Damage localization and failure predictions of the quasi-brittle material 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Experimental characterization of damage spreading and quasi-brittle failure Quasi-brittle failure concerns a large variety of materials such as concrete, rocks, woods, fiberglass... It consists in a gradual deterioration of the material, which eventually...

Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Synthesis of CdSe/CdS Quantum Dots Several synthesis protocols have been developed over the last twenty years to grow stable colloidal Quantum Dots with low size dispersion, narrow emission band and high quantum yield....

Multicellular architecture

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Epithelial cells and their functions To motivate the work done during this thesis, we will begin by introducing the biolog-ical system studied. In particular, in vitro cultures of epithelial cells were employed to...

Multilayer mirrors in the soft x-ray and extreme ultraviolet ranges

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Chapter 2 Analysis techniques In this chapter we will present the main characterization methods used in our work. Basic principle of each technique and description about experiments as well as setup will be...

Physical Cosmology and the Acceleration of Expansion 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Physical Cosmology and the Acceleration of Expansion In this chapter we present a broad overview of the theoretical concepts crucial to our current understanding of cosmology. We begin by looking at the evolution...

THE IMPACT OF HYDROTHERMAL FACTORS ON QUASI-ONE-DIMENSION TIO2 NANOSTRUCTURE, CRYSTAL SIZE AND BANDGAP

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Chemical/physical vapor deposition Vapor deposition involves producing a vapor which is condensed onto a heated solid. The process is usually executed in a vacuum chamber. The method is designated as a physical vapor...

DFT STUDY OF PROTON TRANSFER REACTIONS

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Molecular orbital (MO) approximation and basis functions Once simplified the Hamiltonian expression, a further approximation is applied to define the functions Ψ . The orbitals are definable as the form of the wave-functions...

Fluctuations of the two-dimensional Bose gas 

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Producing and imaging two–dimensional Bose gases Since this experimental apparatus was built for a large part by previous PhD students, a detailed description of it can be found in [66–68]. Therefore, in the...

Chlamydial glycogen enzymes are secreted for de novo glycogen synthesis

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Biphasic developmental cycle All Chlamydiaceae are obligate intracellular pathogens sharing a biphasic developmental cycle. The gram negative bacteria exist in two different forms, the infectious elementary body (EB) and the replicative reticulate body...

Integrations without and with investment in low-carbon technologies and with no CCS, biomass or deforestation control

Get Complete Project Material File(s) Now! » Climate change and climate variability Climate change and climate variability are two important characteristics of climate. According to United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC 1992), climate change is a change of...