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11 Citations
2,370 Views
21 Pages

21 February 2022

Chemical corrosion has a significant impact on the properties of rock materials. To study the mechanical behavior and energy mechanism of rock under chemical corrosion, this paper took the sandstone of Haitangshan tunnel in Fuxin as the research obje...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,871 Views
36 Pages

Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have opened new routes in the field of chemical sensing due to their unparalleled electrical conductivity, high surface area, and versatile functionalization capabilities. This review systematically examined the latest advance...

  • Review
  • Open Access
52 Citations
9,133 Views
20 Pages

Drip irrigation is an important way to alleviate the global water shortage. However, the emitter-clogging issue of drip irrigation directly affects irrigation uniformity and operation efficiency, even disabling the whole system and reducing crop prod...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,503 Views
26 Pages

15 September 2023

The application of jet fuel in gas turbines and diesel engines adheres to the Army’s single-fuel forward policy, streamlining supply chains. To ensure precise engine combustion numerical studies, surrogate fuels and mechanisms should faithfully...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,727 Views
16 Pages

4 January 2024

Polyamines have become important chemical components used in several integrated circuit manufacturing processes, such as etching, chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), and cleaning. Recently, researchers pointed out that polyamines can be excellent en...

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  • Open Access
1,912 Views
18 Pages

27 November 2024

For spark ignition and compression ignition ammonia engines, a typical approach to ensure stable operation involves the blending of ammonia with hydrogen and diesel, respectively. For the ammonia/hydrogen fuel, in this study a comprehensive compariso...

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  • Open Access
1,760 Views
30 Pages

12 January 2025

Chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) is a technique used to efficiently prepare defect-free, flat surfaces of stainless steel (SS) foils and sheets that are implemented in various modern devices. CMP uses (electro)chemical reactions to structurall...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
945 Views
26 Pages

Mechanism of Pit Formation on Surface of Superconducting Niobium Cavities During Buffered Chemical Polishing

  • Zheng Wang,
  • Jinfang Chen,
  • Yawei Huang,
  • Yue Zong,
  • Shuai Xing,
  • Jiani Wu,
  • Xiaowei Wu,
  • Pengcheng Dong,
  • Runzhi Xia and
  • Xiaohu Wang
  • + 5 authors

16 February 2025

Superconducting radio-frequency niobium cavities processed using buffered chemical polishing (BCP) sometimes show typical W-shaped pits on their surface, which may greatly limit their performance. However, the causes of such pits and effective soluti...

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  • Open Access
1,678 Views
12 Pages

In-Depth Understanding of the Chemical Stripping Mechanism of AlSiY Coatings on Nickel Superalloys by First-Principles Calculation

  • Hongying Li,
  • Chaoyong Luo,
  • Ce Zhang,
  • Lei Wu,
  • Xiaolong Zhou,
  • Chengsong Zhang,
  • Yang Wang and
  • Zhiwu Wang

19 January 2024

In order to repair a failed AlSiY coating on aeroengine turbine components, the AlSiY coating was stripped using a nitric acid-based removal reagent. The homogeneity of chemical stripping was evaluated and the stripping mechanism was clarified using...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,766 Views
12 Pages

Study on Explosion Mechanism of Dimethyl Ether/H2-Blended Gas Based on Chemical Kinetics Method

  • Yong Zhou,
  • Yang Kong,
  • Qi Zhang,
  • Qi Huang,
  • Zhikai Wei and
  • Huaheng Lu

20 September 2024

In order to reveal the deflagration mechanism of DME/H2-blended gasses, the micro-mechanism was studied based on the constructed UC San Diego 2016 pyrolysis oxidation mechanism model. The results show that adiabatic flame temperature and laminar flam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,712 Views
15 Pages

3 December 2019

With the development of nanotechnology, reduced graphene oxide (rGO) has been used to improve the flexural strength of geopolymers. However, the reinforcing mechanism of rGO nanosheets on the flexural strength of geopolymers remains unclear. Here, th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,342 Views
17 Pages

8 January 2018

The dielectric monitoring/diagnostic tool, such as Polarization and Depolarization Current (PDC) measurement, is now being widely applied to obtain the status of deteriorated transformers around the world. Nowadays, several works have reported that t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,190 Views
14 Pages

15 March 2024

As a clean alternative fuel oil for marine engines, methanol has received increasing attention, but its low cetane number requires diesel ignition, which increases the difficulty of retrofitting existing engine fuel injection systems. Polymethoxy dim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,995 Views
18 Pages

Dispersion and Polishing Mechanism of a Novel CeO2-LaOF-Based Chemical Mechanical Polishing Slurry for Quartz Glass

  • Zifeng Zhao,
  • Zhenyu Zhang,
  • Chunjing Shi,
  • Junyuan Feng,
  • Xuye Zhuang,
  • Li Li,
  • Fanning Meng,
  • Haodong Li,
  • Zihang Xue and
  • Dongdong Liu

29 January 2023

Quartz glass shows superior physicochemical properties and is used in modern high technology. Due to its hard and brittle characteristics, traditional polishing slurry mostly uses strong acid, strong alkali, and potent corrosive additives, which caus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,797 Views
18 Pages

7 October 2015

New patterns of steady-state chemical kinetics for continuously stirred-tank reactors (CSTR) have been found, i.e., intersections, maxima and coincidences, for two-step mechanism A↔B→C. There were found elegant analytical relationships for characteri...

