This study investigates the thermodynamics and kinetics of hydrogen in a binary palladium-based metal solution using classical jump rate theory applied to the cell model approach. An electrochemical technique is used to ...

A stochastic model for the accumulation of fatigue damage in composite laminates is proposed. The model considers the accumulation of fatigue damage as an evolutionary stochastic process and attempts to predict the ...

The objective of this work was to select and process an electrically insulating thin film suitable for the photoelectrodes used in solar to chemical energy conversion where the current flow would occur by quantum tunneling. ...

The fabrication of solid C$\sb{60}$ device structures by vacuum sublimation methods is described. The experimentally determined threshold of intrinsic conductivity of solid C$\sb{60}$ is $\sim$1.5eV. The observations of ...

Escherichia coli is commonly used as a host in the production of high value therapeutic proteins. However, one major drawback associated with E. coli being a host is the intracellular location of product proteins. As a ...

The generation of substantial electrical conductivity in high temperature polymers and thin film C$\sb{60}$ by means of KrF (248 nm) excimer laser irradiation has been investigated. Formation of both laser ablated surface ...

Ab initio self-consistent field Hartree-Fock calculations employing minimal and double-zeta basis sets have been carried out on the possible isolated-pentagon fullerene isomers of C$\sb{76}$ and C$\sb{78}$. Two possible ...

The thesis of this work is that the representation of sensory information in the discharges of single neurons can be characterized by point process models. The work focuses on the encoding of binaural information in the ...

The finite element method has been used to study the behavior of an aluminum alloy during elastic-plastic indentation by a rigid conical indenter to determine how the indentation process is affected by residual stress. The ...

To predict the growth of a crack in a body, Griffith introduced, for linear elastic materials, the concept of the energy release rate. According to this concept, crack growth occurs when the work done on a body by the ...