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Materials Sciences and Applications (MSA) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in materials. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of material…
Guilherme Parente Souza
A new way to characterize asperities on metallic surfaces at the nanometer scale is proposed. Asperities are often treated using conventional statistical descriptors such as average and root mean square roughness, which do not provide adequate mechanistic ins…
Dian Souza Garcia, Bruno de Paula Amantes, Maria Inês Bruno Tavares
With the increase of incorrectly discarded materials in the environment, including clothes, the need for recycling and reusing them becomes one of the alternatives to work around this problem, following the law of the 3 Rs. However, these polymeric materials…
Reyna Anahí Falcón-Castrejón, Jose Luis Román-Zubillaga, Rene Guardián-Tapia, Lazaro Falcón-Franco, Isaí Rosales-Cadena
In this investigation, the addition of several amounts of metal oxide particles (CuO 2 ) in Al matrix is carried out due to the need to improve the mechanical properties such as the ductility of aluminum for applications in the electrical sector. Samples were…
Vasily Koshkarov, Ilya Shunyaev, Evgeny Koshkarov
The article is the result of theoretical and experimental studies aimed at determining the structural groups of modern bituminous materials in order to assess the raw materials, production technology, rational directions for their use in construction, the roa…
Towhid Adnan Chowdhury
Sb 2 S 3 has gained tremendous research recently for thin film solar cell absorber material because of their easy synthesis, unique electrical and optical properties. The stoichiometry and composition of electroless Sb 2 S 3 thin films were analyzed using XPS…
Sidpouita Mathilde Koudougou, Hamma Fabien Yonli, Moussa Sougoti, David Yemboini Kader Toguyeni
Flexible pavements, whose surface layers are made from hot mix asphalt, may show rutting in some of these infrastructures during the first months of life. In the city of Ouagadougou, this rutting phenomenon is sometimes observed. The objective of this article…
Desh Maruthi Jeyakanthan, Jens Schuster, Yousuf Pasha Shaik
The menstrual cycle is always considered as a big nightmare by many women. This research aims to make this process smooth and safe by developing natural sanitary pads which are used to absorb and retain menstrual blood from the body. Some existing sanitary pa…
Danielle Mattos Mariano, Daniela França Silva Freitas, Gerson Alberto Valencia Albitres, Luis Claudio Mendes, Maria Ines Bruno Tavares
In order to provide ultraviolet barrier, antifungal and antibacterial properties, nano-zinc oxide (ZnO) was added to lamellar zirconium phosphate (ZrP). The phosphate was synthesized via reaction of zirconium oxychloride octahydrate and phosphoric acid follow…
Yajaira Curiel-Razo, Enrique Curiel-Reyna, Minerva Robles-Agudo, Alberto Lara-Guevara, Ignacio Rojas-Rodríguez
Different investigations of the union of dissimilar materials such as stainless steel and different castings have been carried out, but rapid cooling immediately after welding has not been considered, in this work it was investigated how rapid cooling affects…
Mutsumi Takahashi, Yogetsu Bando
Many molding techniques have been researched to ensure the thickness of custom mouthguards. The aim of this study was to clarify the effect on the thickness of a laminated mouthguard of a molding technique in which the model position is moved forward just bef…
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