Water in dormant peach (Prunus persica [L.] Batsch. var. ;Harbrite') flower buds deep supercooled. Both supercooling and the freezing of water within the bud axis and primordium as distinct components depended on the viability of the bud axis tissue. The viability of the primordium was not critical. Supercooling was prevented by wounding buds with a dissecting needle, indicating that bud struct...

A finite element method is used here to simulate the temperature field, the thermosolutal convection, the solute segregation, and the non-isothermal phase transformation during the growth of ZnTe crystal via the temperature gradient solution growth technique (TGSG) with an accelerated crucible rotation technique (ACRT). Three different trapezoid-wave ACRT sequences are proposed, and their effec...

Oviposition by northern corn rootworms, Diabrotica barberi Smith and Lawrence, and western corn rootworms, Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae), key pests of corn in the Great Plains of the USA, occurs in the soil during late summer. Overwintering eggs are exposed to variable soil moisture and temperatures below − 5 ° C. The winter mortality of eggs in the soil is ...

Traditionally studies of cold tolerance in insects have focused on seasonal adaptations related to overwintering that are observed after weeks or months of exposure to low temperature. In contrast, an extremely rapid cold-hardening response was observed in nonoverwintering stages that confers protection against injury due to cold shock at temperatures above the supercooling point. This response...

Spatio-temporal growth of isotactic polystyrene single crystals during isothermal crystallization has been investigated theoretically based on the phase field model by solving temporal evolution of a nonconserved phase order parameter coupled with a heat conduction equation. In the description of the total free energy, an asymmetric double-well local free energy density has been adopted to repr...

Cold hardiness of leaf blades, leaf sheaths, culms, rhizomes, and leaf buds in wintering Sasa senanensis (Fr. et Sav.) Rehder, a dwarf bamboo, was studied paying special attention to the types of resistance mechanisms which were determined with differential thermal analysis. Coincidence of LT(25) (lethal temperature at which 25% of the tissues are injured) with the initiation temperature of LTE...

A physical method is proposed that uses a cooling plate with many small holes to prevent initial supercooling in progressive freeze-concentration, and thus avoid serious contamination of the ice produced. The higher chance for ice nucleation of the water molecules in the holes due to the temperature gradient in the cooling plate resulted in the initial supercooling being completely prevented. A...

Magnesium chloride hexahydrate and magnesium nitrate were tested for their thermal energy storage in a mixture with carbon materials. The graphite, graphene zeolite-templated replicas used as nucleating agent to supress supercooling. addition of any type into did not lead decrease the supercooling significant enthalpy fusion crystallisation was observed. mixtures after cycling apparently wet, i...