Chemical Treatment of Sn‐Containing Transparent Conducting Oxides for the Enhanced Adhesion and Thermal Stability of Electroplated Metals by Ibbi Y. Ahmet, Fatwa F. Abdi, Roel van de Krol

“…Abstract A surface treatment process, named ReTreat, is presented, and is shown to enhance the adhesion of electroplated metals on Sn‐containing transparent conducting oxides (TCOs). …”
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Effect of temperature control on tribological and corrosion properties of copper in cathodic cage plasma nitriding by Muhammad Bilal Khalid, Syed Salman Hussain, Ameeq Farooq, Muhammad Shafiq, Yasin Khan, Muhammad Shoaib

“…Copper (Cu) samples were nitrided at various temperatures (100–400 °C) for a fixed time of 4 h. The treated samples were investigated using a micro-hardness tester, x-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, energy-dispersive x-ray spectroscopy, ball-on-disc wear tester, and potentiodynamic polarization. …”
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Evaluation of Sintering Behavior of Premix Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy Powder by Haris Rudianto, Gwang Joo Jang, Sang Sun Yang, Yong Jin Kim, Ivo Dlouhy

“…T6 heat treatment was done to improve the mechanical properties by formation of precipitation strengthening, and MgZn2 appears to be dominant strengthening precipitate. X-ray diffraction, optical microscopy, and SEM-EDS were used to characterize powder, and sintered and heat treated samples.…”
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Structure and electrochemical properties of D-glucose-derived hard carbon as a negative electrode in potassium-ion batteries by Elena N. Abramova, Nazerke Marat, Viktoria A. Nikitina, Artem M. Abakumov

“…Their structural evolution depending on the pyrolysis temperature was investigated with X-ray powder diffraction, Raman spectroscopy with additional characterization with scanning and transmission electron microscopy and gas adsorption/desorption measurements. …”
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Understanding the changes in multi-structure, physicochemical properties, and in vitro digestibility of quinoa starch by annealing with hydrogen-infused and plasma-activated water... by Hang Liu, Ge Tian, Shanshan Gao, Shuang Liu

“…Compared to that of native QS, ANN-modified samples had rougher surfaces and retained the A type X-ray diffraction pattern but with higher relative crystallinity. …”
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TiO2 paste for DSSC photoanode: preparation and optimization of application method by I. O. Selyanin, A. S. Steparuk, R. A. Irgashev, A. V. Mekhaev, G. L. Rusinov, A. S. Vorokh

“…The prepared paste was characterized by using thermogravimetric and X-ray diffraction methods for comparison with commercial paste (Solaronix). …”
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Effect of Boriding on the Tribological Behavior of Monel 400 Alloy by Christian Pacheco, Jefferson Luiz Jeronimo, Anael Preman Krelling, Cesar Edil da Costa, Júlio Cesar Giubilei Milan

“…The resulting boride layer, predominantly Ni2B, Ni3B, and Ni4B3, was characterized using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and evaluated for adhesion via Rockwell C indentation (VDI 3198 standard). …”
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Curcumin-Loaded Mixed Micelles: Preparation, Characterization, and In Vitro Antitumor Activity by Suping Ji, Xiao Lin, Enjiang Yu, Chengyang Dian, Xiong Yan, Liangyao Li, Meimei Zhang, Wenchang Zhao, Linghui Dian

“…The cell viability in MCF-7 cells was found to be relatively lower in Cur-TPGS-PM-treated cells as compared to free Cur-treated cells. …”
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Andrographis paniculata Mediated AuNPs as Anti-Microbial, Antioxidant, Anti-Diabetic Agents and their Efficacy in Wound Healing of Mice by Can Wu, Liang Huang

“…The biosynthesised AuNPs was examined using UV-Vis, FTIR Spectroscopy, TEM, XRD, SAED Diffraction, EDX, DLS, and zeta potential measurements. …”
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Consolidation of Rock in Rocky Architecture of Kandovan Village by Mehdi razani, Sayad Mohammad amin Emami, Alireza Baghbanan, Giovanni b. Crosta

