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Study of Thermophysical Properties of Silver Nanofluids by ISS-HD, Hot Ball and IPPE Techniques
In this work, the impulsive stimulated scattering technique, in a heterodyne diffraction detection configuration (ISS-HD), was used to study the dependence of the speed of sound and the thermal diffusivity on ...
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Study of Thermal and Structural Properties of Starch Granules from Different Maize Genotypes
The thermal and structural properties of starch granules of four maize genotypes (Palomero Toluqueño native maize, HS-2 commercial hybrid, L3-Q2 M09 experimental hybrid and Cacahuacintle native maize) were stu...
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Open AccessRetinoic acid synergizes ATO-mediated cytotoxicity by precluding Nrf2 activity in AML cells
Standard therapy for acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL) includes retinoic acid (all-trans retinoic acid (ATRA)), which promotes differentiation of promyelocytic blasts. Although co-administration of arsenic trio...
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Thermoelastic Characterization of Changing Phase Distribution in Hardened Steel by Laser Ultrasonics
The increase of hardness of steel during a heat treatment intended to give components more performance is a result of a drastic change in grain size and microstructure, which in turn can be analyzed via change...
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Thermoelastic Model for Impulsive Stimulated Scattering Monitoring the Evolution from Capillary to Rayleigh Type Wave Propagation on the Surface of Viscoelastic Materials Throughout the Glass Transition
In recent decades, the impulsive stimulated scattering (ISS) method, which is based on photothermal and photoacoustic phenomena, has been successfully used to simultaneously investigate the thermal and elastic...
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Evidence from adiabatic scanning calorimetry for the Halperin-Lubensky-Ma effect at the N-SmA phase transitions in mixtures of 7OCB+heptane with an injected SmA phase
The high-resolution adiabatic scanning calorimetric technique has been used to investigate the nematic-smectic A transition (N-SmA in binary mixtures of the non-smectogenic liquid crystal heptyloxycyanobiphenyl (...
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Importance of Gluten and Starch for Structural and Textural Properties of Crumb from Fresh and Stored Bread
Bread crumb cellular structure and elasticity were monitored during aging and their relation to the main flour constituents, gluten and starch, was studied. The linear relation between the time-dependent slope...
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Specific Heat Capacity of Nitrobenzene–Tetradecane Near the Liquid–Liquid Critical Point
High-resolution adiabatic scanning calorimetry has been used to study the specific heat capacity anomaly of the nitrobenzene–tetradecane mixture near its upper critical point. The analysis, which is based on a...
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Dielectric Spectroscopy of Water Confined Between Aerosil Nanoparticles and in Vycor Nanoporous Glass
The dynamic properties of water dispersed in compacted aerosils and confined in Vycor porous glass have been investigated by means of dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. The measurements were performed in the ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Shearographic Detection of Delaminations in Sandwich Structures: Investigation on Various Excitation Modes
Delaminations are a common problem that occurs between the core and the skins of sandwich structures. Such defects may originate either from malfunctions in the manufacturing process leading to a reduced adhes...
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Effect of Porosity on Thermal Conductivity of Al–Si–Fe–X Alloy Powder Compacts
The thermal conductivity and thermal diffusivity of hot- and cold-pressed Al–17Si–5Fe–3.5Cu–1.1Mg–0.6Zr (mass%) alloy powder compacts were investigated as a function of the porosity volume fraction. Samples wi...
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Investigation of the thermal anisotropy of unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced composite plates using optically generated thermal waves and a noncontact optical detection technique
Optically generated thermal waves have been used to measure the thermal diffusivity of a unidirectional carbon fiber reinforced composite plate (CFRC) both parallel and perpendicular to the fiber direction. Th...
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Application of photoacoustic and photothermal techniques for heat conduction measurements in a free-standing chemical vapor-deposited diamond film
Heat conduction in a free-standing chemical vapor-deposited polycristalline diamond film has been investigated by means of combined front and rear photoacoustic signal detection techniques and also by means of...
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Application of photoacoustic and photothermal techniques for heat conduction measurements in a free-standing chemical vapor-deposited diamond film
Heat conduction in a free-standing chemical vapor-deposited polycristalline diamond film has been investigated by means of combined front and rear photoacoustic signal detection techniques and also by means of...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Acousto-Thermal Detection of the Magnetocaloric Effect
We present a new photoacoustic—like detection technique which allows for the rapid detection of small periodic temperature variations induced by small periodic adiabatic magnetic field variations. Results are ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Photoacoustic Investigation of Thin Solid Films in Contact with Liquids
The photoacoustic (PA) technique can be very useful in non-destructive testing of defects in materials. It offers also a possibility for performing a depth profiling analysis of layered materials. At high modu...
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Depth Profiling by Fourier Analysis of Photoacoustic Signals
The photoacoustic (PA) technique has been used obtain depth profiles of solids by different authors in the past [1]. It can be very time consuming to detect discontinuities in solids, since an X-Y scan has to ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Photoacoustic Investigation of the Anisotropic Thermal Behavior of Liquid Crystals
A completely automatic photoacoustic setup with microphone detection has been used to investigate the heat capacity and the thermal conductivity of not oriented or magnetically oriented liquid crystal samples ...
