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Interfused nanocrystals including two or more materials, further including a n alloy layer formed of the two or more materials. In addition, a method of preparing the interfused nanocrystals. In the interfused nanocrystals, the alloy layer may be present at the interface between the two or more nanocrystals, thus increasing the material stability. A material having excellent quantum efficiency in the blue light range may be synthesized.

Provided are compositions for improving the water-resistance and dimensional stability of wood and wood products. The compositions comprises wax and oil components, and can be applied as liquid compositions comprising little or no water. Also provided are methods for the application of the compositions to wood.

A pencil-type glow plug for a self-igniting internal combustion engine is described. The pencil-type glow plug includes a plug body in which a combustion chamber pressure sensor is integrated, and a bar-shaped heating element that protrudes out from the plug body at one end, into the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. A force-measuring element of the combustion chamber pressure sensor is accommodated behind the heating element, which moves axially under the influence of force. The force-measuring element is sealed against combustion chamber gases by a steel diaphragm made of a stainless precipitation-hardened maraging steel.

The present invention relates to a kind of biodegradable polyester and its preparation method, which belongs to the field of biodegradable co-polyester product technology. The number-average molecular weight of the biodegradable polyester material under this invention is 6000-135000 g/mol, the molecular weight distribution is 1.2-6.5, and the range of crystallization temperature is 15° C.-105° C., which could overcome the disadvantages of existing technical products and can be processed into membrane materials, sheet materials and foam materials. During processing, the picking property will be dramatically changed with the appearance quality improved; after heat resistance is improved, this new type of polyester material could also be applied to the processing course with long cycles, for example, the injection processing course, and the biodegradable aliphatic/aromatic polyester materials provided by this invention has excellent mechanical properties.

A rotor blade for wind energy plants with a multiplicity of cross bores running transversely to the longitudinal axis of the rotor blade in the region of the blade base, which are provided for the accommodation of cross pins, wherein for fastening the rotor blade on a rotor blade fixture, tensioning elements act upon the cross pins wherein at least one of the cross bores has a distance from the hub-side rotor blade edge which is different from the distance of a further cross bore from the rotor blade edge.

The invention discloses a microwave film resistor and a manufacturing method thereof, and belongs to the field of circuit elements. The microwave film resistor comprises a ceramic substrate, a film resistance layer which is adhered to the upper surface of the ceramic substrate and an electrode layer which is adhered to the film resistance layer. The film resistor has the advantages of high precision, high using frequency and high resistance stability. In addition, the invention also discloses a microwave film resistor network module and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the microwave film resistor network module is formed by integrating three or more microwave film resistors on one module.

(EN) The invention relates to a method for waterproofing lignocellulosic materials by impregnating the lignocellulosic material with a waterproofing agent, whereby the lignocellulosic material is impregnated with a hardenable aqueous composition before or during waterproofing, said composition containing at least one cross-linkable compound, selected from a) low-molecular weight compounds V, having at least two N-bonded groups of formula CH₂OH, wherein R=hydrogen or C₁-C₄ alkyl, and/or one 1,2-bis-hydroxyethan-1,2-diyl group, bridging two nitrogen atoms, β) precondensates of the compound V and & gammad;) reaction products or mixtures of the compound V with at least one alcohol, selected from C₁-C₆ alkanols, C₂-C₆ polyols and oligo-C₂-C₄-alkylene glycols.

An optical recording medium dye is described. The optical recording medium dye is an azo metal chelate compound, wherein the azo metal chelate compound comprises the following structure: wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 straight chain or branched alkyl group, an amino group, an alkylamino group or a tolylamino group; R2 is a hydrogen atom, a hydroxyl group, a halogen atom, an ether group, a C1-6 straight chain or branched alkyl group; R3 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 straight chain or branched alkyl group; R4 is a hydrogen atom, a C1-6 straight chain or branched alkyl group or a halogen atom; A3 is a residue forming a heterocyclic ring derivative together with a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom.

The present invention provides a high-strength steel sheet having a tensile strength (TS) of at least 780 MPa, excellent ductility and stretch flangeability, and excellent material-quality stability, achieved by: having a specific component composition; the steel structure having, in terms of area ratio, a total of ferrite and bainitic ferrite of 25-80%, and 3-20% martensite, and having, in terms of volume fraction, at least 10% retained austenite; the average crystalline particle diameter of the retained austenite being not more than 2[mu]m; the average Mn volume (mass%) in the retained austenite being at least 1.2 times the Mn volume (mass%) in the steel; and the area ratio of retained austenite that has an average C volume (mass%) of at least 2.1 times the C volume (mass%) of the steel being at least 60% of the area ratio of the total retained austenite.

