Starch-based scaffolds can diminish diffusion constraints and mechanically stimulate the marrow stroma cells to develop the bone-like mineralized tissue (Gomes et al. 2006).
Drusen diminishes diffusion from the choroidal circulation to the retina, causing adverse effects on both the RPE and photoreceptors [3], [4].
For the multi-site Langmuir isotherms, co-diffusion enhances while counter-diffusion diminishes diffusivity, as expected.
A barrier role of nestin-positive fibres in 'walling off' the injury site to diminish ongoing diffusion of potentially damaging proteins has been proposed, with a reduction in the diffusion of IgG beyond the glial scar noted at 7 dpi in one model (Suzuki et al., 2012).
A common way to protect metal against corrosion is to avoid or to diminish the diffusion of atmospheric oxygen onto the oxidable metal by means of a macromolecular layer of paint.
Carbon oxide species that form on carbon particles during the carbon corrosion process make the surfaces of the CCLs more hydrophilic, and this is believed to diminish oxygen diffusion through the water-filled pores of the CCLs, leading to dramatic degradation of the fuel cell performance.
Although the total net charge did not change, the thickness of the diffusion layer diminished significantly (Benefield et al. 1982).
For a 65 nm node device, a significant fraction of the overlap originates in the as-implanted dopant profile and the importance of diffusion is diminished.
To create uniform conditions, it may be necessary to resuspend the solution after the initial optics adjustment; otherwise the first few scans will have to be discarded until diffusion has diminished this local feature.
This result is intuitively explained by the authors as follows: Too strong diffusion diminishes the stochasticity of dynamics and so impedes the transition, whereas too weak diffusion prevents replicators from encountering each other and, thus, from catalyzing each other's replication.
