Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one of the most abundantly used nanomaterials for human life. It is used in sunscreen, photovoltaic devices, biomedical applications and as a food additive and environmental scavenger. Nano-TiO2 in biomedical applications is well documented. It is used in endoprosthetic implants and early theranostics of neoplastic and non-neoplastic maladies as a photodynamic therape...

The present study seeks to investigate the capacity of polyaniline/titanium dioxide (PAn/TiO2) and Polypyrrole/titanium dioxide (PPy/TiO2) nano-adsorbents to adsorb Congo red anionic dye (CR) from aqueous solution. The variables effective in CR adsorption, including adsorbent dose, pH of the solution, contact time, initial dye concentration, and temperature were examined. The study yielded the ...

Sessile water droplets containing nano-silica particles are allowed to evaporate in the presence of driven substrate oscillations at chosen frequencies. Different mode shapes are observed at different oscillation frequencies. As reference, the evaporation of the same droplets is also observed under stationary conditions i.e. in the absence of any oscillations. For all cases, the deposit structu...

Spontaneous movement of condensed matter provides a new insight to efficiently improve condensation heat transfer on superhydrophobic surface. However, very few reports have shown the jumping behaviors on the sprayable superhydrophobic coatings. Here, we developed a sprayable silica nano-porous coating assembled by fluorinated nano-chains to survey the condensates' dynamics. The dewdrops were c...

The English phoneme /t/ is realized as [th] wordinitially ([th]ip), but in many dialects it exhibits free variation word-finally (ba[t] ~ ba[ʔt̚] ~ ba[ʔ]). We examined whether listeners construct false memories at different rates for these two different types of words. We presented listeners with lists of spoken phonological neighbors, such as lip, tin, type... (neighbors of tip) and fat, ban, b...

The drop resistance and fracture behavior of Sn–37Pb, Sn–3.0Ag–0.5Cu (SAC305), Sn–1.0Ag–0.5Cu (SAC105), and Sn–8.5Zn–0.5Ag–0.01Al–0.1 Ga (SnZn-5e) solder ball joints under the board-level drop test (BLDT) and the ball impact test (BIT) were studied. The results show that the drop reliabilities in terms of the characteristic life ratio from theWeibul plot are SnZn-5e : Sn–37Pb:SAC105:SAC305 = 3....