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The nonmetallic inclusions are problematic particles that develop during the steel making process. They are tiny entities that exist in high numbers. They disrupt the mechanical homogeneity of the...
01 January 2015 7,647 16 View
There are a few points being raised lately on the first direct evidence on the universe inflation and the detection of gravitational waves: 1. The cosmic microwave polarization patterns referred...
05 May 2014 4,107 3 View
This question is open for chemists, metallurgists, physicists and astrophysicists: Check out this diagram which has been released today on Universe inflation. It describes how the universe has...
04 April 2014 292 22 View
The egg is one of the unique feats of natural engineering. Its three-dimensional arch structure can support the weight of a standing human being yet it is so delicate that a baby bird can peck its...
04 April 2014 4,618 4 View
Please check out this question excerpted from a standardized test for high-school students in a North American country; It says: Which of the following would be a graph of speed vs. time for the...
03 March 2014 8,361 3 View
In case for example the status 'With Editor' did not change for two months or so, Are there risks of any kind the corresponding author should be aware of when reaching the journal's editorial...
03 March 2014 7,047 2 View
I am currently reviewing a research paper presenting an electrochemical study on corrosion-enhanced erosion. It attempts to link the CFD of a modeled flow to the corrosion rates of an elbow made...
03 March 2014 4,257 5 View
To test the corrosion behavior (or resistance) of an engineering material in an aqueous medium one can carry out immersion tests for specific periods of time across which the mass loss and...
03 March 2014 4,653 11 View
Please check out these potentiodynamic profiles for experiments I recently carried out: it shows potentiodynamic scans for a pipeline steel immersed in CO2-saturated solutions of different...
03 March 2014 3,028 13 View
Please see attached this figure from a journal paper I am currently reviewing. I made slight changes to it to maintain the anonymity. The paper addresses the significance of H2S with the...
03 March 2014 6,500 1 View
Would any hidden factors that govern the feasibility of publication or the success of paper submission play out when an author submit two papers at the same time to a journal?
02 February 2014 6,809 10 View
How important would that be for a paper submitted for the first time (not as a second revision for which proofreading could be asked) to a journal?
02 February 2014 8,204 9 View
Why lowering the pH increases the corrosion rates? lowering the pH increases the rates of cathodic reduction, so how this increases the rates of anodic reactions?
02 February 2014 9,247 8 View
What are the factors that stand behind this decade-long decline in cars manufacturing and marketing in Australia? The high fuel prices drove up demand for ultra fuel-efficient cars in a small...
02 February 2014 729 5 View
It happens that after review the editor sends the corresponding authors an email about the review outcomes and the changes that need to be made for a second submission the authors are invited for...
02 February 2014 4,032 3 View
Can the authors mention to the editor in the cover letter their relevant expertise to the topic? if yes, how?, if no, why?
02 February 2014 1,196 6 View
For paper re-submission, what kind of peer-review comments the authors have the right not to answer?
02 February 2014 4,167 10 View
Any recommendations for a software program to calculate the circuitry of the EIS measurements? (other than ZSimpWin)
02 February 2014 2,667 30 View
Do the grain boundaries of a regular high-strength steel have something fundamentally to do with the corrosion reactions? chemistry of interface? distributions of anodic vs. cathodic reactions? or...
02 February 2014 3,579 1 View
Is there some fields in chemistry or electrochemistry the research is somehow "slow'?
02 February 2014 572 0 View
How does chloride deteriorate passive films? What modern techniques help describe the mechanisms of chloride attack?
02 February 2014 3,439 13 View
Is there a specific format authors should follow? what should/should not be written in the cover letter? How long should it be?
02 February 2014 2,443 2 View
Last week I posted a question on the relationship between the chloride concentration and CO2 hydration in water. I was thinking that increasing the chloride concentration restricts CO2 hydration...
02 February 2014 3,387 3 View
What can long-term open-circuit potentials indicate?
02 February 2014 353 2 View
In other words; Is the mechanism of carbon steel pitting in chloride solutions different from that in bicarbonate solutions?
02 February 2014 2,734 1 View
Modifying the alloying composition makes steels corrosion-resistant by passivation -- generally. Does this necessarily change the corrosion mechanisms?
