Assessing residual stress and high-temperature mechanical performance of laser-welded P91 steel for fusion power plant components by Bin Zhu, Omar Mohamed, Abdalrhaman Koko, Hannah Zhang, Jiří Dluhoš, Yiqiang Wang, Michael Gorley, Mark J. Whiting, Tan Sui

“…Establishing a correlative methodology with microstructures to investigate these stresses and understand their effects on mechanical properties within the narrow HAZ is crucial for extending the reactor's lifetime. …”
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Analyzing the Reproductive Characteristics of the Naked Carp Gymnocypris Przewalskii (Kessler) Based on the Oxygen Isotopes of Otolith Core Using SHRIMP by Ling ZHOU, Linbo QIAN, Sumei ZHAO, Xiulan ZHANG, Yinglie LIU, Qiaoling TANG, Jie YUAN

“…Tatsuya et al.[13] conducted otolith δ18O and microstructure analyses to investigate nursery habitat temperatures and early life growth rates. …”
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On the performance of a viscoelastic constitutive model for micro injection moulding simulations by G. Lucchetta, A. Gava

“…The numerical simulation of the injection moulding process involving microstructures presents several challenges, mainly due to the surface effects that dominate the flow behaviour at the microscale. …”
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Research on Fatigue Damage of Compressor Blade Steel KMN-I Using Nonlinear Ultrasonic Testing by Pengfei Wang, Weiqiang Wang, Jianfeng Li

“…The results showed that the nonlinearity parameter increased first and then decreased with the increase of the fatigue cycles. The microstructures were observed by scanning electron microscopy (SEM). …”
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Effects of Laser Shock Processing on Fatigue Performance of Ti-17 Titanium Alloy by Huang Shuai, Zhu Ying, Guo Wei, Qiao Hongchao, Diao Xungang

“…Ti-17 titanium alloy was treated by laser shock processing (LSP) and the high-frequency fatigue properties were evaluated. The fatigue fracture and the microstructures were observed by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM). …”
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Synthesis and mechanical characterization of hydroxyapatite-based biomaterials reinforced with nickel-titanium-magnesium alloys for use in cortical bone implants by Refugio-García María E., Miranda-Hernández José G., Gallardo-Mendez Marco A., Vázquez-Huerta Gerardo, Rodríguez-García José A., Rocha-Rangel Enrique

“…The behavior of the composites reinforced with 50 and 60 wt.% NiTiMg alloy is similar to that of bovine cortical bone. The microstructures of the biomaterials are fine, homogeneous, and similar to those of bovine cortical bone. …”
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Flow-Induced Shear Stress Combined with Microtopography Inhibits the Differentiation of Neuro-2a Cells by Eleftheria Babaliari, Paraskevi Kavatzikidou, Dionysios Xydias, Sotiris Psilodimitrakopoulos, Anthi Ranella, Emmanuel Stratakis

“…In this study, a precise flow-controlled microfluidic system featuring custom-designed chambers that integrate laser-microstructured polyethylene terephthalate (PET) substrates comprising microgrooves (MGs) was developed to investigate the combined effect of shear stress and topography on Neuro-2a (N2a) cells’ behavior. …”
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Investigation of electrostatically tunable adhesion and instability of flying head slider by Fan Zhang, Yu Wang, Yueqiang Hu, Mingquan Zhang, Baotong Li

“…Abstract The interfacial adhesion between microstructures is inevitable in a micro-electro-mechanical system (e.g., hard disk drive (HDD)), which may lead to complicated microtribodynamics problems. …”
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Development of Soft Wrinkled Micropatterns on the Surface of 3D-Printed Hydrogel-Based Scaffolds via High-Resolution Digital Light Processing by Mauricio A. Sarabia-Vallejos, Scarleth Romero De la Fuente, Nicolás A. Cohn-Inostroza, Claudio A. Terraza, Juan Rodríguez-Hernández, Carmen M. González-Henríquez

“…This enabled the combination of micrometer-sized channels (100–200 microns) with microstructured wrinkled surfaces (1–3 μm wavelength). …”
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Influence of MicroCT Resolution and Segmentation Techniques on Porosity Analysis in Carbonate Rocks by Olga M. O. Araújo, Alessandra Silveira Machado, Cíntia Ferreira, Davi F. Oliveira, Ricardo Tadeu Lopes

“…The resolution is essential due to the necessity to capture important microstructures. Lacustrine carbonate rocks form hydrocarbon accumulations, some of which are contained in oil fields and coquinas are one of the main reservoirs. …”
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Liquid and Gas Corrected Permeability Correlation for Heterogeneous Carbonate Reservoir Rocks by Sadonya Jamal Mustafa, Fraidoon Rashid, Khalid Mahmmud Ismail

