Quantitative measurements were carried out on the pressure effect of superheating of Al nanoparticles encapsulated in Al2O3 shells without epitaxial interfaces. In situ XRD experiments revealed that encapsulated Al nanoparticles with different particle sizes can be superheated to 7–15 K beyond the bulk equilibrium melting point of Al, and that this is accompanied by a suppressed thermal expansi...

In this work, Al-B₄C nanocomposites were produced by microwave sintering and followed by hot extrusion processes. The influence of ceramic reinforcement (B₄C) nanoparticles on the physical, microstructural, mechanical, and thermal characteristics of the extruded Al-B₄C nanocomposites was investigated. It was observed that the density decreased and porosity increased with an increase in B₄C cont...

The development of nanotechnology depends strongly on the advances in nanoparticle preparation. Nowadays, there are a number of technologies available for nanoparticle synthesis, from the gas phase techniques such as laser evaporation (Gaertner & Lydtin, 1994), sputtering, laser pyrolisis, flame atomization and flame spray pyrolisis (Kruis et al. 1998), etc, to the liquid phase techniques such ...

Zn-Al layered double hydroxide (LDH) nanoparticles with carbonate as the charge balancing anion in the interlayer space were synthesized using co-precipitation method. Then, the carbonate base Zn-Al LDH nanoparticles were doped with phosphate ion via anion-exchange reaction to synthesize Zn-Al-[PO43-]-[CO32-]. The structure and composition were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier ...

the aim of me present work was to investigate rhe potential utility of nanoparticles made of chitosan (cs) and also cs chemically modified with polyethylene glycol (cs-peg) as new vehicles for improving na^al vaccine delivery. for mis purpose, diphtheria toxoid (dt) was chosen as a model antigen. dt was entrapped within nanoparticles made of cs of different molecular weight, and also made of cs...

In recent years, a rapid increase in microbes that are resistant to conventional antibiotics has been observed (Goffeau, 2008). Especially, the frequency of infections provoked by opportunistic fungal strains has increased dramatically. Even though the majority of invasive fungal infections are still due to the Aspergillus or Candida species, the spectrum of fungal pathogens has changed and div...