A new method, named "re-growth etching", which introduces a unique etchant "Au(I)", has been developed to fabricate large-sized porous gold nanostructures. The size of nanostructures and the number of pores can be regulated by the molar ratio of Ag and Au in the precursor. We have evaluated their performance by a model reaction of the reduction of 4-nitrophenol. The catalytic property of porous...

Rare-earth (RE)-doped upconversion nanocrystals (UCNCs) are deemed as the promising candidates of luminescent nanoprobe for biological imaging and labeling. A number of methods have been used for the fabrication of UCNCs, but their assembly into porous architectures with desired size, shape and crystallographic phase remains a long-term challenging task. Here we report a facile, anion-induced h...

This paper presents a measurement setup for determining the mechanical properties of porous materials at low and medium frequencies by extending toward higher frequencies the quasistatic method based on a compression test. Indeed, classical quasistatic methods generally neglect the inertia effect of the porous sample and the coupling between the surrounding fluid and the frame; they are restric...

In this paper, we consider the Cauchy problem for a porous medium equation in Fingero-imbibition phenomena arising in double phase flow through porous media during oil recovery process. Fingero-imbibition is a physical phenomenon which represents the simultaneous occurrence of two special phenomenon viz. fingering and imbibitions in a porous media. We obtain a series solution of porous medium e...

Modeling the complex characteristic acoustic impedance and complex wavenumber of porous materials allows the prediction of the complex specific acoustic impedance of a system consisting of porous absorbers and air cavities in front of a rigid surface. By using the transfer matrix method, the complex characteristic acoustic impedance and complex wavenumber of a porous material can be predicted b...

in this paper, we have tried to find a solution for quick transfer of nuclear wastes from pools of cool water to dry stores to reduce the environmental concerns and financial cost of burying atomic waste. therefore, the rate of heat transfer from atomic waste materials to the outer surface of the container should be increased. this can be achieved by covering the bottom of the pool space with c...

The clinical management of large-size cartilage lesions is difficult due to the limited regenerative ability of the cartilage. Different biomaterials have been used to develop tissue engineering substitutes for cartilage repair, including chitosan alone or in combination with growth factors to improve its chondrogenic properties. The main objective of this investigation was to evaluate the bene...

It is known that the mechanical properties of bone-mimicking porous biomaterials are a function of the morphological properties of the porous structure, including the configuration and size of the repeating unit cell from which they are made. However, the literature on this topic is limited, primarily because of the challenge in fabricating porous biomaterials with arbitrarily complex morpholog...

1 Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Zonas Áridas, Facultad de Ciencias del Mar, Universidad Católica del Norte, Coquimbo, Chile, 2 Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, 3 Departamento de Ecología, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda, Chile, 4 Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias and Facultad de Artes Liberales, Universida...