Artificial biomaterials are being developed for use in denture base with symmetrical properties to restore the aesthetics and functionalities. The rough surface of denture base resin promotes the adhesion of microorganisms and plaque accumulation. Th...
The utilization and advancement of a wide variety of polymer materials have led to the development of corresponding plastic injection mould steels. This study aimed to enhance the properties of the commercially available steel EN X33CrS16 (1.2085), s...
In micro-abrasive water jet polishing (MAWJP) technology, where abrasive particles serve as polishing tools, particles tend to form large clusters, leading to increased nozzle wear and diminished material polishing quality. Achieving a polishing solu...
The ornamental stone industry has always played an important role in the world economy. Polishing the slabs to increase their gloss is important to enhance the beauty and richness of these natural materials. Many industrial polishing machines rely on...
Annular polishing technology is an important optical machining method for achieving a high-precision mirror surface on silicon carbide. However, the inevitable over-polishing of the specimen edge in annular polishing deteriorates achieved surface qua...
For small aspherical molds, it is difficult for the existing polishing method to take into account the correction of the surface error and the control of the uniformity of the surface roughness (SR) distribution, because the polishing tool is always...
Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is a wafer-surface-polishing planarization technique based on a wet procedure that combines chemical and mechanical forces to fully flatten materials for semiconductors to be mounted on the wafer surface. The a...
Although the high-speed polishing technology has been widely applied to obtain an ultra-smooth surface in the field of spherical optical manufacture, it is still mainly used in small-size or easily polished lenses. In the infrared optical system, lar...
This research work highlights the benefits of abrasive flow polishing (AFP) applied to tungsten carbide dies compared with conventional hand polishing (HP). An indigenous experimental set-up for AFP was developed. The effect of prominent process para...
Deterministic polishing based on jet electrochemical machining (Jet-ECM) is a stress-free machining method for low-rigidity and ultra-precision workpieces. The nozzle is equivalent to a special tool in deterministic polishing, and the workpiece mater...
(1) Background: In dentistry, a reduction in surface roughness is established mostly by conventional mechanical polishing to hinder biofilm adhesion. This is time- and labor-intensive. Plasma electrolytic polishing is believed to be an effective fini...
The Polish diaspora’s commitment to maintaining its cultural and linguistic heritage in foreign environments not only enriches their communities but also deepens the understanding of diaspora dynamics in cultural preservation. This article anal...
A diamond gel polishing disk with self-sharpening ability is proposed to solve the problem of glazing phenomenon in the gel polishing disks. Aluminum nitride (AlN) powder with silica sol film coating (A/S powder) is added to the polishing disk, and a...
The aim of this paper is to show the presence of religion and the particular evolution of lyrical matrixes connected to religion in the Polish poems of female poets. There is a particular presence of women in the roots of the Polish literary and lyri...
Electrorheological (ER) polishing, as a new ultra-precision super-effect polishing method, provides little damage to the workpiece surface and is suitable for polishing all kinds of small and complex curved surface workpieces. In this paper, an ER po...
Surface finishing and polishing are important quality assurance processes in many manufacturing industries. A polished surface (low surface roughness) is linked with many useful properties other than providing an appealing gloss to the product, such...
The study aimed to analyze 12 microsatellite markers located in the areas of quantitative trait loci related to litter size in 82 sows, including 45 Polish Large White and 37 Polish Landrace sows, kept on a farm in southwest Poland. Breeding document...
KDP crystals constitute the only laser-frequency conversion and electro-optical switches that can be used in laser systems for inertial confinement fusion. However, KDP crystals are difficult to produce because of their inherent softness, brittleness...
The position accuracy of the polishing tool affects the surface quality of the polished aspheric surface. The contact deformation among the polishing tool, abrasives, and aspheric part can cause a displacement, which, in turn, will cause a position e...
Reasonable cutting edge preparation can eliminate microscopic defects and improve the performance of a cutting tool. The flexible fiber-assisted shear thickening polishing method was used for the preparation of cemented carbide insert cutting edge. T...
This paper delves into the mechanism of the chemical and mechanical action during chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) of monocrystal silicon carbide (SiC) through the molecular dynamics (MD) method. The oxidation simulation showed that the Si atoms m...
The broad applications of sapphire substrates in many fields warrants an urgent demand for a highly efficient and high precision polishing method for the sapphire substrates. The authors proposed a novel sapphire substrate polishing method that is ba...
Elliptical elements are essential optical surfaces for modifying optical systems. For polishing the whole elliptical surface using doughnut-shaped MCF polishing tool with variable tilt angle, an experimental investigation was conducted in this work....
Ultraprecision freeform polishing using a bonnet or a felt ball mounted on a polishing head plays an important role in the mold and lens production industries. The volumetric wear of a bonnet or a felt polishing ball is still a problem to be solved....
Recently, high internal surfaces for titanium alloy pipes have been required due to the increment of various applications such as aerospace components. In this work, vertical magnetorheological polishing (VMRP) is carried out to achieve high polishin...
