Optimization of Coating Process Parameters by Analysis of Target Powder Thickness and Regression Modeling by Tomislav Šolić, Dejan Marić, Ivan Peko, Ivan Samardžić

“…The development of corrosion mechanisms is a major issue that industrial experts are faced with while dealing with all phases of metal exploitation. Damage caused by corrosion affects the increase in both direct and indirect costs of manufacture. …”
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Mechanical properties and deformation mechanisms of the C14 Laves and µ-phase in the ternary Ta-Fe(-Al) system by C. Gasper, E.M. Soysal, N. Ulumuddin, T. Stollenwerk, T. Reclik, P.L. Sun, S. Korte-Kerzel

“…As structural and functional materials, topologically close-packed (TCP) phases of transition metal compounds offer a wide range of attractive properties. …”
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A Power-Efficient Soft-Output Detector for Spatial-Multiplexing MIMO Communications by Hsiao-Chi Wang, Tung-Lin Liu, Yuan-Wei Wu, Hsi-Pin Ma

“…The proposed detector, using TSMC 0.18 μm single-poly six-metal CMOS process with a core area of 1.17×1.17 mm2, provides fixed throughput of 45 Mbps in 64-QAM configuration, 120 Mbps in 16-QAM configuration, and 60 Mbps in QPSK configuration. …”
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Enhancing surface properties of Ti via pulsed laser ablation in H2O2: Formation of stable TiO2-B structure with improved corrosion and wear resistance by Ensiye Shabanlou, Babak Jaleh, Maryam Molaei, Mohammad Kashfi, Saeid Azizian, Arash Fattah-Alhosseini, Kyong Yop Rhee

“…In this study, a simple, environmentally friendly, controllable, and cost-effective pulsed laser ablation (PLA) method was applied to form the titanium dioxide (TiO2) ceramic structure on the surface of Ti metal. For the first time, hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) was used as an irradiation environment to modify the surface properties of Ti. …”
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Spindle-shaped efficient adsorbent NiCo2O4/MIL-53(Fe) for the removal of Congo red: Design, synthesis and performance studies by Bai Sun, Taoyou Zhou, Angang Hu, Yuxian Guo, Yun Wang, Lining Bao, Hao Huang, Mingjian Yi, Shuguang Zhu, Lingtao Kong

“…It provides an extensive research on the adsorption mechanism of CR, emphasizing the importance of electrostatic interactions, hydrogen bonding, metal coordination and ion exchange processes. In summary, NiCo2O4/MIL-53 (Fe) adsorbent has potential application prospects.…”
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Electrochemical insights into the direct dissolution of impure sphalerites and their partial oxidation in an acidic environment by Gholamreza Khodadadmahmoudi, Saeid Karimi, Hadi Abdollahi, Milad Karimi, Ali Rezaei, Lana Alagha

“…Analyses using XRD, SEM, Raman spectroscopy, and electrochemical techniques suggested presence of elemental sulfur and a metal-deficient layer on the surface of the POS samples. …”
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Fracture of the Femoral Component Caused by Insufficient Crimping after Modern Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty by Yoichi Ishibashi, Tasuku Mashiba, Masaki Mori, Tetsuji Yamamoto

“…Although this is not the first case on this subject, no study has reported insufficient crimping as the cause of femoral component loosening that led to breakage of a metallic component. A 69-year-old man underwent medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty for right medial knee osteoarthritis. …”
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Easy Direct Functionalization of 2D MoS2 Applied in Covalent Hybrids with PANI as Dual Blend Supercapacitive Materials by Matteo Crisci, Felix Boll, Sara Domenici, Jaime Gallego, Bernd Smarsly, Mengjiao Wang, Francesco Lamberti, Andrea Rubino, Teresa Gatti

“…To address this challenge, scientists persistently explore new compounds and hybrids and, in such a dynamic research field, 2D materials, particularly transition metal di‐chalcogenides (TMDCs), show great potential for electrochemical energy storage uses. …”
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Effect of Mean Stress on the Fatigue Life Prediction of Notched Fiber-Reinforced 2060 Al-Li Alloy Laminates under Spectrum Loading by Weiying Meng, Liyang Xie, Yu Zhang, Yawen Wang, Xiaofang Sun, Shijian Zhang

“…The results show that the simple Goodman model and piecewise linear model have certain advantages compared to other complex models for the life prediction of notched fiber metal laminates with different structures under Mini-Twist loading. …”
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Influence of cobalt substitution in CoFe2O4 nanoparticles on structural, morphological, cation distribution, optical and magnetic properties by Z. Mosleh, M. Beygmohammadvand, A. Ghotbi Varzaneh, P. Kameli

“…This paper presents the first-time synthesis of CoFe2−xCoxO4 nanoparticles (where x = 0.0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, 0.5, and 0.6) through hydrothermal methods utilizing metal chloride precursors. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis confirms the formation of a cubic spinel structure characterized by the Fd3¯m space group. …”
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Large-scale database analysis of anomalous thermal conductivity of quasicrystals and its application to thermal diodes by Takashi Kurono, Jinjia Zhang, Yasushi Kamimura, Keiichi Edagawa

