Longitudinal Reservoir Evaluation Technique for Tight Oil Reservoirs by Yutian Luo, Zhengming Yang, Zhenxing Tang, Sibin Zhou, Jinwei Wu, Qianhua Xiao

“…In this study, according to the characteristics of longitudinal physical properties of tight oil reservoirs, advanced experimental techniques such as nuclear magnetic resonance, high pressure mercury intrusion, and X-ray diffraction were adopted; the flow capacity, reservoir capacity, ability to build an effective displacement system, and the ability to resist damage in reservoir reconstruction were considered as evaluation indexes; average throat radius, percentage of movable fluid, start-up pressure gradient, and the content of clay minerals were taken as the evaluation parameters. …”
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Bactericidal Activity of TiO2 on Cells of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 27853 by J. L. Aguilar Salinas, J. R. Pacheco Aguilar, S. A. Mayén Hernández, J. Santos Cruz

“…The obtained gel annealed at 450°C was characterized by X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, diffuse reflectance, scanning electron microscopy, and transmission electron microscopy. …”
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Preparation and Characterization of Carrageenan-Modified Starch-Egg White Protein Composite Gels by CUI Yaxue, LI Wenzhao, YANG Xiaofei, YAN Feng, ZHANG Jiaping, RUAN Meijuan

“…X-ray diffractometry revealed that the diffraction peak intensity of the polysaccharide-protein composite gel was weakened, implying a reduction in the degree of crystallinity. …”
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Biochemical Evaluation and Green Synthesis of Nano Silver Using Peroxidase from Euphorbia (Euphorbia amygdaloides) and Its Antibacterial Activity by Semra Cicek, Azize Alaylı Gungor, Ahmet Adiguzel, Hayrunnisa Nadaroglu

“…The synthesized silver nanoparticles were characterized by UV spectrum, scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction. Antibacterial activity of silver nanoparticles was measured against some microorganisms such as Serratia marcescens, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Staphylococcus epidermidis, Streptococcus pyogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Salmonella typhimurium, Listeria monocytogenes, and Escherichia coli. …”
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Characterization of the expanded austenite developed on AISI 316 LM steel by plasma nitriding by Keddam M., Thiriet T., Marcos G., Czerwiec T.

“…Different experimental techniques such as: optical microscopy (OM), X- ray diffraction (XRD ) and glow discharge optical emission spectroscopy (GDOES) were used to characterize the expanded austenite layer formed at the surface of AISI 316 LM stainless steel. …”
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Novel FeII and CoII Complexes of Natural Product Tryptanthrin: Synthesis and Binding with G-Quadruplex DNA by Yi-ning Zhong, Yan Zhang, Yun-qiong Gu, Shi-yun Wu, Wen-ying Shen, Ming-xiong Tan

“…Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analyses show that these complexes display distorted four-coordinated tetrahedron geometry via two heterocyclic nitrogen and oxygen atoms from tryptanthrin ligand. …”
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Improvement of Interfacial Shear Strength of Mendong Fiber (Fimbristylis globulosa) Reinforced Epoxy Composite Using the AC Electric Fields by Heru Suryanto, Eko Marsyahyo, Yudy Surya Irawan, Rudy Soenoko, Aminudin

“…Structure of the epoxy was studied by X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and Scanning Electron Microscope, respectively. …”
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Characterization of Boride Coatings on AISI 8620 Steels without and with Hydrogen Permeation by Marco Antonio Doñu Ruiz, Ernesto David García Bustos, Tomas de la Mora Ramirez, David Sánchez Huitron, Víctor Jorge Cortes Suarez, Noé López Perrusquia

“…Specimens borided without and with hydrogen were characterized by scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction. The experimental techniques of the Vickers microhardness and three-point bending were used. …”
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Mononuclear and Dinuclear Manganese(II) Complexes from the Use of Methyl(2-pyridyl)ketone Oxime by Constantinos G. Efthymiou, Vassilios Nastopoulos, Catherine Raptopoulou, Anastasios Tasiopoulos, Spyros P. Perlepes, Constantina Papatriantafyllopoulou

“…The structures of both compounds have been determined by single crystal X-ray diffraction. In both complexes, the organic ligand chelates through its nitrogen atoms. …”
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In-situ EBSD observation of structure evolution in tensile deformation of NiCrMoV high-strength steel at room temperature by Guangyuan Yang, Xianglong Meng, Zhiyong Gao

