What is the case that determine what to use Secondary electron or back scattered in SEM?

Secondary electron vs back scattered in SEM, like inspection of microstructure of metals in more details.

05 June 2018 2,174 3 View

Is there any free software for x-ray diffraction analysis, also contain phases theta and intensity data?

x-ray software

11 December 2017 2,698 0 View

Hi, I am looking for a solution manual of this book "Elements Of X Ray Diffraction" by Cullity , how can I find it?

I need the solution manual for this book as a PDF file

10 November 2017 4,312 5 View

What is the difference between preparation, synthesis,fabrication and manufacture?

04 May 2016 752 3 View

Is there any formula to calculate the needed time for heat treatment (i.e: tempering ,hardening,annealing...etc)?

heat treatment, material thickness

03 April 2016 219 15 View

What is the meaning of Cerachrom bezel?

11 December 2015 2,196 1 View

What is the difference between fatigue strength,fatigue limit and fatigue endurance in metals?

fatigue metals

04 May 2015 484 1 View

What is the simplest way to calculate the volume fraction of present phases in a dual phase microstructure photograph as in carbon steel?

steel microstructure image j

03 April 2015 595 3 View

What is the difference between grain and crystal in solid materials?

01 February 2015 4,744 27 View

What is the difference between re-manufacturing and recycling?

01 February 2015 8,261 4 View

Polymer composites suddenly solidifies?

I am making polymer composite by solvent mixing method. When I am trying to add filler solution in polymer solution it quickly get solidified. How to make them then uinform? It doesn't give time...

03 March 2021 7,540 4 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

How the parameters (such as Mw, Chemical bonds, polymer bland and so on) affect the mechanic property of polymer (such as storage, loss modulus) ?

Anyone can recommend any books on such topics? Thanks in advance.

02 March 2021 8,457 2 View

12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel, etched for revealing retained austenite, any help for clarifying?

Hello everyone. Given microstructure image belongs to a 12% ledeburitic cold work tool steel (annealed and tempered). The sample was etched with picral (100 mL ethanol and 4 g picric acid). I...

02 March 2021 4,119 3 View

How do I determine the degree of polymerization of PEG 400 based on NMR integration?

Hello, I am working on the photocatalytic degradation of PEG 400. I would like to know if it's possible to determine the degree on polymerization based on NMR integration, or by the MW of the...

02 March 2021 6,186 3 View

How to polymerize TEOS?

I want to polymerize TEOS on a surface. I know that NH4OH is a preferred catalyst and an alcoholic solvent should be used .But I can not find certain amounts of each material to use. Does any one...

02 March 2021 1,404 6 View

Why Austenite grains in steel show much more twinning than ferrite grains?

It is oftentimes said to be a distinctive metallographic trait that differentiates a fully austenitic and a fully felly ferritic steel without etching that might distinguish between two. Why...

02 March 2021 728 2 View

How to quantify carbon deposition on CuZnAl catalyst?

Dear All, I want to quantify carbon deposition on the surface of the CuZnAl catalyst. I have tried thermogravimetric analysis, but I've got weight gain as the active Cu- get oxidised. Does anyone...

01 March 2021 1,907 3 View

Why Trivalent chromium start precipitating above PH 5 ? Moreover discuss difference between adsorption of chromium and precipitation of chromium ?

I am a student of MS Environmental Engineering and started my research phase. I am working on metal removal ( chromium iii ) by using activated carbon prepared from the agricultural feedstock. So...

01 March 2021 5,475 2 View

How Can I bring as much common elements in steel as possible to calculate stable phase(s) in OpenCalphad?

As I was tweaking step-by-step OpenCalphad6 Macros step1.ocm involving phase and thermal property calculation of a High-speed steel, I could not incorporate more than 6 elements in the steel...

01 March 2021 8,840 1 View