Whey protein oxygen-barrier coatings on peanuts are not effective, due to incomplete peanut-surface coverage, as well as some cracking and flaking of the coating. Addition of sorbitan laurate (Span 20) in the whey protein coating solution up to the critical micelle concentration (cmc) of 0.05% (w/w) significantly improved coating coverage to 88% of the peanut surface. Increasing the Span 20 con...

An optimized graded-refractive-index (GRIN) antireflection (AR) coating with broadband and omnidirectional characteristics--as desired for solar cell applications--designed by a genetic algorithm is presented. The optimized three-layer GRIN AR coating consists of a dense TiO2 and two nanoporous SiO2 layers fabricated using oblique-angle deposition. The normal incidence reflectance of the three-...

Of concern is the protection from overheating of an isotropically conducting body by an anisotropically conducting coating which is thin compared to the scale of the body. We assume either that the whole thermal tensor of the coating is small or that it is small in the directions normal to the body (a case we call “optimally aligned coating”). We study the asymptotic behavior of the solution to...

Rough surfaced implants have been reported to favor early bone healing than smooth surfaced implants. Among various methods introduced to roughen the implant surface, coating with calcium phosphate(CaP) is one of them. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the bone healing response of anodized implants with two different coating thickness of CaP(200 nm and 500 nm) deposited by ion beam assi...

For residual stress evaluation in complex substrate-coating-systems, energy-dispersive (ED) diffraction with energies up to 100 keV can be applied to analyze the near interface residual stress state in the substrate, because the high energy white beam penetrates the coating completely. By the example of an Al2O3/TiCN on WC coating system we have studied the feasibility for using the coating ref...

The purpose of the present study is to obtain better understanding of the influence of different variables on the strength of coating, applied onto sodiumbenzoate particles. Through fluid bed coating of 1 mm sized particles, three experimental factors have been studied: the coating quantity related to the particle weight, the glasstransition temperature (Tg), and the fluid bed temperature (TFB)...

Waterborne coating is the most popular type of coating, and improving its performance is a key point of research. Cathodic delamination is one of the major modes of failure for organic coatings. It refers to the weakening or loss of adhesion between the coating and substrate. Physical and chemical characteristics of coatings have been studied via scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force...

The corrosion behavior of X80 steel in the presence of coupled coating defects was simulated and studied under the interference of alternating current (AC) in an alkaline environment. The results from electrochemical measurements showed that the electrode potential of the coating defect with the smaller exposed area was lower than that with the larger area, which indicated that the steel with t...

The purpose of this research was to study the aqueous-based film coating of tablets utilizing a laboratoryscale side-vented perforated pan-coating apparatus. The process parameters of potential importance with respect to the final film quality were evaluated by using trial and error method. Tablets were evaluated for coating uniformity (mg), coating process efficiency (%), surface roughness, an...