Photoresponsive Wettability in Monolayer Films from Sinapinic Acid by Cleverson A. S. Moura, Douglas J. C. Gomes, Nara C. de Souza, Josmary R. Silva

“…Adsorption kinetics curves were well fitted by a biexponential function suggesting that the adsorption process is determined by two mechanisms: nucleation and growth of aggregates. By using wetting contact angle analysis, we have found that SinA monolayers exhibit photoresponsive wettability under UV irradiation (365 nm); that is, wettability decreases with increasing UV irradiation time. …”
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Size Effects in Residual Stress Formation during Quenching of Cylinders Made of Hot-Work Tool Steel by Manuel Schemmel, Petri Prevedel, Ronald Schöngrundner, Werner Ecker, Thomas Antretter

“…For an appropriate description of the phase transformation behaviour nucleation and growth of bainite are taken into account. …”
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Effect of Quinacridone Pigments on Properties and Morphology of Injection Molded Isotactic Polypropylene by Mateusz Barczewski, Danuta Matykiewicz, Bartłomiej Hoffmann

“…Differences between polypropylene samples nucleated by two pigments may be attributed to different heterogeneous nucleation behavior dependent on pigment type. …”
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Structural Damage Detection Using Energy Flow Models by E.R.O. Santos, V.S. Pereira, J.R.F. Arruda, J.M.C. Dos Santos

“…Experimental tests have revealed that crack nucleation and growth increase structural damping which makes this phenomenon useful as a damage locator. …”
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Sonoelectrochemical Synthesis of Antibacterial Active Silver Nanoparticles in Rhamnolipid Solution by Mariana Shepida, Orest Kuntyi, Martyn Sozanskyi, Yuriy Sukhatskiy

“…It is shown that the algorithm of anodic dissolution—reduction of Ag(I)—nucleation, and formation of AgNPs makes it possible to obtain nanoparticles with the size from 1 nm to 3 nm. …”
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Stress tunable spin dynamics of a magnetic vortex under resonant magnetic fields by Xun Rao, Lele Peng, Weichao Yan, Yun Shen, Xiaohua Deng, Guohong Dai

“…Our primary objectives were to elucidate the nucleation process of a magnetic vortex and explore the modulatory effects of mechanical stress on its behavior. …”
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Characterisation and Properties of Lithium Disilicate Glass Ceramics in the SiO2-Li2O-K2O-Al2O3 System for Dental Applications by Naruporn Monmaturapoj, Pornchanok Lawita, Witoon Thepsuwan

“…The results found that P2O5 and CaF2 served as a nucleating site for lithium phosphate and fluorapatite to encourage heterogenous nucleation and produce a fine-grained interlocking microstructure of lithium disilicate glass ceramics. …”
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Thermally activated fluorescence in 9,10-DPA single crystals enabling high-performance fast neutron detection by Yingming Wang, Lingyan Xu, Lu Liang, Zhentao Qin, Zhuochen Cai, Kaifu Zhang, Chongqi Liu, Lixiang Lian, Wei Zheng, Yanyan Lei, Qinzeng Hu, Binbin Zhang, Tao Wang, Wanqi Jie

“…The two-dimensional nucleation growth mechanism of DPA was revealed by detailed analysis of the microstructure of the crystal surface. …”
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Investigation to Improve the Pool Boiling Heat Transfer Characteristics Using Laser-Textured Copper-Grooved Surfaces by Dharmendra Mani, Suresh Sivan, Hafiz Muhammad Ali, Udaya Kumar Ganesan

“…In addition to the microchannel effect, the grain structuring during the laser machining process creates additional nucleation sites which has proven its effectiveness in improving the pool boiling performance. …”
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A study of the effect of Mn on the precipitation and phase transition of nanoscale Cu-rich phase in Fe–Cu alloys by phase-field method by Mingguang Wei, Tongguang Zhai, Yong Xu, Yingming Tu, Haisheng Han

