Inorganic colloidal particles which are in situ hydrophobized upon adsorption of short-chain amphiphilic molecules can be used as foam stabilizers. In this study, we tailor the microstructure of particle-stabilized wet foams, namely, the foam air content, average bubble size, and bubble size distribution, by changing the composition of the initial colloidal suspension. Wet foams featuring avera...

We report observations of microstructural changes in {100} and {110} oriented silicon wafers during initial lithiation under relatively high current densities. Evolution of the microstructure during lithiation was found to depend on the crystallographic orientation of the silicon wafers. In {110} silicon wafers, the phase boundary between silicon and LixSi remained flat and parallel to the surf...

this paper provides an overview on obtaining low-carbon ultra-fine grained dual-phase steels through rapid intercritical annealing of cold-rolled sheet as improved materials for automotive applications. a laboratory processing route was designed that involves cold-rolling of a tempered martensite structure followed by a second tempering step to produce a fine grained aggregate of ferrite and ca...

An array of fused silica waveguiding channels with randomly distributed transverse sizes in a disordered microstructure fiber is shown to allow a highly efficient broadly tunable frequency conversion of low-energy ultrashort laser pulses. Dispersion can be switched in such waveguide arrays by coupling the pump field into waveguiding wires with different diameters. Microstructure-fiber-integrate...

Starting from scanning electron microscope images of some food products, we generate binary images of composite materials. After measuring the covariance and the probability for segments and for squares to be included in the dominant component, we develop a modelling of the microstructure from random sets obtained by thresholding Gaussian random functions. The covariance function of the underly...

This paper presents a functional microstructured surface, named Polar Microstructure. Polar microstructure is a three dimensional (3D) structured surface possessing a pattern of distribution of latitude and longitude micro-topographies with geometrical characteristics, which is similar to that in the Earth’s north or south pole. The spacing of its small surface features can achieve form accurac...

It has been found that phase separation, i.e., D022 precipitation in the supersaturated L12 matrix to form the L12 þ D022 equilibrium state, stagnates in the Ni3Al0:52V0:48 alloy under a certain thermodynamic condition. This stagnation originates from the suppression of the long-range vanadium diffusion in the L12 matrix, so-called diffusion blocking. Because diffusion blocking is inherent to t...