Svitlana Fialkova

Svitlana Fialkova
  • Doctor of Philosophy
  • PostDoc Position at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University

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North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
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Publications (37)
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Conventional rolling is a plastic deformation process that uses compression between two rolls to reduce material thickness and produce sheet/plane geometries. This deformation process modifies the material structure by generating texture, reducing the grain size, and strengthening the material. The rolling process can enhance the strength and hardn...
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This research reports the development of 3D carbon nanostructures that can provide unique capabilities for manufacturing carbon nanotube (CNT) electronic components, electrochemical probes, biosensors, and tissue scaffolds. The shaped CNT arrays were grown on patterned catalytic substrate by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. The new fabricati...
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Magnesium-based alloys show significant promise for widespread applications owing to their lightweight nature and improved mechanical properties achieved through grain refinement via hot rolling. This investigation focuses on Mg-xAl-yCa-zMn (AXM alloys), pre-heated to temperatures of 350, 400, and 450 °C and processed via both single-pass different...
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Engineered composite scaffolds composed of natural and synthetic polymers exhibit cooperation at the molecular level that closely mimics tissue extracellular matrix's (ECM) physical and chemical characteristics. However, due to the lack of smooth intermix capability of natural and synthetic materials in the solution phase, bio‐inspired composite ma...
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The storage of renewable energy is an important step toward the global effort to combat air contamination and climate change. In this work, the influence of substrate-induced strain on the electrocatalytic properties of nickel oxide (NiO) films toward the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is studied. Using pulsed laser deposition, NiO thin films we...
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Magnesium-based alloys can be enhanced through a combination of annealing temperature and holding time prior to plastic deformation such as single-pass differential speed rolling, where the material is strained and produces fine dynamic recrystallization (DRX) grains improving material strength and hardness. The magnesium (Mg)-based alloy under inv...
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Non-conventional differential speed and confined hot rolling methods were employed to process two binary magnesium-aluminum-alloys, Mg-xAl (x = 6 and 9 wt%), with conventional rolling being used as a comparative control. The study focused on the effect of the processing methods and parameters on the efficacy of grain refinement and texture evolutio...
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Titanium nitride thin films have been grown on c-plane sapphire substrates using a pulsed laser deposition technique in the thickness range of 6–45 nm. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis has demonstrated TiN (111) as the preferred orientation of growth on the sapphire substrates. The XRD measurements have also indicated that orientational alignment b...
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Magnesium is utilized as a light-weight metal in the aerospace and automotive industries, and recently draws a lot of attention in biomedical research due to its biodegradable and biocompatible properties [1–3]. With Zinc being a biocompatible element, magnesium-zinc alloys have been very attractive for such applications. Mechanical properties incl...
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A TiNxOy (TiNO) material system has been synthesized in thin film form for the first time using a pulsed laser deposition process. X-ray diffraction and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy measurements have been carried out to show partial oxidation of TiN to TiNO. The current (I)-voltage (V) characteristics recorded from TiNO films sandwiched between...
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The floating catalyst gas-phase pyrolysis method has been an important method to synthesize carbon nanotube sheet. Its advantage over other chemical vapor deposition methods is due to its continuous synthesis process and the potential for scaling up. Industries have already adopted this method to produce commercial products for various applications...
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The low corrosion resistance of Mg alloys is the major challenge that slows down the actual application of these lightweight materials. Magnesium has a more negative standard reduction potential than common alloying elements — aluminum and zinc. The formation of local galvanic couples was reported in AZ31-AZ91 alloys due to precipitation of seconda...
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Iron-tantalum (Fe–Ta) thin films were synthesized on silicon (Si) (100) substrates using a pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. For the analysis of all reported data, please refer to our main article “Magnetic and electrical properties of Fe90Ta10 thin films [1]”. Morphological data confirm the amorphous nature of the film. Mesokurtic surface o...
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Objective. We report the study of feasibility to produce the thing bioactive coating from experimental dental cement using pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. Methods. The targets for PLD system (disks 30 mm in diameter × 5 mm thick) were sintered from micronized powder of set Alborg White Portland cement (WPC). The parameters for sintering pr...
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This study focused on understanding the interactions between alloying elements in a magnesium (Mg) matrix and the effect of the alloying elements on corrosion behavior of Mg-alloys. The development of atomic force microscope (AFM) techniques has enabled the evaluation of physical and chemical properties of surfaces at the sub-micron level. Scanning...
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Objective. The purpose of this study was to characterize and to evaluate the effect of thermal treatment on properties and bioactivity of experimental dental cement. Methods. Specimens of the dental cement (pellets 13 mm in diameter × 3 mm thick) were prepared by cold pressing of micronized powder of set Alborg White Portland cement. The thermo-gra...
