Recent Advances in Brazing Fillers for Joining of Dissimilar Materials

Recent advances on thermoelectric materials

By converting waste heat into electricity through the thermoelectric power of solids without producing greenhouse gas emissions, thermoelectric generators could be an important part of the solution to today’s energy challenge. There has been a resurgence in the search for new materials for advanced thermoelectric energy conversion applications. In this paper, we will review recent efforts on im...

Recent Advances in Polishing of Advanced Materials

This article discusses the recent advances in polishing of advanced materials. Ninety-five journal articles published in 2005–2007 are briefly introduced. The topics are advances in chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), fluids for polishing, modeling of polishing, polishing of brittle materials, robotic polishing, polishing with vibrations or beams, and friction in polishing processes. CMP is pe...

Low-k Materials: Recent Advances

From a historical point of view, the search for new low-k and ultra-low-k materials has always been dictated by industrial needs, resulting in a strong connection between fundamental research and technology. Although a variety of potential candidates has been reported in the literature during the past decade, integration is the deciding factor driving the selection of the most promising materia...

Recent Advances in EMG Pattern Recognition for Prosthetic Control

Recent Advances in Hemophilia Gene Therapy

Heterogeneous loss of function mutations at F8 and F9 genes causes X-linked recessive bleeding disorders, hemophilia A (HA) and hemophilia B (HB), respectively. HA is clinically indistinguishable from HB and accounts for more than 80% of hemophilia cases; the former affects 1/5000 and the latter 1/25000 male births worldwide. In Iran, it is estimated that around 4300 HA and 900 HB patients are ...