“…The porosity and permeability relationships, permeability distribution, pore system and rock microstructures are the dominant factors that influenced on the limitation of these modules for calculating absolute liquid permeability from the klinkenberg-corrected permeability. …”
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Enhanced stability and durability of Cassie-Baxter state in aluminum-based superhydrophobic surfaces fabricated via nanosecond laser ablation by Zhengzheng Xu, Huilin Yin, Yue Jiang, Zhonghao Jiang, Yan Liu, Chun Cheng Yang, Guoyong Wang

“…The results show that surfaces with conical microstructures exhibit the most stable CB state. Additionally, these structures can spontaneously transition from the Wenzel to CB state during icing/melting cycles, maintaining their superhydrophobicity after 15 cycles. …”
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Effect of Reduction Ratio below Austenite Recrystallization Stop Temperature on Mechanical Properties of an API X70M PSL2 Line Pipe Steel by Ramazan Tütük, Eyüp Sabri Kayalı, Mustafa Merih Arıkan

“…Differentreduction ratios were utilized and the effect of reduction ratios on mechanicalproperties and microstructures were investigated during the trials. It wasobserved that final grain size decreased and strength and toughness increasedwith increasing reduction ratio.…”
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Effect of Pyrolysis Temperature on Microwave Heating Properties of Oxidation-Cured Polycarbosilane Powder by Chang-Hun Hwang, Jong-Ha Beak, Sang-In Kim, Se-Yun Kim

“…The maximum temperature of the samples pyrolyzed at 1500 °C was relatively low, but the rate of heating was the highest. The microstructures and crystal structures of the microwaves as a function of the pyrolysis temperature were investigated.…”
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Impact of voxel size on microCT morphometric analysis of the pumpkin toadlet by Caio Sorrentino dos Santos, Olga Oliveira Araujo, Hugo da Costa Romberg Júnior, Tâmara Porfíro Teixeira, Luan Ferreira Bastos, Alessandra Silveira Machado, Davi Ferreira Oliveira, Sérgio Furtado dos Reis, Ricardo Tadeu Lopes

“…X-ray microcomputed tomography is a nondestructive imaging technique which allows the visualization and analysis of internal microstructures of various samples, and has been applied on the study of these animals, enabling thorough description and characterization of new species. …”
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One-step synthesis of Bi/CeVO4/Cu4O3 nanocomposite by hydrothermal method and investigation of its photocatalytic performance in desulfurization of dibenzothiophene by Mohammad Ghodrati, Mehdi Mousavi-Kamazani

“…According to the analysis results, cerium vanadate and copper oxide nanostructures were formed on bismuth microstructures. Then, the photocatalytic performance of the as-synthesized products in the desulfurization of dibenzothiophene was evaluated under visible light irradiation for one hour. …”
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Exploring the Potential of High Value-Added Recycling of Wool Wastes with the Aid of Sustainable Process Design by DOZNTM by Byeolyi Choi, Soyun Jeong, Yaewon Park

“…This study aimed to establish a sustainable framework for the chemical upcycling of wool waste by evaluating previously reported keratin extraction methods based on the DOZN™ sustainability score, material cost efficiency, and keratin yield. …”
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SYNERGY BY MOLYBDENUM AND NIOBIUM ON PERFORMANCE OF COLD WORK TOOL STEELS by Aslan Unal

“…This article examines the application of one conventional and two next-generation CWTS units as punch tools in sheet metal pressing and thread rolling die for screw manufacturing It has been observed that the new-generation CWTS offers a longer lifespan compared to the traditional one. The microstructures were investigated, and the fine and evenly distributed multiple carbide structures that they can form were evaluated using FactSage® thermodynamic software. …”
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Effect of chemical segregation on accuracy of local lattice distortions determination by pair distribution functions by Yao Hu, Sheng Guo, Magnus Hörnqvist Colliander

“…In this study, the effect of chemical segregation on LLD quantification was investigated through fitting simulated two-phase composite PDFs, representing segregated microstructures, with a single-phase model and evaluating the errors to assess the accuracy and reliability of small-box analysis in this context. …”
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Compositional criteria to predict columnar to equiaxed transitions in metal additive manufacturing by Ryan Brooke, Duyao Zhang, Dong Qiu, Mark A. Gibson, Mark Easton

“…Efforts are focused on designing alloy compositions to achieve fully equiaxed microstructures, thereby eliminating the mechanical anisotropy commonly associated with the large columnar grains in additively manufactured alloys. …”
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