one fundamental strategy for increasing efficiency of plans which aim to develop natural resources is decreasing water loss and using this restricted water optimally. in arid and semi-arid regions such as a large part of iran, increasing period of irrigation which results in decreasing the irrigation costs, without causing water stress to planted sapling is a vital task. in this research we exa...

Corrosion resistance is one of the key factors in materials selection for Gen IV supercritical water-cooled reactor (SCWR) concept; especially when it comes to selection for fuel cladding. Amongst the candidate materials, 310S austenitic stainless steel and INCOLOY® 800H are deemed very promising. A summary of the previous corrosion studies on candidate alloys can be found elsewhere [1,2]. In t...

A critical analysis is presented of the operating temperature windows for nine candidate fusion reactor structural materials: four reduced-activation structural materials (oxide-dispersion-strengthened and ferritic/martensitic steels containing 8–12%Cr, V–4Cr–4Ti, and SiC/SiC composites), copper-base alloys (CuNiBe), tantalum-base alloys (e.g. Ta–8W–2Hf), niobium alloys (Nb–1Zr), and molybdenum...

ZnO/GaN alloys have exceptional photocatalytic applications owing to their suitable band gaps corresponding to the range of visible light wavelength and thus have attracted extensive attention over the past few years. In this study, the structural stabilities and electronic properties of core/shell, biaxial, and super-lattice ZnO/GaN heterostructured nanowires have been investigated by means of...