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Catalin Panaghie, Ramona Cimpoe?u, Georgeta Zegan, Ana-Maria Roman, Mircea Catalin Ivanescu, Andra Adorata Aelenei, Marcelin Benchea, Nicanor Cimpoe?u and Nicoleta Ioanid
Biodegradable metallic materials represent a new class of biocompatible materials for medical applications based on numerous advantages. Among them, those based on zinc have a rate of degradation close to the healing period required by many clinical prob...
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Masatsugu Hirota, Chihiro Mochizuki, Mitsunobu Sato and Tohru Hayakawa
The influence of heating conditions, heating temperature, and heating time on the formation of a thin carbonate-containing hydroxyapatite (CA) film onto partially stabilized zirconia using a molecular precursor method was evaluated. The molecular precurs...
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Andrea Abreu-García, Ricardo M. Souto and Javier Izquierdo
In this paper, the applicability of Ti6Al7Nb as a more biocompatible alternative for bone and dental implants than Ti6Al4V and pure titanium in terms of corrosion resistance and electrochemical inertness is investigated. The chemical inertness and corros...
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Hansheng Li, Fenglei Han, Haitao Zhu, Jiawei Zhang, Weipeng Zhang and Yuliang Wu
Diver propulsion vehicles (hereinafter referred to as DPV) are a kind of small vehicle with underwater high-speed used by divers, who are able to grasp or ride on, and operate the volume switch to change the speed. Different from unmanned underwater vehi...
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Kelei Wang and Zhou Zhou
This paper describes the aerodynamic design and assessment of a blended-wing?body (BWB) configuration under the distributed electric propulsion (DEP) installation constraints. The aerodynamic design rationale and process is described, as well as how the ...
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Ana M. Beltrán, Paloma Trueba, Flora Borie, Ana Alcudia, Belén Begines, José A. Rodriguez-Ortiz and Yadir Torres
The use of porous titanium samples fabricated by space-holder powder metallurgy with bioactive coatings has already been reported to prevent resorption of the bone surrounding the implant and improve osseointegration, respectively. However, the presence ...
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Hongzhou Dong and Sannakaisa Virtanen
Zinc-based alloys are emerging as an alternative to magnesium- and iron-based alloys for biodegradable implant applications, due to their appropriate corrosion performance and biocompatibility. However, localized corrosion occurring on the zinc surface, ...
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Michelina Catauro, Simona Piccolella and Cristina Leonelli
Silica/polycaprolactone and titania/polycaprolactone hybrid organic/inorganic amorphous composites were prepared via a sol-gel method starting from a multi-element solution containing tetramethyl orthosilicate (TMOS) or titanium butoxide (TBT), polycapro...
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Nima Meyer, Laura Ramos Rivera, Tim Ellis, Jiahui Qi, Mary P. Ryan and Aldo R. Boccaccini
This study investigated the electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of the natural polymer zein combined with bioactive glass (BG) particles. Through the deposition of various BG compositions, namely 45S5 BG and Cu-doped BG, this work sought to demonstrate the ...
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Arman Dastpak, Kirsi Yliniemi, Mariana Cecilio De Oliveira Monteiro, Sarah Höhn, Sannakaisa Virtanen, Mari Lundström and Benjamin P. Wilson
In this study, a waste of biorefinery—lignin—is investigated as an anticorrosion coating on stainless steel. Corrosion behavior of two lignin types (hardwood beech and softwood spruce) was studied by electrochemical measurements (linear sweep...
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Francesco Baino and Enrica Verné
Multicomponent silicate glasses and their corresponding glass-ceramic derivatives were prepared and tested for potential applications in dentistry. The glasses were produced via a melting-quenching process, ground and sieved to obtain fine-grained powder...
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Kuo-Yung Hung, Hong-Chen Lai and Hui-Ping Feng
Hydroxyapatite (HA) coatings on titanium have been investigated for many years, and have demonstrated advantageous biocompatibility in dental implants. Animal experiments have demonstrated that the biological response to plasma-sprayed HA-coated implants...
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Zhenyang He, Wenbin Wu, Junrong Wang, Lan Ding, Qiangbo Chang and Yahao Huang
When the underwater submersible encounters an internal solitary wave (ISW), its loadings and motions are significantly disturbed. To investigate the interaction mechanism between the suspended submersible and the ISW, a three-dimensional ISW?submersible-...
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Jianxiu Wang, Yanxia Long, Yu Zhao, Weiqiang Pan, Jianxun Qu, Tianliang Yang, Xinlei Huang, Xiaotian Liu and Na Xu
The drawdown outside of a deep foundation pit has to be controlled during excavation. However, the vertical curtain cannot cutoff a deep and thick confined aquifer during deep excavation. In this study, a microbial-induced carbonate precipitation (MICP) ...
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Jianwei Zhang, Bingpeng Wang, Huokun Li, Fuhong Zhang, Weitao Wu, Zixu Hu and Chengchi Deng
The dam-break water flow is a complex fluid motion, showing strong nonlinearity and stochasticity. In order to better study the characteristics of the dam burst flood, the smooth particle hydrodynamics (SPH) method was chosen to establish a two-dimension...
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Changzhe Chen, Lu Zou, Zaojian Zou and Haipeng Guo
Propeller modeling in virtual captive model tests is crucial to the prediction accuracy of ship maneuvering motion. In the present study, the Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method with two propeller modeling methods, Sliding Mesh (SM) and Multiple Re...
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Shangyan Zou and Ossama Abdelkhalik
Wave energy converters (WECs) usually require reactive power for increased levels of energy conversion, resulting in the need for more complex power take-off (PTO) units, compared to WECs that do not require reactive power. A WEC without reactive power p...
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Krzysztof Aniolek, Bozena Losiewicz, Julian Kubisztal, Patrycja Osak, Agnieszka Stróz, Adrian Barylski and Slawomir Kaptacz
Titanium and its alloys are among the most promising biomaterials for medical applications. In this work, the isothermal oxidation of Ti-6Al-7Nb biomedical alloy towards improving its mechanical properties, corrosion resistance, and bioactivity has been ...
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Intan Ria Neliana, Widhi Dyah Sawitri, Netty Ermawati, Tri Handoyo and Bambang Sugiharto
Sugarcane is considered as an industrial crop that produces sugar. The number of transgenic sugarcane on the market is currently increasing. Therefore, investigation of the potential allergens and toxics in transgenic sugarcane is necessary, since there ...
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Shahrouz Zamani Khalajabadi, Aminudin Bin Haji Abu, Norhayati Ahmad, Mohammed Rafiq Abdul Kadir, Ahmad Fauzi Ismail, Rozita Nasiri, Waseem Haider and Norizah Bt Hj Redzuan
In the field of orthopedics, magnesium (Mg) and magnesium-based composites as biodegradable materials have attracted fundamental research. However, the medical applications of magnesium implants have been restricted owing to their poor corrosion resistan...
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