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Luca Tagliaferri, Enrico Berretti, Andrea Giaccherini, Stefano M. Martinuzzi, Francesco Bozza, Martin Thoma, Ugo Bardi and Stefano Caporali

A novel aluminizing process based upon room temperature Al-electrodeposition from Ionic Liquids followed by diffusion heat treatment was applied on bare- and CoNiCrAlY-coated Inconel 738 (IN738). The aluminized samples were tested by isothermal oxidation ... see more

Weiwei Xu, Jianfei Luo, Jun Qin and Yongming Zhang

Wenyi Wang, Patrick C. L. Hui and Chi-Wai Kan

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common chronic inflammatory skin condition characterized by intense puritus and skin dryness. The pathogenesis for AD has not been fully understood to date. Complementary therapies are very popular as effective treatment for AD... see more

Behzad Heidarshenas, Ghulam Hussain and Mohammed. Bsher. A. Asmael

The aim of this study was to develop a composite coating on 304 stainless steel employing a TIG (tungsten inert gas) process. Ti wire cored with graphite powder was used as the means of coating material. The process parameters were controlled to develop a... see more

Duy Dat Vo, Aleksey G. Lipnitskii, Truong Khang Nguyen and Thoi Trung Nguyen

This paper presents the ternary interaction of N, H, and vacancy point defects and the nitrogen trapping ability of aluminum vacancies induced by hydrogen by means of DFT methods employed in VASP (Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package) and Abinit packages. ... see more

Shengzhong Jin, Shichao Zhao, Jiaxin Weng and Yanfei Lv

Fritz Klocke, Martin Schulz and Stefan Gräfe

Laser hardening is a surface hardening process which enables high quality results due to the controllability of the energy input. The hardened area is determined by the heat distribution caused by the intensity profile of the laser beam. However, commonly... see more

Cesare Sangiorgi, Piergiorgio Tataranni, Francesco Mazzotta, Andrea Simone, Valeria Vignali and Claudio Lantieri

There has been a significant increase in the demand for using recycled materials in construction because of the lack and limitation of available natural resources. A number of industrial and domestic waste products are being used in the replacement of tra... see more

Igor A. Zeltser, Aleksey S. Karpov, Evgeny N. Moos, Nikolay B. Rybin and Alexander B. Tolstoguzov

The erosion model of the surface coatings of reed switches considering different physicochemical processes occurring on the contact surfaces and inside the inter-electrode gap was proposed. According to that, the discrete electron avalanche (ecton) introd... see more

Kazuhiro Matsumoto, Manabu Hagiwara and Shinobu Fujihara

Highly transparent and luminescent CaMoO4:Eu3+/Ag composite films were fabricated on glass substrates as multifunctional antireflective (AR) coatings. The films were deposited through a combination of a sol–gel dip-coating technique and a hot water treatm... see more

Chun-Liang Yeh and Wei-Zuo Lin

UHTC composites were prepared by self-propagating high-temperature synthesis (SHS) from the Ti–B4C reaction system with addition of Cr, Mo, and W. The starting sample composition was formulated as (3-x)Ti + B4C + xMe with x = 0.1–1.0 and Me = Cr, Mo, or W... see more

Fei Lu and Gerardine G. Botte

A novel graphene-coated Ni electrode was developed in this investigation to improve corrosion resistance while unexpectedly enhancing the ammonia generation rate in the electrochemically induced urea to ammonia (eU2A) process, which is an electrochemical ... see more