TiB2-Cu cermets with various volume fractions of copper (from 3 to 30 vol. %) were produced via liquid phase sintering at the temperature range 1100–1200 °C in vacuum using spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique. Full densification could not be achieved as the consequence of poor wettability and vaporizing Cu. The quantitative Rietveld analysis indicated that insignificant reduction in Cu conte...

Information on the vaporization processes and thermodynamic properties of glass-forming oxide melts in the systems MgO-B2O3-SiO2, CaO-B2O3-SiO2, SrO-B2O3-SiO2, BaO-B2O3-SiO2, PbO-B2O3-SiO2, CdO-B2O3-SiO2, ZnO-B2O3-SiO2, Bi2O3-B2O3-SiO2 and Bi2O3-GeO2-SiO2 together with the earlier obtained data is discussed. These data were obtained by high-temperature mass spectrometric method. Various types o...

The European Commission recommends the CDMAM phantom as a tool to evaluate threshold contrast visibility in digital mammography [1, 2]. The use of the CDMAM phantom for that purpose has been proposed by Young [3] and other researchers. Recently, the phantom has been criticized because of poor reproducibility of the manufacturing process [4, 5], but it is still recommended by the European Commis...

The temperature dependence of gas chromatographic retention times of hexaheptacontane to dononacontane is reported. These data are used with a summary of earlier work to evaluate and compare the vaporization enthalpies and vapor pressures of the n-alkanes from T ) (298.15 to 540) K for heneicosane to dononacontane. The vapor pressure and vaporization enthalpy results obtained are compared with ...

Although classical split and splitless injection is more than 30 years old, we only start to understand the vaporization process in the injector. Solvent evaporation determines much of the process and is the first obstacle to overcome. Videos recorded on devices imitating injectors showed that sample (solvent) evaporation is often a violent process which is poorly controlled and might well expl...

The effects of swirl and vaporization on droplet dispersion are investigated in the near region of a two-phase, swirling, heated jet. Simulations are based on the numerical solution of time-dependent, axisymmetric gas-phase equations.Droplets’ trajectories are tracked byusingaLagrangianapproach.Forall of the swirl cases investigated, the droplet dispersion exhibits a nonmonotonic behavior, with...

We report sublimation of crystalline GeTe nanowires at elevated temperatures in vacuum imaged by in situ transmission electron microscopy. The GeTe nanowires exhibit significant melting point suppression in the presence of Au contamination. A nanosized effusion cell is formed by coating the GeTe core with a SiO(2) shell, where the core can be evaporated or sublimated from the open end of the sh...

The dependence of analyte sensitivity and vaporization efficiency on the operating parameters of an inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICPMS) was investigated for a wide range of elements in aerosols, produced by laser ablation of silicate glass. The ion signals were recorded for different carrier gas flow rates at different plasma power for two different laser ablation systems and c...

-A stochastic model based on the Boltzmann kinetic equation and employing the comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of binary droplet collisions is suggested to describe the droplet size and spatial distribution in dense spray. The model is valid for highly non-equilibrium impinging sprays in which the inertia of the droplets is very high and dynamic coupling with the gas is low. A Monte Carl...

The single crystal structure of a micrometre-scale copper hexadecafluoro-phthalocyanine (F(16)CuPc) ribbon synthesized by vaporization-condensation-recrystallization (VCR) process was resolved by using a synchrotron X-ray diffractometer.