Tungsten carbide cobalt (WC-Co) has been recognized as a workplace inhalation hazard in the manufacturing, mining and drilling industries by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health. Exposure to WC-Co is known to cause "hard metal lung disease" but the relationship between exposure, toxicity and development of disease remain poorly understood. To better understand this relations...

    Nano technology has a large number of applications in different fields of science and technology. Nano particle are the tiny particles which are being used in upcoming technology due to their small size and high capability. The properties of nanoparticles depend largely on their synthesis procedures. There are different methods for the synthesis of nano particles using differen...

This paper describes the semi-quantitative analysis of metal nanoparticle ink using laserinduced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). LIBS can be used to obtain information about the density and chemical composition of silver particles or copper particles, even ultrafine particles. Metal particles have been attracting much attention because of their increased use in new micro-nano technologies. In th...

Additions of high modulus nano particles to Aluminum alloys offer the potential to develop a lightweight composite with high mechanical properties. It is extremely difficult to disperse nano-sized ceramic particles uniformly in molten metal. In order to investigate the effect of nano-alumina on the microstructure and mechanical properties of composite, a new method was used in stir casting to a...

Introduction: Over the last two decades, there have been many publications reporting experimental observations of excess heat generation and anomalous nuclear reactions occurring in metals at ultra-low energies, now known as „low-energy nuclear reactions‟ (LENR). Theoretical explanations of the LENR phenomena have been described based on the theory of Bose-Einstein condensation nuclear fusion (...

the selective reduction of oximes with sodium borohydride (nabh4) in the presence of nano cu and charcoal was investigated. cu nanoparticles are widely used as catalysts; efficacious catalyst: copper and copper alloy nanometer feature high efficacy and selectivity, and can be used as catalyst in some reactions. we have shown that nabh4 in the presence of charcoal is an efficient protocol for th...

a novel nano – sized  manganese (ii) coordination polymer, [{mn(ncs)2(l)(h2o)2}(l)]n  , (1) (l- = 4,4'-bipyridine), have been synthesized by a sonochemical process and characterized by scanning electron microscopy (sem), x-ray diffraction (xrd), ir spectroscopy and elemental analysis.  direct calcination of the single crystals and nano-sized compound 1 at 400 0c under air atmosphere yields...

Resolving the movement of individual molecules in living cells by single particle tracking methods has allowed many molecular behaviors to be deciphered over the past three decades. These methods have increasingly benefited from advances in microscopy of single nano-objects such as fluorescent dye molecules, proteins or nanoparticles as well as tiny absorbing metal nanoparticles. In parallel to...

Abstract In this project, nano-ZrO2 particles were dispersed in aluminum powder by a Y-shape mixer. The particle size of ZrO2 powder was < 40 nm and the amount of ZrO2 reinforcement varies from 3 to 15%.The mixed powders were compacted .Subsequently the compacted discs were sintered both in the microwave oven and in the conventional muffle furnace .Using microwave –assisted sintering method led...