Crystal growth has been recognized as a paradigm for non-equilibrium pattern formation for decades. Scientific interest in this field has focused on the growth rates and curvature of branches in snowflake-like structures patterned after a solid’s crystallographic orientations. In reality, there exists a much richer variety of crystal patterns in nature. Investigations of dendritically solidifyi...

Nuclear matter at large number of colors is necessarily in a solid phase. In particular holographic nuclear takes the form crystal instantons flavor group. this article we initiate analysis three-dimensional structures and orientation patterns for two-body potential that follows from duality. The outcome includes several unexpected results. We perform simulations ensembles O(10000) whereby iden...

HfBx coatings were deposited on cemented carbide substrates by direct current magnetron sputtering (DCMS) and high-power impulse (HiPIMS). The effect of the deposition conditions, i.e., temperature, bias voltage gas pressure, crystal structure mechanical properties analyzed systematically. results show that DCMS-deposited has random orientations HfB2(001), (100), (101) (102), whereas HiPIMS-dep...

Thin films of CuS (covellite) were deposited onto TCO (SnO2:F) glass by Spray Pyrolysis (SP) technique. Aqueous and water:alcohol (ethanol, 1-propanol) solutions of copper(II) chloride and thiourea with different Cu/S molar ratio have been used as precursors. The substrate temperature was varied from 185°C to 285°C. The structural and the morphological characterization of the films has been car...

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We established a 5,000 m thick profile through the paleo lower oceanic crust of Samail ophiolite (Sultanate Oman, Wadi Gideah), in order to investigate accretion processes beneath fast-spreading mid-ocean ridges. The is regarded as best on-land analog for fast-spread crust, and Gideah allows sampling entire along bed. Here, we provide microstructural constraints crustal ridges, which reveal cha...

As proven in numerous experimental and theoretical studies, physical mechanical properties of materials are determined by their internal structure. In the particular case polycrystalline metals alloys, an important role is given to orientation distributions crystalline lattices, or, other words, crystallographic textures. Physically reasonable models texture formation highly demanded modern Mat...