“…Studying the microstructure evolution during simple tensile loading can help understand the deformation mechanism of low carbon steel and improve the prediction accuracy of numerical simulations, exploring the path to reduce the Bauschinger effect.In this paper, the deformation mechanisms of the NiCrMoV high-strength steel during room-temperature tension were studied in detail by in-situ electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), visco-plastic self-consistent (VPSC) modeling and slip trace analysis. …”
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Numerical Simulations of Transfer of Spatial Beam Aberrations in Optical Parametric Chirped-Pulse Amplification by Ying Chen, Yuan Zhou, Guobao Jiang, Lulu Wang

“…In the case of a non-diffraction-limited pump beam, the greater the beam quality factor Mp2, the lower the conversion efficiency of the output signal in the OPCPA process. …”
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Thermal behavior of ground talc mineral by Balek V., Šubrt J., Pérez-Maqueda L.A., Beneš M., Bountseva I.M., Beckman I.N., Pérez-Rodríguez J.L.

“…Microstructure development and thermal behavior of ground talc mineral samples (from locality Puebla de Lillo, Spain) was characterized by X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy(SEM),surface area measurements differential thermal analysis, thermogravimetry and emanation thermal analysis (ETA).A vibratory mill and grinding time 5 min. was used to prepare the ground talc sample. …”
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Magnetic Phase Separation and Magnetic Moment Alignment in Ordered Alloys FE65Al35−xMx (Mx = Ga, B; x = 0; 5 at.%) by E. V. Voronina, A. K. Arzhnikov, A. I. Chumakov, N. I. Chistyakova, A. G. Ivanova, A. V. Pyataev, A. V. Korolev

“….%) alloys are investigated using X-ray diffraction, Mössbauer spectroscopy, and magnetic measurements. …”
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Structural and Morphological Studies of V2O5/MWCNTs and ZrO2/MWCNTs Composites as Photocatalysts by Sajid Iqbal, Tanveer Hussain Bokhari, Shoomaila Latif, Muhammad Imran, Ayesha Javaid, Liviu Mitu

“…Subsequently, these composites were characterized for their structural/morphological studies by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). …”
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Pisonia Alba Assisted Synthesis of Nanosilver for Wound Healing Activity by Suba Kannaiyan, D. Easwaramoorthi, Karthik Kannan, Andal Gopal, R. Lakshmipathy, Khadijah Mohammedsaleh Katubi, Nayef S. Almuaikel, Ivan Leandro Rodriguez Rico

“…UV-visible spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction analysis, and s electron microscope (SEM) analysis were employed to evaluate the synthesized silver nanoparticles. …”
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Influence of Inertia and Low Active Mineral Admixture on Strength and Microstructure of Cement-Based Materials by Meijuan Rao, Wan Tang, Wei Zhou, Yaning Kong, Shuhua Liu

“…The compressive strength of the mortar at 28 and 90 d was examined whose microstructures were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), thermogravimetric analysis, and differential thermal analysis (TG-DTA). …”
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Dispersive Sweatt Model for Broadband Lens Design with Metasurfaces by Weiyu Chen, Ko-Han Shih, C. Kyle Renshaw

“…The Sweatt model has been extensively used to design optical systems containing diffractive optical elements (DOEs) because it captures the dispersive characteristics of DOEs. …”
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Application of Ultraviolet Radiation to Control the Calcium Carbonate Scale Formation and Deposition on the Membranes by Chanbasha Basheer, Mokhtar Rashwan, Eid Al-Mutairi, Amjad A. Shaikh, Khurram Karim Qureshi

“…Thus, the exposure of UV might help to improve the membranes’ lifetime. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy analyses revealed that UV light treatment produced mostly calcite crystals. …”
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Laboratory study on magnetization reduction of CO by Li Y., Yuan S., Han Y., Zhang S., Gao P.

“…In addition, the phase transformation, changes in magnetism, and microstructures were studied by thermodynamic analysis, chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction technique (XRD), vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM), and optical microscopy. …”
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Green Synthesis of Citrus sinensis Peel Extract-Mediated Ag-TiO2 and Its Application as a Photocatalyst for Organic Molecules and Antimicrobial Agent by Daniel Narh, Benjamin Sampson, Samuel Ocrah Junior, Gloria Pokuaa Manu, Benjamin Agyei-Tuffour, Emmanuel Nyankson, Johnson Kwame Efavi

“…Characterization via X-ray diffraction, Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectroscopy, and ultraviolet-visible spectrophotometry confirmed silver-titanium dioxide formation. …”
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