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The effect of mountainous laser texturing on improving the interfacial adhesion and tribological properties of WC-TiC-Co-based AlCrN coatings was studied, which is crucial for the durability of AlCrN coatings....
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Ultrahigh selectivity self-condensation of cyclohexanone over TiO2/Al2O3 catalysts and kinetics study
A series of TiO2/Al2O3 catalysts for cyclohexanone condensation have been prepared by impregnation method. Various characterization techniques, including XRD, BET, SEM, FT-IR, NH3-TPD, and Py-IR were applied to c...
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Open AccessAnisotropic, biomorphic cellular Si3N4 ceramics with directional well-aligned nanowhisker arrays based on wood-mimetic architectures
Inspired by the transport behavior of water and ions through the aligned channels in trees, we demonstrate a facile, scalable approach for constructing biomorphic cellular Si3N4 ceramic frameworks with well-align...
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Effects of Ce Addition on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Accident-Tolerance Fe-Cr-Al Fuel Cladding Materials
Fe-Cr-Al alloys are promising materials for accident-tolerance fuel cladding applications due to their excellent performance of oxidation and corrosion resistance under elevated temperature. In this study, eff...
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Influence of Hot Rolling on Mechanical Behavior and Strengthening Mechanism in Boron Carbide Reinforced Aluminum Matrix Composites
Boron carbide reinforced aluminum matrix composites are widely used as neutron absorption materials. Here we report that mechanical alloying has been successfully employed to synthesize metal matrix composite ...
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Influence of Austenitizing Temperature and Time on Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of an YP460 Grade Crack Arrest Steel
The influence of austenitizing temperature and austenitizing holding time on the microstructure and mechanical properties of a YP460 grade crack arrest steel was investigated. The first group specimens were au...
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Effects of Matrix Microstructure on the Nanoscale Precipitation and Precipitation Strengthening in an Ultra-high Strength Steel
Matrix microstructure and nanoscale clusters are the two main factors influencing the mechanical properties of nanocluster strengthened steels. Here, an ultra-high strength steel with a tensile strength of ~1....
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Effects of Solid Solution Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties in the Ultra-High Strength Steel Strengthened by Nanoscale Particles
The microstructure and mechanical properties of the ultra-high strength steel by nanoscale particles are studied in detail with different solid solution treatment. The results indicated that the microstructure...
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Influence of Strain Path Change on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Duplex Mg–Li Alloy
The microstructures, texture evolution, and mechanical properties of unidirectionally-rolled and cross-rolled Mg–9Li–6Er alloy were investigated in this paper. The results show that the Mg–9Li–6Er alloy mainly...
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Influences of Thermomechanical Treatments on the Microcstructure Evolution and Mechanical Properties of Nano-precipitates Strengthened Steels
Nano-precipitates strengthened steels exhibit excellent combination of high strength, high toughness and good weldability. In this study, the optimized thermomechanical processing and aging treatments are used...
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Synthesis and Characterization of Al–B4C Powders by Mechanical Alloying
Boron carbide reinforced aluminum matrix composites are widely used as neutron absorption materials. Here we report that mechanical alloying has been successfully employed to synthesize metal matrix composite ...
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Tunable bandgap and optical properties of (Eu, Sm) codoped ZnO nanoparticles
The (Eu, Sm) codoped ZnO nanoparticles were prepared by chemical precipitation route and characterized by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, transmission electron microscope, X-ray photoelectron spectrosco...
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Influences of Thermomechanical Processing on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of a HSLA Steel
High strength low alloy (HSLA) steels with high strength, high toughness, good corrosion resistance and weldability, can be widely used in shipbuilding, automobile, construction, bridging industry, etc. The mi...
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Rapid synthesis and photoluminescence properties of Eu-doped ZnO nanoneedles via facile hydrothermal method
Eu-doped ZnO nanoneedles with different do** concentrations were prepared via the facile hydrothermal method. The crystal structure, morphology and photoluminescence property of the ZnO nanoneedles were charact...
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Effect of annealing temperature on the energy transfer in Eu-doped ZnO nanoparticles by chemical precipitation method
Eu-doped ZnO nanoparticles were synthesized by the chemical precipitation method and the annealing temperature effect on the structures and photoluminescence (PL) properties of the nanoparticles were briefly i...
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Value of Information Analysis in Dynamic Influence Diagrams
Value of information calculation is an important tool for sensitive analysis in intelligent normative decision systems. In this paper, we study the time invariant features in models represented as dynamic infl...
