A combination of 3MeV proton PIXE-PIGE, MA-XRF and 10-15 MeV proton activation analysis has been recently applied on the external beam line of the cyclotron of IPNAS/CEA laboratory from the University of Liège, and thus, to a wide variety of archaeological specimens (glass, pottery, mortars and pigments) all provided by on-going studies and excavat...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
Ternary fluorophosphates glasses doped with one of oxides: CeO2, ZnO, Ag2O, La2O3 were prepared by the melt—annealing technique. Differential thermal analysis of the prepared samples was conducted to obtain the suitable temperatures for thermal heat treatment of the parent glasses to be able to convert them to their corresponding glass–ceramics. X-...
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In this study the flexural performance of the over reinforced beam with hybrid fibres and GGBS has been experimentally investigated. Concrete is generally brittle material and it fails in brittle nature which is a major drawback in the over reinforced section. The brittle nature of the concrete can be changed by addition of fibres, proper confineme...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
The Group 16 elements are frequently named as chalcogens (‘ore builders’). From the geographical point of view, they are known as chalcophiles which are the soft elements (keeping in mind the terminology of the hard/soft acids and bases concept). In the geographical sense, chalcophiles preferably form minerals with sulfur (S), selenium (Se) and tel...
Published in SN Applied Sciences
Hermetic and mechanically strong glass-to-metal seals are required for many applications in technological fields such as aerospace engineering or medical engineering. While traditional glass-to-metal bonding technologies require melting of the glass, modern technologies such as anodic bonding use glass in its solid state. In this publication, a nov...
Published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
Here, we report on a low-cost, disposable microfluidic pump made from sieved glass particles. The pump overcomes the limitations of other passive pumping methods and can handle whole blood, which makes it useful for point-of-care diagnostics. Flow rates of up to 8.7 µL/s and pumping volumes of up to 1 mL were demonstrated, but both can be adjusted ...
The method of positron annihilation lifetime (PAL) spectroscopy was first employed to study atomic‐deficient free‐volume structure of nanocomposites prepared by high‐energy mechanical milling of glassy g‐As2Se3 in water solution of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP). The formalism of x3‐x2‐CDA (coupling decomposition algorithm) describing conversion of bou...
Published in International Journal of Precision Engineering and Manufacturing
Microchannels are the main features that characterize microfluidic devices. Also, glass is given priority in selecting a substrate material in the development of microfluidic devices due to its high degree of transparency, high chemical resistance, inertness to most substances, ability to sustain higher temperature, biological compatibility, and re...
