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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…
M. Y. A. Rahman, A. Ahmad, T. K. Lee, Y. Farina, H. M. Dahlan
In this research, new thin film of a free standing electrolyte film containing poly(vinyl) chloride (PVC), 50% liquid epoxidized natural rubber (LENR50), Ethylene carbonate (EC) blends as a host for the electrolyte which was doped with lithium perchlorate (Li…
Genevive C. Onuegbu, Isaac O. Igwe
Polypropylene composites of snail shell powder were prepared at filler contents, 0 to 40 wt%. The particle sizes of the snail shell powder investigated were 0.150, 0.30, and 0.42 µm. Talc, of particle size, 0.150 µm was used as the reference filler. The polyp…
Isaac Ogbennaya Igwe, Augustina Adanna Ejim
A series of natural rubber-snail shell powder vulcanizates were compounded on a two-roll mill, and moulded on a compression moulding machine. The mechanical and end-use properties of the natural rubber vulcanizates were investigated at snail shell powder cont…
Turup Pandurangan Mohan, Krishnan Kanny
This work presents the effect of synthetic procedures (extrusion and casting) on the dispersion characteristics of nano layered silicate clay particles in the polypropylene (PP) polymer matrix. Three different molecular weights PP samples are taken and filled…
Hongjuan Ma, Kazuaki Morita, Hiroyuki Hoshina, Noriaki Seko
Radiation induced graft polymerization on polymeric matrix followed by functionalization is widely accepted for the preparation of metal adsorbents. In this paper, a pre-irradiation method was used for emulsion graft polymerization of 4-hydroxybutyl acrylate…
Pragnesh N. Dave, Nikul N. Patel
Epoxy resin based Unsaturated poly(ester-amide) resins (UPEAs) can be prepared by many methods but here these were prepared by reported method [1]. These UPEAs were then treated with acrylotl chloride to afford acrylated UPEAs resin (<i>i.e.</i> AUPEAs). Inte…
Mariem Chaari, Adel Matoussi, Zouheir Fakhfakh
Undoped zinc oxide (ZnO) has been prepared at various growth temperatures by conventional sintering process. The morphology and crystalline properties of ZnO pellets were examined by scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and X-ray diffraction.…
Yahong Xie, Takesi Kimura, Shu Yin, Takatoshi Hashimoto, Yuichi Tokano, Atsushi Sasaki, Tsugio Sato
The size of BaTiO<sub>3</sub> particles was controlled by adjusting the molar ratio of the starting materials (BaCl<sub>2</sub> + TiO<sub>2</sub>) to mineralizer (NaOH + KOH) during a composite-hydroxide-mediated approach using a novel hydrothermal reaction a…
Mohammed Ameri, Noureddine Bouzouira, Mohammed Doui-Aici, Rabah Khenata, Abdelkader Yakoubi, Mohammed Maachou
The structural and electronic properties of the ternary Cu<sub>x</sub>Ag<sub>1–x</sub>I, alloy have been calculated, using the full-potential linear muffin-tin-orbital (FP-LMTO) method based on density functional theory, within both the local density approxim…
Imran Khan, M. Zulfequar
The electrical conduction phenomena, dielectric response and microstructure have been discussed in sintered silicon nitride ceramics at different temperature and frequencies. Microstructure and phase of the sintered samples was investigated by Scanning Electr…
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