The development of high-temperature heavy-duty turbine disk materials is critical for improving the overall efficiency combined cycle power plants. An alloy strategy to this end involves superalloys strengthened by ‘compact’ ??-?? coprecipitates. Compact morphology coprecipitates consists a cuboidal ?? precipitate such that ?? discs coat its six {001} faces. present work an attempt investigate ...

Organic carbon (OC) stability in tropical soils is strongly interlinked with multivalent cation interaction and mineral association. Low molecular weight organic acids (LMWOAs) represent the readily biodegradable OC. Therefore, investigating retention mechanisms of LMWOAs in mineral-cation-LMWOAs systems is critical to understanding soil C cycling. Given the general acidic conditions and domina...

Outer dense fibre protein 2 (ODF2) is a major protein of sperm tail outer dense fibres which are prominent sperm tail-specific cytoskeletal structures. Moreover, ODF2 was also identified as a widespread component of the centrosomal scaffold and was found to associate preferentially with the appendages of the mother centriole [Nakagawa, Y., Yamane, Y., Okanoue, T., Tsukita, S. and Tsukita, S. (2...

We have recently pointed out that even when the amount and ratio of the serum albumin and globulin are greatly changed, the proportion of the basic amino acids, yielded by hydrolysis of the total coagulable serum protein, is constant (l-3). This observation has led us to suggest (3) that instead of the protein of mammalian serum consisting of albumin and globulin, it is composed of two or more ...

In this review, a new classification of elements based on behavior in hydrofluoric acid (HF) solution is presented for the precise quantitative analysis of each element by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The elements are divided into 7 groups: (1) "fluorophile" elements; (2) insoluble fluoride-forming elements; (3) "bromophile" or "iodophile" elements; (4) "oxophile" elem...