Micro-characteristics are important, sometimes crucial, to understanding disease and treatment.
It is observed that the micro-elastic characteristics are not enough for resulting in realistic dispersion curves and that the micro-inertia characteristics are needed in addition for that purpose for all the cases of solids and structures considered here.
Fast video-imaging (125 kfr/s) reveals that the micro-discharge characteristics are also sensitive since they become less numerous per area and unit time (from 220 × 103 cm− 2 s− 1 to 120 × 103 cm− 2 s− 1), exhibit shorter lifetime and have smaller sizes as the electrolyte ages.
Their location and micro-morphological characteristics are indicative of scalping.
Surface flatness, geometric integrity and micro-surface finish characteristics are crucial for automotive industry to properly seal joints, reduce leakage and consequently increasing engines efficiency and reducing emissions.
Several overland flow conditions over two impervious surfaces of the order of one square meter with different micro and macro-roughness characteristics are studied.
Micro-bead characteristics were investigated using microscopy, chromatography, laser diffractometry and zeta potential analysis.
Ultra- and micro-structural characteristics were assessed using atomic force microscopy and polarised light microscopy respectively.
In addition, three micro-level pathway characteristics were also included: pathway connection with activity zones, presence of shade, and lateral visibility.
These methodologies resulted in some research progress which established the theoretical foundation of shale gas flow mechanisms, but quantitative research into adsorption mechanisms and influencing factors for micro-scale gas transport characteristics is still needed.
Moreover, the micro-morphology and porous structure characteristics were examined using the SEM and nitrogen adsorption-desorption method, respectively.
