Salt hydrates have been used as phase change materials (PCMs) for various types of Thermal Energy Storage (TES) especially cold storage. In this project, a novel composite material (PCM) consisted mixed solution inorganic salt and organic was developed characterized. Firstly, the PCM solutions containing sodium formate, potassium chloride water with weight percentage were evaluated to understan...

Bimetallic Ag/Au core/shell nano-particles (NPs) have been prepared via the chemical reduction in aqueous solution, with use of seed growth approach. Silver nanoparticles were synthesis as seeds, utilized nucleating agent for anisotropic related to gold colloids. The different volume seeds has added solution that contains chloride, Nanoparticles begin grow. average size 30 nm and spherical shap...

The morphology and miscibility of commercial poly(lactide) (PLA)/poly(b-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB, from 5 to 20 wt %) blends prepared by melt extrusion method, were investigated using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) observations. The results show that for all the studied blend contents, PLA/PHB blends are immiscible. The effects of PHB and ...

Juveniles of five species of nematodes, Caenorhabditis elegans, Panagrellus redivivus, Pratylenchus agilis, Pristionchus pacificus, and Distolabrellus veechi, were added to solutions with (treatment) and without (control) a commercial ice-nucleating activity (INA) agent. Ten-microliter droplets of the solutions containing the juveniles were placed on glass microscope slides and transferred to a...

Pixie dust may be the stuff of fanciful fiction, but for scientists at UC Santa Barbara?s Department of Materials [1], a commonly used sugar-based additive has been found to have properties that are near magical. By adding minute amounts of it during the fabrication of organic semiconductors, they have been able to dramatically increase yield and control crystallization, which could, in the nea...