The dependence of the impulse electrical strength of water on conductivity was investigated in non-uniform electric field point-plate electrode system. The voltage pulses, with the rise time t,=l ps, and time to half-decay tuz= 30 ps, were generated by a Marx bank. Conductivity was varied by the use of different CuSO4 concentrations in distilled water. The voltage and current during the electri...

A tetrapolar method to measure electrical conductivity of cartilage and bone, and to estimate the thickness of articular cartilage attached to bone, was developed. We determined the electrical conductivity of humeral head bovine articular cartilage and subchondral bone from a 1- to 2-year-old steer to be 1.14+/-0.11 S/m (mean+/-sd, n =11) and 0.306+/-0.034 S/m, (mean+/-sd, n =3), respectively. ...

Transition-metal chalcogenides are prospective thermoelectric materials. One of them is a molybdenum disulfide MoS2, which has a layered structure. MoS2 has a good potential to have a high value of thermoelectric quality factor due to a high value of thermo-EMF and low value of thermal conductivity. But a low value of its electrical conductivity suppresses the thermoelectric quality factor ZT o...

The Otomo rice field zone in Rikuzentakata City, Iwate Prefecture was catastrophically damaged by large-scale subsidence and the tsunami that followed the Great East Japan earthquake, which occurred on March 11th, 2011. Electrical conductivity of underground water, bulk electrical conductivity of the soil, and various meteorological elements were observed at a fixed point for eight months. The ...

By using an easy and effective method of depositing conjugated polymers (PEDOT:PSS) on flexible substrates, a new design for organic bioelectronic devices has been developed. The purpose was to build up a system that mimics the motion of neurotransmitters in the synaptic cleft by obtaining an electrical to chemical signal transport. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and Raman measu...

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are often used as conductive fillers in composite materials, but electrical conductivity is limited by the maximum filler concentration that is necessary to maintain composite structures. This paper presents further improvement in electrical conductivity by precipitating gold nanoparticles onto CNTs. In our composites, the concentrations of CNTs and poly (vinyl acetate) ...

Poly(p-phenylene) (PPP) was chemically synthesized via oxidative polymerization using benzene and doped with FeCl(3). The electrical conductivity response of the doped PPP (dPPP) towards CO, H(2) and NH(3) is investigated. dPPP shows no electrical conductivity response towards the first two gases (CO and H(2)), but it shows a definite negative response towards NH(3). The electrical conductivity...

The most common method for in situ assessment of soil salinity, namely the electrical conductivity (EC) of the soil solution (ECw), is to measure the apparent electrical conductivity (ECa) and volumetric water content (θ) of the soil and apply measured or predicted ECa(ECw, θ) calibration curves. The water content and electrical conductivity of a soil solution are indeed the major factors affec...

Mass fraction of ash is a quality criterion for determining the botanical origin of honey. At present, this parameter is generally being replaced by the measurement of electrical conductivity (k). The value k depends on the ash and acid content of honey; the higher their content, the higher the resulting conductivity. A linear regression model for the relationship between ash and electrical con...

This paper presents a method, which simultaneously estimates the electrical conductivity and magnetic permeability of porous metals. Porous Cu and Fe manufactured by the lost carbonate sintering process have been tested. An air-cored solenoid coil was designed for the measurements of rod-shaped samples when inserted coaxially with the coil. It was theoretically found that the phase-frequency re...