The exposure of 1300 meters of upper oceanic crust at the Blanc0 Fracture Zone allows near-bottom gravity measurements to determine the in situ density of the seafloor as a function of depth. Gravity measurements along the north wall of the Blanc0 Depression indicate an outcrop density of 2530 * Kg/m3 for the upper 800 meters of crust and a calculated porosity of 23%. The lower 500 meters of cr...

In the membrane-based bioartificial livers developed up to now, the hepatic cells were located either in the fibers lumen or in the cartridge, with limited capacity for cell hosting. Here, we designed a polysulfone (PSU) membrane with a double porosity level: (i) surface macroporosity emerging in macrochambers accessible to hepatic cell colonization; (ii) microporosity to ensure gas and molecul...

This paper presents a new application and evaluation of the Optimum-Path Forest (OPF) classifier to accomplish synthetic material porosity segmentation and quantification obtained from optical microscopic images. Sample images of a synthetic material were analyzed and the quality of the results was confirmed by human visual analysis. Additionally, the OPF results were compared against two diffe...

Porosity is postulated to be one of the reasons for the low efficiency of tin sulfide-based devices. This work is a preliminary investigation of the effects of two film growth parameters deposition rate and substrate temperature on porosity. We employ the focused ion beam tomography technique to characterize and quantify porosity in tin sulfide thin films. We then generate 3D reconstructions of...

BACKGROUND In geochemically perturbed systems where porewater and mineral assemblages are unequilibrated the processes of mineral precipitation and dissolution may change important transport properties such as porosity and pore diffusion coefficients. These reactions might alter the sealing capabilities of the rock by complete pore-scale precipitation (cementation) of the system or by opening n...

Tubular ceramic foams were prepared by using natural clay as starting material and 120 ppi polyurethane foam as template via polymeric sponge method. Samples were sintered with different temperatures from 1200°C to 1280°C. The result shows that 1250°C is the ideal sintering temperature where the highest compressive strength of 1.980MPa at 47.31% porosity is obtained. The highest value in compre...

The phase transformation of aluminum hydrates yields various forms of alumina (d, q, K) and eventually alpha-alumina. The decrease in the specific surface area of alumina upon heat treatment is due to changes in crystalline structure and hence a decrease in the porosity of the material, Although the conversion of gamma-alumina to alpha-structure takes place with a lowering in surface area and p...

Stochastic amorphous Pd43Ni10Cu27P20 foams were tested in quasistatic and dynamic loading. The strength/porosity relations show distinct slopes for the two loading conditions, suggesting a strain-rate-induced change in the foam yielding mechanism. The strength/porosity correlation of the dynamic test data along with microscopy assessments support that dynamic foam yielding is dominated by plast...