The corrosion problem of liquid lead-bismuth eutectic alloy (LBE) on structural materials is one of the key material technologies that restrict the development of LBE cooling reactors. In this paper, two different Cr-Al coatings were synthesized by electroplating and multi-arc ion plating (MAIP)...

Ultrasound-triggered sonodynamic therapy has shown great promising for the treatment of tumors, however, only few clinical reports describe the use of sonodynamic therapy, which results from that the traditional sonosensitizers tend to suffer from very poor efficiency combined with low retention...

The cold spraying process is analyzed by numerical modeling of the impact between a single spherical particle and a substrate; the effects of impact velocity and spray angle of a particle on the particle and substrate deformation behavior were investigated. It was found that much localized...

Preferential attachment is considered one of the key factors in the formation of scale-free networks. However, complete random attachment without a preferential mechanism can also generate scale-free networks in nature, such as protein interaction networks in cells. This article presents a new...

We develop gatekeeping procedures that focus on comparing multiple treatments with a control when there are multiple endpoints. Our procedures utilize estimated correlations among individual test statistics without parametric assumptions. We make comparisons with other gatekeeping procedures...

Preferential attachment is considered as a fundamental mechanism that contributes to the scale-free characteristics of random networks, which include growth and non-growth networks. There exist some situations of non-growth random networks, particularly for very sparse or dense networks, where...

Many real-world networks are embedded in spaces. Recent studies have found that spatial characteristics are closely related to network features. Bus transport networks (BTNs) are typical spatially embedded networks, but their spatial characteristics are commonly disregarded in previous...

We propose an ideal n-depth clique network model. In this model, the original network is composed of cliques (maximal complete subgraphs) that overlap with each other. The network expands continuously by the addition of new cliques. The final diameter of the network can be set in advance,...