02 February 2014 3,718 11 View
Please check out this: Two immiscible liquids A and B are flowing in laminar flow between two parallel plates. Would there be a possibility for the velocity profiles to take this form below?
02 February 2014 4,738 12 View
Should the reviewers be declared after the acceptance of an article for publication? Would that not make the review process better, more cooperative and more genuine?
01 January 2014 828 7 View
Some questions come to mind, like: 1. In what part of the new paper shall an author self-cite a previous research of his/her own? the introduction? results? discussion? 2. In what part of the new...
01 January 2014 7,695 4 View
That would make the review process far better, but what are the possible drawbacks?
01 January 2014 1,866 17 View
This is the question Edge Foundation featured for 2014. I say Evolution. What do you think?
01 January 2014 3,995 5 View
It could take several weeks for the status to change from "Submitted to Journal" to "Under Review".
01 January 2014 5,771 5 View
What might happen? How different would the review be if you have no conflict of interest with the editor?
01 January 2014 5,931 3 View
Please have a look at this figure, does it ever reflect that an EIS measurement has been made at t=5000 s and at t=10,000 s?
01 January 2014 1,152 11 View
Wouldn't that make the review process more efficient (and probably more genuine)?
12 December 2013 3,054 16 View
Are there good books that illustrate skills and strategies to do good research?
11 November 2013 8,809 5 View
They are becoming so frequent, especially in the weekends.
11 November 2013 9,683 4 View
Do partial differential equations have a lot to do with electrochemistry?
11 November 2013 7,129 8 View
Are there specific research skills new graduate students may not know when they write their first research papers? What are they? How and from whom do they learn them?
11 November 2013 3,555 3 View
What are the difficulties that a graduate student face in physics when writing a research paper for the first time?
11 November 2013 436 5 View
Do short communications carry a high scientific value?
11 November 2013 9,479 3 View
Why is reviewing voluntary?
11 November 2013 6,666 9 View
Why not increase the research topics to 10 or 15 to tag when asking a question in Research Gate? Would not that increase the visibility of the question to more Research Gate members?
11 November 2013 1,890 2 View
My colleague (a dear co-author of mine) has made a really big paper (40 pages), I suggested to him to split it into two parts, Part 1 and Part 2 (something I see commonly in my field). He thinks...
11 November 2013 6,758 3 View
How do researchers interact in real life?
11 November 2013 8,089 0 View
On the relationship between the artistic skills and scientific understanding
11 November 2013 8,988 3 View
How does stress increase the corrosion rates?
11 November 2013 4,475 2 View
Is chemistry a well specific-based research field? Do we need more topics/specificity/journals?
11 November 2013 555 4 View
Why are there papers more interesting than others? In a same field and on a same topic?
11 November 2013 7,371 7 View
Shall the authors be required to submit their raw data along with their papers to enhance the reproducibility, credibility and quality of their results?
11 November 2013 7,240 10 View
Is it difficult to categorize the roles an author in a multi-authored paper had? Like for example (analysis, experiments, review, etc.), to be introduced in the affiliations of the authors?
11 November 2013 8,669 6 View
What advantage would authors get if Research Gate synchronizes to their papers in the online data bases, like Science Direct for example?
11 November 2013 2,521 3 View
Is it just because they do not do experiments the journalists are different from the academic researchers who too gather information and analyze results (stories)?
11 November 2013 5,845 3 View
At what age, suitably, can researchers write discussion papers in chemistry to refute or reply to old, but famous (scientifically impactful) papers?
11 November 2013 8,438 2 View
What kind of procedures one should do to establish a new journal?
11 November 2013 1,589 4 View
For example, your read an article in your field and you see that some of the content resembles your style and information in a paper you already wrote some time before, is that a 'concealed'...
11 November 2013 8,397 5 View
For their already published papers, is there anything else the authors can (or should) do?
11 November 2013 1,486 4 View
Does mechanical engineering have philosophical causes?
11 November 2013 9,837 14 View
In what areas of chemistry we are able to see graphical abstracts most often?
11 November 2013 6,323 6 View
What information can the potentiostatic polarization reveal when applied at passivation potentials of iron in alkaline solutions?
11 November 2013 7,069 0 View
In what cases the ionic drop is crucial (to affect the measurements) during a regular corrosion testing.
