Rods of Ni-43.5wt% Ti alloy were prepared under various casting conditions. Specimens which were melted in a cordierite crucible and cast in a phosphate-bonded investment mold had less strength and elongation than those melted in a copper crucible and cast in a phosphate-bonded investment mold. All castings exhibited superelasticity at room temperature. The upper limit of recoverable strain was...

Nano-sized γ-Al2O3 was synthesized successfully by a simple method using Al2(SO4)3·18H2O as aluminium source and in the presence of polyethylene glycol (PEG 2000). FTIR spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM) were used to characterize the structure and morphology of synthesized powder. The results showed that PEG playe...

Abstract Aluminium oxide (AlO x ) tunnel junctions are important components in a range of nanoelectric devices including superconducting qubits where they can be used as Josephson junctions. While many improvements the reproducibility and reliability have been made possible through new circuit designs, there still knowledge gaps relevant materials science. A better understanding how fabrication...

A Robotic System is being developed to automate the crucible packing process in CZ semiconductor wafer production. It requires the delicate manipulation and packing of highly irregular polycrystalline silicon nuggets, into a fragile fused silica crucible. For this application, a dual optical 3-D surface geometry measuring system that uses active laser triangulation has been developed and succes...

Two ultra-thin TiO(2) films with platinum electrodes were prepared on a porous anodic aluminium oxide thick layer and a ceramic plate, respectively. It was found that in both TiO(2) films the conductance was almost proportional to the fourth root of the H(2) concentration in N(2) ambient at 500 °C. A quantitative model based on the spill-over mechanism is established to describe this novel corr...

The heats of adsorption on weakly activated ^-aluminium oxide for a number of linear alkanes (from n-butane to n-nonane) and for 2.2.4-trimethylpentane have been determined by GSC and extrapolated to zero surface coverage. The dependance of the adsorption energy on the number of carbon atoms is discussed on the basis of the bidimensional gas model: it is shown that the interactions of the adsor...

This paper reports on a mixing system for microfluidic applications based on the acoustic streaming phenomenon. The system is based on an optimized piezoelectric transducer comprising a 25 μm thick poly(vinylidene fluoridetrifluoroethylene), P(VDF-TrFE), copolymer film with 85 nm thick electrodes of aluminium-doped zinc oxide (AZO). The system was tested for potential clinical applications allo...

Measurements of adsorption isotherms of a series of thirteen mono- and di-phosphonic acids have shown that these bind strongly to the surface of high surface area aluminium trihydroxide. The incorporation of such phosphonates into a suspension of aluminium flake in an aqueous medium, modelling the continuous phase of a water-based paint, greatly suppresses the evolution of hydrogen. Whilst stro...

We studied the correlation between the molecular structure and the formation of helical nanofilaments (HNFs) of bent-core dimeric molecules with varying linkage lengths. To obtain precise structural data, a single domain of HNFs was prepared under physical confinement using porous 1D nanochannels, made up of anodic aluminium oxide films. Electron microscopy and grazing incidence X-ray diffracti...