Trans-free vanaspati containing ternary blends of palm oil-palm stearin-palm olein and palm oil-palm stearin-palm kernel olein by Nor Aini, I., Che Maimon, C. H., Hanirah, H., Zawiah, S., Che Man, Y. B.

“…In set A, the peak at the low-melting region was relatively lower.…”
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Highly stretchable, elastic, and ionic conductive hydrogel for artificial soft electronics by Zhou, Yang, Wan, Changjin, Yang, Yongsheng, Yang, Hui, Wang, Shancheng, Dai, Zhendong, Ji, Keju, Jiang, Hui, Chen, Xiaodong, Long, Yi

“…The proposed ionic conductive hydrogel is achieved by physically cross-linking the tough biocompatible polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) gel as the matrix and embedding hydroxypropyl cellulose (HPC) biopolymer fibers inside matrix followed by salt solution soaking. The wrinkle and dense structure induced by salting in PVA matrix provides large stress (1.3 MPa) and strain (975%). …”
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Thermoreversible gelation and viscoelasticity of κ-carrageenan hydrogels by Liu, Sijun, Huang, Sheng, Li, Lin

“…It was found that the formation and melting of κ-carrageenan hydrogels were thermally reversible and extremely sensitive to κ-carrageenan concentration. …”
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Single-crystal growth of organic semiconductors by Jiang, Hui, Kloc, Christian

“…The growth of large crystals from the melt by zone melting, the Bridgman, or the Czochralski methods has been used to produce stable materials used in wafer manufacturing or large scintillator detectors. …”
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Development of PCM-cooled helmet by Sua, Chong Chai.

“…The type of PCM use in the system is n-Octadecane which has a melting temperature of 28°C. Therefore, the temperature of the wearer’s head will be maintained at this temperature for a period of time until the PCM is completely melted. …”
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Experimental investigation on the strength and stiffness of 3D printed stainless steel S/S 316L parts by Ang, Pei Chang

“…However, due to the repetitive melting and rapid solidification involved in the manufacturing process, it may cause the specimen to exhibit anisotropic behaviour. …”
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Mechanism of PVA fibers in mitigating explosive spalling of engineered cementitious composite at elevated temperature by Liu, Jin-Cheng, Tan, Kang Hai

“…PVA fibers were found to increase hot permeability of ECC significantly before their melting. Microstructure and EDX analysis were conducted to achieve a better understanding of how PVA fibers actually function to increase hot permeability before melting. …”
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Study on the physical properties of printed parts using fresh and recycled polymer powders for additive manufacturing by Chng, Calvin Zuo En

“…In this study, their crystallinity, melting points, crystallisation time, crystallisation shrinkage and crystal size were studied. …”
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Hydrogels from polymer for biomedical applications by Teo, Man Ru

“…The use of micro-differential scanning calorimetry shed light on the formation and melting thermal reversibility of kappa-carrageenan with the addition of Ca2+ and Mg2+ ions. …”
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Combination of torrefaction and leaching treatments on the solid biofuel characteristics of fast-growing timbers species and oil palm biomass by Lee, Chuan Li, Chin, Kit Ling, Chuah, Luqman Abdullah, Hafizuddin, Mohd Sahfani, Khoo, Pui San

“…The focus was on evaluating the impact of these combined methods on ash removal efficiency and the melting characteristics of the treated biomass. Two possible strategies were considered: implementing torrefaction first followed by leaching, or conducting leaching first followed by torrefaction. …”
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Material characterization of additive manufactured metal parts for failure analysis by Seow, Mei Qi

“…SLM is a powder based fusion additive manufacturing technique which utilities energy from the laser for the melting of powder layers by layers to form a 3-dimensional (3D) part. …”
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3D printing of a metal material on another dissimilar metal base by Tian, Jinmiao

“…So, in this context, how to successfully fabricate components using additive manufacturing techniques to melt and fuse a metal alloy onto a dissimilar metal alloy has become a key research aspect in this field. …”
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Fabrication of hydrophobic surfaces using micro-electro discharge machining by Ching, Zai Ting

“…Heat was transferred to aluminium work piece due to its high thermal conductivity while its lower melting point would cause the material to melt. For brass work piece, copper electrodes was found to give the highest average contact angle. …”
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Adhesion of aerogel particles with polymeric binders by Mani Thendral.

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Effect of various polymer fibers on spalling mitigation of ultra-high performance concrete at high temperature by Zhang, Dong, Tan, Kang Hai

“…Thermal expansion of polymer fibers created microcracks even before melting of fibers. This affected pore size distribution and increased permeability significantly, leading to high spalling resistance of UHPC.…”
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Experimental and numerical studies on the cooling of mobile device by Setoh, Guojing.

“…The time taken for complete solidifying of liquid PCM is much longer as compared to complete melting of solid PCM. The use of PCM is only effective in making intermittent calls but not long duration calls.…”
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Additive manufacturing of NiTi shape memory alloys using pre-mixed powders by Tor, Shu Beng, Wong, Chee How, Wang, Chengcheng, Tan, Xipeng, Du, Zehui, Chandra, Shubham, Sun, Zhongji, Lim, Joel Choon Wee, Lim, Choon Seng

“…This work presents a comparative study on the in-situ alloying of NiTi shape memory alloys (SMAs) by directed energy deposition (DED), selective laser melting (SLM) and selective electron beam melting (SEBM) processes using pre-mixed Ni-Ti powders. …”
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Polymeric composites for powder-based additive manufacturing : materials and applications by Yuan, Shangqin, Shen, Fei, Chua, Chee Kai, Zhou, Kun

“…As one of the most important categories in the additive manufacturing (AM) field, powder-based techniques, such as selective laser sintering, electron beam melting and selective laser melting, utilize laser or electronic beams to selectively fuse polymeric, metallic, ceramic or composite powders layer-by-layer into desired products according to their computer-aided design models. …”
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Machine learning discovery of a new cobalt free multi-principal-element alloy with excellent mechanical properties by Qiao, Ling, Ramanujan, Raju Vijayaraghavan, Zhu, Jingchuan

“…The physical features, the chemical composition and the temperature difference between the initial and final melting temperatures were selected as the input and output variables, respectively. …”
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Nb and Ta intracrustal differentiation during granulite-facies metamorphism: evidence from geochemical data of natural rocks and thermodynamic modeling by Huang, G, Chen, Y, Guo, J, Palin, R, Zhao, L

“…As biotite preferentially incorporates Nb over Ta, the early stages of biotite dehydration melting produce a high-Nb/Ta residue and a low-Nb/Ta melt; however, geochemical modeling suggests that once biotite is depleted, the Nb/Ta ratio of the system is instead controlled by rutile growth, which promotes the formation of a lower Nb/Ta residue and a higher Nb/ Ta melt, even though the volume of melt produced at this stage may be small. …”