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In this project, olive leaf extract has been investigated as a green corrosion inhibitor or in other words environmentally friendly for rebars embedded in concrete in the Persian Gulf Sea water simulator. Olive leaves were prepared by ultrasonic method at 50 ° C with the help of ethanol solvent. The water-ethanol solvent was 70:30 and the resulting extract was immediately applied to the concrete mix in specified doses. Portland cement type 2 according to ISIRI-389-96 standard has been used to prepare concrete. The resulting extract powder was added to the samples in four different doses: 2%, 4%, 6%, 8% by weight of cement to prove the inhibitory function as well as the cathodic or inhibitory... 

This research investigated the corrosion and antibacterial properties of PTFE+TiO2/Ag coating and its adhesion to 316L stainless steel. To increase adhesion, polydopamine coating was created as an intermediate layer by chemical deposition method on stainless steel, then PTFE + TiO2 coating was created on the sample by immersion method, and then silver nanoparticles were applied as the third layer by chemical deposition method. According to the polarization curves, the most corrosion-resistant coatings with corrosion current density of 3.34×10-5 and 3.25×10-4 μA are coatings PTFE+TiO2 and PTFE/PTFE+TiO2/Ag respectively. In terms of antibacterial activity, according to the non-growth halo... 

Addition of heavy metal cations such as manganese and nickel in low zinc phosphating bath increases the corrosion resistance of coatings and provides more suitable substrates for painting (especially electrophoretic painting). In addition, due to accelerating property and low cost availability of heavy metal cations such as Mn, multi– cationic phosphating is cost effective. In the present study, chemical composition and operating parameters of zinc - calcium - manganese Tri- cationic phosphating solution were optimized. Then the effects of various parameters such as phosphating time, bath temperature and pH on properties of coating were investigated. According to the results, about 1 g/L was... 

Pure zinc coating and Zn-TiO2 composite coating were deposited from two methods: Direct and Pulse Current from a sulphate bath. D.C. section, current density and particle concentration in electrolyte were investigated. Moreover in Pulse section, frequency, duty cycle and maximum current density were investigated as parameters. Morphological properties of these coatings were investigated by FE-SEM and corrosion behavior by potentiodynamic polarization in 1M NaCl. In D.C. section, in investigation of the effect of current density, an optimum was observed in case of obtaining the highest amount of deposited particles at 0.1 A/cm2 and amount of 2.93%. This amount is the highest one in D.C.... 

With increasing pollution and decrease in global reservoirs of fossil fuels, a lot of interest has been attracted to fuel cells as efficient and clean energy sources. Polymeric (membrane) fuel cells are special type of fuel cells, which can be built in small dimensions and power. These cells use hydrogen (and oxygen or air) and produce water. In these cells, platinum is used as electrode (and electrocatalyst) both in anode and cathode, due to its low overvoltage for both hydrogen and oxygen. To increase the efficiency of these coatings, it is best to produce platinum particles with maximum area and it automatically leads to nanometric particles. In this thesis, platinum particles are... 

The main objective of this project is to take the first steps in designing power plants governor in Iran. In this work, we obtain a realistic model of a hydro-power plant including hydraulic characteristics from the dam to the outlet tail water, mechanically including: the turbine, the gates and all mechanical and dynamic parts, and electrically including generators, transformers and the consumption network. The model is used to simulate different working modes of turbine operation. The Bond Graph method is used for deriving the system equations and MATLAB software for simulations. A conceptual design of the governor is done and the governor model is combined with the turbine model. Using... 

Adding solid lubricant particles such as PTFE, Graphite and MoS2, has major influence on electroless composite nickel coatings in order to make low friction surfaces. Among these lubricants, MoS2 has attracted great attention due to its highest stability under wearing condition. In this work Ni-P-MoS2 composite coatings using MoS2 nano-particles have been made and in the next step, we evaluated tribological properties of these coatings. For exploring these coatings different experiments were utilized, like Scanning Electron Microscope study (SEM), chemical composition analysis exploiting AAS and XRF method, and thickness measurements. Two kinds of surfactants, CTAB and PVP, have been applied... 

Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks (MANETs) have been studied as one of the most important technologies in the mid to late 1990s. There are several research works on types of network traffic modeling and prediction. Therefore, a very important issue is to make prediction on traffic-flows that each node handles. Because of this, prediction permits us to improve and increase the performance of the network. This project is a contributing effort to improve the traffic packets prediction by Neural Networks in MANET. The main goal of this thesis is about the recovery of data after crisis in phenomenal roads and highways. Our goal is recognizing phenomenal crisis-points in roads. In this thesis packets are... 

Hole-transporter-free perovskite solar cells with structure of TiO2/ZrO2/C triple-layer scaffold filled with perovskite are great alternative to the conventional ones due to the possibility of making full printable low-cost and stable devices. In the present work, the impacts of the structures of the quadruple layer scaffold in the form of TiO2/ZrO2/NiO/C and triple layer scaffold in the form of TiO2/ZrO2/C on their photovoltaic performance are studied. In addition, the effects of thickness and deposition method of each layer were investigated as well as the effect of compounding of the carbon counter electrode. All devices were constructed by a simple printable method. Electrochemical... 

In this thesis Blackening of electroless nickel-phosphorous coating and the effect of TiO2 anti-reflection coating on optical properties of coating was investigated. In the first step, electroless nickel coatings with different amounts of phosphorous on 1050 aluminium substrate deposited. In second step, blackening of coatings by chemical and electroche-mical methods have studied and in final step, effect of TiO2 antireflection coatings with different amount of Pluronic F127 on the optimum black surface and properties of coating investigated. Chemical blackening performed in nitric acid and effect of acid concenteration, Blackening time and temperature studied. optimized condition was... 

In this research project, the aim was to investigate the potential of olive leaf extract as an eco-friendly inhibitor for enhancing the corrosion resistance of reinforcing steel in simulated geopolymer concrete pore solution (GCP) containing chloride ions. The inhibitory effects of olive leaf extract were evaluated using various electrochemical techniques as well as scanning electron microscopy. The main phenolic compounds present in olive leaf extract were identified using high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Moreover, the elements and chemical bonds present in the surface passive film of the steel bar immersed in the olive leaf inhibiting system were characterized using... 

In recent years, the usage of Internet bandwidth has been increased by emerging applications such as Video on Demand (VoD).As the popularity of VoD increases among the Internet users, some new problems like bandwidth limitations and congestion embark. For solving mentioned problems, Content Delivery Networks (CDN) has been introduced. Using CDN approaches either in ISP or organization is also known as Telco CDN. Generally implementing CDN approaches to process all requests either in ISP or organization can cause bottleneck. On the other hand, Software Defined Networks (SDN) could bring us new tools and opportunities which enables us to implement novel methods to confront these problems.... 

This study presents a facile sol-gel template-assisted route to prepare CNT-TiO2 hybrid structures (CTH) for dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) applications. Non-covalent functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with average diameter of 80 nm are used as the template for TiO2 deposition. The X-ray diffraction reveals that the hybrid structures are composed of primary anatase TiO2 nanoparticles with the average crystallite size of 12 nm, after heat treatment at 450°C in air atmosphere. TEM and FESEM images show that the shell thickness of the coated TiO2 on CNTs’ outmost walls varies between 60 to 120 nm, when the ratio of CNTs:TiO2 is 10wt. %. Photovoltaic measurements demonstrate... 

The analysis of histopathological images is essential for the accurate diagnosis of cancer and the development of treatment plans. With significant advancements in deep learning and the adoption of advanced models such as convolutional neural networks, the accuracy and efficiency of image analysis have greatly improved. However, these models are often referred to as "black boxes," and one of their major challenges is the lack of transparency in their decision-making processes. This opacity reduces trust in their results, particularly in sensitive medical fields. To address this issue, the field of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) has emerged, aiming to provide clear and...