Porous NiTi alloys were prepared by microwave sintering using ammonium hydrogen carbonate (NH4HCO3) as the space holder agent to adjust the porosity in the range of 22-62%. The effects of porosities on the microstructure, hardness, compressive strength, bending strength, elastic modulus, phase transformation temperature and superelasticity of the porous NiTi alloys were investigated. The result...

University of Geneva, Departments of Physics and Mathematics, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland University of Jyväskylä, Department of Mathematics, P.O. Box 35, FIN-40351 Jyväskylä, Finland [email protected], [email protected], and [email protected] Abstract. We introduce a concept of porosity for measures and study relations between dimensions and porosities for two classes of measure...

Sinusoidal endothelial cell (SEC) porosities were compared between the periportal (zone 1) and pericentral (zone 3) regions of the rat liver during regeneration following partial hepatectomy (PHx). SEC porosities and fenestration diameters were measured in control livers, as well as at 5 minutes, 24, 48, 72, 96, 120 hours, and 14 days following PHx. Bimodal maximums in both porosity and fenestr...

The problem of voids and porosity has long plagued the dental technician. Many times an otherwise acceptable casting has had to be discarded because voids or porosities have developed within the casting. Because of numerous variables a technician often does not know the cause of the casting failure. Many investigators have studied variables that may affect the occurrence of voids and porosities...

PURPOSE To quantify the internal free surface in various resin cements and glass-ionomer-based materials. MATERIALS AND METHODS Materials tested were Nexus fluid (NXF) and viscous (NXV), Vitremer (VTM), Fuji II LC (FII), Vitremer Luting Cement (VLC), Dyract (DYR) and Compoglass (COM). Samples (n=5) were made of each material between two microscopic glass slides under same weight. With a trans...

Synthetic colloidal spheres play a central role in applications as diverse as catalysis, medical diagnostics, and photonics. Even as many applications advance toward single-sphere implementations, methods for characterizing colloidal spheres typically offer only sampleaveraged overviews of such properties as spheres’ sizes and porosities. Moreover, such characterization methods as mercury adsor...