11 November 2013 7,146 0 View
Why are the electrochemical impedance spectroscopy results mostly non-producible, confusing and difficult to correspond to specific interfacial schemes in a number of common corrosion conditions?
11 November 2013 572 0 View
In what applications can we see fluid mechanics and chemistry overlap, (for the purpose of potential research collaboration in engineering or applied science)?
11 November 2013 1,915 11 View
What is the fastest/most reliable research engine/database to find papers in specific topics in biology?
11 November 2013 7,006 7 View
Take for example cancer research; millions of dollars spent and thounds of papers published, why is cancer still cancer?
11 November 2013 2,177 9 View
Context- and impact-wise, what is the difference between a short communication and a letter?
11 November 2013 3,777 2 View
Hint: in America it is nearly 1/3.
11 November 2013 1,653 1 View
What different roles does a post-doctoral fellow have from a PhD student in a typically successful engineering research collaboration?
11 November 2013 6,513 7 View
For a paper in which two techniques (let's say potentiodynamic polarization and EIS) are used to study the corrosion behavior of steel in bicarbonate solutions, how long should it typically take?...
11 November 2013 508 0 View
Is funding necessary for broad research collaboration?
11 November 2013 336 9 View
Is it that humanities do not collaborate with computers or is it the other way around?
11 November 2013 1,196 3 View
If to keep firstly the significance of the scientific material and the findings that are to be presented.
11 November 2013 1,063 0 View
How can we measure (or detect) the ferrous ions in an aqueous acidic solution after immersing a steel sample in it to corrode for a long period of time?
11 November 2013 2,892 1 View
A reviewer recommended once to do that? Why?
11 November 2013 3,547 1 View
For a carbon steel in a 100C, high-pressure CO2-saturated autoclave environment, what can the OCPs tell us?
11 November 2013 1,888 5 View
Does the chemical composition of bicarbonate solutions change so significantly after a polarization test that I can not do another test in it?
11 November 2013 6,625 1 View
On the relationship between the sample size and the quality of corrosion testing results.
11 November 2013 6,083 5 View
If so, can he become a fourth author?
11 November 2013 7,264 7 View
Do brave researchers publish more papers?
11 November 2013 372 7 View
How can you speed up the subtly related processes (submission/review/acceptance/publication) of publishing an article? What is the rate-determining (slowest) step?
10 October 2013 2,475 9 View
What different roles does a second author and a third author play in regards to the content, context and impact of a triple-authored, full-length article submitted to a high-ranked journal?
10 October 2013 8,463 40 View
In contrast to the situation in the 1950s-1970s. Where are the first-authored papers? In what field do we see them most commonly?
10 October 2013 664 39 View
From a conventional maintenance-wise point of view?
10 October 2013 8,148 5 View
From a scientific standpoint, what is the difference?
10 October 2013 8,628 10 View
Which is more significant when it comes to the corrosion rates of iron in deoxygenated solutions, a lower pH, or a higher chloride concentration? And how are they related? does the former...
10 October 2013 6,002 6 View
Does it reverse to soluble CO2 and then to out-of-solution CO2? In other words, does the pH rise back to the neutral level of regular distilled water? if so, how?
10 October 2013 7,549 8 View
During potentiodynamic polarization, what happens during transpassivation: new products, passivation dissolution, oxygen generation, altogether or interdependently?
10 October 2013 7,466 2 View
Suitable time of immersion to measure the corrosion rates of steel in an autoclave containing high-pressure CO2-bicarbonate solutions. If we have around 20 coupons, and we want to measure their...
10 October 2013 4,384 10 View
What are the kinetic and passivational roles of carbonate during the corrosion of iron (or steel) in a carbonate-based environment?
10 October 2013 767 7 View
By color, or morphology, can we detect the difference between Fe2O3 and FeCO3 in the cross section of a corrosion layer formed in CO2 solutions?
10 October 2013 7,963 1 View
Can anyone explain why the current density during a potentiodynamic scan increases with the scan rate?
10 October 2013 261 6 View
Is it possible to distinguish between Fe2O3 and Fe3O4 and/or FeCO3 when analyzing the cross section of a corrosion layer formed on a steel corroded in bicarbonate or CO2 solutions?
10 October 2013 4,652 1 View
Under what circumstances will there be oxygen in a multiphase oil (or gas) pipeline flow?
10 October 2013 5,714 2 View
