • Xinjiang Luo,
  • Bing Liu,
  • Shikuan Sun,
  • Dawei Wang and
  • Kaixin Song

29 September 2022

Red LEDs with a high color purity and high color rendering index are often used to compensate for the lack of red-light components in current white LEDs. Therefore, the new type of garnet-structured high color purity red phosphor Y2−xSrAl4SiO12...

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4 Citations
3,147 Views
12 Pages

Purification and Characterization of High Purity Nano Zirconia by Liquid-Liquid Extraction Using D2EHPA/p-Xylenes

  • Manh Nhuong Chu,
  • Mai Xuan Truong,
  • Thi Hien Lan Nguyen,
  • Tra Huong Do,
  • Thi Tu Anh Duong,
  • Thi Kim Ngan Tran,
  • Thi Cam Quyen Ngo,
  • Thi To Loan Nguyen,
  • Thi Hau Vu and
  • Mai An Pham

In this paper, Zr(IV) nitrate solution decomposed from Viet Nam zircon concentrate was the source of zirconium extraction by liquid-liquid extraction (L.L.E). The FT-IR and UV-Vis spectra confirmed the extraction of Zr(IV) by D2EHPA/p-xylenes. There...

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1 Citations
1,019 Views
16 Pages

2 September 2025

With the rapid advances of the electronics industry, a large amount of acidic etching waste solutions (AEWS) for etching Printed Circuit Board (PCB) are generated, which require complete remediation and sustainable recycling to avoid environmental po...

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13 Citations
3,593 Views
11 Pages

Effects of Pre-Treatments on Bioactivity of High-Purity Titanium

  • Yaming Wang,
  • Guangxin Wang,
  • Zhi Lu,
  • Wuhui Li,
  • Yanfu Yan,
  • Yongfa Song and
  • Osaka Akiyoshi

26 April 2018

Titanium and its alloys are frequently employed in medical and dental clinics due to their good tissue compatibility, including commercially available pure Ti, Ti6A4V, or Ti-15Zr-4Ta-4Nb. Yet, they may behave very differently when in contact with our...

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28 Citations
7,464 Views
17 Pages

13 February 2023

High-purity quartz (HPQ) is an important material widely used in many high-tech industries. It is a product processed from pure natural quartz raw materials, so selecting suitable quartz raw material is the key to successfully processing HPQ. Hydroth...

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