Preparation and Property Study of PA56/POE-g-MAH-GMA/PPO Ternary Alloy by Yunsheng Chong, Liyan Wang, Xiangming Xu, Xiao Zhuang, Rongrong Zheng, Di Cao, Yanming Chen

“…PA56 is a continuous sea phase, and the island phase assumes the “core–shell structure,” the etched POE-g-MAH-GMA particles are as the nucleus, and PPO are as the shell. …”
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Direct Midline Diastema Closure with Composite Layering Technique: A One-Year Follow-Up by Bora Korkut, Funda Yanikoglu, Dilek Tagtekin

“…In this case report a maxillary midline diastema was closed with direct composite resin restorations in one appointment without any preparation. One bottle total etch adhesive was used and translucent/opaque composite resin shades were layered on mesial surfaces of the teeth that were isolated with rubber dam and Teflon bands. …”
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Controlled Capture of Magnetic Nanoparticles from Microfluidic Flows by Ferromagnetic Antidot and Dot Nanostructures by Reyne Dowling, Mikhail Kostylev

“…In this paper, we demonstrate the capture of magnetic nanoparticles from a microfluidic flow by four variants of antidot array nanostructures etched into 30 nm thick Permalloy films. The nanostructures were exposed to 130 nm MNP clusters passing through microfluidic channels with square cross-sections of 400 μm × 400 μm. …”
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A Wideband Circularly Polarized Dielectric Resonator Antenna Using Inverse f-Shaped Slot Excitation with Parasitic Metal Structure by Zizu Chen, Guoliang Yu, Di Wu, Mingmin Zhu, Yang Qiu, Hao-Miao Zhou

“…The GND of the substrate is etched with an inverse f-shaped slot. The orthogonal working mode of the DRA is excited by the inverse f-shaped slot coupled to the microstrip, thereby obtaining circularly polarized radiation. …”
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Fractal-Shaped Metamaterials and Applications to Enhanced-Performance Devices Exhibiting High Selectivity by He-Xiu Xu, Guang-Ming Wang, Chen-Xin Zhang

“…They consist of a host TL in the conductor strip and a fractal-shaped complementary ring resonator (CRR) etched in the ground plane. Two types of fractal-shaped CRR are involved including the Moore and Hilbert. …”
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Randomized Clinical Trial of a Self-Adhering Flowable Composite for Class I Restorations: 2-Year Results by J. Sabbagh, S. Dagher, N. El Osta, P. Souhaid

“…To compare the clinical performances of a self-adhering resin composite and a conventional flowable composite with a self-etch bonding system on permanent molars. The influence of using rubber dam versus cotton roll isolation was also investigated. …”
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Exposure Due to Indoor Radon in Bulgarian Schools by Kremena Ivanova, Nina Chobanova, Bistra Kunovska, Jana Djounova, Zdenka Stojanovska

“…The survey was carried out with passive CR-39 etched track detectors. Radon concentrations ranged from 17 to 868 Bq m−3, with a geometric mean of 117 Bq m−3 and a geometric standard deviation of 1.78. …”
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A Reconfigurable Triple-Notch-Band Antenna Integrated with Defected Microstrip Structure Band-Stop Filter for Ultra-Wideband Cognitive Radio Applications by Yingsong Li, Wenxing Li, Qiubo Ye

“…The triple narrow band-notched frequencies are obtained using a defected microstrip structure (DMS) band stop filter (BSF) embedded in the microstrip feed line and an inverted π-shaped slot etched in the rectangular radiation patch, respectively. …”
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Large (Ti, V) Carbonitride in Nonquenched and Tempered Steel 38MnVS6 by You Xie, Xiaoling Meng, Xiangyang Deng, Shichao Li

“…The large (Ti, V) carbonitrides have irregular morphologies, and some even have an obviously extending shape along the dendrite boundary. 3D morphologies of the large (Ti, V) carbonitride after being etched by AA solution present obvious long and flake shapes. …”
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Photoetching of Immobilized TiO2-ENR50-PVC Composite for Improved Photocatalytic Activity by M. A. Nawi, Y. S. Ngoh, S. M. Zain

