Fraxinus species belongs to the Oleaceae family, commonly known as Ash tree, and has been utilized as a folk medicine with various medicinal properties, including anti-obesity activity. The goal of the present study was to establish quality control p...
Asphalt rubbers mixed with untreated and plasticized crumb rubbers and a compounding coupling agent were investigated in this study. The low-temperature rheological properties of asphalt rubbers at different aging levels were tested using a dynamic s...
Polyester-short-fiber-reinforced rubber composites have been detected by an X-ray three-dimensional microscope, and then the three-dimensional reconstruction of the image has been carried out to characterize the orientation of polyester short fibers...
This study investigates the damage evolution mechanism affecting the fracture-bearing performance of fly ash cement paste under low-temperature curing conditions. Pre-cut cement paste specimens with fly ash contents of 0%, 15%, and 25% were prepared...
Road surfaces are affected by rain, snow, and ice, which influence traffic flow. In this paper, a microscopic traffic flow model based on weather conditions is proposed. This model characterizes traffic based on the weather severity index. The Intell...
Many researchers and scientists have contributed significantly to provide structural and molecular characterizations of biochemical interactions using microscopic techniques in the recent decade, as these biochemical interactions play a crucial role...
Several microscopic and scattering techniques at different observation scales (from atomic to macroscopic) were used to characterize both surface and bulk properties of four new flat-sheet polyethersulfone (PES) membranes (10, 30, 100 and 300 kDa) an...
Studies evaluating the effects of cryopreservation on epididymal spermatozoa of Cavia porcellus remain limited. This study compared the effects of rapid and slow freezing protocols on microscopic characteristics, morphometry, and morphometric correla...
In shale oil reservoirs, nano-scale pores and micro-scale fractures serve as the primary fluid storage and migration space, while the associated flow mechanism remains vague and is hard to understand. In this research, a three-dimensional (3D) recons...
The complex pore structure of unconventional oil and gas reservoirs is one of the reasons for the difficulties in resource evaluation and development. Therefore, it is crucial to comprehensively characterize the pore structure, understand reservoir h...
Thermoelectric (TE) materials represent a critical frontier in sustainable energy conversion technologies, providing direct thermal-to-electrical energy conversion with solid-state reliability. The optimizations of TE performance demand a nuanced com...
Banana crowns’ intricate vascular systems facilitate nutrient transport for fruit growth and provide mechanical support. Analyzing vascular bundle morphology facilitates understanding of its influence on the banana de-handing process. In this s...
An enormous surge in the pavement sector requires the evaluation of interface bonding in asphalt composite, since the assessment of bonding brings considerable cost savings. Microscopic and mechanical analyses were performed to study the status of th...
Lensless holographic microscope (LHM) is an emerging very promising technology that provides high-quality imaging and analysis of biological samples without utilizing any lens for imaging. Due to its small size and reduced price, LHM can be a very us...
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), a unique group of Gram-negative prokaryotes, have the remarkable ability to biomineralize magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) intracellularly, making them promising candidates for various biomedical applications such as biosen...
Sonoporation is the process of cell membrane permeabilization, due to exposure to ultrasounds. There is a lack of consensus concerning the mechanisms of sonoporation: Understanding the mechanisms of sonoporation refines the choice of the ultrasonic p...
The use of lightweight concrete has continuously increased because it has a primary benefit of reducing dead load in a concrete infrastructure. Various properties of lightweight concrete, such as compressive strength, elastic modulus, sound absorptio...
In recent decades, hydrogels have emerged as innovative soft materials with widespread applications in the medical and biomedical fields, including drug delivery, tissue engineering, and gel dosimetry. In this work, a comprehensive study of the macro...
ZnO nanomaterials have been widely used in micro/nano devices and structure due to special mechanical/electrical properties, and its characterization is still deficient and challenging. In this paper, ZnO nanomaterials, including nanorod and nanowire...
This research article concentrates on process conditions in addition to improving color selections in polymer compounders and developing more accurate simulation models. The feed rate (FR), temperature (T) and screw speed (SS) are three processing va...
Yellow (stripe) rust, caused by the biotrophic fungus Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), stands as the most serious wheat disease worldwide, affecting approximately 88% of world wheat production. Even though yellow rust generally develops in...
Distal radius fractures (DRF) are one of the most prevalent injuries a person may sustain. The current treatment of DRF involves the use of casts made from Plaster of Paris or fiberglass. The application of these materials is a serious endeavor that...
The precise characterization of a tight glutenite reservoir’s microscopic pore structure is essential for its efficient development. However, it is difficult to accurately evaluate using a single method, and its microscopic heterogeneity is not...
The main goal of our work was to study a new loading method for photocatalytic asphalt pavement that could effectively solve the problems of photocatalytic degradation efficiency and durability. We adhered nano TiO2 particles to the microscopically t...
Atomic force microscope (AFM) is commonly used for three-dimensional characterization of the surface morphology of structures at nanoscale, but the “Inflation effect” of the tip is an important factor affecting the accuracy. A tip charact...
