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Thermal Indicating Paints for Ammunition Assurance

Ammunition is often exposed to extreme temperatures and solar radiation during transport, storage and pre-positioning. This is of particular concern in the present theater of operations. There have been documented incidents of failures caused by thermal exposures during Desert Storm and the recent Middle East conflicts. Currently there is no way to know what environmental extremes fielded items...

Temperature dependence of I-V characteristics of C60 molecule

Making use of a generalized Green’s function technique and Landauer formalism, the temperature depended current-voltage (I-V) characteristics of C60 molecule, sandwiched between two metallic electrodes are numerically investigated. In addition, the influence of the electron-phonon coupling strength on the electronic properties of the molecule is studied. The I-V characteristics of the molecule ...

How a painter paints

Drawing from the seminal definition of the principles of abstract art posed by Wassily Kandinsky in the early years of the twentieth century, and contextualizing that knowledge in contemporary cognitive metaphor theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1999), the study attempts to arrive at an understanding of how cognitive structure emerges in pragmatic self-observation during the artistic process. Through a...

Paints and Pigments

Paints have been manufactured since prehistoric times, but until recently they were highly expensive and thus were mainly used for artwork. It is only since the nineteenth century that houses have commonly been painted. Today paints are used for colouring and protecting many surfaces, including houses, cars, road markings and underground storage vessels. Each of these different applications req...

Paints and Coatings