Cover Picture: A Corona plasma jet was moved along the substrate with a constant speed and an increasing oxygen amount while maintaining other deposition parameters including hexamethyldisiloxane flow rate. The gradual incorporation of into siloxane-based coating led to formation wettability gradient primarily as result increase in surface polar groups (chemistry effect) next due roughness vari...

An asymmetric stochastic process describing the avalanche dynamics on a ring is proposed. A general kinetic equation which incorporates the exclusion and avalanche processes is considered. The Bethe ansatz method is used for calculation of the generating function for the total distance covered by all particles. It gives the average velocity of particles which exhibits a phase transition from an...