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The 1999 Material Research Society Fall Meeting took place in Boston Copley Plaza from November 26 to December 3. This was the first time that MRS has used the spacious Hynes Convention Center as the primary meeting site, with the Marriott Hotel as an
The 48th Annual Denver X-ray Conference took place at Sheraton Steamboat Resort, Colorado, from August 2-6, 1999. This meeting was well attended, with a combined number of 650 conference attendees and exhibitors. It was supported by the International
Development of low friction surfaces has become an important issue for the development of reliable devices with moving components. The common way to measure nanofriction is to use a sharp tip sliding on a sample surface. High contact pressure at the tip
We use the equations for steady-state diffusion-induced grain boundary motion (DIGM), derived from our phase-field model, [17] to predict the grain boundary morphology and speed of DIGM, as well as the resulting compositions profiles, when the specimen
The thermal conductivity of AIN specimens doped with Y2O3(5 wt.%) was determined using the photothermal deflection technique. The results agree within 10% of measurements previously made using the laser flash method. Thermal measurements on as-fired thin
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Long-term service life of a load-bearing ceramic component such as a turbine blade atelevated temperatures is often controlled by the rates of nucleation and growth of creepcavities at grain junctions and interfaces within the microstructure of the
Non-adhesive and water-repellent surfaces are required for many tribological applications. Wetting of patterned superhydrophobic Si surfaces is studied as a multiscale process involving the macroscale (water droplet size), microscale (surface texture size)
Julia Slutsker, V Talanov, I Smolyaninov, Igor Levin, A R. Schwartz, Alexander L. Roytburd
The response of self-assembled CoFe2O4-PbTiO3 multiferroic nanostructures to an external microwave field was analyzed using a near-field scanning microwave probe. The nanostructures, grown as thin films on single crystal SrTiO3, consisted of magnetic
The vapor pressure of Mg(g) over MgB 2(cr) for the reaction 2 MgB 2(cr) Mg(g)+MgB 4(cr) has been measured thermogravimetrically from 900 degrees celsius to 1100 degrees celsius at 0.1 mPa(1 atm) total pressure using a modified Knudsen effusion method and
J Ilavsky, P Jemain, Andrew J. Allen, Gabrielle G. Long
The USAXS facility at UNICAT Sector 33 at the Advanced Photon Source (APS) is a world-class resource for advanced materials research emphasizing full-range charactrization of nanometer-scale to micrometer-scale microstructures. Receiving photons from an
T A. Dobbins, Andrew J. Allen, J Ilavsky, Gabrielle G. Long, A Kulkarni, H Herman
Yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) are used to protect turbine rotor and blade components in aircraft and land-based engines from operational temperatures (exceeding 1200 oC). Traditionally, those coatings are deposited using
Stephen W. Freiman, Richard R. Cavanagh, C K. Montgomery, Thomas J. Shaffner, S Arepalli, B Files, P Nikolaev
This document is an executive summary of a workshop organized jointly by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center (NASA/JSC) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) was held on May 27-29, 2003