The effect of the adatom surface diffusivity on the evolution of the microstructure and the intrinsic stress of thin metal films was investigated for the case of growth of polycrystalline Ag films on amorphous SiO2 (a-SiO2) and amorphous Ge (a-Ge) substrates, with high and low Ag adatom surface diffusivity, respectively. The surface diffusivity of the deposited Ag adatoms on the a-Ge substrate ...

A two-dimensional method based on basic and mixed models for simulation of liquid phase sintering of a porous structure will be developed. These models will be tested in order to conduct a study of diffusion phenomena and gravitational effects on microstructural evolution during liquid phase sintering of a W-Ni system.

Microstructural evolution of spinel Zn(2)SnO(4) nanofibers was manipulated via an in situ phase separation process of inorganic precursors and a matrix polymer during electrospinning and calcination. Chemiresistive gas sensors using porous Zn(2)SnO(4) fibers exhibited superior C(2)H(5)OH sensing response.

White structure flaking (WSF) has been found to be one of the failure modes in bearing steels under rolling contacts through the formation of cracks associated with a microstructural change called white etching area (WEA). In the present research, the effects of the high-pressure torsion (HPT) process on the microstructure and mechanical properties of an AISI 52100 alloy are studied. An anneale...

The hypothesis that conodonts are vertebrates rests solely on evidence of soft tissue anatomy. This has been corroborated by microstructural, topological and developmental evidence of homology between conodont and vertebrate hard tissues. However, these conclusions have been reached on the basis of evidence from highly derived euconodont taxa and the degree to which they are representative of p...