It was therefore demonstrated that the initial microstructure, particularly the splat thickness and the inter-splat pore height, exerts a great influence on the sinterability of plasma-sprayed coatings.
For the conformer 1 Aβ barrels, a pore height cutoff along the pore axis is | z| < 10 nm, while for the conformer 2 Aβ barrels, the cutoff is | z| < 15 nm.
From the observations using the X-ray CT method, the averaged pore heights were 1 mm and the aspect ratios were 2, 2.5, and 2.25, respectively.
The pore heights for the wild-type Aβ barrels match the bilayer thickness, while both mutant barrels have longer and narrower pores than the wild type.
The authors themselves published an article in 2004 in EMBO journal that uses the same di-sulfide-linked mutant in combination with AFM imaging with or without DTT to observe the shrinking of the pore heights due to pore formation.
The averaged pore heights calculated from the program are ∼4.1, ∼5.6, and ∼5.2 nm for conformer 1 and ∼4.5, ∼5.9, and ∼5.3 nm for conformer 2 wild-type, F19P, and F20C barrels, respectively.
However, the latter value is always smaller that may mean that the pores' height is about 30%to40%0% less than that of the grains.
Numerical results of pore pressure height throughout the breakwater core are generally corresponding well with experimental values, except for a limited zone near the free surface where a clear reduction of the pore pressure is measured, due to the effect of air entrainment.
Firstly, the velocity and temperature distributions in partially filled symmetrical channel have been plotted and the effect of key parameters (e.g. porosity, pore density, height of metal foams, flow ratio in metal-foam filled region) on its flow and heat transfer performance have been analyzed.
In each case, the complex collapsed to the smaller pore-like height.
(B ) AFM images showing the inhibition of the pore-like height with increasing concentration of the detergent, DDM.
