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Open AccessMeasurement of mass force field driving water refilling of cuttage
Cuttage is a common plant cultivation method, and the key to its survival is the restoration of water refilling, which remains unclear up to now. We report 3D dynamic imaging of water refilling of cuttage with...
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Open AccessInhibiting weld cracking in high-strength aluminium alloys
Cracking from a fine equiaxed zone (FQZ), often just tens of microns across, plagues the welding of 7000 series aluminum alloys. Using a multiscale correlative methodology, from the millimeter scale to the nan...
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Open AccessA substitute variety for agronomically and medicinally important Serenoa repens (saw palmetto)
Serenoa repens (saw palmetto) berries are one of the most consumed medicinal herbs in the United States and the wild green variety is used in the initial therapy of benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), globally. U...
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Open AccessStructural and topological nature of plasticity in sheared granular materials
Upon mechanical loading, granular materials yield and undergo plastic deformation. The nature of plastic deformation is essential for the development of the macroscopic constitutive models and the understandin...
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Phase-retrieval-based synchrotron X-ray micro-tomography for 3D structural characterization and quantitative analysis of agalloch eaglewood
The propagation-based phase-contrast computed micro-tomography (PPCT) dominates the nondestructive three-dimensional inner structure measurement in biological and soft material research, especially for the syn...
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Micro-CT investigation of ostrich eggshell beads collected from Locality 12, the Shuidonggou site, China
Ostrich eggshell (OES) beads are an important kind of human ornaments, because their production reflects the development of modern human behavior, thinking ability, and cognitive level. Although the manufactur...
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Open AccessSelection for Oil Content During Soybean Domestication Revealed by X-Ray Tomography of Ancient Beans
When and under what circumstances domestication related traits evolved in soybean (Glycine max) is not well understood. Seed size has been a focus of archaeological attention because increased soybean seed weight...
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Open AccessVisualization and Pathological Characteristics of Hepatic Alveolar Echinococcosis with Synchrotron-based X-ray Phase Sensitive Micro-tomography
Propagation-based phase-contrast computed tomography (PPCT) utilizes highly sensitive phase-contrast technology applied to X-ray micro-tomography, especially with the extensive use of synchrotron radiation (SR...
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Open AccessAnisotropic shrinkage of insect air sacs revealed in vivo by X-ray microtomography
Air sacs are thought to be the bellows for insect respiration. However, their exact mechanism of action as a bellows remains unclear. A direct way to investigate this problem is in vivo observation of the changes...
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Open AccessDeciphering buried air phases on natural and bioinspired superhydrophobic surfaces using synchrotron radiation-based X-ray phase-contrast imaging
Superhydrophobicity is an important phenomenon in nature that inspires the design of numerous biomimetic functional materials. A superhydrophobic surface is expected to have a three-phase solid–liquid-vapor in...
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Real Time Observation of Interface Evolution in Al/Cu Bimetal by Synchrotron Radiation Imaging
The synchrotron radiation imaging technique has been applied to in situ observed the formation process of an Al/Cu bimetal by using the 3rd generation synchrotron X-ray source, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation F...
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In Situ Study on the Evolution of Dendrite Morphology Affected by Electric Field in Sn-Bi Alloy
With high energy, high brilliance and eminent collimation, synchrotron X-ray imaging enables in situ observation of dendrite growth during the solidification of Sn-Bi alloy under an applied electric field such...
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Synchrotron radiation phase-contrast computed tomography study on self-assembly of polystyrene colloidal crystals via solvent evaporation
The colloidal crystals of polystyrene (PS) spheres were assembled from the emulsion of PS by an in situ solvent evaporation method. The local internal 3D structure of the fabricated colloidal crystals was noni...
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Thermal and elemental analysis of the combustion chamber deposits in a large-scale two-stroke marine diesel engine
It is of significance to understand the chemical content of carbon deposits in the large-scale two-stroke (LSTS) marine diesel engine because of adverse effect on the engine performance, oil consumption and em...
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Open AccessThe structural origin of the hard-sphere glass transition in granular packing
Glass transition is accompanied by a rapid growth of the structural relaxation time and a concomitant decrease of configurational entropy. It remains unclear whether the transition has a thermodynamic origin, ...
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Three dimensional microstructures and wear resistance of Al-Bi immiscible alloys with different grain refiners
The three dimensional (3D) microstructures of Al-Bi alloys with different grain refiners (Al-5Ti-B, Al-3B and Al-3Ti) have been studied using synchrotron X-ray microtomography. The relationships between the mi...
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Open AccessIn-line phase-contrast and grating-based phase-contrast synchrotron imaging study of brain micrometastasis of breast cancer
Current bio-medical imaging researches aim to detect brain micrometastasis in early stage for its increasing incidence and high mortality rates. Synchrotron phase-contrast imaging techniques, such as in-line p...
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Towards Automated Quantitative Vasculature Understanding via Ultra High-Resolution Imagery
This chapter presents an approach to processing ultra high-resolution, large-size biomedical imaging data for the purposes of detecting and quantifying vasculature and microvasculature . Capturing early signs...
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In situ synchrotron X-ray imaging on morphological evolution of dendrites in Sn–Bi hypoeutectic alloy under electric currents
The growth behavior and morphological evolution of dendrites in solidifying Sn–Bi alloy under electric currents [e.g., direct current (DC) and electric current pulse (ECP)] are in situ studied using synchrotro...
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In situ study on growth behavior of Cu6Sn5 during solidification with an applied DC in RE-doped Sn–Cu solder alloys
The growth behavior of Cu6Sn5 intermetallic compounds in rare earth (RE)-doped Sn–Cu solder alloys with an applied direct current (DC) has been in situ investigated using synchrotron radiation imaging technology....
