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The EndNote Web workshop is turning out to be very popular.  As a result, we have added four more sessions in April: Thursday, April 1, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Monday, April 5, 10:00-11:00 a.m. Tuesday, April 6, 12:00-1:00 p.m. Thursday, April 8, 4:00-5:00 p.m. Seating is limited so advanced registration is required.  To register, or for more [...]

We propose here a new method to make ceramics insensitive to thermal shock up to their melting temperature.  In this method the surface of ceramics was biomimetically roughened into nanofinned surface that creates a thin air layer enveloping the surface of the ceramics during quenching.  This air layer increases the heat transfer resistance of the [...]

Vibrating mechanical-signal processors are now widely used in radio-frequency (RF) stages of wireless transceivers.  These resonators typically have a quality factor, Q, in the range 500–10,000.  Because of the comparatively high quality factors, the resultant devices excel in percent bandwidth, insertion loss, stopband rejection, and dynamic range, and exhibit excellent close-to-carrier phase noise that is, [...]

Flows through pipes and channels are the most common means to transport fluids in practical applications and equally occur in numerous natural systems.  In general, the transfer of fluids is energetically far more efficient if the motion is smooth and laminar because the friction losses are lower.  However, even at moderate velocities pipe and channel [...]

Shape-memory alloys, such as Ni-Ti and Cu-Zn-Al, show a large reversible strain of more than several percent due to superelasticity.  In particular, the Ni-Ti–based alloy, which exhibits some ductility and excellent superelastic strain, is the only superelastic material available for practical applications at present.  We herein describe a ferrous polycrystalline, high-strength, shape-memory alloy exhibiting a [...]

EndNote Web is a citation manager designed to help users collect, organize, and format sources for citing in research papers.  It is available for free to all UAB students, faculty, and staff through a site license.  Sterne Library is offering an EndNote Web workshop for UAB students, faculty, and staff. Sterne Library Computer Classroom (Room [...]

The quest to turn the motion of the world’s waterways into a significant source of energy may still be in its nascent stage, but several tidal power projects are making headway.  Whether they operate in lakes, rivers or the oceans, projects attempting to harness the tides share the same mission: to improve the technology and [...]

The energy bandgap of an insulator is large enough to prevent electron excitation and electrical conduction.  But in addition to charge, an electron also has spin, and the collective motion of spin can propagate — and so transfer a signal — in some insulators.  This motion is called a spin wave and is usually excited [...]

In 1971 the memristor was originally postulated as a new non-linear circuit element relating the time integrals of current and voltage.  More recently researchers have linked the theoretical memristor concept to resistance switching behavior of TiO(2-x) thin films.  However, a variety of other thin film materials exhibiting memory resistance effects have also been found to [...]