abstract- to evaluate effects of different soil moisture conditions namely, phosphorus (p) and zinc (zn) application, on extractable zn and fe, two experiments were conducted in laboratory conditions based on a completely randomized design with a factorial arrangement of treatments with two replications. the first experiment was performed with the following factors; incubation time at four leve...

We have investigated the quantum dot (QD) carrier capture mechanism using continuous wave photoluminescence as a function of the optical excitation intensity using a sample with a QD density gradient across its surface ranging from 0 to 1.8 £ 10 cm. Modelling of the carrier kinetics has been described by a set of three coupled rate equations associated with the carrier population in the GaAs ba...

Controlling the microscopic wetting state of a liquid in contact with a structured surface is the basis for the design of liquid repellent as well as anti-fogging coatings by preventing or enabling a given liquid to infiltrate the surface structures. Similarly, a liquid can be confined to designated surface areas by locally controlling the wetting state, with applications ranging from liquid tr...

2014 In critical wetting phenomena, the situation of a heavier liquid residing on top of lighter liquid is observed. The consequences of the Rayleigh-Taylor mode of instability in the semicritical wetting layer in a binary liquid mixture are investigated. We also report experimental observations in support of our theory, in the critical binary liquid mixture cyclohexane + acetonitrile. J. Physi...

Complete wetting is a universal phenomenon associated with interfaces separating coexisting phases. For example, in the pure gluon theory , at T c an interface separating two distinct high-temperature de-confined phases splits into two confined-deconfined interfaces with a complete wetting layer of confined phase between them. In supersym-metric Yang-Mills theory, distinct confined phases may c...

In the present study, fast disintegrating tablets were designed with a view to enhance patient compliance. In this method, the hull of Hordeum vulgare, cross carmellose sodium, and sodium starch glycolate were used as superdisintegrants (4 and 6%), along with microcrystalline cellulose and mannitol, to enhance mouth feel. The prepared batches of tablets were evaluated for hardness, friability, ...

The (pre)wetting behavior of an annealed polyelectrolyte (PE) brush by an electrolyte solution that is strongly segregated from an apolar phase is analyzed. In this complex interface, there are interactions on various length scales. There are short-range interactions with the (uncharged) surface, and there are interactions on the length scale of the brush height. Using either the ionic strength...

– We study a Langevin equation describing non-equilibrium depinning and wetting transitions. Attention is focused on short-ranged attractive substrate-interface potentials. We confirm the existence of first-order depinning transitions, in the temperature-chemical potential diagram, and a tricritical point beyond which the transition becomes a non-equilibrium complete wetting transition. The coe...

Wetting properties of biomaterials, in particular nanomaterials, play an important role, as these influence interactions with biological elements, such as proteins, bacteria, and cells. In this study, the wetting phenomenon of titanium substrates coated with selenium nanoparticles was studied using experimental and mathematical modeling tools. Importantly, these selenium-coated titanium substra...