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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,874 Views
12 Pages

17 March 2024

The action of an ideal fluid in Euler variables with a variable number of particles is used for the phenomenological description of the processes of particle creation in strong external fields. It has been demonstrated that the conformal invariance o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,742 Views
29 Pages

28 October 2025

Modified gravity theories with a nonminimal coupling between curvature and matter offer a compelling alternative to dark energy and dark matter by introducing an explicit interaction between matter and curvature invariants. Two of the main consequenc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,498 Views
9 Pages

1 December 2022

The double Hawking temperature T=2TH appears in some approaches to the Hawking radiation when the radiation is considered in terms of the quantum tunneling. We consider the origin of such unusual temperature for the black hole horizon and also for th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,538 Views
21 Pages

The Utilization of a Coupled Electro-Thermal-Mechanical Model of High-Voltage Electric Pulse on Rock Fracture

  • Weikang Feng,
  • Pingping Rao,
  • Sanjay Nimbalkar,
  • Qingsheng Chen,
  • Jifei Cui and
  • Peihao Ouyang

17 February 2023

Our research proposes a unique coupled electro-thermal-mechanical model that takes electric breakdown and heterogeneity into account to show the mechanism of rock fracturing under high-voltage electropulses. Using finite element numerical software, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,134 Views
16 Pages

20 December 2011

Colloidal gels are intermediates in the production of highly porous particle systems. In the production process, the gels are fragmented after their creation. These gel fragments consolidate to particles whose application-technological properties are...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,919 Views
29 Pages

The Information Loss Problem: An Analogue Gravity Perspective

  • Stefano Liberati,
  • Giovanni Tricella and
  • Andrea Trombettoni

25 September 2019

Analogue gravity can be used to reproduce the phenomenology of quantum field theory in curved spacetime and in particular phenomena such as cosmological particle creation and Hawking radiation. In black hole physics, taking into account the backreact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,955 Views
12 Pages

Influence of Structural Defects on the Properties of Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys

  • J. I. Pérez-Landazábal,
  • V. Sánchez-Alarcos,
  • V. Recarte,
  • O. A. Lambri,
  • F. G. Bonifacich,
  • D. L.R. Khanna,
  • I. Unzueta,
  • J.A. García,
  • F. Plazaola and
  • E. Cesari
  • + 3 authors

22 August 2020

The production of μ-particles of Metamagnetic Shape Memory Alloys by crushing and subsequent ball milling process has been analyzed. The high energy involved in the milling process induces large internal stresses and high density of defects with a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,796 Views
28 Pages

12 September 2022

A dynamic process model for the simulation of nanoparticle fractionation in tubular centrifuges is presented. Established state-of-the-art methods are further developed to incorporate multi-dimensional particle properties (traits). The separation out...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,757 Views
14 Pages

Generation of Coupled Nonlinear Oscillations in Charged-Particle Beam by Crossed Magnetic Fields

  • Alexander R. Karimov,
  • Grigoriy O. Buyanov,
  • Alexander E. Shikanov and
  • Konstantin I. Kozlovskij

Based on the cold-fluid hydrodynamic description, the interaction of a non-relativistic charged-particle beam with crossed magnetic fields is studied. This process results in the transfer of energy/momentum from the field to the beam, which, in turn,...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,126 Views
10 Pages

Modified Gravity in the Presence of Matter Creation: Scenario for the Late Universe

  • Giovanni Montani,
  • Nakia Carlevaro and
  • Mariaveronica De Angelis

4 August 2024

We consider a dynamic scenario for characterizing the late Universe evolution, aiming to mitigate the Hubble tension. Specifically, we consider a metric f(R) gravity in the Jordan frame which is implemented to the dynamics of a flat isotropic Univers...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,553 Views
20 Pages

Highly Permeable, Electrically Switchable Filter for Multidimensional Sorting of Suspended Particles

  • Laura Weirauch,
  • Jasper Giesler,
  • Georg R. Pesch,
  • Michael Baune and
  • Jorg Thöming

25 November 2024

The creation of highly specific particle systems in the nano- and micrometer size range is a challenging task. The demand for particle systems with narrowly distributed properties is increasing in many applications, especially for use in high-tech pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,955 Views
21 Pages

15 December 2024

This study investigated the creation of nano-composites using recycled LDPE and added 7.5 wt% nanofillers of Al and Fe in two varying particle sizes to be used as hot-melt adhesives for reversible bonding processes with the use of microwave technolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,802 Views
22 Pages

In this study, supercritical fluid-assisted spray-drying (SA-SD) was applied to achieve the micronization of fenofibrate particles possessing surface-active additives, such as d-α-tocopheryl polyethylene glycol 1000 succinate (TPGS), sucrose mo...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,359 Views
15 Pages

9 March 2019

The research started from the fact that the coacervation process represents the process of formation of macromolecular aggregates after separation from the phase that takes place in a homogeneous polymer solution as a result of the addition of a non-...

