The nonlinear, blowout regime of the plasma wakefield accelerator has been the subject of considerable interest due to its potential for use as a next generation accelerator in high energy physics experiments. Much of the analytical work and simulation in this regime has been restricted to scenarios of cold background plasma. Significant theoretical results concerning plasma thermal effects hav...

Abstract Purpose of Review The market for minimally processed products is constantly growing due to consumer demand. Besides food safety and increased shelf life, nutritional value sensory appearance also play a major role have be considered by the processors. Therefore, purpose review was summarize recent knowledge about important alternative non-thermal physical technologies, including both t...

Thermal plasmas and lasers have been used in medicine to cut and ablate tissues and for coagulation. Non-equilibrium atmospheric pressure plasma (NEAPP; non-thermal plasma) is a recently developed, non-thermal technique with possible biomedical applications. Although NEAPP reportedly generates reactive oxygen/nitrogen species, electrons, positive ions, and ultraviolet radiation, few research pr...

Combination the non-thermal plasma technique by photocatalytic oxidation can enhance volatile organic compounds degradation. In this study, the decomposition of chloroform vapors in a novel non-thermal plasma reactor as well as an integrated system of this reactor in conjunction with the photocatalysis process was investigated. Expanded graphite was used as discharge electrode of dielectric bar...

Thermal expansion is the major source of inaccuracy for ultra high-precision robots. In this paper we propose a strategy to model and compensate this effect. The experiment is run using a 1 DOF (degree-offreedom) parallel robot equipped with ten temperature sensors; the displacements of the end-effector are measured using an interferometer. After a session of measurements the data collected has...

Solution-processed organic field effect transistors (OFETs), which are amenable to facile large-area processing methods, have generated significant interest as key elements for use in all-organic electronic applications aimed at realizing low-cost, lightweight, and flexible devices. The low performance levels of n-type solution-processed bottom-contact OFETs unfortunately continue to pose a bar...

The shape memory effect (SME) response of a deformation-processed NiTiNb shape memory alloy is benchmarked against the response of a cast alloy. The insoluble Nb element ternary addition is known to widen the hysteresis with respect to the binary NiTi alloy. Cast microstructures naturally consist of a cellular arrangement of characteristic eutectic microconstituents surrounding primary matrix r...

Macor coatings on 316 alloys substrates were prepared by plasma spraying. The crystallization temperature, thermal expansion coefficient of mica glass-ceramic were at 900ºC and 40× 10−7/◦C respectively. The microhardness of obtained glass-ceramic coating was 6.8GPa and the coefficient friction was 0.98 .