“…For this propose petrographical, physical and mechanical properties of natural, weathered and treated rocks such as distribution of minerals, bulk density and total porosity, dry and saturated unit weight, water absorption, capillary absorption, slake-durability index and uniaxial compressive strength UCS; with different improvement materials are characterized using polarized microscope,  and X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD)). …”
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Biogenic AgNPs—A Nano Weapon against Bacterial Canker of Tomato (BCT) by Asma Noshad, Mudassar Iqbal, Crispin Hetherington, Hassan Wahab

“…AgNPs treated seeds showed a normal germination rate with normal seedling growth. …”
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In Vitro Cytotoxicity Study of Pt Nanoparticles Decorated TiO2 Nanotube Array by Shaymaa Rajab Baqer, Abdulkareem Alsammarraie, Mahasin Alias, Mohammad Al-Halbosiy, Amaal Sadiq

“…The MCF-7 cancer cell lines and WRL68 normal cell lines were treated with concentration 800, 400,200,100, 50, 25, 12.5µg\ml of TiO2NTs and Pt\TiO2NTs(1) and (2) for 48hours using MTT assay.IC50 and inhibition rate were calculated. …”
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Blend of low cost electrode material for energy storage device under DC glow discharge plasma exposed ESAC by Vijayalakshmi K.A, Judith Fennila, K T Maheswari

“…The investigation of the activated carbon was done utilizing structural, morphological, and electrochemical techniques of both pure and plasma treated. The increasing intensity of the X-ray diffraction indicates the carbon's amorphous and disorderly character. …”
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Preparation of Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles Immobilized on Polyacrylonitrile Nanofibres for the Photodegradation of Methyl Orange by Pardon Nyamukamba, Omobola Okoh, Lilian Tichagwa, Corinne Greyling

“…The composite nanofibres were heat treated to convert the polymer nanofibres to carbon nanofibres and to convert amorphous TiO2 to crystalline TiO2. …”
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Influence of Intercalation-Exfoliation-Reduction Technique towards the Physico-Chemical of VPO Catalysts by Y. C. Wong, Y. H. Taufiq-Yap

“…Catalytic evaluation of the IER-treated and Bi-doped VPO catalysts was also studied on microreactor. …”
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The bulk modulus of β-type Titanium Alloys for Hip and Bone Replacement by Adnan Mahmood Khalid

“…This work uses synchrotron x-ray diffraction to calculate the unit cell volume of beta-phase gum metal (Ti–23Nb–0.7 Ta–2Zr–1.2O-TNTZ-O system) at pressures 50, 45, 24, and 40 GPa respectively. …”
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Effect of HVOF method spraying parameters on phase composition and mechanical and tribological properties of 86WC-10Co-4Cr coating by Б.К. Рахадилов, Н. Мұқтанов, Д.Н. Кәкімжанов, П. Ковалевский

“…Usually, the often subjected to the wear process surface of the valves is treated by tungsten carbide cladding to improve its durability. …”
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Enlargement of the Surface Area of High‐Entropy Alloys with Acid Treatment as Positive Electrode for High Specific Capacitance Supercapacitors by Mahir Gülen, Recep Taş, Hamza Dünya, Shashanka Rajendrachari

“…The untreated HEA and the HCl‐treated HEA (HEA‐T) were then evaluated as potential cathode materials for supercapacitors (SCs). …”
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Effects of microbially induced calcite precipitation on static liquefaction behavior of a gold tailings sand by Hamed Behzadipour, Abouzar Sadrekarimi

“…This is demonstrated by the strong strain-hardening behaviors of the treated tailings specimens compared to the strain-softening and undrained strength loss in specimens of the untreated tailings. …”
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Effect of tung oil and zirconia powder surface treatment on the heat resistance of bamboo by Charles K.S. Moy, Y. Wang

“…XRD was able to confirm the moderate effect of the heat on the treated samples through the absence of large crystallites and also as expected the phase stability of the Zirconia coating. …”
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