Volume 23, Issue 1, January 2009

Wei Sha, Haji Muhd Syamaizar Haji Mat Daud, Xiaomin Wu, School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

Gas nitriding is one of the thermochemical conversion methods used to improve the wear performance of a metal. Nitrogen gas is applied to the surface of the metal forming a nitrided layer such as titanium nitride...

Jörg Piper, Meduna-Klinik, Bad Bertrich, Germany

Dynamic range increase (DRI, synonym: exposure blending) and high dynamic range
rendering (HDR) are both suitable techniques for improving the image quality in photomicrographs, especially with specimens or illumination modes that are associated with a large variation in object brightness...

Élida Hermida ^1,2 and Vanesa Casariego¹ 1. Institute of Technology Prof. Jorge A. Sabato, UNSAM-CNEA and Department of Materials, CNEA, Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2. CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

PHBV is an important sustainable product as it is produced from renewable resources, is completely biodegradable, and can be moulded as a petrochemical thermoplastic. The mechanical behaviour and biodegradability of this semicrystalline material strongly depends on its morphology...

Sissi de Beer and Frieder Mugele, Physics of Complex Fluids, Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands

The properties of confined liquids are of fundamental interest for understanding the limitations of conventional continuum hydrodynamics on small scales. In this article we present accurate measurements of oscillatory solvation forces that arise due to confinement of octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane between an AFM tip and a highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) surface