In brazing, the choice of base metal, brazing filler metal (BFM), and braze process conditions involves complex tradeoffs among cost, mechanical strength, corrosion resistance, others. this work, tradeoff between strength resistance 316L stainless steel joints brazed with a newer “very corrosion-resistant” Ni-Cr-P-Mo-Si BFM more established “corrosion-resistant” Ni-Cr-Si-B is quantitatively ana...

background the vacuum assisted closure (vac) therapy has revolutionized the modern wound care. we developed a new concept of ‘vac at home’ in order to decrease the hospital cost. methods the study was conducted in a private hospital from january 2009 to december 2010. only those patients were included among whom the wounds were not complicated by concomitant injury and the patients were otherwi...

Microwave energy has been in use for variety of applications for over 50 years. These applications include communication, food processing, wood drying, rubber vulcanization, medical therapy, polymers, etc. In the last two decades microwave heating has been also applied very effectively and efficiently to heat and sinter ceramic materials. Microwave heating is recognized for its various advantag...