In this work, the cutting of carbon nanotubes is investigated using silver nanoparticles deposited on arc discharge multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The composite is subsequently heated in air to fabricate shortened multi-walled nanotubes. Complementary transmission electron microscopy and spectroscopy techniques shed light on the cutting mechanism. The nanotube cutting is catalysed by the fundam...

Abnormal elevation of low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and triglyceride-rich lipoproteins in plasma as well as dysfunction of anti-atherogenic high-density lipoprotein (HDL) have both been recognized as essential components of the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis and are classified as dyslipidemia. This review describes the arc of development of antisense oligonucleotides for the treatment of dysli...

This paper focuses on the numerical investigation of low-voltage arc plasma behaviour with the contact opening process included. A flexible experimental setup with a rotating contact is designed to support this study. Based on the magnetohydrodynamic arc model, the elongation and the commutation behaviour of the arc plasma during the contact rotation progress are simulated. Under the given cond...

A study was conducted on the arc and melting efficiency of the plasma arc, gas tungsten arc, gas metal arc, and submerged arc welding processes. The results of this work are extended to develop a quantitative method for estimating weld metal dilution in a companion paper. Arc efficiency was determined as a function of current for each process using A36 steel base metal. Melting efficiency was e...

New emerging technologies using blown arc plasma sources allow elaborating finely structured coatings which find many applications fields. Among them, Suspension Plasma Spraying consists in injecting within a dc plasma jet a liquid jet containing submicron solid particles which are plasma-sprayed to form coatings. This new technology has renewed the interest devoted to the understanding and the...

This paper gives a recent progress of welding process research in Japan, especially, an instance in the capability of the visualization and prediction of welding arcs, though the dynamic observations of spectral image by a high-speed digital video-camera with a monochromator and also the calculations by numerical models. The dynamic observations lead to visualizations of metal vapor behavior in...

The cutting stock problem with binary patterns (0-1 CSP) is a variant of CSP that usually appears as a relaxation of 2D and 3D packing problems. We present an exact method, based on an arc-flow formulation with side constraints, for solving 0-1 CSP by simply representing all the patterns in a very compact graph. Gilmore-Gomory’s column generation approach is usually used to compute strong lower...

In this study, three-dimensional steady-state non-transferred arc plasma torch was investigated by computational fluid dynamics (CFD) method with user defined function (UDF). Two-equation current density profile was developed to simulate the complex plasma flow inside the torch. The effect of asymmetric distribution of current density (ADCD), particularly the deviation distance (distance betwee...

This paper proposes the P-1 radiation model for the calculation of low voltage arc plasma. The influence of both emission and self-absorption are taken into account in this model. Based on the couple of electric field, magnetic field, flow field and thermal field, a threedimensional arc chamber model is constructed and its radiation energy is calculated by the P-1 model with the spectrum divide...