Disclosed is a magnetic tunnel junction structure having perpendicular anisotropic free layers, and it could be accomplished to reduce a critical current value required for switching and maintain thermal stability even if a device is fabricated small in size, by maintaining the magnetization directions of the free magnetic layer and the fixed magnetic layer constituting the magnetic tunnel junction structure perpendicular to each other.

A carbon-coated transition metal nanocomposite material includes carbon-coated transition metal particles having a core-shell structure. The shell layer of the core-shell structure is a graphitized carbon layer doped with oxygen and/or nitrogen, and the core of the core-shell structure is a transition metal nanoparticle. The nanocomposite material has a structure rich in mesopores, is an adsorption/catalyst material with excellent performance, can be used for catalyzing various hydrogenation reduction reactions, or used as a catalytic-oxidation catalyst useful for the treatment of volatile organic compounds in industrial exhaust gases.

Methods, systems, and compounds for degrading chlorinated compounds in water. A facile aqueous-based surface treatment of zero-valent iron is provided to increase the reactivity of a zero-valent iron material for degrading chlorinated compounds in the water without the use of a noble metal catalyst. Such a facile aqueous-based surface treatment can be implemented as a surface sulfidation pre-treatment of iron to increase its reactivity towards chlorinated contaminants in water. The disclosed facile aqueous-based surface treatment increases reactivity utilizing sulfur compounds for use in the degradation of the chlorinated compounds in the water.

The present invention relates to a method of determining the microbial bioburden in a wound (in particular a diabetic ulcer) in a test subject, the method comprising the step of measuring the level of a cytokine in a wound sample, wherein a cytokine level lower than a reference level indicates a significant microbial bioburden in the wound (or a cytokine level higher than a reference level indicates an insignificant microbial bioburden in the wound). The invention provides methods of diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of wound infection, and devices and kits for use in such methods.

The invention belongs to the field of composite materials, and concretely relates to a nano-hydroxyapatite/carboxymethyl chitosan/poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) micro-nano hybrid drug-loaded scaffold and a bionic preparation method thereof. The three-dimensional bionic hybrid drug-loaded scaffold is prepared through combining solvent evaporation and freeze drying technologies by using a high speed emulsifying machine via adopting nano-hydroxyapatite and carboxymethyl chitosan as a water phase and an emulsion continuous phase, adopting a methylene chloride solution of poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) as an oil phase and an emulsion dispersion phase, using glutaraldehyde as a cross-linking agent to immobilize the carboxymethyl chitosan in the continuous phase and adopting the main component icariin in a traditional Chinese medicine epimeddium as a carrier drug. The preparation method has the advantages of simple preparation process and mild reaction conditions, and the obtained scaffold overcomes the performance defects of single natural polymer materials or synthetic polymer materials, has the advantages of intercommunicated pores, uniform pore diameter, figurability, slow drug release, good bone bonding ability and good biocompatibility, and is expected to become a new osteoporosis treatment composite material.

A clamp is formed from a band with overlapping end portions. The clamp includes closing means including an aperture in one of the band end portions and a projection on the other band end portion to engage the aperture in a closed condition of the clamp and hold the mutually overlapping band end portions upon one another. The clamp also includes tightening means for tightening the clamp by reducing the circumferential length from the closed condition and a tightened condition. The clamp has force transmitting means for positively transmitting tensile force between the mutually overlapping band end portions in the tightened condition of the clamp. The force transmitting means includes a first cup-shaped embossment formed in one of the band end portions and a second cup-shaped embossment formed in the other band end portion and adapted to engage the first cup-shaped embossment in the closed condition of the clamp.

The invention belongs to the technical field of thermoelectric materials and discloses a preparation method of a polycrystalline SnSe thermoelectric material. The preparation method comprises the following steps: high-performance monocrystal is prepared with a monocrystal preparation method; the prepared high-performance monocrystal or a residual material obtained after the high-performance monocrystal is used is ground preliminarily into fine powder with grain size smaller than 500 mu m by a tool such as a mortar, a pulverizer and the like; the fine powder is refined into ultrafine powder with grain size being 0.2-20 mu m by a ball mill; the ultrafine powder is sintered into blocks by hot-pressing equipment or plasma spark sintering equipment. The performance of the polycrystalline thermoelectric material prepared from the residual material is better than that of the traditional polycrystalline material obtained through solid-phase synthesis; meanwhile, grains with proper sizes are refined by the mortar, the pulverizer and the ball mill, and the thermoelectric performance (zT) and the stability of the polycrystalline material can be improved.