Cu50Zr45Al5 bulk metallic glass (BMG) presents high fracture strength. For improving its plasticity and controlling its mechanical properties, superficial dealloying of the BMG was performed. A composite structure containing an inner rod-shaped Cu-Zr...
Liquid marbles are versatile structures demonstrating a pseudo-Leidenfrost wetting regime formed by encapsulating microscale volumes of liquid in a particle shell. The liquid core is completely separated from the exterior through air pockets. The ext...
Appropriate biodegradability to meet the demands of wound repair is critical for superficial wound repair membrane applications. Tyrosinase-catalyzed crosslinking SF (c-SF) membranes were constructed and regulated the degradation behavior in this stu...
Natural halloysite clay nanotubes (HNTs) are versatile inorganic reinforcing materials for creating hybrid composites. Upon doping HNTs with polymers, coating, or loading them with bioactive molecules, the production of novel nanocomposites is possib...
Single-use plastics are a matter of convenience in everyday life, with the majority allocated to packaging production. However, it comes with a high environmental price as its mass recycling is challenging due to the heterogeneity of composition, con...
One of the critical processing parameters—the speed of the extrusion process for plasticized poly (lactic acid) (PLA)—was investigated in the presence of acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC) as plasticizer. The mixtures were obtained by varying the content...
The modification of achira starch a thermoplastic biopolymer is shown. Glycerol and sorbitol, common plasticizers, were used in the molten state with organic acids such as oleic acid and lactic acid obtaining thermodynamically more stable products. T...
HY-80 and HY-100 steels, widely used in constructing large ocean vessels and submarine hulls, contain mixed microstructures of tempered bainite and martensite and provide high tensile strength and toughness. Weld integrity in HY steels has been studi...
Groundwater is one of the primary sources of water for both drinking and industrial use in northeastern Mexican territory, around 46% of the total, due to the lack of precipitation during the year and solar radiation index. The presence of arsenic in...
The article believes that the legal field needs to reconsider its approach to the surface of things. Using examples from jurisprudence of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union and considering the legal tradition from the Roman...
Predicting bubble properties in fluidized beds is of high interest for reactor design and modeling. While bubble sizes and velocities for low velocity bubbling fluidized beds have been examined in several studies, there have been only few studies abo...
This work aimed to compare the capability of Streptococcus oralis to adhere to a novel surface, double-etched titanium (DAE), in respect to machined and single-etched titanium. The secondary outcome was to establish which topographical features could...
The flow characteristics in a ring-shaped microchannel with an inner diameter of 1 mm were studied in two-phase flow systems with air-water, air-glycerol aqueous solution and air-ethanol aqueous solution using the differential pressure method. The ef...
Background/Objectives: Neuromuscular functions (NMFs) encompass biomechanical and viscoelastic properties that are essential for coordinated movement and muscular control. While NMFs have been extensively investigated in the lower limb, normative dat...
Background/Objectives: The purpose of this study was to investigate corneal biomechanical properties assessed with Corvis ST, structural features of myopia, and vessel density (VD) measured by optical coherence tomography angiography (OCT-A) and thei...
Current knowledge regarding biomechanical in vivo deep tissue measures related to spinal manipulation remain somewhat limited. More in vivo animal studies are needed to better understand the effects viscoelastic tissue properties (i.e., dampening) ha...
The airlift column is a promising technology for the removal of volatile gas from high-viscosity molten sulfur. However, a detailed analysis is lacking on the hydrodynamic properties inside the column, due to the difficulty in flow behavior detection...
Chlorhexidine (CHX) has been widely reported as an inhibitor of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), contributing to the preservation of dentin bond integrity, while chitosan (CS) has been proposed as a natural biomodifier with potential collagen-stabil...
Large-size (4–5 µm) superficially porous particles yield lower plate heights (e.g., the minimal reduced plate height or hmin ≈ 1.5) than fully porous particles of a similar size when packed into large-bore columns. This property allows for better ch...
Space and aerospace industries has been starting in the recent years the replacement process of parts and components obtained by traditional manufacturing processes with those produced by Additive Manufacturing (AM). The complexity of the obtainable...
Transcutaneous electrical stimulation (TES) is limited by cutaneous discomfort caused by unavoidable activation of superficial sensory nerves during current delivery to deep targets. While psychophysical studies have empirically identified waveforms...
The detection of quantal exocytic events from neurons and neuroendocrine cells is a challenging task in neuroscience. One of the most promising platforms for the development of a new generation of biosensors is diamond, due to its biocompatibility, t...
Staphylococcal infection treatment in dogs is frequently associated with adverse side effects, high costs, prolonged treatment, and resistant strain selection. Staphylococcus aureus is the most frequently isolated staphylococci in cases of canine sup...
The transportation of highly viscous oil surrounded by water annulus has been recognized as a feasible option in terms of low-energy consumption and high efficiency. During the process of heavy oil delivery, the problem of pipe fittings is inevitably...
A major question in L1 attrition research is whether cross-linguistic influence from a speaker’s second language onto their first constitutes only a temporary, superficial effect or whether it can also lead to a structural change, often discuss...
