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    Short-Term Oxidation of HfB<sub>2</sub>-SiC Based UHTC in Supersonic Flow of Carbon Dioxide Plasma

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    The short-term (5 min) exposure to the supersonic flow of carbon dioxide plasma on ultrahigh-temperature ceramics of HfB2-30vol.%SiC composition has been studied. It was shown that, when established on the surface at a temperature of 1615–1655 °C, the beginning of the formation of an oxidized layer takes place. Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy studies showed that the formation of a porous SiC-depleted region is not possible under the HfO2-SiO2 surface oxide layer. Numerical modeling based on the Navier–Stokes equations and experimental probe measurements of the test conditions were performed. The desirability of continuing systematic studies on the behavior of ultrahigh-temperature ZrB2/HfB2-SiC ceramics, including those doped with various components under the influence of high-enthalpy gas flows, was noted

    A comprehensive study of biocompatibility of detonation nanodiamonds

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    The article describes a complex study of detonation nanodiamonds (DND) aqueous dispersions. In this research, DND sample was characterised by means of IR, NMR spectroscopy, TEM, thermogravimetric analysis, size distribution, and ζ-potentials. It was shown that DND sample includes several surface groups, mainly hydroxylic, carboxylic, and carbonyl ones. Dynamic light scattering results revealed that in the concentration range C = 0.002–0.3 wt%, DND nanoparticles size is equal to 55 ± 5 nm. It was demonstrated that DND possessed weak antiradical activity, had an inhibitory effect on F1F0-ATPase activity, almost did not affect platelet aggregation, formed a stronger complex with human serum albumin (HSA) in subdomain IB (digitoxin, Kb = 20.0 ± 2.4 l·g−1) and a less strong complex in subdomain IIA (warfarin, Kb = 3.7 ± 0.1 l·g−1), inhibited the esterase activity of HSA, DND dispersions (C = 0.0012–0.15 wt%) revealed genotoxic effect towards PBMCs, did not affect cellular proliferation in the experiment with HEK293 cell line, did not reveal cytotoxic effect up to 0.01 wt%. Using DFT and MD approaches allowed us to perform a simulation of interaction between DND nanoparticle and water molecules
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