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  • Open Access
1,513 Views
27 Pages

22 October 2024

In the context of smart agriculture, accurately estimating plant leaf chemical parameters is crucial for optimizing crop management and improving agricultural yield. Hyperspectral imaging, with its ability to capture detailed spectral information acr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,769 Views
17 Pages

The Effective Combination of Humic Acid Phosphate Fertilizer Regulating the Form Transformation of Phosphorus and the Chemical and Microbial Mechanism of Its Phosphorus Availability

  • Qizhong Xiong,
  • Shaojie Wang,
  • Xuewei Lu,
  • Yating Xu,
  • Lei Zhang,
  • Xiaohui Chen,
  • Gang Xu,
  • Da Tian,
  • Ligan Zhang and
  • Jianyuan Jing
  • + 1 author

11 June 2023

In the process of phosphate fertilizer production, adding humic acid to produce humic-acid-value-added phosphate fertilizer can improve fertilizer efficiency and promote crop growth. Although studies have primarily focused on investigating the impact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,981 Views
23 Pages

Chemical Mechanism Solvers in Air Quality Models

  • Hong Zhang,
  • John C. Linford,
  • Adrian Sandu and
  • Rolf Sander

13 September 2011

The solution of chemical kinetics is one of the most computationally intensivetasks in atmospheric chemical transport simulations. Due to the stiff nature of the system,implicit time stepping algorithms which repeatedly solve linear systems of equati...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,898 Views
8 Pages

Dominant Chemical Interactions Governing the Folding Mechanism of Oligopeptides

  • Michele Larocca,
  • Giuseppe Floresta,
  • Daniele Verderese and
  • Agostino Cilibrizzi

4 September 2024

The hydrophobic effect is the main factor that drives the folding of polypeptide chains. In this study, we have examined the influence of the hydrophobic effect in the context of the main mechanical forces approach, mainly in relation to the establis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,844 Views
29 Pages

As the solid waste by-product from the delayed coking process, high-sulfur petroleum coke (HSPC), which is hardly used for green utilization, becomes a promising raw material for Hg0 removal from coal-fired flue gas. The effects of the physical&ndash...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,698 Views
23 Pages

25 June 2019

This study investigated the effects of H2 and CH4 concentrations on the ignition delay time and laminar flame speed during the combustion of CH4/H2 and multicomponent syngas mixtures using a novel constructed reduced syngas chemical kinetics mechanis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,566 Views
19 Pages

28 July 2021

The present research focuses the chemical aspect of entropy and exergy properties. This research represents the complement of a previous treatise already published and constitutes a set of concepts and definitions relating to the entropy–exergy relat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,107 Views
18 Pages

15 March 2023

Due to their compositional complexity and flexibility, multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) have a wide range of design and application prospects. Many researchers focus on tuning chemical inhomogeneity to improve the overall performance of MPEAs....

  • Review
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81 Citations
20,810 Views
18 Pages

9 January 2020

When crude oil is extracted out of a subterranean reservoir at high temperature and pressure, it is usually transported via a pipeline, where the crude oil experiences radical changes in its physical and chemical properties, instigating numerous comp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,695 Views
13 Pages

28 March 2024

Diamond surfaces must be of high quality for potential use in semiconductors, optical windows, and heat conductivity applications. However, due to the material’s exceptional hardness and chemical stability, it can be difficult to obtain a smoot...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,027 Views
19 Pages

31 January 2024

Volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions to the atmosphere cause air pollution associated with adverse health outcomes. Volatile chemical products (VCPs) have emerged as a VOC emission category that is poorly characterized by air pollution models. V...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,153 Views
12 Pages

The Application of Food-Grade Chemical Treatment and Its Effect on the Mechanical Performance Characteristics of Ham Nets

  • Md. Al-Amin,
  • Charles Freeman,
  • Wes Schilling,
  • Catherine Black,
  • Yan Li Campbell,
  • Wenjie Shao,
  • Santanu Kundu and
  • Anandavalli Varadajan

22 October 2021

This study involves the use of food-grade chemicals in the integrated pest management of dry-cured ham through the use of 100% polyester weft knitted mesh nets, an idea that was derived from a previously published study in the literature. Tubular mes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,038 Views
15 Pages

Zinc Phthalocyanine Sensing Mechanism Quantification for Potential Application in Chemical Warfare Agent Detectors

  • Paulina Powroźnik,
  • Barbara Solecka,
  • Piotr Pander,
  • Wiesław Jakubik,
  • Fernando B. Dias and
  • Maciej Krzywiecki

16 December 2022

Rapid and accurate detection of lethal volatile compounds is an emerging requirement to ensure the security of the current and future society. Since the threats are becoming more complex, the assurance of future sensing devices’ performance can...

