Superheating is a phenomenon in which the temperature in a solid phase is higher than the melting temperature. This phenomenon is common when a microwave or an induction heating method is used during a melting process. The classical interface conditions (Stefan conditions) have to be modified in order to model this phenomenon. In this paper we study a melting process for highly conductive mater...

At the present time, the research programs of the Environmental Biophysics Branch cover essentially two areas-nonionizing radiation (microwaves) and noise (auditory and nonauditory effects). Two new programs-the biological effects of light and molecular biophysics-will be started in the very near future. It is the aim of scientists working in the microwave program to develop new microwave expos...

This paper describes a kinetic study of the decomposition of waste printed circuit boards (WPCB) under conventional and microwave-induced pyrolysis conditions. We discuss the heating rates and the influence of the pyrolysis on the thermal decomposition kinetics of WPCB. We find that the thermal degradation of WPCB in a controlled conventional thermogravimetric analyzer (TGA) occurred in the tem...

Many investigators have reported unexpected effects resulting from the use of microwave radiation as an alternative energy source during the processing of materials. This has included apparent evidence for accelerated kinetics for a range of processes in ceramic, polymeric and organic systems [1-10]; enhanced sintering of ceramic powder compacts, including lower sintering temperatures [1,2]; an...

In this paper, the proof of principle of microwave-accelerated aggregation assay technology, which shortens the solution-based aggregation assays' run time to seconds (>100-fold increase in kinetics) with microwave heating, was demonstrated using a model aggregation assay based on the well-known interactions of biotin and avidin. Biotinylated gold colloids were aggregated in solution with the a...

Nitrogen-doped ordered porous carbon was synthesized by microwave heating using Fe3O4 nanoparticles as hard templates. The microwave-assisted method reduces the reaction time and provides highly structure with large surface area nitrogen doping. NaAlH4 confined into pores of scaffold hydrogen sorption kinetics is improved synergistic effects nanoconfinement

In this paper, we investigated the effects of low-power microwave heating on the components of the recently described new approach to surface DNA hybridization assays, based on the Microwave-Accelerated Metal-Enhanced Fluorescence (MAMEF) platform technology. Thiolated oligonucleotides have been linked to surface-bound silver nanostructures which partially coat a glass slide. The addition of a ...

heating which are conducive to homogenous nucleation and a shorter crystallization time [14]-[16]; factors which are generally believed to be the prerequisite to the formation of monodisperse nanoparticles. Furthermore, microwave heating has also been found to increase reaction kinetics by one to two orders of magnitude [16]-[18]. Thus microwave assisted synthesis could pave way for the prepara...

Microwave (MW) offers a unique heating mechanism, which volumetrically pushes internal moisture to the surface during drying of water-rich foods such as fish. However, due uneven power distribution, continuous application MW energy causes excessive localized heating, resulting in deterioration food quality. Incorporation other techniques convective, vacuum, osmotic, and freeze-drying with has b...