1. Article submitted on Sept./2010 and accepted for publishing on Aug./2011 (n° PAT 11376/ DOI: 10.5216/pat.v41i3.11376). 2. Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Department of Soil Physics, Halle, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]. 3. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Escola de Agronomia e Engenharia de Alimentos, Goiânia, GO, Brazil. E-mail: [email protected]. 4. Martin-Luther...

The aims of this study were to evaluate the fluorine depth profiles of pure titanium (Ti), stainless steel (SUS), and polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) modified by plasma-based fluorine ion implantation and the effects of fluorine ion implantation on contact angle, fluoride ion release, and S. mutans adhesion. Fluorine-based gases used were Ar+F2 and CF4. By means of SIMS, it was found that the pe...

AlGaN–GaN heterostructures with different Al concentrations (20, 27, and 35%) were grown by metal-organic vapor phase epitaxy (MOVPE) on sapphire substrates. Ti–Al–Ti–Au ohmic contact optimization was investigated at different temperatures and annealing time. Heterojunction field effect transistors (HFET) with a gate length of 0.25 m were fabricated. Low contact resistances of 0.2, 0.26, and 0....

Modifying the surface of the transmucosal area is a key research area because this process positively affects the three functions of implants: attachment to soft tissue, inhibiting bacterial biofilm adhesion, and the preservation of the crestal bone. To exploit the potential of titania nanotube arrays (TNTs) with or without using bovine serum albumin (BSA) to modify the surface of a dental impl...

Six types of diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings with zirconium (Zr)-containing interlayers on titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V) were investigated for improving the biotribological performance of orthopedic implants. The coatings consist of three layers: above the substrate a layer stack of 32 alternating Zr and ZrN sublayers (Zr:ZrN), followed by a layer comprised of Zr and DLC (Zr:DLC), and finally a...

Topological insulators (TIs) are an unusual phase of quantum matter with nontrivial spin-momentum locked topological surface states (TSS). The electrical detection of spin-momentum locking of the TSS in 3D TIs has been lacking till very recently. Many of the results are measured on samples with significant bulk conduction, such as metallic Bi2Se3, where it can be challenging to separate the sur...

The interactions of copper substrate with titanium-alloyed Sn-Zn eutectic solders have been studied. Two series of experiments have been performed. The first one consisted in differential thermal analyses of Sn-Zn nearly eutectic alloys containing from 1.3 to 2.2 wt. % Ti. Diffusion couples consisted of Cu-wires and Sn-Zn-Ti liquid solders, produced at 250 and 275 OC have been prepared in the s...

The host response to calcium silicate ceramic coatings is not always favorable because of their high dissolution rates, leading to high pH within the surrounding physiological environment. Recently, a zinc-incorporated calcium silicate-based ceramic Ca2ZnSi2O7 coating, developed on a Ti-6Al-4V substrate using plasma-spray technology, was found to exhibit improved chemical stability and biocompa...

Introduction: Regenerative therapies using biomaterials require accurate information on interactions between the implanted material and the human body. To improve the process of bone regeneration it is necessary to obtain a better understanding of the influence of the surfaces on the early stages of osseointegration. This work aims to investigate the dynamic interaction between simulated body f...

Cored Nb-Ti Rutherford cables with high crossover resistance R, a re being investigated to minimize ac losses in a set of superconducting dipole magnets for the proposed rapid cycling heavy ion synchrotron facility a t the Gesellschaft fiir Schwerionenforschung (GSI) in Darmstadt, Germany. This ring of magnets is based on the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) design. R, in cored cables is ...