size reduction of high energy materials such as 1, 3, 5, 7-tetranitro- 1, 3, 5, 7-tetraaza cyclooctane (hmx) has considerable influences on improving their explosive characteristics. in this study, nanosized hmx par­ticles were produced using ultrasonically reprecipitation method by applying water as a safe and accessible antisolvent instead of unsafe conventional methods. sem photographs revea...

Size reduction of high energy materials such as 1, 3, 5, 7-tetranitro- 1, 3, 5, 7-tetraaza cyclooctane (HMX) has considerable influences on improving their explosive characteristics. In this study, nanosized HMX par‌ticles were produced using ultrasonically reprecipitation method by applying water as a safe and accessible antisolvent instead of unsafe conventional methods. SEM photographs revea...

Surface carbonate sediments from sites on the Bahamas Bank with different seagrass densities were incubated across a range of O2 delivery rates, to study the controls on metabolic carbonate dissolution in these sediments. The results confirmed the 1:1 ratio between the rates of O2 consumption and carbonate dissolution, demonstrating that microbial respiration was the ratelimiting step in metabo...

Ultrasonically induced microstreaming around bubbles of gas have been shown to cause damage to biological materials in vitro at clinical exposure levels. The potential for ultrasonically induced cavitation and microstreaming in mammalian systems is of interest with respect to the safe application of clinical ultrasound. Ultrasonically induced intravascular microstreaming and formation of thromb...

In turbid media such as biological tissue, multiple scattering hinders direct light focusing at depths beyond one transport mean free path. As a solution to this problem, time-reversed ultrasonically encoded (TRUE) optical focusing is proposed based on ultrasonic encoding of diffused laser light and optical time reversal. In TRUE focusing, a laser beam of long coherence length illuminates a tur...

Using two complimentary approaches (pore water advection/diffusion/ reaction modeling and stable isotope mass balance calculations) we show that carbonate dissolution/reprecipitation occurs on early diagenetic time scales across a broad range of sediments on the Great Bahamas Bank. The input of oxygen into the sediments, which strongly controls sediment carbonate dissolution, has two major sour...

Ultrasonically nebulized distilled water-induced bronchoconstriction (UNDW-IB) is specific to asthma. The mechanisms underlying UNDW-IB are not fully understood, and no reproducible animal model has been reported. The purpose of this study was to develop a guinea-pig model of UNDW-IB. Ultrasonically nebulized distilled water (UNDW) was inhaled 20 min after an aerosolized antigen challenge in pa...

Nanoparticles of a novel organic zwitterionic Meisenheimer complex, N',N' ',N' ''-tri(isopropyl)-4-oxo-6-(isopropyliminio)-2-s-(2H)triazinespiro-1'-2',4',6'-trinitrocyclohexadienylide, were synthesized by reprecipitation in water under different conditions. While reprecipitation alone resulted in a suspension of amorphous particles that fell out of solution within hours, sonication for differen...