The atmospheric corrosion rate of materials changes based on different environmental conditions including time to be exposed to wet condition, relative humidity, surrounding temperature, and impurity of the air. The adhesive bond is relatively weak in conventional surface coating process which may lead the separation of these coatings and reduction of effective coating lifecycle. Some conventio...

In this work, nickel aluminum bronze (NAB)/Zn composites were prepared by friction stir processing (FSP), and the selective phase/area corrosion behavior of was studied in micro/nano-scale SEM FIB/TEM. The results show that excessive Zn element can accelerate or cause serious β′ phase corrosion. areas with high content, rich CuZn particles κ boundaries, are also locations for priority

Rationale: Fibroblast-specific protein 1 (FSP-1) plays multiple roles in promoting cell proliferation and motility. Increased FSP-1 expression in smooth muscle cells (SMCs) has been associated with their enhanced proliferation. Objective: To study how FSP-1 contributes to neointima formation of vein grafts. Methods: Arteriovenous grafts were created in wild-type or FSP-1–GFP mice (green fluores...

Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of diet complexity and fermented soy protein on growth performance and amino acid digestibility. In Exp. 1, a total of 120 crossbred weanling pigs (5.68±0.80 kg BW) were randomly allocated into 4 treatments. Each treatment had 6 replicate pens comprising 5 pigs in each replicate. Experimental diets consisted of simple (soybean meal as prote...

The aim of this paper is to present some graph-based algorithms for Finite State Process (FSP). Communicating Sequential Process generated by Finite Transition System is called FSP. If P and Q are FSP, the parallel process P||Q also is FSP. We will present an algorithm to construct parallel process of finite set of FSP and an algorithm to construct finite complete prefix.

Surfaces which possess extraordinary water attraction or repellency depend on surface energy, surface chemistry, and nano- and microscale surface roughness. Synergistic superhydrophilic-underwater superoleophobic surfaces were fabricated by spray deposition of nanostructured TiO2 on stainless steel mesh substrates. The coated meshes were then used to study gravity driven oil-water separation, w...

0.1016/j.nanoen.2 lsevier Ltd. All rig thor. [email protected] Abstract The reversibility and stability of Li2S electrode can be improved by carbon coating on nano sized Li2S. However, how to uniformly coat a dense layer of carbon on nano sized Li2S is still challenge so far. Here, we utilized a novel flowable ionic liquid (1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium dicyanamide) as a carbon precursor to uniformly...