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Jiarun Tang and Dongxia Chen
Granite residual soil (GRS) exhibits favorable engineering properties in its natural state. However, a hot and rainy climate, combined with vibrations generated during mechanical construction, can cause a notable decrease in its strength. In this study, ...
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Melinda Szalóki, Zsófia Szabó, Renáta Martos, Attila Csík, Gergo József Szollosi and Csaba Hegedus
The surface roughness, surface free energy (SFE) of composites, and composite wettability by dental adhesives are determining factors in achieving a strong and durable adhesion (e.g., composite repair, luting adhesively bonded indirect restorations). In ...
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Yung-Li Wang, Qun-Zhan Huang and Shao-Yiu Hsu
Understanding the displacement of the resident wetting fluid in porous media is crucial to the remediation strategy. When pollutants or nutrients are dissolved in the surface wetting fluid and enter the unsaturated zone, the resident wetting fluid in the...
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Meng Li, Zhen Wang, Huanwen Meng, Baozhu Dong, Xile Deng and Hongyou Zhou
Matrine is an efficient, low-toxicity, and environmentally friendly botanical pesticide; however, it is mainly applied as a soluble concentrate (SL) with a limited utilization rate that is unsuitable for ultra-low-volume spraying and unmanned aerial vehi...
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Divyansh Tripathi, Prauteeto Ray, Ajay Vikram Singh, Vimal Kishore and Swarn Lata Singh
Slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLIPS) have emerged as a unique approach to creating surfaces that can resist fouling when placed in contact with aqueous media, organic fluids, or biological organisms. These surfaces are composed of essentially ...
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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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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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Christopher M. Collins and Md. Safiuddin
A universal infrastructural issue is wetting of surfaces; millions of dollars are invested annually for rehabilitation and maintenance of infrastructures including roadways and buildings to fix the damages caused by moisture and frost. The biomimicry of ...
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Andrey Vladimirovich Blinov, Andrey Ashotovich Nagdalian, Lyudmila Pavlovna Arefeva, Valery Nikolaevich Varavka, Oleg Vyacheslavovich Kudryakov, Alexey Alekseevich Gvozdenko, Alexey Borisovich Golik, Anastasiya Aleksandrovna Blinova, David Guramievich Maglakelidze, Dionis Demokritovich Filippov, Vyacheslav Anatolievich Lapin, Ekaterina Dmitrievna Nazaretova and Mohammad Ali Shariati
In this work we have developed a nanoscale composite protective preparation for car paint and varnish coatings. We developed methods to obtain SiO2-TiO2, TiO2-ZrO2, SiO2-ZrO2 and SiO2-TiO2-ZrO2 nanocomposites, which are crystallization centers for the fo...
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Chenghao Zhang, Huize Chen, Weipeng Yang, Qinlian Zhang, Bo Yang, Yazhen Hu, Chun Li, Dejun Gao, Xiaoqing Si, Junlei Qi and Jian Cao
The wetting properties of the brazing filler on the substrates play an important role in achieving a reliable joint. In this work, the wetting behaviour of the Mn-based brazing alloy on the surface of 1Cr18Ni9Ti stainless steel is investigated. First, su...
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