“…In fact, several quasicrystals ranked nearly first among more than 10,000 samples of various materials (metallic alloys, semiconductors, ceramics, etc.) in terms of the magnitude of the positive temperature coefficient of thermal conductivity. …”
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Vertical Profiles and Chemical Properties of Aerosol Particles upon Ny-Ålesund (Svalbard Islands) by B. Moroni, S. Becagli, E. Bolzacchini, M. Busetto, D. Cappelletti, S. Crocchianti, L. Ferrero, D. Frosini, C. Lanconelli, A. Lupi, M. Maturilli, M. Mazzola, M. G. Perrone, G. Sangiorgi, R. Traversi, R. Udisti, A. Viola, V. Vitale

“…Differences in the particle size and shape are put into relationship with the mechanism of particle formation, that is, primary (well sorted, small) or secondary (idiomorphic, fine to coarse grained) origin for chloride and sulfate crystals and transport/settling for soil (silicate, carbonate and metal oxide) particles. The influence of size, shape, and mixing state of particles on ice nucleation and radiative properties is also discussed.…”
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Chemical Separation on Silver Nanorods Surface Monitored by TOF-SIMS by Ondrej Petruš, Andrej Oriňak, Renáta Oriňaková, Christian Muhmann, Ján Macko, Radim Hrdý, Jaromír Hubálek, Branislav Erdelyi, Heinrich F. Arlinghaus

“…The article introduces a possible chemical separation of a mixture of two compounds on the metal nanorods surface. A silver nanorods surface has been prepared by controlled electrochemical deposition in anodic alumina oxide (AAO) template. …”
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Melt quality induced failure of electrical conductor (EC) grade aluminum wires by Khaliq A., Rafiq M.A., Ali H.T., Ahmed F., Mehmood S., Grandfielde J., Ranjha S.A.

“…The typical inclusions observed were Al2O3, Al3C4 (Al-Carbide) and oxides of refractories elements (Al, Mg, Si and O) that have particle size ranging up to 5 μm. The transition metal boride particles were not identified during SEM/EDX analyses these might be too fine to be detected with this microscope. …”
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Research Thermal Fields in the Crystallization Process of Steel Cast Parts by Rostyslav Liutyi, Ivan Petryk, Volodymyr Mogylatenko, Vasyl Popovych, Halyna Shatska

“…In foundry production, the duration of metal crystallization of the cast part, as well as the distribution of the thermal field, are described by systems of analytical equations. …”
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Multifunctional drug delivery nanoparticles for combined chemotherapy/chemodynamic/photothermal therapy against colorectal cancer through synergistic cuproptosis/ferroptosis/apopto... by Xiuzhang Yan, Heshi Liu, Lei Guo, Chang Liu, Shichen Zhang, Xue Wang, Yixin Tang, Rui Zhou, Xin Jiang, Erlei Wang, Shuohui Gao, Caina Xu

“…To this end, we developed a multifunctional intelligent drug-carrying nanoparticle (DFMTCH NPs) based on the metal-organic framework MIL-100, loaded with doxorubicin (DOX) and disulfiram (DSF), coated with a Cu-tannic acid (Cu-TA) network and hyaluronic acid (HA), for the purpose of combined chemotherapy/chemodynamic/photothermal anti-cancer therapy. …”
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Effect of Welding Sequence and Constraint on the Residual Stress and Deformation of Thick Welded Butt Joint Made of Q345qD Steel by Yi Zhang, Wenxue Su, Hua Dong, Tao Li, Hongyou Cao

“…In this paper, the residual stress and deformation of 32 mm thick welded butt joints made of Q345qD steel using gas metal arc welding (GMAW) are studied by using the thermoelastic-plastic finite element analysis (FEA). …”
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Preparation of NiCr/YSZ two-layered burn-resistant coating on γ-TiAl alloys based on plasma surface metallurgy and ion plating methods by Wei D.-B., Li M.-F., Zhou X., Li F.-K., Li S.-Q., Zhang P.-Z.

“…The thermal shock test indicated that the composite structure had superior bonding strength and the defects such as metal droplets on the ceramic coating were the source of cracks. …”
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Effects of the manufacturing process on fracture behaviour of cast TiAl intermetallic alloys by A. Brotzu, F. Felli, D. Pilone

“…Tests carried out on several samples characterised by different alloy compositions highlighted that solidification shrinkage and solid metal contraction during cooling produce the development of relevant residual stresses that are sufficient to fracture the castings during cooling or to produce a delayed fracture. …”
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Coupling cobalt single-atom catalyst with recyclable LiBr redox mediator enables stable LiOH-based Li-O2 batteries by Kang Huang, Zhixiu Lu, Shilong Dai, Chunyu Cui, Nam Dong Kim, Huilong Fei

“…Significantly, the soluble Br−‬‬‬‬‬ is recyclable in the system as the BrO− intermediate‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬ could shuttle to the anode and react with Li metal to regenerate Br−‬‬‬‬‬ ‬‬so that the generation of LiBrO3 deposit is circumvented‬‬‬‬‬‬‬‬. …”
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