Tungsten carbide cobalt (WC-Co) has been recognized as a workplace inhalation hazard in the manufacturing, mining and drilling industries by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Exposure to WC-Co is known to cause "hard metal lung disease" but the relationship between exposure, toxicity and development of disease remain poorly understood. To better understand this relations...

In the current paper, finite element method is employed for numerical simulations and the study of influential parameters on elastic modulus of polymer-matrix nano-composites. Effects of different key parameters including particle elastic modulus, interphase elastic modulus, matrix elastic modulus, interphase thickness and particle volume fraction on total elastic modulus of nano-composite mate...

Experimental results obtained for Pd/PdO/ZrO2 nano-composite samples are summarized and the underlying physics is discussed. Arata-Zhang’s May 2008 excess heat result was replicated quantitatively. Using Pd/PdO/ZrO2 powders (produced by Santoku Co., Kobe Japan), we obtained: 1) D-gas charge in the first phase (zero pressure interval) gave 20~90% excess heat than H-gas charge. 2) In the second p...

Collective excitations of electron spins in a ferromagnetic sample dominated by the magnetic dipole-dipole interaction strongly influence the field structure of microwave radiation. A small quasi-two-dimensional ferrite disk with magnetic-dipolar-mode (MDM) oscillation spectra can behave as a source of specific fields in vacuum, termed magnetoelectric (ME) fields. A coupling between the time-va...

Co-Zn ferrite and BaM ferrite films were deposited on silicon wafer disks with thermally oxidized surface layer without annealing process, and their readlwrite characteristics in contact mode have been investigated by using a MIG and Mn-Zn ferrite head with gap length of 0.2-0.4 pm. The highest linear recording density D50 of Co-Zn ferrite and Ba ferrite films were 105 and 190 WRPI, respectivel...

Pattern creating with nano-particle is one of the best application methods in nano-scale that it will be used for new pattern creating and make micro/nano-electromechanical System (MEMS/NEMS) in future. Particle swarm optimization algorithm is one of evolutionary computation techniques and the optimization method based on population and ant algorithm, optimization algorithm is modeled based on ...

Plasmonics based sensors have been a prominent area of research. Plasmonics based sensors are widely used in bio sensing and many other applications. The basic mechanism in which these sensors operate is that there are metal nano particles that are separated by a very small distance between them. The dimensions of these nano particles is much smaller than the incident light [1]. For sensing pur...

nano technology has a large number of applications in different fields of science and technology. nano particle are the tiny particles which are being used in upcoming technology due to their small size and high capability. the properties of nanoparticles depend largely on their synthesis procedures. there are different methods for the synthesis of nano particles using different conditions. in ...

Nanocrystalline lithium ferrite Li 0.5 Fe 1.7 Mg 0.8 O 4 powders were synthesized by the sol-gel auto-combustion method from the corresponding metal nitrates using citric acid as fuel.The results from XRD, SEM, and AC electrical conductivity studies are summarized as follows: The results of XRD analysis showed that all the samples were formed in single-phase cubic spinel structure at different ...