Volume visualization is a common, very well-established visualization technique for volumetric data sets. Numerous advancements have been proposed and sophisticated improvements have been implemented to produce elaborated renderings that are capable of enhancing details within the volume. However, volume visualization alone is often not sufficient for the application domain. Often times, resear...

The use of porous materials to store natural gas in vehicles requires large amounts of methane per unit of volume. Here we report the synthesis, crystal structure and methane adsorption properties of two new aluminum metal-organic frameworks, MOF-519 and MOF-520. Both materials exhibit permanent porosity and high methane volumetric storage capacity: MOF-519 has a volumetric capacity of 200 and ...

c vide mechanisms for peering inside volumetric datasets and for probing into voluminous and omplex structures and dynamics. It encompasses an array of techniques for projecting and l i shading a volumetric dataset or properties thereof and for interactively extracting meaningfu nformation from it using transformations, cuts, segmentation, translucency control, measurer g ments and the like. Ty...

Introduction Measurement of volumetric properties of biopolymers in dilute solution has always been a difficult procedure, involving tedious experiments using densitometric or dilatometric methods to determine partial molar volumes. Measuring volume changes (∆Vunf) for biopolymer unfolding is also problematic and most often carried out using large, reinforced optical cells up to pressures of 10...

Solid-solution strengthening in six Al-X binary systems is investigated using first-principle methods. The volumetric mismatch parameter and the solubility enthalpy per solute were calculated. We derive three rules for designing solid-solution strengthened alloys: (i) the solubility enthalpy per solute is related to the volumetric mismatch by a power law; (ii) for each annealing temperature, th...

This study contrasted the role of surfaces and volumetric shape primitives in three-dimensional object recognition. Observers (N = 50) matched subsets of closed contour fragments, surfaces, or volumetric parts to whole novel objects during a whole-part matching task. Three factors were further manipulated: part viewpoint (either same or different between component parts and whole objects), surf...

We present a novel haptic rendering technique. Building on previous work, we propose a haptic model based on a volumetric description of the geometry of an object. Unlike previous volumetric approaches, we also find a virtual contact point on the surface in order to derive a penalty force that is consistent with the real geometry of the object, without introducing force discontinuity. We also d...