Since 1986, more than 500 million powder forged (PF) connecting rods have been manufactured and installed in automobiles worldwide. The application of forging a preformed near-net shape consolidated from metal powder has been widely accepted since the early eighties and today is the preferred manufacturing technique for 60% of the connecting rods manufactured in North America. The remaining por...

The need for functionally graded material (FGM) parts has surfaced with the development of material science and additive manufacturing techniques. Direct Metal Deposition (DMD) processes can locally deposit different metallic powders to produce FGM parts. Yet inappropriate mixing of materials without considering the influence of varying dilution rates and the variation of material properties ca...

The present invention relates to a low electronic conductivity polymer composition having well dispersed metal granules, a stable powder made from photosensitive polycrystalline complexes of pyrrole, or its substituted derivatives and silver cations for making the polymer composition, and methods of forming the stable powder and polymer composition, respectively. A polycrystalline complex of si...

We describe a new technique for the synthesis of ultrahomogeneous nanoparticles of precursor oxalate powder by coprecipitation in the aqueous core of a water-in-oil microemulsion for the preparation of Bi-Pb-Sr-Ca-Cu-0 (2223) oxide superconductor. This process ensures a uniform mixing of metal cations down to a scale of at least 10 nm. This finely dispersed precursor powder results in phase pur...

Recently, the use of renewable energies has increased to  environmental pollution, limitation of fossil energy resources and energy security  One of the means that enable us to use such energies is fuel cells (FC). However, there are many problems  in the commercialization of FC from an economically and operation perspective. One of the most important problems is heat management. New heat pipes...

A microwave process can be utilized to stabilize the copper ions in heavy metal sludge. The effects of microwave processing on stabilization of heavy metal sludge were studied as a function of additive, power, process time, reaction atmosphere, cooling gas, organic substance, and temperature. Copper leach resistance increased with addition of aluminum metal powder, with increased microwave powe...

We report a highly efficient water splitting for CO2 reduction into formic acid with a commercially available metal of Fe powder without adding any other catalyst. An excellent formic acid yield of more than 90% was attained.

The introduction of air abrasion (sandblasting) technology to orthodontics may allow reaching optimum bond strength between the metal bracket and resin-modified glass ionomer cement. This study examined the effects of sandblasting metal bracket bases on the in vitro tensile bond strength of a resin-modified glass ionomer cement. Two-hundred foil-mesh based brackets were divided into ten groups ...