Background/Objectives: The fundamental classification based on white, brown, pink, and beige adipose tissue morphology together with fat vacuole content released into the tumor microenvironment incompletely defines breast cancer-associated adipose ti...
The mechanical characterization of carbonate rock is crucial for the development of a hydrocarbon reservoir and underground gas storage. As a kind of natural composite material, the mechanical properties of carbonate rock exhibit multiscale character...
The main aspects of material research: material synthesis, material structure, and material properties, are interrelated. Acquiring atomic structure information of electron beam sensitive materials by electron microscope, such as porous zeolites, org...
The creep behavior of rigid polyvinyl chloride (PVC) in hydrothermal environments can compromise its long-term stability and load-bearing capacity, potentially leading to deformation or structural failure. Understanding this degradation is critical f...
Background: Nanotechnology application has widespread use in many products. Copper nanoparticles (CuNPs) are widely used in industrial applications. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of the ethanolic saffron extract (ESE) as a...
This study develops a Pore-Prior and Progressive-Sampling Transformer architecture, termed PPFormer, for the laboratory-scale analysis of microscopic remaining-oil images acquired from photolithographic glass-micromodel displacement experiments. The...
Crystallization during the solidification process of steels is of vital importance for controlling the quality of final products. This paper summarizes the in situ characterization research activities of crystallization behaviors of low-alloy steels...
To enhance the mechanical properties and low-carbon characteristics of industrial solid waste concrete, this paper proposes a synergistic modification strategy using nano-SiO2 and sodium silicate. The nano-SiO2 sol and sodium silicate activator were...
Prior to the discovery of the mimivirus in 2003, viruses were thought to be physically small and genetically simple. Mimivirus, with its ~750-nm particle size and its ~1.2-Mbp genome, shattered these notions and changed what it meant to be a virus. S...
The development of blast furnace smelting technology with a high proportion of pellets is an important means for improving the utilization rate of complex co-associated mineral resources. The effect of basicity on the reduction swelling performance o...
CaCO3 whiskers, as a micron-level inorganic fiber material, can enhance and toughen composite materials. In order to study the technical feasibility of CaCO3 whisker-modified asphalt, two types of silane coupling agent (SCA), KH-550 and KH-570, were...
Three specimens of H. officinalis subsp. aristatus were collected in three areas of the Abruzzo region (Italy) and subjected to macroscopic and microscopic observation to support their botanical identification. The essential oils (EOs) obtained from...
Substituting steel slag for mineral materials in road construction has potential economic and environmental benefits. Due to the excellent thermal conductivity of steel slag, it is often used in functional pavements. However, there are few studies on...
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC), a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, necessitates improved non-invasive diagnostic and monitoring tools. Circulating tumor cells (CTCs), as intact cellular biomarkers in liquid biopsies, offer va...
Current CMOS-micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) fabrication technologies permit cardiological implantable devices with sensing capabilities, such as the iStents, to be developed in such a way that MEMS sensors can be monolithically integrated to...
The goal of the study was to characterize the limestone that was used extensively in the ancient city of Pella (Macedonia, Greece), the birthplace of Alexander the Great. An on-site examination of the building material was carried out to record the t...
Dental ceramics is a highly esthetic material and its surface properties can impact its roughness, bonding properties, as well as strength and wear. The aim of the study is to analyze the surface characteristics by the determination of the roughness...
TC18 titanium alloy is an essential material for aircraft landing gear. To reveal the wear and corrosion mechanisms of landing gear in service, a WC-12Co coating on a TC18 substrate was prepared by High-Velocity Air-Fuel (HVAF) spraying based on opti...
Nano-calcium carbonate (NC) is a novel ultrafine solid powder material that possesses quantum size effects, small size effects, surface effects, and macroscopic quantum effects that ordinary calcium carbonate lacks. As a nanomaterial with superior pr...
Passion fruit (Passiflora edulis f. flavicarpa), commonly known as yellow passion fruit, is widely grown across tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, with Brazil as one of the top producers. Mexico also produces a significant amount of this var...
The aging of bitumen seriously affects the service life of bituminous pavements. At present, there are many related researches on bitumen aging, but most of them focus on aging endured in indoor surroundings and conditions. Therefore, the conclusions...
To address the issue that a single soybean oil rejuvenator weakens the high-temperature performance of aged SBS-modified asphalt, soybean oil and crumb rubber (CR) were used to construct a synergistic composite rejuvenation system for long-term aged...
To improve the dispersion of graphene oxide particles in wood for better thermal conductivity, this paper proposes the feasibility of obtaining graphene oxide with a smaller particle size using ball milling and its application in melamine resin-modif...
The quantitative characterization of microscopic pore structure has long been a challenge in reservoir evaluation for igneous reservoirs, owing to their pronounced heterogeneity and complex pore geometry. In this study, thin-section casting, X-ray di...
This article introduces a new type of carbon paste electrode prepared from black raw shungite. In powdered form, this carbonaceous material was mixed with several nonpolar binders. The resulting shungite pastes were microscopically and electrochemica...
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