A single-beam interference-lithography scheme is demonstrated for the fabrication of large-area slant gratings, which requires exposure of the photoresist thin film spin-coated on a glass plate with polished side-walls to a single laser beam in the ultraviolet and requires small coherence length of the laser. No additional beam splitting scheme and no adjustments for laser-beam overlapping and ...

Thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are used in gas turbine engines to protect engine hot-section components in the harsh combustion environments, and extend component lifetimes. Infrared Thermography method has been selected for obtaining thermal images and studying the TBCs of Alumina, Zirconia and Alumina+Titanium oxide coated on the base plate of Titanium, by measuring the back wall temperature...

A metallic photonic crystal filter has been demonstrated at terahertz frequencies, with the passband tuneable over the range 365 386 GHz. Tuning is achieved by a relative lateral shift of two metallic photonic crystal plates. Each plate comprises two orthogonal layers of gratings and integral mounting lugs. The plates are micromachined from silicon wafers then coated in gold to provide metallic...

METHODS: Nineteen vials of tetrofosmin were radiolabelled with Tc and the percentages of the RCP were determined. Five different methods were compared with the standard RCP testing method (ITLC-SG, 2x20 cm): Whatman 3MM (1x10 cm) with acetone and dichloromethane (method 1); Whatman 3MM (1x10 cm) with ethyl acetate (method 2); aluminum oxide-coated plastic thin-layer chromatography (TLC) plate (...

Step 1 Extraction One of two methods can be used. In solid phase extraction the sample is put on a plate coated with a substance that organic compounds (such as drugs) do not adhere to, but to which other compounds in the sample do, and then the organics washed off with a suitable solvent. In liquid-liquid extraction an organic solvent is mixed with the sample, the organic compounds migrate to ...

We recently developed a new assay to measure proteasome activity in vitro (CAPA for capture proteasome assay) [1], based on proteasome capture on an antibody-coated plate. When used with lysates originating from cells expressing either standard proteasome, immunoproteasome or intermediate proteasomes β5i or β1i-β5i, this assay allows the individual monitoring of the chymotrypsin-like, trypsin-l...

In the polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs), low corrosion resistance and high interfacial contact resistance (ICR) are two controversial issues in usage of AISI 316L stainless steel as a metallic bipolar plate. For solving these problems, investigation and development of different coatings and/or surface treatments are inevitable. Corrosion behavior and ICR of AISI 316L specimens c...