The inner shell surface is the biomineralization site in shell formation and an inner-shell film covers it. This surface is composed of two regions： an outer calcitic region and an inner aragonitic region. In this st...The inner shell surface is the biomineralization site in shell formation and an inner-shell film covers it. This surface is composed of two regions： an outer calcitic region and an inner aragonitic region. In this study, some amalgamated calcite crystals were found in the calcitic region and some aragonitic ＂imprints＂ were found in the central part of the aragonitic region. The ＂imprints＂ are probably the trace of mantle cells that adhered to the inner shell surface when the shell was produced. Furthermore, to build a novel in vitro biomineralization system, the inner-shell film was detached from the shell and introduced to the calcitic crystallization solution. Crystallization experiments showed that nacre proteins could induce aragonite crystals in the novel system but inhibited calcite growth in the absence of the inner-shell film. These data suggested that the inner-shell film may induce aragonite growth in vivo by combining nacre proteins.展开更多
An electropulsing-assisted mold simulator technique was developed to investigate the effects of a pulsed electric voltage on the quality of spring steels during continuous casting by analyzing the mold flux film,shell...An electropulsing-assisted mold simulator technique was developed to investigate the effects of a pulsed electric voltage on the quality of spring steels during continuous casting by analyzing the mold flux film,shell surface profile,shell micro-structure and inclusion distributions.The results revealed significantly increased crystallization fraction of the mold flux film from 61.2%to 75.3%and finer crystalline phase morphology in the case of electropulsing treatment.The surface of the initially solidified shell could be effectively healed,resulting in smoother shell surface profiles with higher pulsed voltage from 0 to 30V.Furthermore,an increase in the pulsed voltage from 0 to 30V resulted in finer dendritic structures during solidification with decreasing secondary dendrite arm spacing from the values of 17.6-32.2 to 9.7-15.0μm in the direction of shell side toward melt side.In addition,an area scan analysis of inclusions in the as-cast spring steel samples showed that the number of MnS inclusions in the size range of 2.0-4.0μm gradually decreased from 836 to 114 and the number of Al2O3 inclusions in the same size range decreased from 144 to 39,as the voltage increased from 0 to 30V.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China under grant Nos 30871911 and 40876068the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China under contract No.2010AA09Z405the Program of Environmental Protection Commonweal Research under contract No. 2007HBGY26
文摘The inner shell surface is the biomineralization site in shell formation and an inner-shell film covers it. This surface is composed of two regions： an outer calcitic region and an inner aragonitic region. In this study, some amalgamated calcite crystals were found in the calcitic region and some aragonitic ＂imprints＂ were found in the central part of the aragonitic region. The ＂imprints＂ are probably the trace of mantle cells that adhered to the inner shell surface when the shell was produced. Furthermore, to build a novel in vitro biomineralization system, the inner-shell film was detached from the shell and introduced to the calcitic crystallization solution. Crystallization experiments showed that nacre proteins could induce aragonite crystals in the novel system but inhibited calcite growth in the absence of the inner-shell film. These data suggested that the inner-shell film may induce aragonite growth in vivo by combining nacre proteins.
文摘An electropulsing-assisted mold simulator technique was developed to investigate the effects of a pulsed electric voltage on the quality of spring steels during continuous casting by analyzing the mold flux film,shell surface profile,shell micro-structure and inclusion distributions.The results revealed significantly increased crystallization fraction of the mold flux film from 61.2%to 75.3%and finer crystalline phase morphology in the case of electropulsing treatment.The surface of the initially solidified shell could be effectively healed,resulting in smoother shell surface profiles with higher pulsed voltage from 0 to 30V.Furthermore,an increase in the pulsed voltage from 0 to 30V resulted in finer dendritic structures during solidification with decreasing secondary dendrite arm spacing from the values of 17.6-32.2 to 9.7-15.0μm in the direction of shell side toward melt side.In addition,an area scan analysis of inclusions in the as-cast spring steel samples showed that the number of MnS inclusions in the size range of 2.0-4.0μm gradually decreased from 836 to 114 and the number of Al2O3 inclusions in the same size range decreased from 144 to 39,as the voltage increased from 0 to 30V.
