Volume 20, Issue 1 (January 2006)

This article describes the identification and characterisation of 30 to 50-nm diameter carbon nanorods in sucrose char. Sucrose char was characterized with the aid of electron diffraction and Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy...

Step and flash imprint lithography possesses important low cost and alignment registration advantages over photolithography and other next-generation techniques. Because the final feature image is dependent on the three-dimensional relief structure in the quartz template, it is critical that the template features be well characterized...

The analysis of corrosion processes in cement containing composites is complex. In order to fully evaluate the causes of the corrosion process in concretes and the mechanisms involved several research tools should usually be employed...

Fabrication and characterization of elongated semiconductor nanostructures in the form of wires, needles or tubes, is a subject of interest due to their potential use in nanoelectronics, sensor devices and other applications. In this work elongated micro- and nanostructures of several semiconductors, such as SnO₂, Ga₂O₃ and CdSe, were grown during the sintering of powdered materials under argon flow...