  • Review
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,342 Views
14 Pages

Rhenium Nanochemistry for Catalyst Preparation

  • Vadim G. Kessler and
  • Gulaim A. Seisenbaeva

14 August 2012

The review presents synthetic approaches to modern rhenium-based catalysts. Creation of an active center is considered as a process of obtaining a nanoparticle or a molecule, immobilized within a matrix of the substrate. Selective chemical routes to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,325 Views
8 Pages

1 October 2022

In this paper, I present a qualitative discussion on the prospect of production of ultra-high photons in blazars. The sources are a subclass of active galactic nuclei which host supermassive black holes and fire relativistic jets into the intergalact...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,885 Views
11 Pages

Resonant Effect for Breit–Wheeler Process in the Field of an X-ray Pulsar

  • Vitalii D. Serov,
  • Sergei P. Roshchupkin and
  • Victor V. Dubov

22 October 2020

The resonant process of the creation of an ultrarelativistic electron–positron pair by two hard gamma quanta in the field of an X-ray pulsar (the Breit–Wheeler process modified by an external field) was theoretically studied. Under resona...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,676 Views
16 Pages

Density Matrix Formalism for Interacting Quantum Fields

  • Christian Käding and
  • Mario Pitschmann

16 November 2022

We provide a description of interacting quantum fields in terms of density matrices for any occupation numbers in Fock space in a momentum basis. As a simple example, we focus on a real scalar field interacting with another real scalar field, and pre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,892 Views
18 Pages

Synthesis of Iron Oxides and Influence on Final Sizes and Distribution in Bacterial Cellulose Applications

  • Thaís Cavalcante de Souza,
  • Andréa Fernanda de Santana Costa,
  • Gloria Maria Vinhas and
  • Leonie Asfora Sarubbo

3 August 2023

Iron oxide nanoparticles have been investigated due to their suitable characteristics for diverse applications in the fields of biomedicine, electronics, water or wastewater treatment and sensors. Maghemite, magnetite and hematite are the most widely...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,957 Views
14 Pages

Naturally inspired biomaterials such as calcium carbonate, produced in biological systems under specific conditions, exhibit superior properties that are difficult to reproduce in a laboratory. The emergence of microfluidic technologies provides an e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,726 Views
17 Pages

Influence of Magnetic Particles and Magnetic Field on Gloss in UV Coating

  • Sorour Davoudi,
  • Marta Multigner,
  • Ingrid Calvez,
  • Aurélien Hermann and
  • Véronic Landry

16 September 2023

UV-curable coatings possess numerous advantages, including high production rate, low environmental impact, and customizability, making them highly appealing for a wide range of applications. However, one of the greatest challenges in UV-curable coati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
5,012 Views
14 Pages

Occupational Exposure to Dust Produced when Milling Thermally Modified Wood

  • Alena Očkajová,
  • Martin Kučerka,
  • Richard Kminiak,
  • Ľuboš Krišťák,
  • Rastislav Igaz and
  • Roman Réh

During production, thermally modified wood is processed using the same machining operations as unmodified wood. Machining wood is always accompanied with the creation of dust particles. The smaller they become, the more hazardous they are. Employees...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6,833 Views
8 Pages

In order to reduce the high costs of conventional materials, and to reduce the power necessary for the deposition of titanium dioxide, titanium tetrabutoxide has been developed in the form of a suspension of TiO2 using water instead of expensive etha...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
10,826 Views
26 Pages

14 February 2020

This paper’s goal was to select methods and a calibration procedure which would lead to the determination of relevant parameters of a discrete element method (DEM) and virtual material creation. Seven particulates were selected with respect to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,228 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Catalyst Pretreatment on Carbon Nanotube Synthesis from Methane Using Thin Stainless-Steel Foil as Catalyst by Chemical Vapor Deposition Method

  • Thuan Minh Huynh,
  • Sura Nguyen,
  • Ngan Thi Kim Nguyen,
  • Huan Manh Nguyen,
  • Noa Uy Pham Do,
  • Danh Cong Nguyen,
  • Luong Huu Nguyen and
  • Cattien V. Nguyen

28 December 2020

Synthesis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) was carried out using methane as a carbon source via the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. A thin stainless-steel foil was used as catalyst for CNT growth. Our results revealed that pretreatment step of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,711 Views
14 Pages

23 August 2023

The duration of ball milling greatly influences the characteristics of high-silicon–aluminum composite during the ball milling process. This study examines how the microstructure, thermal conductivity, and hardness of a high-silicon–alumi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
4,008 Views
20 Pages

