The purpose of this study was to investigate the deposition of the hydroxyapatite (HA) coating via the electrophoresis procedure. The HA deposition was performed in an ethanol, methanol, acetone and isopropanol suspension. Methanol was found to be the best deposition media. Among the different environmental conditions, including the encapsulation of the samples under two vacuum types of pr...

″Ultrathin″ metallization layers on the order of nanometers in thickness are increasingly used in semiconductor interconnects and other nanostructures. Aqueous deposition methods are attractive methods to produce such layers due to their low cost, but formation of ultrathin layers has proven challenging, particularly on oxide-coated substrates. This work focused on the formation of thin copper ...

Deposition and stripping of lead ions at thiol based disorganised monolayer modified gold piezoelectrodes was studied by cyclic voltammetry (CV) and electrochemical quartz crystal nanobalance (EQCN). Gold electrodes modified with 3-mercaptopropionic acid and 1,3-dimercapto propane sulphonic acid were studied. Due to the proximity of the potentials for the Pb deposition and thiol reductive desor...

The physical mechanisms in deposition and etching give rise to key trade-offs which are important in characterizing processes and equipment modeling for deposition, etching and planarization unit processes. The development of a give unit process is important in its own right. However, it is even more important on a global scale to understanding of the flexibility within a process and the manner...

This review encompasses the fundamental aspects of electrophoretic deposition technique, factors influencing the deposition process, kinetic aspects, types of EPD, the driving forces, preparation of electrophoretic suspension, stability and control of suspension, mechanisms involved in EPD, multicomponent/composite deposition, drying of deposits obtained by EPD. Numerous applications including ...

The deposition of asphaltenes in porous media, an important problem in science and macromolecular engineering, was for the first time investigated in a transparent packed-bed microreactor (μPBR) with online analytics to generate high-throughput information. Residence time distributions of the μPBR before and after loading with ~29 μm quartz particles were measured using inline UV-Vis spectrosco...

Inhalation of tobacco smoke aerosol is a two-step process involving puffing followed by inhalation. Measured smoke deposition efficiencies in the lung (20-70%) are greater than expected for smoke particles of diameter 150 – 250 nm CMD. Various mechanisms have been put forward to explain this enhanced deposition pattern, including coagulation, hygroscopic growth, condensation and evaporation, ch...

Amyloidosis results from extracellular deposition of fibril-forming proteins and currently ~30 different proteins have been found to be amyloidogenic. Recently, a novel type of amyloidosis with a high incidence on Hispanic population has been described to be derived from leukocyte chemotactic factor 2 (ALECT2). The objective of the present article is to raise awareness on the presence of this e...

Highly ordered self-assembled silver nanoparticle (NP) arrays have been produced by glancing angle deposition on faceted c-plane Al2O3 templates. The NP shape can be tuned by changing the substrate temperature during deposition. Reflectance anisotropy spectroscopy has been used to monitor the plasmonic evolution of the sample during the growth. The structures showed a strong dichroic response r...

the close relationship between the immune system and the central nervous system (cns) has been well-studied. the cns regulates almost all the functions of the immune system; however, the effect and/or the control of the immune system on the cns has not been well-studied yet. recent reports suggest that the cns has its own defence mechanism(s). in this review, attempts have been made to discuss ...