  • Review
  • Open Access
35 Citations
12,077 Views
22 Pages

28 September 2019

A hydrogel is a polymeric three-dimensional network structure. The applications of this material type are diversified over a broad range of fields. Their soft nature and similarity to natural tissue allows for their use in tissue engineering, medical...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,423 Views
13 Pages

21 July 2020

Fluidized bed machining (FBM) is used for the surface finishing or cleaning of complex 3D machine parts. FBM is a process of injecting air into a chamber to encourage particles into a fluid-like state. Subsequently, FBM involves rotating the specimen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
50 Citations
6,958 Views
16 Pages

Asteraceae Paradox: Chemical and Mechanical Protection of Taraxacum Pollen

  • Maryse Vanderplanck,
  • Hélène Gilles,
  • Denis Nonclercq,
  • Pierre Duez and
  • Pascal Gerbaux

14 May 2020

Excessive pollen harvesting by bees can compromise the reproductive success of plants. Plants have therefore evolved different morphological structures and floral cues to narrow the spectrum of pollen feeding visitors. Among “filtering” m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
666 Views
25 Pages

Research Review of Reaction Mechanism and Mechanical Properties of Chemically Solidified Silt

  • Zhuojun Xu,
  • Xiaolong Xie,
  • Min He,
  • Zhengdong Luo,
  • Jingjing Wu,
  • Jia Bin,
  • Liuyiyi Yang and
  • Benben Zhang

22 September 2025

Dredged silt, characterized by high moisture content, low shear strength, and poor permeability, presents significant challenges for direct engineering application, leading to excessive land occupation and unsustainable resource management. To addres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,224 Views
24 Pages

Evaluation of Different Chemical Mechanisms on O3 and PM2.5 Predictions in Alberta, Canada

  • Mujtaba Shareef,
  • Sunny Cho,
  • David Lyder,
  • Michael Zelensky and
  • Scott Heckbert

27 August 2022

We evaluated the uncertainty associated with secondary pollutants formation due to different chemical mechanisms in photochemical modelling. The CMAQ modelling system was utilized in conjunction with CB6R3, SAPRC07, and RACM2 chemical mechanisms and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
71 Citations
23,228 Views
32 Pages

A Review of Tropospheric Atmospheric Chemistry and Gas-Phase Chemical Mechanisms for Air Quality Modeling

  • William R. Stockwell,
  • Charlene V. Lawson,
  • Emily Saunders and
  • Wendy S. Goliff

21 December 2011

Gas-phase chemical mechanisms are vital components of prognostic air quality models. The mechanisms are incorporated into modules that are used to calculate the chemical sources and sinks of ozone and the precursors of particulates. Fifty years ago e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
38 Citations
16,479 Views
31 Pages

24 May 2021

Methane is an important fuel for gas turbine and gas engine combustion, and the most common fuel in fundamental combustion studies. As Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) modeling of combustion becomes increasingly important, so do chemical kinetic me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,898 Views
13 Pages

Improvement of Mechanical Properties and Solvent Resistance of Polyurethane Coating by Chemical Grafting of Graphene Oxide

  • Guotao Liang,
  • Fengbiao Yao,
  • Yanran Qi,
  • Ruizhi Gong,
  • Rui Li,
  • Baoxuan Liu,
  • Yueying Zhao,
  • Chenglong Lian,
  • Luming Li and
  • Xiaoying Dong
  • + 1 author

10 February 2023

Waterborne polyurethane coatings (WPU) are widely used in various types of coatings due to their environmental friendliness, rich gloss, and strong adhesion. However, their inferior mechanical properties and solvent resistance limit their application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,955 Views
18 Pages

17 August 2022

Chemical–mechanical polishing (CMP) is widely adopted as a key bridge between fine rotation grinding and ion beam figuring in super-smooth monocrystalline silicon mirror manufacturing. However, controlling mid- to short-spatial-period errors du...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,192 Views
19 Pages

The Potential Mechanism of Bufadienolide-Like Chemicals on Breast Cancer via Bioinformatics Analysis

  • Yingbo Zhang,
  • Xiaomin Tang,
  • Yuxin Pang,
  • Luqi Huang,
  • Dan Wang,
  • Chao Yuan,
  • Xuan Hu and
  • Liping Qu

