The weldability of GTD-111 nickel-based superalloy by pulsed Nd:YAG laser welding with an average power of 250 W was studied, and the microstructural evolution and cracking characteristics were also investigated. The solidification cracking of the fusion zone (FZ) and the intergranular liquation cracking in the heat affected zone (HAZ) were observed in the joint. Solidification cracking was cau...

The high water storage capacity of minerals in Earth's mantle transition zone (410- to 660-kilometer depth) implies the possibility of a deep H2O reservoir, which could cause dehydration melting of vertically flowing mantle. We examined the effects of downwelling from the transition zone into the lower mantle with high-pressure laboratory experiments, numerical modeling, and seismic P-to-S conv...

Large-scale tectonic processes introduce a range of crustal lithologies into the Earth's mantle. These lithologies have been implicated as sources of compositional heterogeneity in mantle-derived magmas. The model being explored here assumes the presence of widely dispersed fragments of residual eclogite (derived from recycled oceanic crust), stretched and stirred by convection in the mantle. H...

Two anthracene derivatives appended on cyclen (1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane) moieties were synthesized and characterized. In these new compounds, the anthryl is used as a substitute for the nucleobases of classical PNA backbone, and the cyclen moiety appends on the terminal amino group. The interaction of the compounds with DNA was systematically investigated by absorption, fluorescence, and ...

Pasteurellaceae are among the most prevalent bacterial pathogens isolated from mice housed in experimental animal facilities. Reliable detection and differentiation of Pasteurellaceae are essential for high-quality health monitoring. In this study, we combined a real-time PCR assay amplifying a variable region in the 16S rRNA sequence with high-resolution melting curve analysis (HRM) to identif...

Introduction: Angrites are basaltic meteorites that cooled rapidly early in the evolution of the solar system [1]. They are widely thought to be products of differentiation and partial melting [2-4], though it has been suggested that they condensed from vapor in the solar nebula [5,6]. D’Orbigny (“D’O”) is vesicular and has abundant glass [2,5-7]. This has been interpreted as volcanic and seen ...

The effect of radiation on a steady two-dimension magneto-hydrodynamic mixed convection flow from a vertical plate embedded in a saturated porous media with melting is analyzed.The non-linear partial differential equations, governing the flow field under consideration, have been transformed by a similarity transformation into a system of non-linear ordinary differential equations and then solve...

Water suspended on chilled superhydrophobic surfaces exhibits delayed freezing; however, the interdrop growth of frost through subcooled condensate forming on the surface seems unavoidable in humid environments. It is therefore of great practical importance to determine whether facile defrosting is possible on superhydrophobic surfaces. Here, we report that nanostructured superhydrophobic surfa...

The question of whether layer decoupling and vortex-lattice melting occur separately or not in the mixed phase of extremely type-II layered superconductors is studied through a partial duality analysis of the layered XY model with uniform frustration. We find that both transitions occur simultaneously if a sufficient degree of both layer anisotropy and of substrate pinning exists. PACS Indices:...