Clinical isolates of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, Candida albicans and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) were tested against copper (Cu) and its alloys. Stainless steel and polyvinylchloride (PVC) were used as controls. The amount of Cu required to inhibit test isolates at room temperature (24 degrees C...

Phase transformation of quasicrystals is of interest in various fields of science and technology. Interestingly, we directly observed unexpected solid-state epitaxial nucleation and growth of Zn6Mg3Y icosahedral quasicrystals in a Mg alloy at about 573 K which is about 300 K below the melting point of Zn6Mg3Y, in contrast to formation of quasicrystals through solidification that was usually fou...

The partial and integral enthalpies of mixing of liquid ternary Ni-Sn-Zn alloys were determined. The system was investigated along two sections xNi/xSn ≈ 1:9, xNi/xSn ≈ 1:6 at 1073 K and along two sections xSn/xZn ≈ 9:1, xSn/xZn ≈ 4:1 at 873 K. The integral enthalpy of mixing at each temperature is described using the Redlich-Kister-Muggianu model for substitutional ternary solutions. In additi...