Modelling Gas Transport in Multiphasic Materials: Application to Semicrystalline Membranes by Lorenzo Merlonghi, Marco Giacinti Baschetti, Maria Grazia De Angelis

“…The flux reduction across the microstructures generated due to the presence of impermeable crystals was calculated by solving local mass balance through a finite volume method. …”
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Experimental study of urea-catalyzed microbial solution-based curing of fissured loess soil by Chaofan Pan, Chen Zhang, Tuo Ji

“…Microbial-induced calcium carbonate precipitation (MICP), as a green solidification method, is widely used in soil remediation. Microstructural changes in crack-free loess after solidification were analyzed using a scanning electron microscope, and the optimal grouting scheme of microbial solution catalyzed by urea was determined. …”
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Prediction of Continuous Cooling Diagrams for the Precision Forged Tempering Steel 50CrMo4 by Means of Artificial Neural Networks by Florian Nürnberger, Mirko Schaper, Friedrich-Wilhelm Bach, Iryna Mozgova, Kostjantyn Kuznetsov, Anna Halikova, Olga Perederieieva

“…Within the scope of the present work, these diagrams are used as input data for predicting microstructural transformations by means of artificial neural networks. …”
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Impact of Nano-Silica, Cationic Polyacrylamide, and Cationic Starch on Long Fiber Utilization in Recycled Paper Production by Jafar Ebrahimpour Kasmani, Ahmad Samariha

“…Fourteen different groups with a basis weight of 127 gsm were prepared and analyzed for their physical, mechanical, and microstructural properties. …”
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Optimization of LaPO4:Bi3+ Single-Phased White-Emitting Phosphor Luminescence Properties by Li+/Na+ Doping by Taoli Deng, Qiuyun Zhang

“…LaPO4:Bi3+ single-phased white-emitting phosphors doped with both Li+/Na+ ions were successfully prepared by a conventional solid-state reaction technique. Microstructures were analyzed by both X-ray diffraction and high-resolution scanning electron microscopy experiments. …”
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Sensing strain and damage in polyurethane/MWCNT nano-composite foams using electrical measurements by A. Baltopoulos, N. Athanasopoulos, I. Fotiou, A. Vavouliotis, V. Kostopoulos

“…Later compression stages are dominated by foam microstructural damage which mask any effect of CNT dispersion. …”
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Sustainable production of high strength fiber reinforced mortars using volcanic ash and magnetized water treatment technology by Mostafa M. Keshta, Mohamed M. Yousry Elshikh, Osama Youssf

“…The slump values, mechanical performance, durability, and microstructural were conducted and analyzed. The results indicated that VA significantly enhanced HS-FRCM workability by up to 150%, while it had a less pronounced effect on HS-FRGM workability. …”
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Research on thermoforming process of WE43 rare earth magnesium alloy plate by Hongjiao Qiao, Sheng Lei, Shaojie Cui, Xia Li, Xinru Qin, Houmin Wang

“…Microstructural analysis of fracture surfaces revealed enlarged and homogenized dimples at higher temperatures, alongside grain coarsening from 17.97 μm (room temperature) to 22.90 μm (400 °C), corroborating enhanced plasticity. …”
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Optimization of Strength and Plasticity in Layered Aluminum Composites Through High-Pressure Torsion Treatment by Alexey Evstifeev, Aydar Mavlyutov, Artem Voropaev, Darya Volosevich

“…Static strength and plasticity were analyzed as a function of the deformation degree. Microstructural analysis was performed using scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction. …”
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Utilization of asphalt waste Dust and fly ash for sustainable mortar by Ayawanna Jiratchaya, Kingnoi Namthip, Sertsoongnern Pimchanok, Chaiyaput Salisa

“…The results from the compressive strength test were evaluated and compared under the different curing times for 3, 7, and 28 days in saturated limewater. The microstructures of testing samples were analyzed using different characterization techniques including X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS). …”
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Study on the Performance of High-Performance Mortar (HPM) Prepared Using Sodium-Silicate-Modified Graphite Tailing Sand by Ruixin Jiang, Zhengjun Wang, Yingxin Du, Yajing Wen

“…Experiments were conducted to evaluate the bulk density, water absorption, compressive strength, speed of sound, and working performance status of GT-HPM before and after freezing and thawing at different SS dosages and different GT substitution rates. The microstructural properties of GT-HPM were also analyzed by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM/EDS). …”
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Effect of service temperature on cyclic mechanical behavior of magnesium with fine grained structure by Qihui Li, Qizhen Li

“…The fatigue testing and microstructural observation results were analyzed to obtain the stress-strain curves, the fatigue lives, the orientation information of grains, the 0001 and 10-10 pole figures, the inverse pole figures, the misorientation angles of boundaries, the kernel average misorientation distributions and geometrically necessary dislocation density distributions for all studied testing conditions. …”
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Analysis of transitional stresses in non-local thermo-elastic disc under steady state temperature by Praveen Ailawalia, Ajay Bhiwal, Jatinder Kaur, Paweł Jurczak

“…However using the non-local approach, the variation in the stresses at distant points in a material can be analyzed. This would be a significant work to understand the microstructural material characteristics. …”
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Effects of Nitride on the Tribological Properties of the Low Carbon Alloy Steel by Yuh-Ping Chang, Jin-Chi Wang, Jeng-Haur Horng, Li-Ming Chu, Yih-Chyun Hwang

“…After each test, the microstructures of the wear particles were observed and analyzed under a SEM, and the depth of wear track is measured by means of a surface tester. …”
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Soil Improvement of Clayey Sand Using Nanoparticle by S. Rahmati sardasht, A. A. Heshmati

“…Subsequently, the samples were analyzed for microstructural investigations using Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscopy (FESEM). …”
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Correlative light and electron microscopy imaging of proteinaceous deposits in cell cultures and brain tissues by Peizhou Jiang, Dennis W. Dickson

“…Using this method, we identified and analyzed αS inclusions in cell cultures, as well as various pathological protein deposits in postmortem brain tissues from individuals with a range of neurodegenerative disorders. …”
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Multimodal assessment of white matter tracts in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. by Florian Borsodi, Valeriu Culea, Christian Langkammer, Michael Khalil, Lukas Pirpamer, Stefan Quasthoff, Christian Enzinger, Reinhold Schmidt, Franz Fazekas, Stefan Ropele

“…Several quantitative magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) techniques have been proposed to investigate microstructural tissue changes in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) including diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), magnetization transfer imaging, and R2* mapping. …”
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Substantiation, directions and results of using whey processed products in ice cream production by P. B. Sitnikova, N. V. Kazakova

“…The aim of the article was to collect, analyze and summarize data on the use of whey and products of its processing in the technology of ice cream and whipped frozen desserts. …”
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Effect of Thermo-catalytic Process on the Viscosity, Composition of a Colombian Heavy Crude Oil and the Corrosion on Api N-80 Steel by Julian Sanabria, Dario Pena-Ballesteros, Daniel Molina, Michell Jiménez, Manuel Cabarcas, Adan Leon-Bermudez

“…Finally, the optimal temperature and catalyst conditions were selected, and the corrosive effect on API N-80 steel and the microstructural changes in the material were analyzed using SEM-EDS. …”
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Strengthening mechanism of cemented hydrate‐bearing sand at microscales by Jun Yoneda, Yusuke Jin, Jun Katagiri, Norio Tenma

“…However, to the best of our knowledge, the microstructural large‐strain behaviors of hydrate‐bearing sediments have not been reported to date because of the experimental challenges posed by the high‐pressure and low‐temperature testing conditions. …”
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