: We show that electric field imprinting technique allows for patterning of metal nanoparticles in the glass matrix at the subwavelength scale. The formation of glass-metal nanocomposite strips with a width down to 150 nm is demonstrated. The results of near-field microscopy of imprinted patterns are in good agreement with the performed numerical modeling. Atomic force microscopy reveals that i...

Stabilty constant of binary complexes of Fe(III) and Mn(II) with medicinally important ligand chloramphenicol antibiotics in solution were determined by paper electrophoretic technique. Stability constant of the complexes were determined at 25°C temperature and 0.1M (HClO4) ionic strength. Our study is based upon the migration of a spot of metal ions on a paper strip at different pH against mob...

We consider an electronic model for realizing the spin Bose-metal SBM phase on a two-leg triangular strip—a spin liquid phase found by Sheng et al. Phys. Rev. B 79, 205112 2009 in a spin-1/2 model with ring exchanges. The SBM can be viewed as a “C1S2” Mott insulator of electrons where the overall charge transporting mode is gapped out. We start from a two-band “C2S2” metal and consider extended...

An expert system for design of progressive die (ESPDIE) has been developed for die designers working in sheet metal industries. Production rule based expert system is utilized for constructing system modules. All modules are user interactive and designed to be loaded in AutoCAD. System is capable of automating all major activities (checking design features of sheet metal parts, design of strip-...

This work discusses theoretically the interplay between the superconducting and ferromagnetic proximity effects, in a diffusive normal metal strip in contact with a superconductor and a nonuniformly magnetized ferromagnetic insulator. The quasiparticle density of states of the normal metal shows clear qualitative signatures of triplet correlations with spin one (TCS1). When one goes away from t...

Although paper electrophoresis has many distinct advantages over the free boundary method, the most important being that a very small amount of material is required, there is difficulty in the quantitative determination of the concentrations of the separated components. The most commonly used method of detection at the present time involves staining the protein with a dye such as bromphenol blu...

 One of the surface defects that arise in sheet metal working is when the part removes from the die. Since there are no external forces to make this defect, the origin of such fail is known as residual stress. Residual stress can develop in sheet metal forming due to non uniform deformation. In this paper, the workpiece is carbon steel with different volume fractions and arrangement of ferrite ...

The performance of Etest KPC and MBL strips (bioMérieux) was evaluated as compared to other phenotypic tests for detecting carbapenemases of the KPC-type and metallo-β-lactamases, respectively, on 133 well-characterized enterobacterial isolates. KPC and meropenem-containing MP/MPI Etest had high sensitivity (>92 %) and specificity (>97 %).