Green and effective fabrication of porous surfaces with adjustable cell structure by foaming at incomplete healed polymer-polymer interface.

Porous surfaces of materials have shown huge potentialities for endowing materials with multifarious functions. Despite introducing gas-confined-barriers in supercritical CO foaming technology is effective to weaken the gas escape effect and facilitate the preparation of porous surfaces, the differences in intrinsic properties between barriers and polymers result in bottlenecks like cell structure adjustment limitation and incompletely eliminated solid skin layers. This study undertakes a preparation approach for porous surfaces by foaming at incompletely healed polystyrene/polystyrene interfaces.

Illumination compensation methods for automatic fiber connector inspection.

Unevenly distributed image illumination is a problem in an automatic machine visual inspection system used for fiber connector defect detection. This unevenly distributed illumination makes it difficult to find an appropriate horizontal threshold to convert a gray-scale image to a binary image to separate surface defects, such as blobs and scratches, from the background of the connector. This paper proposes some effective methods to compensate the unevenly distributed illumination problem so that standard image processing methods can be used effectively to detect the defects of the fiber connectors.