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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…
Nayaku N. Chavan
<b>BACKGROUND</b>: Generally main chain cholesteric thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers are prepared form chiral diacid or diol monomer. But these monomers are costly. Isosorbide is chiral cycloaliphatic diol accessible from renewable resources in the fo…
Sanjay Swarup
To evaluate the efficiency of modified epoxy resins using bisphenol-A, hydantoin & cyanuric acid & to investigate the structural change due to the presence of Nitrogen atoms in polymeric chain for improved insulating properties, weatherability etc. The sample…
Kosuke Nakagoshi, Kunio Yoshizumi
Degradation of Japanese lacquer caused by light irradiation was examined at various wavelengths. By exposing lacquer specimens to a narrow monochromatic light band isolated from dispersed polychromatic light emitted by a Xe lamp source, the wavelength sensiti…
Tadashi Uragami
To evaluate the high-performance of membrane materials in the concentration of an aqueous solution of dilute bioethanol under temperature-difference controlled evapomeation (TDEV), asymmetric porous cellulose nitrate (CN) and cellulose acetate (CA) membranes…
Hemant K. Chitte, Narendra V. Bhat, Mr. Ajit V. Gore, Ganesh N. Shind
Polypyrrole (Ppy) was synthesized using Ammonium Peroxy Disulfate (APS) as oxidant in a standard ratio of monomer to oxidants at 5℃. Attempts were made to increase the electrical conductivity by using various dopants viz. Lithium per Chlorate (LiClO<sub>4</su…
Hsin Jen Pan, Chao Yang Lin, Udit Surya Mohanty, Jung Hua Chou
The synthesis of Sn-3.5Ag alloy nanosolder was investigated by chemical reduction method. In this method, chemical precipitation was achieved by using sodium NaBH<sub>4</sub> as a reducing agent and PVP (poly-m-vinyl 2- pyrrolidone) as a stabilizer. The exper…
Ferkous Embarek, Amara Idriss, Djeribaa Abdeldjalil, Boughouas Hamlaoui, Achour Slimane
In spite of the considerable progress made in the domain of the sciences of materials, cutting tools subjected to an intense abrasive wear and a very high temperature of edge. They record during their use an reduced working life. The operations of machining o…
Maria Datcheva, Sabina Cherneva, Maria Stoycheva, Roumen Iankov, Dimitar Stoychev
An aluminium AD-3 has been anodized under four different conditions, namely at low temperature (?5℃), room temperature (25℃), with and without sealing the anodized coating in boiling distilled water. The solution used for formation of alumina layer in all cas…
Abdel-Monem El-Batahgy, Abdel-Fattah Khourshid, Thoria Sharef
The present study is concerned with laser beam welding and its effect on size and microstructure of fusion zone then, on mechanical and corrosion properties of duplex stainless steel welded joints. In this regard, influence of different laser welding paramete…
Wafaa M. Raslan, Usama S. Rashed, Hanan El-Sayad, Azza A. El-Halwagy
Nanotechnology provides the ability to engineer the properties of materials. The possibility of using dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) air plasma treatment for fibre surface activation to facilitate deposition of aluminum oxide (Al<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>)…
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