“…The increase in Mn content in the alloy promoted the nucleation of the Cu-rich phase, resulting in an increase in the number density and volume fraction of the Cu-rich precipitates, while inhibiting the growth and coarsening of the Cu-rich phase. …”
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Structural Characterizations of Palladium Clusters Prepared by Polyol Reduction of [PdCl4]2− Ions by Loredana Schiavo, Lucrezia Aversa, Roberta Tatti, Roberto Verucchi, Gianfranco Carotenuto

“…The stabilizer performs the important role of nucleating agent for the Pd atoms with a fast phase separation, since palladium atoms coordinated to the polymer side-groups are forced at short distances during nucleation. …”
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Zincophilic CuO as electron sponge to facilitate dendrite-free zinc-based flow battery by Jin Seong Cha, Sanghyeon Park, Noh-Uk Seo, Yun-Chan Kang, Chan-Woo Lee, Jung Hoon Yang

“…Strong electronic redistribution between Zn and CuO explains the high Zn affinity on CuO, with negligible nucleation overpotential. Additionally, CuO exhibits remarkable electron-accepting and -donating capabilities in electron-rich and electron-deficient environments, resembling a sponge. …”
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Experimental Study of Dynamic Mechanics Characteristics of Saturated Marble under Low Temperature by Yang Yang, Jianguo Wang

“…According to fracture morphology analysis, water-ice phase transformation at −5°C leads to the nucleation and expansion of a large number of microcracks and micropores in marble, and the interaction between slip separation cracks and microstructures caused by shear deformation under impact separates the massive crystals inside the rock into microscopic crystals, thus reducing the bearing capacity and strength of marble. …”
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Controlled Oxidation of Metallic Molybdenum Patterns via Joule Heating for Localized MoS₂ Growth by Norah Aldosari, William Poston, Gregory Jensen, Maryam Bizhani, Muhammad Tariq, Eric Stinaff

“…These oxides act as nucleation sites for the subsequent growth of MoS₂. …”
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Effects of pre-deformation on microstructure evolution and hemming performance for Al-Mg-Si-Cu alloys by Yaoyao Weng, Ruiming Li, Luoxiao Zheng, Ruixin Zhao, Yangxin Zhou, Jiahao Chen, Lipeng Ding

“…The shearing action within the slip zone results in the fragmentation of Fe-intermetallic particles, which in turn promotes the nucleation of microscopic pores in the surrounding matrix. …”
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Mechanical and Structural Properties of Fluorine-Ion-Implanted Boron Suboxide by Ronald Machaka, Bonex W. Mwakikunga, Elayaperumal Manikandan, Trevor E. Derry, Iakovos Sigalas, Mathias Herrmann

“…Evidence of ion-beam-assisted nucleation of novel clustered BxOyFz particles by ion implantation is revealed. …”
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Enhancing performance of recycled aggregate concrete with supplementary cementitious materials by Abba Fatiha, Ezziane Karim, Adjoudj Mhamed, Abed Farid

“…The results reveal that SCM significantly improves the performance of RAC concrete by promoting filling effects, nucleation, pozzolanic reactions and hydraulic activity. …”
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CFD Modeling of Wall Steam Condensation: Two-Phase Flow Approach versus Homogeneous Flow Approach by S. Mimouni, N. Mechitoua, A. Foissac, M. Hassanaly, M. Ouraou

“…The model implemented in NEPTUNE_CFD assumes that liquid droplets form along the wall within nucleation sites. Vapor condensation on droplets makes them grow. …”
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Effect of Ti addition and cast part size on solidification structure and mechanical properties of medium carbon, low alloy cast steel by Nicolás Emanuel Tenaglia, Diego Fernandino, Alejandro Daniel Basso

“…Ti nitrides and carbides particles act as nucleation sites for the precipitation of ferrite from austenite, and it was found that the addition of Ti in the higher concentrations refines the solidification macrostructure (dendritic pattern) for both cast part sizes evaluated. …”
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Effects of single- and multi-energies ion irradiations on clustering in an Fe–Mn–Ni–Si alloy by Yang Kong, Yue Sun, Shenbao Jin, Gang Sha

“…Subsequent low-energy irradiation promotes the nucleation of new small clusters at sites where large clusters dissolved, with these new clusters exhibiting a similar composition to the original ones. …”
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