The purpose of this study is to investigate the surface characteristics and biocompatibility of titanium (Ti) surfaces modified by wire electrical discharge machining (EDM). EDM surface characteristics were evaluated by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), thin-film X-ray diffractometry (XRD) and contact angle measurements. MC3T3-E1 cell morphology, attach...

Wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) is a special form of traditional electrical discharge machining in which the electrode is a continuously moving conducting wire. The mechanism of metal removal in wire electrical discharge machining involves the complex erosion effect from electric sparks generated by a pulsating direct current power supply. The sparks generated between two closely spa...

We analyzed individual motor units of the sternohyoid muscle with the aim of characterizing their minimum and maximum discharge rates and their variability in discharge during voluntary contractions. Surface EMG signals were recorded with an array of eight electrodes from the sternohyoid muscle of seven healthy men (age: 30.2+/-3.5 yr). The multichannel surface EMG signals were displayed as fee...

Diffuse coplanar surface barrier discharge (DCSBD) as the source of nonequilibrium plasma is widely used nowadays for surface modification of different materials. DCSBD plasma consists of many microdischarges which are moving along the planar dielectric plate and create a thin layer of macroscopically homogeneous plasma above dielectric. The influences of humidity in carrier gas at atmospheric ...

Post-impact hydrothermal (PIH) systems subjected to mars-like surface temperatures (-53 °C) and reasonable surface permeabilities (10 to 10 m) produce flow patterns with spatially diagnostic, surface-exposed water-to-rock (W/R) ratios of ~1 to 1000, channel-carving surface discharge rates of ~1 to 10 m/s and lake-forming total discharges of ~10 to 10 m. A bolide 3.9 km in diameter traveling at ...

This work describes the surface modification of 300PEO-PEOT/PBT 55/45 thin films using a medium pressure dielectric barrier discharge system operated in argon, helium, nitrogen or dry air to improve cell-surface interactions of this established biomaterial. The first part of the paper describes the optimization of the plasma processing parameters using water contact angle goniometry. The optimi...

The mathematical model of a steadily propagating Saffman-Taylor finger in a Hele-Shaw channel has applications to two-dimensional interacting streamer discharges which are aligned in a periodic array. In the streamer context, the relevant regularization on the interface is not provided by surface tension but instead has been postulated to involve a mechanism equivalent to kinetic undercooling, ...