Exact results are derived relating the various bulk moduli (frame, unjacketed, and pore) and heat capacity of inhomogeneous uid-saturated porous media to the pertinent thermal expansion coe cients and component moduli when only two porous solid constituents are present. The porous solids need not be space lling or in perfect welded contact, so these results apply to materials containing some vo...

Colorless crystals of (CH3NH3·H2O)PbI3 spontaneously lose water at 298 K which triggers a transformation to the black (CH3NH3)PbI3 perovskite in the solid state as a porous microcrystalline solid with nanoscale substructure, but the dihydrate (CH3NH3)4PbI6·2H2O) requires much more forcing conditions to produce (CH3NH3)PbI3.

Discrete dipole approximation (DDA) is used to calculate extinction efficiencies of porous silicate and graphite grains. We apply DDA first to the spheroidal solid grains assumed to be made of a large number of small scattering elements (dipoles). Then we systematically reduce the number of dipoles to model the porous grains. The extinction is studied as a function of wavelength, grain size and...

Porous Cu bodies with complex shapes were fabricated by freeze-casting and vacuum sintering water-based CuO slurry. The sintered bodies showed no noticeable macroscopic defects and good shape tolerance. The interconnected pore tunnels were observed by electronic microscopy. The pore size became smaller and the porosity and volume shrinkage of sintered porous bodies decreased with the increase o...

Steady-state evaporation of a saturated liquid droplet and its levitation over a solid surface due to momentum-induced pressure in the vapor film is studied by solving the axisymmetric governing equation numerically. A previous on~ime~onal analysis shows that the distance (or gap) between the solid surface and the droplet decreases when the vapor can penetrate the solid. For porous layers, this...

Current hip replacement femoral implants are made of fully solid materials which all have stiffness considerably higher than that of bone. This mechanical mismatch can cause significant bone resorption secondary to stress shielding, which can lead to serious complications such as peri-prosthetic fracture during or after revision surgery. In this work, a high strength fully porous material with ...

The conversion between seismic and electromagnetic energies was discovered in a fluidfilled porous formation. When seismic waves propagate through a fluid-saturated porous formation, relative motion between the pore fluid and the solid matrix is generated and cation motion in the fluid is formed. The streaming electric current induces electromagnetic waves in the formation. There is an opposite...

A simple chemical bath deposition is used to coat a complex porous ceramic scaffold with a conformal Ni layer. The resulting composite is used as a solid oxide fuel cell electrode, and its electrochemical response is measured in humidified hydrogen. X-ray tomography is used to determine the microstructural characteristics of the uncoated and Ni-coated porous structure, which include the surface...

We consider a porous solid covered with a water film (or with a drop) in situations where the liquid is pumped in, either spontaneously (if the porous medium is hydrophilic) or mechanically (by an external pump). The dynamics of dewetting is then strongly modified. We analyse a few major examples a) horizontal films, which break at a certain critical thickness b) the “modified Landau-Levich pro...

We propose a novel class of optical fiber with a porous transverse cross-section that is created by arranging sub-wavelength air-holes within the core of the fiber. These fibers can offer a combination of low transmission loss and high mode confinement in the THz regime by exploiting the enhancement of the guided mode field that occurs within these sub-wavelength holes. We evaluate the properti...