An analysis of the steady mixed convection boundary layer flow past a vertical permeable surface embedded in a porous medium saturated by a nanofluid is performed in this study. Numerical solutions of the similarity equations are obtained using the shooting method. Three types of metallic or nonmetallic nanoparticles, namely Copper (Cu), Alumina (Al2O3) and Titania (TiO2) are considered by usin...

Al-doped ZnO (AZO) and In-doped ZnO (IZO) nanopowders were prepared by a sol-gel route and subsequent drying in ethanol under supercritical conditions. The morphological and microstructural properties were investigated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). The characterization study showed that the AZO and IZO nanoparticles were crystalline and e...

Quenching of small stainless steel rods in pure water and nanofluids with alumina and diamond nanoparticles at low concentrations (0.1 vol%) was investigated experimentally. The rods were heated to an initial temperature of ~1000 C and then plunged into the test fluid. The results show that the quenching behavior of the nanofluids is nearly identical to that of pure water. However, due to nano...

γ-Alumina is a promising candidate for fabricating the gate of diamond metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor based on oxygen termination due to its high bandgap 6.7 eV and static dielectric constant 9. Besides these properties, having sufficient barrier holes mandatory avoid carriers leakage through gate. However, band offset diamond/alumina heterojunction can be affected by alumina...

Abstract Cellulose polymers are widely used to fabricate green composites, implemented as fiber, matrix, and adhesive material between them. In this study, cellulose interphase spherical nanoparticles of hydroxylated alumina (Al 2 O 3 ) epoxy. Molecular dynamics simulations using the large‐scale atomic/molecular massively parallel simulator (LAMMPS) utilized investigate effect content on stiffn...

Thallium (I) was removed from aqueous solution by using gamma-alumina nanoparticles (?ANPs) materials as nano adsorbents. Varied experimental conditions such adsorbent dose, agitation time, initial concentration, pH, and temperature effects were carried out in batch view of the optimization thallium adsorption identification mechanisms system ?ANPs-Tl. The pH effect indicated a remarkable incre...

A plasmonic metasurface with an electrically tunable optical response that operates at strikingly low modulation voltages is experimentally demonstrated. The fabricated metasurface shows up to 30% relative change in reflectance in the visible spectral range upon application of 5 mV and 78% absolute change in reflectance upon application of 100 mV of bias. The designed metasurface consists of na...

Titanium dioxide (TiO(2)) nanoparticles are manufactured worldwide in large quantities for use in a wide range of applications including pigment and cosmetic manufacturing. Although TiO(2) is chemically inert, TiO(2) nanoparticles can cause negative health effects, such as respiratory tract cancer in rats. However, the mechanisms involved in TiO(2)-induced genotoxicity and carcinogenicity have ...

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were biologically synthesized using aqueous extract of Agaricus bisporus fungi. Physicochemical analysis of silver nanoparticles revealed that they are of spherical shape ranged size of 8-20 nm, and their zeta potential equal -7.23 mV. Silver nanoparticles showed a dose-dependent cytotoxic effect on MCF-7 breast cancer cells with LD50 (50 μg/ml). Mice bearing Ehrlic...

Porous alumina templates have been fabricated by applying an exponential voltage decrease at the end of the anodization process. The time constant η of the exponential voltage function has been used to control the average thickness and the thickness distribution of the barrier layer at the bottom of the pores of the alumina structure. Depending on the η value, the thickness distribution of the ...