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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…
Dmitry A. Sukhanov
It has been revealed that the structure of the transverse and longitudinal parts of the genuine Damascus knife of the XVIII century consists of troostite-carbide of the banding. The microhardness of the troostite layers is 450 HV; the carbide layers reach 950…
Luciana Macedo Brito, Maria Inês Bruno Tavares
Polymer nanocomposites have been successfully used as excipients in pharmaceutical technology because of the convenient features that make them suitable for many applications, especially in controlled drug delivery therapies. The objective of this work was to…
Liying Zeng, Qian Li
A multi-step isothermal forging and subsequent multipass rolling was used to produce one kind of two phase titanium alloy plate with thickness of 2.2 mm. Tensile properties at ambient temperature and at two kinds of high temperatures were investigated for the…
Jian Fang, Bin Wang, Jianwei Zhang, Xin Yang
With the application of lightweight materials such as advanced high-strength steel and aluminum alloy in the automotive industry, it is necessary to quantitatively evaluate the ultimate deformation capacity of materials under various plane stress states for t…
Antônio Carlos Santos Thiele, Maria Inês Bruno Tavares
3D printing is a valuable resource that allows flexibility in the production of objects based on a virtual file. When it is combined with nanotechnology, new features can be added to existing materials. Thus, form and function can be associated to achieve a s…
Ernesto Suaste-Gómez, Grissel Rodríguez-Roldán, Ilian Pérez-Solis, Ana Laura Torres-Huerta, Carlos Cruz-Cruz, José Tapia-Ramírez
Vaginal infections are suffered by millions of women of reproductive age. Recent research has shown that timely diagnosis of these infections avoids complications in the patient’s health. Since the symptoms of infections caused by yeast and bacteria are simil…
Enzo Erbisti Garcia, Gerson Alberto Valencia Albitres, Daniela França Silva Freitas, Danielle Mattos Mariano, Luis Cláudio Mendes
Zinc and silver compounds have been studied because they have ultraviolet light barrier properties and bactericidal action, respectively. Materials with multifunctional characteristics have been sought to produce polymeric nanocomposites. In this work, the ch…
Xiye Chen, Haiyong Chen, Huaidong Zhang, Zhigang Jiang
Arc in vacuum is one of the important methods used to prepare carbon materials. However, the use of vacuum increases the cost of the arc method. This paper introduces an arc discharge device working at atmospheric pressure. The current-limiting resistor, capa…
Hany Khalifa, A. El-Kady
Thermomechanical processing is a metallurgical operation to produce high-strength steel bars (rebars), through combining plastic deformation with thermal processes like heat treatment, water quenching, heating, and cooling at various rates into a single proce…
Gladys Ama Quartey
Ghana is rich in forest resources, of whichTerminalia catappa, a wood species of common occurrence is one. Even though sometimes it is used for decorative purposes, however, it grows in the wild. It grows in almost all the regions of the country and does well…
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