Optimization of Power Consumption Associated with Surface Roughness in Ultrasonic Assisted Turning of Nimonic-90 Using Hybrid Particle Swarm-Simplex Method

  • Navneet Khanna,
  • Jay Airao,
  • Munish Kumar Gupta,
  • Qinghua Song,
  • Zhanqiang Liu,
  • Mozammel Mia,
  • Radoslaw Maruda and
  • Grzegorz Krolczyk

18 October 2019

These days, power consumption and energy related issues are very hot topics of research especially for machine tooling process industries because of the strict environmental regulations and policies. Hence, the present paper discusses the application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,543 Views
17 Pages

Particle Detection in Free-Falling Nanoliter Droplets

  • Fabian Sturm,
  • Viktoria Zieger,
  • Peter Koltay,
  • Daniel Frejek and
  • Sabrina Kartmann

Sorting and dispensing distinct numbers of cellular aggregates enables the creation of three-dimensional (3D) in vitro models that replicate in vivo tissues, such as tumor tissue, with realistic metabolic properties. One method for creating these mod...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,090 Views
28 Pages

7 November 2021

The Weyl curvature constitutes the radiative sector of the Riemann curvature tensor and gives a measure of the anisotropy and inhomogeneities of spacetime. Penrose’s 1979 Weyl curvature hypothesis (WCH) assumes that the universe began at a very low g...

  • Review
  • Open Access
104 Citations
11,040 Views
35 Pages

A Review of Friction Stir Processing of Structural Metallic Materials: Process, Properties, and Methods

  • Anna P. Zykova,
  • Sergei Yu. Tarasov,
  • Andrey V. Chumaevskiy and
  • Evgeniy A. Kolubaev

9 June 2020

Friction stir processing (FSP) has attracted much attention in the last decade and contributed significantly to the creation of functionally graded materials with both gradient structure and gradient mechanical properties. Subsurface gradient structu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,799 Views
16 Pages

Fibrous Structures Produced Using the Solution Blow-Spinning Technique for Advanced Air Filtration Process

  • Agata Penconek,
  • Anna Jackiewicz-Zagórska,
  • Rafał Przekop and
  • Arkadiusz Moskal

10 November 2023

This study proposes utilising the solution blow-spinning process (SBS) for manufacturing a biodegradable filtration structure that ensures high efficiency of particle filtration with an acceptable pressure drop. The concept of multi-layer filters was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
529 Views
29 Pages

2 February 2026

Important advancements in the development of novel materials and designs have led to the creation of advanced mineral membranes with high packing densities and enhanced competitiveness in relation to polymeric and classic mineral membranes. Olive jui...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,888 Views
7 Pages

An Overview on 3D Printing of Ceramics Using Binder Jetting Process

  • Venukumar Sarila,
  • Harisivasri Phanindra Koneru,
  • Saritha Pyatla,
  • Muralimohan Cheepu,
  • Venkata Charan Kantumunchu and
  • Damodaram Ramachandran

9 February 2024

Binder jetting is a promising 3D printing technology that employs a liquid binder to selectively attach the particles of a pulverised material to form three-dimensional objects. It is also a popular technique for fabricating ceramics, as it permits t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
3,834 Views
14 Pages

14 July 2021

The size and distribution of abrasive particles have a significant influence on the effectiveness of the cutting process by the high-speed abrasive water jet (AWJ). This paper deals with the disintegration intensity of abrasive materials in AWJ cutti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
74 Citations
7,190 Views
19 Pages

High Homogenization Pressures to Improve Food Quality, Functionality and Sustainability

  • José Mesa,
  • Leidy Indira Hinestroza-Córdoba,
  • Cristina Barrera,
  • Lucía Seguí,
  • Ester Betoret and
  • Noelia Betoret

21 July 2020

Interest in high homogenization pressure technology has grown over the years. It is a green technology with low energy consumption that does not generate high CO2 emissions or polluting effluents. Its main food applications derive from its effect on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,063 Views
40 Pages

29 November 2024

A numerical study was performed to analyze the particle deposition of a cold spray process for the preparation of nickel electrocatalysts used in the Hydrogen Evolution Reaction (HER). The study focused on the creation of fin-shaped geometries with a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,306 Views
11 Pages

Diagram of High-Energy Nuclear Collisions

  • Evgeny Andronov,
  • Magdalena Kuich and
  • Marek Gazdzicki

18 February 2023

Many new particles, mostly hadrons, are produced in high-energy collisions between atomic nuclei. The most popular models describing the hadron-production process are based on the creation, evolution and decay of resonances, strings or quark–gl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,093 Views
28 Pages

Conceptual Recycling Chain for Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzers—Case Study Involving Review-Derived Model Stack

