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In the present study, it has been tried out to increase the hardness and wear resistance of anodized aluminum coating byadding Si3N4 nanoparticles to the anodizing bath and making a composite coating. In order to investigate the influence of other effective parameters on the properties of anodized coating before the compositing process, hardness and thickness were optimized in the Sulphoric/oxalic bath using design of experimental method (central composite design). The properties of these coatings are dependent on various parameters among which time, temperature and pulse current parameters (current density limit, frequency and duty cycle) were considered in the present study. Analysis of... 

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 anisotropic Heisenberg ferrimagnet which is composed of two different kind of spins is studied. We have found the exact (factorized) ground state of a general class of ferrimagnets in the presence of a magnetic field which includes the frustrated, anisotropic and long range interactions for arbitrary dimensional space. The factorized ground state is a product of single particle kets on a bipartite lattice composed of two different spins (σ, ρ) which is characterized by two angles, a bi-angle state. The spin waves analysis around the exact ground state show two branch of excitations which is the origin of two dynamics of the model. The signature of these dynamics is addressed as a peak... 

We are interested in the relation between entanglement and quantum phase transitions. We have presented a formulation on how the entanglement of a very large the system is related to the entanglement of a small part of system. The renormalization of entanglement is an indicator of the critical behavior of the models. The framework of our approach is introduced about the Ising model. In particular, we show that derivative of entanglement developes a minimum close to the critical point. We further clarify that this minimum point approaches to the exact critical point of the system as the system becomes thermodynamic. This phenomenon is governed by an exponent that is closely related to the... 

Bioactive glasses are able to bond to soft and hard tissues in living body and their application as coating on metallic implants like 316L stainless steel has two important effects: (1) intimate link between bone and materials and (2) corrosion protection of metallic implant in body fluid and protection from tissues in front of corrosion products. Therefore, in this research, 45S5 bioactive glass prepared via sol- gel method was dip coated on 316L stainless steel substrates and its characteristics was investigated.Results of phase analysis showed that by sintering 45S5 bioglass at 600 ˚C for 5 h, an amorph sample with small amount of Na2Ca2Si3O9 was obtained. So, the bioglass coated samples... 

Strongly correlated materials are kind of materials in which novel electric and magnetic properties will appear as a result of strong correlations among their electrons like “heavy fermion materials”. Kondo lattice model is a model to describe heavy fermion materials. If we are merely interested in the magnetic properties of heavy fermions we can replace the Kondo lattice Model with the simpler model called the Kondo-necklace model which consists of the interactions only among the spins of the itinerant (conduction) and localized electrons (magnetic impurities) and also the interactions between the spins of the itinerant electrons. In this thesis we investigate the properties of the one... 

Magnesium and its alloys have been used as biodegradable implements in recent years. However Magnesium implements may corrode in the body before the natural healing process of the damaged tissue. MAO process was studied in order to reduce primary corrosion of Magnesium alloy in Simulated Body Fluid (SBF). MAO coating was created on AZ31 alloy in a nontoxic alkaline-silicate solution at DC current densities of 5, 10, 15 and 20 mA/cm2 for 30 minutes and the current was in form of 20-10-5 mA/cm2 steps that each were applied for 10 minutes. The maximum corrosion resistance was observed for the mentioned step applied current in a 30g/l Sodium Silicate solution. Furthermore the effects of adding... 

In this thesis, we consider the Kondo-necklace model to investigate the quantum phase transition between the Kondo-singlet and antiferromagnetic phases. There is no exact solution for this model. We would like to study the quantum critical behaviour of this model on one, two and three dimensional spaces in addition to ladder geometry. In this respect, we looked for a proper method which can give us some information for our model on any spaces mentioned above. Therefore, we implemented the perturbation continuous unitary transformation (PCUT) for the Kondo-necklace model. By using this method, we can not only calculate the ground state energy for 1, 2, 3 dimension and n-leg ladder... 

One of the most important factors of reducing durability of concrete structures is corrosion of steel reinforcement in concrete. In this paper, corrosion behavior of reinforcing steel in concrete is investigated in two different methods of protection based on neural network. As regard the first method, pozzolanic additives with optimized percentage were added to Concrete mix design (the percentage of these additives are 25% Weight of cement of fly ash, Micro silica with 10 percent of weight of cement and 25% of Blast Furnace slag weight of cement). In the second approach of protection, 0/5 percent weight of cement of ferrogard 901 inhibitor is added to basic mix concrete design and the... 

The fascinating subject of heavy fermion physics in rare-earth and actinide systems has been a challenge for theoretical and experimental investigations for decades. Kondo Necklace model is one of the promising models in the study of strongly-correlated heavy fermion compounds, which is studied in this project.One of the methods to diagonalize a Hamiltonian properly, regardless of system size, is the continuous unitary transformation. In this approach, the Hamiltonian is considered as a function of a flow parameter. The Hamiltonian is transformed to a simpler form (diagonal or band-block diagonal) under a flow equation which is based on applying infinite numbers of infinitesimal unitary... 

Entanglement spectrum is the set of eigenvalues of reduced density matrix for a definite state. It contains more information than the entanglement entropy. This spectrum can show entanglement measure, quantum phase transition and topological order in a system. In recent years, the entanglement spectrum for several models has been studied. The entanglement spectrum shows a correspondence to the energy spectrum within some specific regions, which are related to the edge state of the system; It has been verified for the Heisenberg ladder [1] and fractional quantum Hall effect [3]. Moreover, the topological order can be seen in the entanglement spectrum. There exists an acceptable adaption... 