Photoacoustic (PA) imaging–a technique combining the ability of optical imaging to probe functional properties of the tissue and deep structural imaging ability of ultrasound–has gained significant popularity in the past two decades for i...
In this work, mesoporous silica (MCM-41) and a cobalt-incorporated catalyst (Co-MCM-41) were prepared using colloidal silica Cab-O-Sil, sodium silicate and tetraethylorthosilicate (TEOS) as the silica sources and cobalt nitrate as the cobalt source....
The efficiency of a fluidized bed reactor depends on the bed fluid dynamic behavior, which is significantly influenced by the bubble properties. This work investigates the bubble properties of a bubbling fluidized bed reactor using computational part...
This article reports a novel photocatalytic lime render for indoor and outdoor air quality improvement that is composed of a lime binder and doped TiO2 (KRONOClean 7000®) nanoparticles. These nanoparticles were distributed throughout the bulk of the...
Background: Developmental Defects of Enamel (DDE) represent an aesthetic, functional, and often psychological problem, especially in young patients. Infiltrative treatment with resin (Icon-DMG, Hamburg, Germany) is a minimally invasive technique base...
Mobile pipeline refers to a type of pipeline that can be laid and recovered at any time as required, mainly used for product oil transportation. After the completion of the transportation mission, the oil remaining inside the pipeline needs to be eva...
Computer models and protocols commonly used for superficial thermotherapy assume anatomically symmetric tissue geometries. However, anatomical variability, particularly the variability of the adipose tissue thickness, may have a significant impact on...
Basal cell carcinoma (BCC) is the most frequent of all cancers, with an increasing incidence. The first line therapy is surgical excision, but topical therapies can be used in low-risk superficial BCCs, while the more advanced, unresectable, or metas...
This paper aims to detect early-stage lung tumors in deep-seated and superficial locations, and to precisely measure the size of the detected tumor using non-invasive microwave reflectometry over a super-wideband (SWB) frequency range. Human lung pha...
In the present work, short glass fiber is superficially modified with different concentrations of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes (Trisilanol–Isobutyl, TSI-POSS) for processing as a filler in a polypropylene matrix (PP). It is observed th...
A biopolymer-based aerogel has been developed to become one of the most potentially utilized materials in different biomedical applications. The biopolymer-based aerogel has unique physical, chemical, and mechanical properties and these properties ar...
Vitamin A derivative, all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA), is known to be a potent regulator of the growth and differentiation of various types of cells. In the present study, the unidentified effects of ATRA on superficial and vertical spreading conjunct...
The measurement of the biomechanical properties of the skin is of great interest since these properties play an important role in the development of several diseases such as skin cancer and systemic sclerosis. In this direction, several diagnostic to...
Tensiomyography (TMG) has been described as an effective method for identifying differences in muscle response to athletic training stimuli. However, there is a lack of studies that evaluated changes in muscle contractile properties in response to an...
Background: Melanoma incidence has continued to rise in the latest decades, and the forecast is not optimistic. Non-invasive diagnostic imaging techniques such as optical coherence tomography (OCT) are largely studied; however, there is still no agre...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) can result from multiple factors. The main cause is reduced renal perfusion. Kidneys are susceptible to ischemia due to the anatomy of microcirculation that wraps around the renal tubules–peritubular capillary (PTC) ne...
The neuromodulator calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is known to facilitate nociceptive transmission in the superficial laminae of the spinal trigeminal nucleus caudalis (Sp5C). The central effects of CGRP in the Sp5C are very likely to contribu...
The hydrodynamics of electrodialysis and reverse electrodialysis is commonly studied by neglecting membrane deformation caused by transmembrane pressure (TMP). However, large frictional pressure drops and differences in fluid velocity or physical pro...
Neuromast sensors found in fishes detect flows around their body and are known to generate hydrodynamic awareness. This work reports the development of superficial neuromast (SN) and canal neuromast (CN) inspired MEMS flow sensors. The MEMS artificia...
To improve the fatigue life of the key component and the surface properties of the 30CrNi2MoVA steel material, advanced ultrasonic-milling composite superficial treatment was performed. The microstructure, surface roughness, friction and wear perform...
Crumbly dough fermentation was applied to produce dried hollow noodles, with Lactobacillus plantarum, Koji and yeast as the main fermenting agents. The cooking, textural and digestive properties of the noodles were studied, followed by the morphologi...
Cu-11Al-5Ni-4Fe wt% alloy is processed by additive manufacturing using the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) technique in two building orientations (90° and 0° to the building platform) to determine which laser parameters are more critical to ob...
Cellulose acetate (CA) is a semi-synthetic polymer widely present in modern and contemporary collections, yet its conservation poses major challenges due to its chemical and physical instability. Hydrolytic degradation, acetic acid release, plasticiz...
Peripheral venous disease represents one of the most prevalent and most persistently undertreated chronic conditions in adult populations, with venous leg ulceration standing at the severe end of a spectrum that also includes symptomatic chronic veno...
The photodynamic therapy (PDT) represents a non-invasive method with good results in the treatment of superficial tumors. PDT is based on a combination of two factors, namely, a non-toxic photosensitizing molecule and a light source; the photosensiti...
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