To address the bottleneck issues of traditional ultrasonic polishing—such as unclear material removal mechanisms for ductile metals and difficulties in controlling machining outcomes—this paper employs a combined approach of computational...
Electrolytic plasma polishing (EPP) is an emerging technology for polishing, cleaning, deburring and smoothing of free-formed metal surfaces. The electrolytic plasma polishing of outer metal surfaces is state-of-the-art, whereas the polishing of pipe...
To address the issue of surface glazing that occurs during prolonged polishing with gel tools, this study employs a triethanolamine (TEA)-based polishing fluid system to enhance the self-sharpening capability of the gel polishing disc. The inhibitory...
In view of the threat to local breeds resulting from intensive animal production, many studies are conducted in search of arguments confirming their importance in food production. In the case of milk production, not only is its quantity important, bu...
Single-crystal sapphire (α-Al2O3) is an important material and widely used in many advanced fields. The semi-fixed abrasive grain processing method based on solid-phase reaction theory is a prominent processing method for achieving ultra-precis...
The aim of the submitted work is to study the relationship between the method of polishing the metallurgical surface and the indentation size effect (ISE). The material of the sample was annealed 99.5% aluminum. The polishing time ranged between 300...
This paper presents an optimization method that aims to mitigate disturbances in the radial-feed system of the ring-pendulum double-sided polisher (RDP) during processing. We built a radial-feed system model of an RDP and developed a single-tube robu...
The Polish diaspora is represented worldwide. Yet, little is known about Polish language and culture maintenance in Finland. However, the language practices of Polish families living there are worth being investigated, particularly in relation to lan...
The inconvenience of conventional wool ball polishing is that the surface finishing process should be equipped with a slurry container. The main objective of this research is to develop an ultrasonic-assisted surface finishing process for STAVAX mold...
This study focuses on the development of a novel polishing pad for SiC wafers. Fe and Al2O3 particles were impregnated in a polyurethane matrix, thus forming a fixed abrasive polishing pad. Four types of pads with different compositions of Fe and Al2...
Although Slavic populations account for over 4.5% of world inhabitants, no centralised, open-source reference database of genetic variation of any Slavic population exists to date. Such data are crucial for clinical genetics, biomedical research, as...
Nowadays, large aspheric surfaces, including non-rotationally symmetric surfaces, are increasingly used in ground- and space-based astronomical instruments. The fabrication of these surfaces with sub-micrometric form accuracy and nanometric surface f...
Inefficiency and poor quality are the main problems in polishing natural heterogeneous marbles using sol-gel (SG) diamond pads. A strategy was proposed to address these issues by establishing a natural heterogeneous marble polishing model based on th...
Air-polishing powders are used to remove stains from the enamel and various restorative materials, but their effect on the discoloration of CAD/CAM blocks remains scarce. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of various air-polishing powders...
Chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) technology is one of the key technologies to realize the global planarization of semiconductor wafer surfaces. With the increasing popularity and universality of its application, more and higher requirements are pu...
Pneumatic polishing tools are commonly used in traditional robot mold polishing systems, but they have problems with the stable control of mold surface roughness due to low precision and poor adaptability in polishing force adjustment. The integratio...
Roughness down to atomic and close-to-atomic scale is receiving an increasing attention in recent studies of manufacturing development, which can be realized by high-precision polishing processes. This review presents polishing approaches at atomic a...
Smooth surfaces are becoming increasingly important in many industries, such as medical, chemical or food. In some industrial areas, the mechanical treatment of surfaces (grinding and polishing) does not fulfil desired specifications. Non-abrasive me...
The material removal depth in the pre-polishing stage of the precision optics is usually tens of microns to remove the subsurface damage and grinding marks left by the previous grinding process. This processing of the upstand edge takes a large part...
Quartz glass is a typical optical material. In this research, colloidal silica (SiO2) and colloidal cerium oxide (CeO2) are used as abrasive grains to polish quartz glass in the shear thickening polishing (STP) process. The STP method employs the she...
In this paper, a novel dual-beam coupled nanosecond laser was used to polish S136D mold steel. The effects of scanning speed, total fluence, spot overlap ratio, and SPSN on surface quality were analyzed. The polished surface roughness Ra without ultr...
The inability to converge at the edge of a workpiece during polishing affects the edge profile accuracy and surface quality of the workpiece. In this study, a bias trajectory generation method based on the lifting bonnet method that can maintain the...
The use of surfactants is crucial in the chemical–mechanical polishing fluid system for silicon wafers. This paper examines the impact of the functional group structure of polyoxyethylene-based nonionic surfactants and the variation in the poly...
Two-dimensional vibration-assisted polishing (2D-VAP) is a new polishing approach proposed in recent years, which is considered to be very suitable for the polishing of micro-optical parts and micro-structured surfaces. The advantages of the 2D-VAP a...
To improve medical device hole inner wall quality and overcome issues of traditional abrasive flow methods—limited fluidity in small holes causing deformation due to high inner wall pressure, and slow processing with low viscosity abrasives&mda...
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