-The effect of grain boundary regions on the total amount diffused during an exchange experiment has been numerically modeled. The total amount diffused increases when the grain size is decreased, and when the ratio of the grain boundary and lattice diffusion coefficients increases. Grain boundary migration increases the total amount diffused during part of the processing time. The numerical ca...

The temperature dependence of the exchange bias (HE) near the FeF 2 Néel temperature (; 78.4 K! was correlated with structural measurements in FeF2-Fe bilayers. Low-angle x-ray diffraction and atomic force microscopy show that samples with larger height fluctuations have larger lateral grain sizes. Samples with larger lateral grain sizes exhibit a surface critical exponent (bS;0.8) while sample...

Abstract: Nickel was electrodeposited onto copper substrates with high {111} and {400} peak intensities. The grain size of coatings deposited onto the copper substrate with a higher {111} peak intensity was finer. Spheroidized pyramid morphology was obtained at low current densities on both copper substrates. By increasing the deposition current density, grain size of the coating was increased ...

Isotope exchange between fluid and rocks has been traditionally considered to be rate limited by two elementary processes: lattice diffusion in the matrix minerals and dissolution into the fluid followed by precipitation from it. In this study we show the results of high-pressure experiments on 18O-water infiltration into quartzite that point to a third, highly efficient process: grain growth a...

Most rice (Oryza sativa L.) cultivars grown in the United States were selected for endosperm starch properties and not soluble sugar content. The minor pool of soluble sugar may affect the qualities of rice as a food. Some cultivar variation in soluble sugar content was detected in milled grain, essentially the starchy endosperm, of long grain varieties. Milled grain of cultivars Lemont and Tex...

among the food products, grains play an important role in the consumption patterns of people, especially in the developing countries. since iran's main source of public dietary energy comes directly from grains, investigating and identifying the determinants of import of these products can be an important step towards food security. most experimental studies consider import of grains as only a ...

Magnetic patterning, with designed spatial profile of the desired magnetic properties, has been a rising challenge for developing magnetic devices at nanoscale. Most existing methods rely on locally modifying magnetic anisotropy energy or saturation magnetization, and thus post stringent constraints on the adaptability in diverse applications. We propose an alternative route for magnetic patter...

This brief review describes the major features of grain boundary mobility in metals and current limitations in our theoretical understanding. Although thermally activated exchange of atoms across boundaries provides a basic picture of grain boundary correct to within an order of magnitude, no refinement of this theory is available that accounts for the experimental characteristics of grain mobi...

In this paper, the effect of alloy composition on the microstructural development of devitrified Nd–Fe–B-based alloys is investigated. While crystallization of simple ternary Nd2Fe14B resulted in a highly variable microstructure and relatively poor demagnetization behavior, alloying additions, notably Ti and C, were found to significantly refine and homogenize the crystallized microstructure. H...