“…More than 98% of MB removal was consistently achieved for 10 repeated runs of the photo-etched photocatalyst system. About 93% of the 20 mg L−1 MB was mineralized over a period of 480 min. …”
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Enhancing Hajj pilgrimage experience and crowd management through Hajj-related keywords-based chipless RFID tags by H. Rmili, J. Yousaf, O. Boularess, M. Noman, B. Hakim, M. Aseeri, M. Bensaleh, F.A. Tahir

“…Inconspicuous, cost-effective, durable, and lightweight chipless RFID tags encoded with famous Hajj keywords of “Al-Ṣafa”, “Al-Marwa”, ''Al-Tawaf, “Bidayat Al Sai”, and “Bidayat Al Tawaf” are designed and fabricated. Each keyword is etched using cooper material on the flexible Kapton substrate of 66 mm× 66 mm x 0.1 mm size. …”
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Ka-Band Slot-Microstrip-Covered and Waveguide-Cavity-Backed Monopulse Antenna Array by Li-Ming Si, Yong Liu, Yongjun Huang, Weiren Zhu

“…The 2×32 slot-microstrip elements are formed by a metal clad dielectric substrate and slots etched in the metal using the standard printed circuit board (PCB) process with dimensions of 230 mm  ×  10 mm. …”
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Performance Analysis of MIMO Antenna Design with High Isolation Techniques for 5 G Wireless Systems by Suverna Sengar, Praveen Kumar Malik, Puneet Chandra Srivastava, Kiran Srivastava, Anita Gehlot

“…The design includes a rectangular patch with semicircles at the ends and dual slots etched from it. A partial ground plane is integrated into the antenna to achieve an operating frequency range from 22 to 29 GHz, centered at 24 GHz. …”
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Transparent Low-Profile and Wideband ITO-Glass Microwave Absorber by Ahmed Hosameldin Khadrawy, Ahmed Abdelmottaleb Omar

“…The design is constructed from three layers of glass substrate with etched ITO with different sheet resistance on each layer. …”
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Study on Mechanism of Viscoelastic Polymer Transient Flow in Porous Media by Huiying Zhong, Weidong Zhang, Hongjun Yin, Haoyang Liu

“…In this study, we establish physical models that include the dead-end and complex models based on the pore-network pattern etched into glass, using the snappyHexMesh solver in OpenFOAM. …”
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Multi-Band mm-Wave Wearable Antenna Synthesized with a Genetic Algorithm by Arebu Dejen, Murad Ridwan, Jeevani Jayasinghe, Jaume Anguera

“…The reference patch antenna was etched on a flexible polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) fabric substrate with an overall dimension of 18 mm × 18 mm × 0.6 mm and optimized the patch geometry using a binary-coded genetic algorithm. …”
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Early Healing Events around Titanium Implant Devices with Different Surface Microtopography: A Pilot Study in an In Vivo Rabbit Model by Ester Orsini, Stefano Salgarello, Désirée Martini, Beatrice Bacchelli, Marilisa Quaranta, Luciano Pisoni, Emma Bellei, Monika Joechler, Vittoria Ottani

“…In the present pilot study, the authors morphologically investigated sandblasted, acid-etched surfaces (SLA) at very early experimental times. …”
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Evaluation of Gingival Microleakage in Class II Composite Restorations with Different Lining Techniques: An In Vitro Study by Vedavathi Bore Gowda, B. V. Sreenivasa Murthy, Swaroop Hegde, Swapna Devarasanahalli Venkataramanaswamy, Veena Suresh Pai, Rashmi Krishna

“…The cavity preparations were etched, rinsed, blot dried, and light cured and Adper Single Bond 2 is applied. …”
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In Vitro Ability of a Novel Nanohydroxyapatite Oral Rinse to Occlude Dentine Tubules by Robert G. Hill, Xiaohui Chen, David G. Gillam

“…The dentine discs (n=25) were etched with 6% citric acid for 2 minutes and rinsed with distilled water, prior to a 30-second application of test and control oral rinses. …”
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In Vitro Evaluation of the Effect of Different Luting Cements and Tooth Preparation Angle on the Microleakage of Zirconia Crowns by Behnaz Ebadian, Amirhossein Fathi, Melika Savoj

“…Within the limitations of this study, increasing the tapering degree of the prepared tooth for CAD/CAM zirconia copings improved the marginal fit and decreased the microleakage score. In addition, total-etch resin cement indicated the least microleakage.…”
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