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Yuan Zhong, Ye Jin, Shaoqing Xu, Xiangrui Liu and Jianli Song
Thrips have become some of the most challenging pests to control in mango production due to their short developmental time, hidden locations and resistance to pesticides, in the tropical regions of China. To improve pesticides efficacy, the tank-mix adju...
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Sule Sultan Ugur
Large amounts of water, synthetic dyestuffs and chemicals are used in the wet processes of textile finishing, and at the end of these processes, liquors containing chemical substances create a waste load. For this reason, it is of great importance to dev...
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Justin T. Telfer, Mitchell M. Brown, Gustavious P. Williams, Kaylee B. Tanner, A. Woodruff Miller, Robert B. Sowby and Theron G. Miller
Atmospheric deposition (AD) is a significant source of nutrient loading to waterbodies around the world. However, the sources and loading rates are poorly understood for major waterbodies and even less understood for local waterbodies. Utah Lake is a eut...
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Natalia Kamanina
Among the different nanostructures involved in the improvement of material properties, carbon nanotubes occupy a specific place because of their small refractive index, extended surface, and large Young?s module, which can all provoke dramatic change in ...
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Jinkun Liu, Run Xu, Yan Zhu, De-Quan Yang, Heng-Yong Nie and Woon Ming Lau
We used atomic force microscopy (AFM) and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) to comprehensively study the growth and the cross-linking of dotriacontane (C32H66) nanofilms that were deposited on a silicon wafer by the spin-coating process. It was foun...
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Ying-Chen Chen, Yifu Huang, Sumant Sarkar, John Gibbs and Jack Lee
In this study, a direct-grown helical-shaped tungsten-oxide-based (h-WOx) selection device is presented for emerging memory applications. The selectivity in the selection devices is from 10 to 103 with a low off-current of 0.1 to 0.01 nA. In addition, th...
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Natalia P. Prorokova, Tatyana Yu. Kumeeva and Igor V. Kholodkov
The paper presents a comparative analysis of the surface structure and morphology of hydrophobic coatings formed on a polyester fabric from various types of low molecular weight tetrafluoroethylenes by a new method. The low molecular weight compounds use...
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Espedito Vassallo, Marco Aloisio, Matteo Pedroni, Francesco Ghezzi, Pierfrancesco Cerruti and Riccardo Donnini
Poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) films were processed by a radio frequency (RF; 13.56 MHz) low-pressure plasma of oxygen and argon/oxygen, and an oxygen plasma with an argon post-crosslinking plasma to improve their wettability property. Specimens were tre...
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Hussein Ali Hussein, Sabah Ibrahim Wais and Khedir R. Khedir
In this study, superhydrophobic surfaces were developed by using a simple and environmentally friendly technique. The nano-network of candle soot (CS) as the byproduct of incomplete combustion of paraffin candle was directly coated onto both smooth and m...
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Ke Zhao, Hongyan Wu, Changle Xiao, Jieyang Dong, Junzhao Ren and Zhaoxiang Peng
In order to improve the corrosion resistance of implant materials and understand the corrosion mechanisms, we prepared a biomedical Nb-Zr alloying layer on 316L stainless steel using double-layer glow plasma surface-alloying technology and investigated t...
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