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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…
Handoko Subawi
The purpose of this paper is to characterize adhesive bonding performance through the fracture evaluation. Failure modes correlate to the bond strength, in which the weak bond of adhesion will be considered unacceptable in the aircraft manufacture certificati…
Regina F. Nogueira, Maria Inês B. Tavares, Rosane A. S. San Gil, Antônio G. Ferreira
Polymeric nanocomposites based on polyethylene (PE) and Brazilian natural montmorillonite clay (MN) were obtained by melt processing, using a twin-screw extruder. The main objective of this work is focusing on the characterization of composites materials by s…
Yaser Bahari Mollamahaleh, Davood Hosseini, Mehdi Mazaheri, Sayed Khatiboleslam Sadrnezhaad
This paper introduces a facile surfactant-free method for fabrication of different types of Ni-based nanostructures including metallic nickel nanoparticles (MNNP), nickel oxide nanoparticles (NONP) and chip-like nickel oxide nanoflakes (CNONF) by solvothermal…
El-Hadi Ahmed Mohamed
Spherulitic morphology of pure poly lactic acid (PLLA) PLLA have investigated after thermal annealing. The morphology of spherulite of pure poly lactic acid (PLLA) PLLA have investigated after thermal annealing. The effect of both annealing temperature and cr…
Licai Fu, Jun Yang, Qinling Bi, Weimin Liu
Influence of microstructure on electrochemical behavior of nanocrystalline Fe<sub>88</sub>Si<sub>12</sub> alloy has been investigated in 3.5 wt% NaCl solution. The results show that FFe<sub>88</sub>Si<sub>12</sub> alloy with optimal corrosion resistance is co…
Nasser Afify, Abdel-Fattah Gaber, Ghada Abbady
This article deals with investigation of fine-scale precipitation in Al-Mg-Zn alloys with compositions of Al - 2 at% Mg- x at% Zn, (x = 1.8, 2 and 4.2). The precipitates morphology was examined by scanning electron microscope (SEM) and correlated with the mic…
Mohamed Ghaffour, Abdellaoui Abdellaoui, Abdellah Ouerdane, M'Hammed Bouslama, Christian Jardin
Auger Electron Spectroscopy (AES) and Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (EELS) have been performed in order to investigate the InP(100) surface subjected to ions bombardment. The InP(100) surface is always contaminated by carbon and oxygen revealed by C-KLL a…
Ranjan Sen, Siddhartha Das, Karabi Das
This paper reports a study on nanocrystalline ceria powder prepared by high energy ball-milling and combustion synthesis methods. The combustion synthesis was carried out using ceric ammonium nitrate as oxidizer and citric acid, glycine or citric acid plus gl…
Karmous Mohamed Salah
The main objective of this study is to determine the structural characteristics of synthetic Na-Hectorite (H-Na) exchanged with heavy metals: Ni<sup>2+</sup>, Pb<sup>2+</sup>, Zn<sup>2+</sup>, Cd<sup>2+</sup>, Co<sup>2+</sup> and Mg<sup>2+</sup> using quantit…
Rachida Krache, Ismahane Debah
A series of blends of Acrylonitrile-Butadiene-Styrene (ABS) and Polycarbonate (PC) were prepared and some of their thermal and mechanical properties were determined. The Young’s modulus changed gradually and monotonically with the polycarbonate content. This…
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