Nanoparticles (NPs) in aqueous suspension have just begun to be exploited for the preservative treatment of wood. However, at present, there is very little information available on the distribution of NPs in wood after impregnation, due to associated analytical challenges. In this study, we present the detection of model NPs in softwood and hardwood by surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS)...

Before the introduction of renal biopsy our understanding of the morphology of glomerular disease was extremely limited. This could be blamed in part on the problems of interpretation of necropsy material obscured to a greater or lesser extent by post-mortem artefact. The introduction of renal biopsy made fresh renal tissue available and acted as a stimulus for the development of a variety of n...

ru/al2o3 catalysts were prepared by conventional incipient wetness impregnation as well as colloid deposition of rucl3 precursor via in situ reduction with ethylene glycol (polyol) method on alumina support. the samples were characterized by tem, xrd and tpr techniques. the catalytic performance tests were carried out in a fixed-bed micro-reactor under different operating conditions. ethylene g...

The porosity of die-cast aluminum alloys is a determining factor for the quality product. In this paper, we studied selected part AlSi9Cu3(Fe) compressor by computer tomography and metallography. case part, achievable resolution CT, non-destructive testing method, was 30 μm—this method could not detect smaller cavities. Based on metallographic analysis, percentage defects larger than μm ranges ...

The flow rate of water through carbon nanotube (CNT) membranes is considerably large. Hence, CNT membranes can be used in nanofluidic applications. In this work, we performed a molecular dynamics (MD) simulation of the introduction of water into CNTs in the CNT membranes, especially in vertically aligned CNT forests. The results showed that the Knudsen number (Kn) increased with an increasing v...

This article presents the research results on production and performance of palladium-only catalytic converters. Monolith is used as the catalyst carrier and gamma alumina as the substrate. Dipping method is used for monolith washcoating. Palladium as the active metal is impregnated on gamma alumina using wet impregnation to produce catalyst samples. The effects of factors such as percent solid...

Ni-, Co-, and Ptpromoted MoVNbOx mixed metal oxide catalysts were prepared by impregnation method. The physicochemical properties of the catalysts showed that the BET surface area of the promoted catalysts was lower when compared to the unpromoted catalysts due to the filling of open pores by the promoters. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis indicated that the main reflections were consistent wit...