14 January 2019

Bufadienolide-like chemicals are mostly composed of the active ingredient of Chansu and they have anti-inflammatory, tumor-suppressing, and anti-pain activities; however, their mechanism is unclear. This work used bioinformatics analysis to study thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,216 Views
14 Pages

Monodisperse SiO2 Spheres: Efficient Synthesis and Applications in Chemical Mechanical Polishing

  • Jinlong Ge,
  • Yu Cao,
  • Hui Han,
  • Xiaoqi Jin,
  • Jing Liu,
  • Yuhong Jiao,
  • Qiuqin Wang and
  • Yan Gao

27 April 2025

The atomic level polishing of a material surface affects the accuracy of devices and the application of materials. Silica slurries play an important role in chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) by polishing the material surface. In this study, an effi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,119 Views
14 Pages

17 September 2019

This paper presents an investigation into the coupled effects of chemical corrosion (by Nitric acid solution) and freeze-thaw cycles on the physical and mechanical properties and damage deterioration of tonalite specimens. The experiments included th...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,380 Views
9 Pages

The Impact of Chemical-Mechanical Ex Situ Aging on PFSA Membranes for Fuel Cells

  • Mylène Robert,
  • Assma El Kaddouri,
  • Jean-Christophe Perrin,
  • Kévin Mozet,
  • Jérôme Dillet,
  • Jean-Yves Morel and
  • Olivier Lottin

A proton-exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) constitutes today one of the preferred technologies to promote hydrogen-based alternative energies. However, the large-scale deployment of PEMFCs is still hampered by insufficient durability and reliabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,205 Views
14 Pages

18 January 2023

To improve the material removal efficiency and surface quality of single-crystal silicon after magnetorheological finishing, a novel green chemical-mechanical magnetorheological finishing (CMMRF) fluid was developed. The main components of the CMMRF...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,694 Views
45 Pages

19 February 2024

Chemical–mechanical planarization (CMP) is used to smoothen the topographies of a rough surface by combining several functions of tribology (friction, lubrication), chemistry, and electrochemistry (corrosion, wear, tribo-corrosion). The surface...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,025 Views
15 Pages

7 February 2020

This intercomparison has taken thirteen chemical mechanisms and compared how they treat VOC oxidation and degradation and its relationship to the photochemical formation of ozone and hydroxyl radicals. Here, we have looked in some detail at the incre...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,812 Views
26 Pages

14 December 2023

Single-crystal sapphire (α-Al2O3) has been widely used in semiconductor, optics, communication, national defense, and other fields. Before application, an ultra-smooth surface which is scratch free and subsurface damage free is essential. Furth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,139 Views
15 Pages

A New Slurry for Photocatalysis-Assisted Chemical Mechanical Polishing of Monocrystal Diamond

  • Junyong Shao,
  • Yanjun Zhao,
  • Jianhui Zhu,
  • Zewei Yuan,
  • Haiyang Du and
  • Quan Wen

20 June 2023

Diamond needs to have a perfectly smooth surface due to the growing requirements in the fields of electronic semiconductors, optical windows and high-fidelity loudspeakers. However, the polishing of diamonds is highly challenging due to their excepti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,642 Views
19 Pages

A Review of the Seepage Mechanisms of Heavy Oil Emulsions during Chemical Flooding

  • Xiuyu Wang,
  • Fuqiong Wang,
  • Mohanad A. M. Taleb,
  • Zhiyuan Wen and
  • Xiulin Chen

10 November 2022

Chemical flooding plays an important role in enhancing oil recovery due to many reasons, including the viscosity-increment effect of polymer, wettability alteration effect of surfactant, and the formation of emulsions, which have been known to effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,632 Views
21 Pages

Visualization of Chemical Heavy Oil EOR Displacement Mechanisms in a 2D System

  • Francy Guerrero,
  • Jonathan Bryan and
  • Apostolos Kantzas

11 February 2021

This study aims to develop a visual understanding of the macro-displacement mechanisms associated with heavy oil recovery by water and chemical flooding in a 2D system. The sweep efficiency improvements by water, surfactant, polymer, and surfactant-p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,151 Views
19 Pages

21 August 2025

Reduced chemical kinetic mechanisms are essential for enabling the use of complex fuels in 3D CFD combustion simulations. This study presents the development and optimization of a compact mechanism capable of accurately modeling ethanol–gasolin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,381 Views
27 Pages

A Comprehensive Review of the Nano-Abrasives Key Parameters Influencing the Performance in Chemical Mechanical Polishing

  • Houda Bellahsene,
  • Saad Sene,
  • Gautier Félix,
  • Joulia Larionova,
  • Marc Ferrari and
  • Yannick Guari

4 September 2025

Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) is a critical process in many industries where achieving superior surface quality through controlled material removal rates by using nano-abrasives is essential. This review examines key parameters of abrasives at...

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