It is possible to detect microscopically dezincification in artificial sea water at 50°C of hard or recrystallized 63/37 two phase (α + β) and single phase (α) brass samples, after simple immersion or after exposure in ...

We report a study of the nonmetal-metal transition of free-standing Pd N clusters (2≤N≤21) carried out through two different theoretical approaches that are extensively employed in electronic structure calculations: a ...

Fracture statistics in rectangular bars subjected to torsion and to three-point bending are studied and the cumulative probabilities of fracture using Weibull's functions for materials that exhibit volume brittleness are ...

Microcalorimetric enthalpy measurements associated with the different peaks appearing during linear heating of Cu-3.34 at % Sn were made in a 50% cold-rolled alloy. Unlike the situation in the deformed material, quenched ...

Carbon nanowalls were prepared on silicon substrates by radio frequency magnetron sputtering under an argon–hydrogen mixture, at different hydrogen fluxes and varying the substrate temperature and deposition times. Scanning ...

Two new homologous series of chiral esters derived from Schiff's bases containing a 1,3,4-thiadiazole unit (series 6 and 7) were synthesized and their liquid crystalline and ferroelectric properties investigated. All the ...

The sillenite phase in the Bi2O3-Fe2O3 system has been characterized by X-ray, infrared absorption and magnetic susceptibility measurements. The composition corresponded to a concentration of 3.7 ± 0.2 mol% Fe2O3 only ...

Recently, the search for topological states of matter has turned to non-Hermitian systems, which exhibit a rich variety of unique properties without Hermitian counterparts. Lattices modeled through non-Hermitian Hamiltonians ...

Silver nanowire arrays with high aspect ratios have been prepared using potentiostatic electrodeposition within the confined nanochannels of a commercial porous anodic aluminium oxide template. The nucleation and growth ...