STATEMENT OF PROBLEM Oral metal exposure has been associated with systemic and local adverse reactions, probably due to elemental release from the alloys. Although supraphysiological concentrations of salts from dentally applied metals can activate innate cells through TLR4 (Ni, Co, Pd) and TLR3 (Au), whether direct exposure to solid alloys can also trigger innate immune reactivity is still unk...

Handheld X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (HH-XRF) has been established as the gold standard method for in-situ elemental determination in metals and alloys in the last 10 years. More than 5,000 analyzers are sold yearly worldwide for scrap metals sorting and positive material identification (PMI). PMI is a quality assurance tool consisting of the identification of alloy grades in various indust...

Adhesion of 4-META to Au-In alloy was improved by adding In equivalent to .15% of Au content. On the basis of the results of Au-In alloys analyzed by XPS, the present study investigated the reason why adhesion of the Au-In alloy was improved. The O 1s spectrum could be separated into three oxygen chemical states, In2O3, chemisorbed H2O, and physisorbed H2O. The amount of chemisorbed H2O decreas...

Nanoporous gold (NPG), made by dealloying low carat gold alloys, is a relatively new nanomaterial finding application in catalysis, sensing, and as a support for biomolecules. NPG has attracted considerable interest due to its open bicontinuous structure, high surface-to-volume ratio, tunable porosity, chemical stability and biocompatibility. NPG also has the attractive feature of being able to...

Abstract Gold parting enabled the production of very pure gold for various purposes from sixth century BC onwards, but analytical proof this pyrotechnical process is difficult. We describe a new approach identification purified combining silver and copper isotopic with trace element analyses. Parting experiments were performed gold-silver-copper alloys using classical salt cementation to invest...

The goal of this work is to research the effect different Au-Ag ratios on homogeneity bimetal alloys. Thin films silver (Ag)-gold (Au) alloy were produced using Vaksis Thermal Evaporator system and quartz crystal microbalance detector at gold additive ratios. Micro beam X-Ray fluorescence spectrometer was used calculate bimetallic Ag-Au thin production with concentration values. It seen that ca...

The adsorption of ethylene on gold–palladium alloys formed on a Pd(111) surface is investigated using a combination of temperature-programmed desorption (TPD) and reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy (RAIRS). Various alloy compositions are obtained by depositing four monolayers of gold on a clean Pd(111) surface and annealing to various temperatures. For gold coverages greater than 0.7, ...