In this thesis, we have implemented the quantum renormalization group method to study quantum spin systems. We reviewed the recent progress to calculate the quantum information properties of these models. The recent investigations show that concurrence and entanglement are two quantities which can show quantum critical properties of the quantum systems. More specifically, the derivative of entanglement and the second derivative of ground state energy show divergent behavior at the quantum critical point. Moreover, the ground state fidelity for two different parameters close to quantum critical point shows a drop which leads to a divergent behavior in its corresponding susceptibility. We have... 

Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion (MIC) of concrete sewer ptpes and wastewater collection systems has been reported in many places of the world. Recently, numerous copper compounds have been used for bacterial growth control in sewer pipes. In this thesis, bath parameterswere optimized in order to maximize copper osmosis to the porous concrete matrix.Concrete pipes were electrochemically coated inCopper Lactate bath in a constant current mode (1=0.6 A), while temperature was set to 25, 50, 75 and 95
°Cand pH to 9,10 and 11. Specimens were then characterized by scanning electron

microscopy, optical microscopy, XRD andAAS. Copper Osmosis was highest in pH=9 and... 

The aim of this thesis was creating Titania/RGO coating with electrophoretic method to evaluate the corrosion resistance of stainless steel 316. At first Graphene Oxide were synthesized with modified Hammers method and their physical, chemical and morphological properties have been investigated using XRD, FTIR, EDX, TGA, UV-Vis and Raman analysis. then Graphene Oxide was added to the bath of titanium and was deposited on 316 stainless steel substrates. Moreover, corrosion protection of coating has been examined using Poarization test and Electrochemical Impedance Spectrometry. The effect of deposition parameters on corrosion properties of composite coatings were examined. The key variables... 

In this thesis, we study the effect of quantum fluctuations by means of a transverse magnetic field () on the ground state of frustrated antiferromagnetic Ising models on the checkerboard and square lattices with nearest neigbor couplings J1 and next-to-nearest neighbor couplings J2. At zero field, such models have exponentially large degenerate classical ground states at J2 ... J1 for the checkerboard lattice and at J2 = 0:5J1 for the square lattice. Quantum fluctuations can have a major role to lift the degeneracies toward a unique quantum ground states. We consider two types of quantum fluctuations, harmonic ones by using linear spin wave theory (LSWT) with single-spin flip excitations... 

In this research Feasibility of application of oxide compounds of bismuth, molybdenum and tin as biocide was studied. So some epoxy paints with different ratio of these compounds were formulated. Afterward some tests were performed to assessment paints properties such as leaching rate, antifouling activity, adhesion, corrosion resistance and impact resistance. Results of leaching rate test showed that increase in the ratio of bismuth oxide from 10% to 60%, led to increase leaching rate from 0.029mg.day-1.cm-2 to 0.126mg.day-1.cm-2. beside that Microscopic results showed proved that the ratio of bismuth oxide in the cured coating is 25% of the paint formulate. In similar ratio of biocides,... 

In this research, role of zirconia nanoparticles as a biocompatible material which has great mechanical properties, was investigated on corrosion behavior and bonding strength of HA coating. HA- ZrO2 composite prepared by a 2-step pulse electrodeposition method. Effect of pH (3.5, 4.5), bath temperature (60, 80 ͦC), current density (0.5, 1, 2 mA/cm2) and zirconia concentration (5, 10, 15 g/L) on coating characteristics were studied. X-ray diffraction was employed for phase analysis. Morphology and microstructure of samples observed utilizing scanning electron microscope (SEM) and elemental analysis was done by EDS. In order to corrosion studies electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)... 

Recently magnesium alloys have shown great potential as biodegradable metallic implants. However, due to high corrosion rate in the body environment, these alloys would be degraded before the tissue healing time period. Therefore corrosion resistance of these alloys has to be improved in order to be used in biological environments. In the present work, supposing improvement of corrosion properties of magnesium AZ91D alloy, the alloy has been coated with biocompatible nano-Zirconia particles using Electrophoretic deposition method and the effects of deposition parameters such as bath agitation, Zirconia concentration, current density and duration of deposition process on the properties of the... 

In this study, linear polarization resistance (LPR) of cathodic pulse electrodeposited graphene- Nickel-Molybdenum coating is optimized by design of experiments approach (central composite design). Applied current density (i), cathodic pulse durations (Ton) and total electrodeposition time (Ttotal) are selected as the substantial factors. The best prediction model proposes a definitive linear relation without any significant interaction of the LPR by analysis of variance. The best value of LPR is achieved equal to 1406KΩ.cm2, obtaining at i of 137.5 A/cm2, Ton of 45.5 ms and Ttotal equal to 315 s. Polarization test is carried out to determine corrosion behavior of the coating. It shows... 

Metallic implants are useful in dental and orthopedic applications. Bio coating is necessary to improve bio-compatibility and bio-activation of metallic implants. For this goal, HA is the most important material. In this research, the goal is to improve bio-compatibility of St. St 316 by coating HA, HA-ZrO2, HA-TiO2, HA-ZrO2-TiO2 using combination of electrodeposition and electrophoretic methods. To form HA, calcium and phosphor salt solution was used then ZrO2- TiO2 nanoparticles was added to solution. In order to analyst the coatings different tests were done. Thickness analysis, XRD, FT-IR, FE-SEM and EDS, bonding Strength, Polarization test, bio-compatibility and surface roughness...