Tungsten has been perceived as one of the most promising plasma-facing materials for future fusion reactors. Its behavior under helium irradiation extensively studied. In this work, we focus on recovery and recrystallization helium-implanted surface grains in warm-rolled polycrystalline tungsten. Mechanically polished specimens with without 40 keV implantation were heated to 1650 °C during ther...

The growth of pentacene thin films for applications in thin-film transistors and other organic electronic devices results in a variety of extended structural defects including dislocations, grain boundaries, and stacking faults. We have used scanning tunneling microscopy STM to probe the molecular-scale structure of grain boundaries and stacking faults in a pentacene thin film on a Si 001 surfa...

Recently, absorption and scattering at depths 800-1000 m in South Pole ice have been studied with transit-time distributions of pulses from a variable-frequency laser sent between emitters and receivers embedded in the ice. At 800-1000 m, scattering is independent of wavelength and the scattering centers are air bubbles of size ? wavelength. At 1500-2000 m it is predicted that all bubbles will ...

BACKGROUND The boundaries for orthodontic tooth movement are set by the bony support of the dentition. This study compares the mandibular anterior alveolar housing in individuals with low, average, and high mandibular plane angles before orthodontic treatment and measures alveolar bone loss and root resorption after orthodontic treatment. METHODS Pretreatment cone-beam computed tomography (CB...

background: abnormal angulation of the lunate can be an indication of intercarpal pathology. on magnetic resonance images (mris) the lunate often looks dorsally angulated, even in healthy wrists. the tilt on individual slices can also be different and might be misinterpreted as pathological, contributing to inaccurate diagnoses and unnecessary surgery. the primary aim of this study was to deter...

Previous studies have yet to show a consistent effect of severe plastic deformation (SPD) processing on the wear behavior different metals and alloys. To fill this scientific gap, study investigated cyclic extrusion compression (CEC) process, as one prominent SPD techniques, AA5052. In addition, microstructure evolution mechanical properties sample before after process were experimentally exami...

conclusions although some of the orthopedic surgeons are not interested to manage these fractures surgically and most of them treat these cases conservatively (casting, etc.), in most displaced intra-articular calcaneal fractures, surgical treatment is the method of choice. moreover, in non-surgical treatment the prevalence of these complications among the patients is more and as a result, inev...

a nano/ultra-fine grain al-0.2wt% zr alloy was produced by accumulated roll bonding (arb) processafter 10 cycles. the fraction of high angle grain boundaries increased from 8% to 65.4% during 10passes during arb process. this alloy was subjected to tensile test at different temperatures (523,573and 623 k) and strain rates (0.1 and 0.01 s-1). the optimum condition of temperature and strain rate ...