• good electrical conductivity (>100 S cm 1 bulk conductivity), • high thermal conductivity (>20 W cm ), • high chemical and corrosion resistance, • mechanical stability toward compression forces, • low permeability for hydrogen, • low-cost material being processable with mass production techniques, • low weight and volume, and • recyclable materials. Two different kinds of materials have been ...

A typical MCP consists of about 10,000,000 closely packed channels of common diameter which are formed by drawing, etching, or firing in hydrogen, a lead glass matrix. Typically, the diameter of each channel is ~ 10 microns. Each channel acts as an independent, continuous dinode photomultiplier. In astronomy, and in the many other fields that use MCPs, the detectors are generally used for disto...

ome of the consequences of the motion of Earth's tectonic plates are quite evident: various mountain chains for instance. Others, such as events occurring deep in subduction zones where one plate plunges beneath another, can be seen only indirectly through seismic imaging techniques. The approach allows the structure of Earth's interior to be reconstructed from observed seismograms, and it cont...

The development of anterior cervical plates (ACPs) represents a rapidly changing aspect of spine surgery. This paper focuses on a historical overview of ACPs. The authors discuss the disadvantages of earlier generations of plates and demonstrate how current plates have been designed to overcome the presumed shortcomings of their predecessors. This historical review begins with the earliest plat...

The uniformity of Xenobind covalent binding microwell plates was compared with that of passive binding plates by binding streptavidin to the plate surface, reacting the streptavidin with biotinylated alkaline phosphatase, and developing color with phenolphthalein monophosphate. Absorbance of the covalent binding plates at 570 nm was 0.95 A (CV 1.9%) compared with 0.35-0.5 A (CV 6.7-16.9%), for ...

in this paper, nonlinear equations of motion for laminated composite rectangular plates based on the first order shear deformation theory were derived. using a perturbation method, the nonlinear equation of motion was solved and analytical relations were obtained for natural and nonlinear frequencies. after proving the validity of the obtained analytical relations, as an alternative and simple ...