Mechanically induced transformations in silicon

Estimation of the mean grain size of mechanically induced Hydroxyapatite based bioceramics via artificial neural network

This study focuses on the estimation of the mean grain size of mechanically induced Hydroxyapatite (HA) through the artificial neural network (ANN) model. The mean grain size of HA and HA based nanocomposites at different milling parameters were obtained from previous studies. The data were trained and tested by the neural network modeling. Accordingly, all data (55 sets) were based on the mecha...

Effect of oxygen concentration on nanoindentation-induced phase transformations in ion-implanted amorphous silicon

Effect of silicon application on wheat seedlings growth under water-deficit stress induced by polyethylene glycol

Silicon is known to ameliorate the deleterious effects of drought on plant growth. We evaluated growth of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. CV. Chamran) under Water-Deficit Stress Induced by Polyethylene Glycol as affected by Si application. In this article, the effects of Si (as potassium silicate) on some parameters related to growth, chlorophyll concentration relative water content (RWC), electrol...

Theoretical study of a five-coordinated silica polymorph

Theoretical calculations are performed to study transformations in silica as a function of nonhydrostatic stress. Molecular-dynamics calculations reveal a crystalline-to-crystalline transition from a-quartz to a phase with five-coordinated silicon (Si) at high pressure in the presence of deviatoric stress. The phase, which appears for specific orientations of the stress tensor relative to the c...

Polyamorphic transformations in liquid and amorphous silicon: A first-principles molecular-dynamics study

Structural transformations between disordered phases, such as liquid-liquid and amorphousamorphous transformations (polyamorphic transformations), have been a focus of interest for the past years. In water, amorphous-amorphous transformation was experimentally observed and transformation between two distinct liquid forms has also been examined [1]. Since a typical atomic configuration of silico...