The radiative properties of interstellar dust are affected not only by the grain size distribution but also porosity. We develop a model for evolution size-dependent porosity and over entire history galaxy evolution. include stellar production, supernova destruction, shattering, coagulation, accretion. Coagulation is {assumed to be} source use one-zone with constant dense gas fraction ($\eta_\m...

We have developed a robust, accurate inversion techare useful indicators of thermodynamic processes in the snowpack. Changes in snow grain size can help identify nique for estimating the grain size in a snowpack’s surface ice sheet surface features, such as melt areas, snow dunes, layer from imaging spectrometer data. Using a radiative and blue ice regions, and often indicate changes in snowtra...

Unlike maize and wheat, where artificial selection is associated with an almost uniform increase in seed or grain size, domesticated rice exhibits dramatic phenotypic diversity for grain size and shape. Here we clone and characterize GS3, an evolutionarily important gene controlling grain size in rice. We show that GS3 is highly expressed in young panicles in both short- and long-grained variet...

The objective of this work is to investigate the microstrain effect on grain growth and strain release processes in nanocrystalline (nc) samples. Two kinds of nc Cu samples were studied by using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM): an electro-deposited nc Cu sample with an average grain size of about 30 nm and one after col...

Recent experiments on the static and dynamic properties of polycrystalline colloidal solids show a pronounced influence of morphological details. Here we investigate several possibilities to vary systematically one key morphological parameter, namely the average crystallite radius rc of polycrystalline solids. We report measurements of rc as observed by microscopy in well-characterized Yukawa m...

Grain weight is a major determinant of grain yield. GS5 is a positive regulator of grain size such that grain width, filling, and weight are correlated with its expression level. Previous work suggested that polymorphisms of GS5 in the promoter region might be responsible for the variation in grain size. In this study, two single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) between the wide-grain allele GS5...

Magnesium alloys are attracting increasing research interests due to their low density, high specific strength, good machinability and availability as compared to other structural materials. However, the deformation and failure mechanisms of nanocrystalline (nc) Mg alloys have not been well understood. In this work, the deformation behaviour of nc Mg–5Al alloys was investigated using compressio...

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Citation: Steinbach F, Kuiper E-JN, Eichler J, Bons PD, Drury MR, Griera A, Pennock GM and Weikusat I (2017) The Relevance of Grain Dissection for Grain Size Reduction in Polar Ice: Insights from Numerical Models and Ice Core Microstructure Analysis. Front. Earth Sci. 5:66. doi: 10.3389/feart.2017.00066 The Relevance of Grain Dissection for Grain Size Reduction in Polar Ice: Insights from Numer...