The primary objective of this study was to fabricate a TiO2 nanotubular surface, which could maintain hydrophilicity over time (resist aging). In order to achieve non-aging hydrophilic surfaces, anodization and annealing conditions were optimized. This is the first study to show that anodization and annealing condition affect the stability of surface hydrophilicity. Our results indicate that ma...

an ultrafine grained dual phase (ufg dp) steel containing niobium was produced by a new routeutilizing simple cold-rolling and subsequent intercritical annealing of ferrite/martensite duplex startingstructures. the effects of intercritical holding time on the microstructural evolutions and mechanicalproperties were studied. the results showed that increasing intercritical holding time enhnaced ...

We describe a method to control the shape of nanoholes in GaAs (001) which combines the technique of local droplet etching using Ga droplets with long-time thermal annealing. The cone-like shape of inverted nanoholes formed by droplet etching is transformed during long-time annealing into widened holes with flat bottoms and reduced depth. This is qualitatively understood using a simplified mode...

In this work, nanocrystalline Fe85Si10Ni5 soft magnetic powders were prepared by mechanical alloying and subsequent annealing to reduce the internal stresses and lattice strains. The powders were mixed with phenolic resin and warm pressed to produce nanostructured soft magnetic composites. The effect of annealing time and temperature on the crystalline structure, microstructure and magnetic pro...

The simulated annealing was perceived as a useful method for many intractable problems. However, it needs additional strategies to cope with time complexity due to an initial state and search space reduction. In this work, we suggested an efficient transition rule and applied it to a nurse scheduling problem. It uses a cost matrix to reduce a set of candidates, which results in performance impr...

Hfq is a key regulator involved in multiple aspects of stress tolerance and virulence of bacteria. There has been an intriguing question as to how this RNA chaperone achieves two completely opposite functions--annealing and unwinding--for different RNA substrates. To address this question, we studied the Hfq-mediated interaction of fragments of a non-coding RNA, DsrA, with its mRNA target rpoS ...

12 schedules may be viewed as trading oo between reachability among solutions (high T) and a bias to lower-cost solutions (low T). The WYA criterion forces the low-cost bias to dominate at the end of the run, while the BSF criterion may allow reachability to take precedence. It is therefore not surprising that BSF-optimal schedules may actually be \warming" even at the end of the annealing exec...

this paper provides an overview on obtaining low-carbon ultra-fine grained dual-phase steels through rapid intercritical annealing of cold-rolled sheet as improved materials for automotive applications. a laboratory processing route was designed that involves cold-rolling of a tempered martensite structure followed by a second tempering step to produce a fine grained aggregate of ferrite and ca...

Mapping of applications on a Multiprocessor System-on-Chip (MP-SoC) is a crucial step to optimize performance, energy and memory constraints at the same time. The problem is formulated as finding solutions to a cost function of the algorithm performing mapping and scheduling under strict constraints. Our solution is based on simultaneous optimization of execution time and memory consumption whe...