  • Malena Staudacher,
  • Dominik Goes,
  • Sohyun Ahn,
  • Dzeneta Vrucak,
  • Tim Gießmann,
  • Bernhard Bauer-Siebenlist,
  • Thomas Leißner,
  • Martin Rudolph,
  • Jürgen Fleischer and
  • Urs A. Peuker
  • + 1 author

The recycling of proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) raw materials is imperative due to their scarcity, cost, complexity and environmental impact. This is particularly true in the context of expanding electrolyzer manufacturing and re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
10,252 Views
14 Pages

Preparation, Characterization, and Biological Evaluation of Poly(Glutamic Acid)-b-Polyphenylalanine Polymersomes

  • Evgenia Vlakh,
  • Anastasiia Ananyan,
  • Natalia Zashikhina,
  • Anastasiia Hubina,
  • Aleksander Pogodaev,
  • Mariia Volokitina,
  • Vladimir Sharoyko and
  • Tatiana Tennikova

2 June 2016

Different types of amphiphilic macromolecular structures have been developed within recent decades to prepare the polymer particles considered as drug delivery systems. In the present research the series of amphiphilic block-copolymers containing pol...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,419 Views
14 Pages

Laser Wakefield Photoneutron Generation with Few-Cycle High-Repetition-Rate Laser Systems

  • Daniel Papp,
  • Ales Necas,
  • Nasr Hafz,
  • Toshiki Tajima,
  • Sydney Gales,
  • Gerard Mourou,
  • Gabor Szabo and
  • Christos Kamperidis

3 November 2022

Simulations of photoneutron generation are presented for the anticipated experimental campaign at ELI-ALPS using the under-commissioning e-SYLOS beamline. Photoneutron generation is a three-step process starting with the creation of a relativistic el...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,792 Views
33 Pages

22 October 2024

We follow the Boltzmann-Clausius-Maxwell (BCM) proposal to establish the generalized second law (GSL) that is applicable to a system of any size, including a single particle system as our example establishes, and that supercedes the celebrated second...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,337 Views
10 Pages

8 December 2023

One of the most common current processing methods in various scientific studies is the modification of surfaces of various structural materials via laser radiation (laser ablation technique). The laser texturizing of metal surfaces is one of the prom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,386 Views
15 Pages

17 August 2024

Metallographic image analysis is vital in the field of metal science due to its potential to automate the sensing process for grain and particle size estimation. To ensure the good quality and reliability of metal products, analysis of the integrity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,075 Views
13 Pages

Proteinaceous Microsphere-Based Water-in-Oil Pickering Emulsions for Preservation of Chlorella Cells

  • Lin Qi,
  • Teng Hang,
  • Weijie Jiang,
  • Sinong Li,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Xiang Liang,
  • Le Lei,
  • Qiangqiang Bi,
  • Hang Jiang and
  • Yunxing Li

28 February 2024

Microalgae are highly regarded as ideal materials for the creation of liquid biofuels and have substantial potential for growth and utilization. However, traditional storage and culture methods for microalgae are plagued by challenges such as uncontr...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,536 Views
10 Pages

Potential Uses of Copper Wastes in the Building Sector: Inertization and Added Value Solutions

  • Santiago Rosado,
  • Lidia Gullón,
  • Luis Felipe Mazadiego Martínez and
  • Juan Francisco Llamas Borrajo

Mining activity is the second biggest producer of waste in the European Union (EU), so to develop processes that allow the reuse of waste and the consequent creation of markets for these secondary raw materials are relevant for a desirable transition...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,133 Views
14 Pages

Notes on the Abrasive Water Jet (AWJ) Machining

  • Lucie Gembalová,
  • Libor M. Hlaváč,
  • Sławomir Spadło,
  • Vladan Geryk and
  • Luka Oros

19 November 2021

The aim of the research was to investigate changes of abrasive grains on metals observing the kerf walls produced by the Abrasive Water Jet (AWJ). The microscopy observations of the sidewalls of kerfs cut by the AWJ in several metal materials with an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,035 Views
17 Pages

Effect of Low-Thermal Treatment on the Particle Size Distribution in Wood Dust after Milling

  • Martin Júda,
  • Maciej Sydor,
  • Tomasz Rogoziński,
  • Martin Kučerka,
  • Marta Pędzik and
  • Richard Kminiak

20 February 2023

The thermal treatment of wood can improve the appearance of the wood product’s surface, its dimensional stability, and resistance to fungal attacks. However, the heat treatment changes the technological properties of wood, making it a new engin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,849 Views
24 Pages

26 January 2025

Researchers are presently involved in the creation of materials for high-voltage lithium-ion batteries, with a particular emphasis on their practical uses. However, it is important to acknowledge that the components of lithium-ion batteries frequentl...

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