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This study describes results from mechanical tests conducted on magnesium single crystals in comparison with polycrystalline magnesium. It was found by impact testing that the magnesium single crystal is highly ductile due to energy absorption by twinning and slip, while the polycrystalline samples fracture easily upon impact. Compressive testing a...
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The alignment of different carbon nanotube (CNT) structures has been studied extensively using varying techniques. Most of these techniques however do not present a true three-dimensional (3D) representation of the orientation of the material. In this work, the orientation distribution functions obtained from X-ray pole figures for different CNT st...
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This study aims to evaluate the wear resistance of magnesium - ceramics nano-layered thin films using atomic force microscopy technique (AFM). The magnesium - ceramics (alumina and silica) nano-layered thin films were deposited on glass substrate using DC and pulsed DC reactive magnetron sputtering process. The surface roughness and wear properties...
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This paper discusses the synthesis and characterization of Al2O3/Fe and Al2O3/Ni nanocomposite thin films formed by embedding Fe or Ni nanoparticles into alumina matrix using pulsed laser deposition (PLD), RF and pulsed DC magnetron sputtering techniques. The effect of nanoparticle dispersion and temperature on the phase, structure and mechanical p...
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In this study, Mg/SiO2 and MgO/SiO2 multilayer coatings with bilayer thicknesses (Λ) 10, 20, 40, 100, 200 and 1000 nm were deposited on glass substrates using DC and reactive pulsed DC magnetron sputtering processes. The aim of these coatings is to control the initial degradation and provide mechanical strength to magnesium implant during handling...
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Nanotubes are a unique class of materials because their properties depend not only on their composition but also on their geometry. The diameter, number of walls, length, chirality, van der Waals forces, and quality all affect the properties and performance of nanotubes. This dependence on geometry is what makes scaling-up nanotubes to form bulk ma...
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Magnesium has attracted a lot of attention over the last few decades, due to its light weight and potential use as biomaterial. However, the poor corrosion resistance of magnesium restricts its practical use for application where exposure to aggressive aqueous media is unavoidable. This paper describes the growth, characterization and corrosion ana...
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Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is powerful technique to study surface properties and processes in the μm-and nmrange. In-situ liquid AFM measurements were conducted to evaluate the surface degradation of two biocompatible metals: Ti as the most bio-inert (bio-stable) and Mg as the promising biodegradable metal. The pure Mg and Ti thin films were dep...
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As the need for smaller data storage devices in the market continues to grow, the study of new combinations of self-assembled magnetic nanoparticles/films is greatly needed. In this research, Fe50-Ni50 films were synthesized using a Pulsed Laser Deposition technique. The films were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), atomic force mic...
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Medical change is coming. Robots and tiny machines built using nanoscale materials are going to fundamentally change engineering at the microscale and medicine will be the first area to benefit. In tiny machine design, copper and iron are replaced with carbon nanotube superfiber wire and magnetic nanocomposite materials. Because of the small size o...
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Scandia-doped zirconia is a very promising material for solid oxide fuel cells due to its high oxygen conductivity in the 700-850°C temperature range. 10 mol% Sc2O3 - 1 mol% CeO2 - ZrO2 ceramics were sintered at temperatures 1100-1600°C using different heating rates and dwell times. Ceramics sintered at temperatures higher 1300°C were found to exis...
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Individual nanotubes made of carbon, boron nitride, iron, silicon, or other materials have properties such as high strength, toughness, electrical and thermal conductivity, and light weight that cannot be matched by conventional materials. Nanotubes also change their properties in response to external fields and change one type of energy into anoth...
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Individual nanotubes made of carbon, boron nitride, iron, silicon, or other materials have properties such as high strength, toughness, electrical and thermal conductivity, and light weight that cannot be matched by conventional materials. Nanotubes also change their properties in response to external fields and change one type of energy into anoth...
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ChemInform is a weekly Abstracting Service, delivering concise information at a glance that was extracted from about 200 leading journals. To access a ChemInform Abstract of an article which was published elsewhere, please select a “Full Text” option. The original article is trackable via the “References” option.
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Ba4Nb2O9 is shown to have two basic polymorphs: a high-temperature γ phase, which represents an entirely new structure type; and a low-temperature α phase, which has the rare Sr4Ru2O9 structure type. The phases are separated by a reconstructive phase transition at 1370 K, the kinetics of which are sufficiently slow that the γ phase can easily be qu...
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In the interaction of N-thiocarbamoylhexahydroindazoles with -bromoacetophenones, the corresponding N-thiazolylpyrazolines are formed. In some cases, the heterocyclization is accompanied by a shift of the double bond and cis-trans isomerization in the pyrazoline ring. A study has been made of the influence of the stereochemistry of these compounds...

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