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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…
Mauricio Mitsuo Monção, Isabela Cerqueira Barreto, Fúlvio Borges Miguel, Luiz Fernando Cappa De Oliveira, Raul Garcia Carrodeguas, Roberto Paulo Correia De Araújo
In this work wollastonite/tricalcium phosphate (W/TCP) glass-ceramics with three W/TCP weight ratios (20/80; 60/40 and 80/20) were implanted in rat calvaria and the modifications taking place during implantation were studied by Raman spectroscopy. The experim…
Paul S. Follansbee
Large-strain deformations introduce several confounding factors that affect the application of the Mechanical Threshold Stress model. These include the decrease with the increasing stress of the normalized activation energy characterizing deformation kinetics…
Karoline Da Silva Santana, Maria Inês Bruno Tavares
Flaxseed ( Linum usitatissimum L. ) is one of the oldest crops known by humans and it has been used in numerous applications, such as in the textile industry, feed formulation, fertilizers, and paper industry. However, nowadays these seeds have won an importa…
Gerson Alberto Valencia Albitres, Francisco Pereira Araujo Junior, Daniela França Silva Freitas, Danielle Mattos Mariano, Maria Ines Bruno Tavares, Luis Claudio Mendes
The concern with environmental preservation is a very current and relevant topic. Regarding polymers, the search for potentially ecofriendly matters has been the subject of scientific research. In this context, this work aimed to study the effect of adding na…
Kai Matsumoto, Masaki Kato, Ken Hirota, Toshiyuki Nishimura
Ultra-high temperature ceramics (UHTCs) are most recently getting much attention for structural parts of hypersonic missiles with their cruising speed of more than Mach 5. Most of the UHTCs are poor sinterability carbides, nitrides, and borides. Therefore, th…
Paochi Chen
Co-precipitation was used to prepare cerium oxide nano-particles. The effects of aging temperature and concentration of cobalt ion on the optical property, morphology, and particle size were investigated. The cerium oxide was prepared by adding ammonia soluti…
Prince N. Anyalebechi
Reliable information on the solubility of hydrogen in aluminum and its alloys is critical to the effort of the aluminum industry to control and ameliorate the usually deleterious effects of hydrogen on the properties and performance of pure aluminum and alumi…
Jiahau Yan, Burak Taskonak, John J. Mecholsky Jr., 1 1
Mineralized tissues are usually constructed of nanosized materials with ordered hierarchical structures. The main reason for their high load-bearing ability is the multi-scale hierarchy. It is important to have a method for measuring the energy absorbed durin…
Mutsumi Takahashi, Yogetsu Bando
The effectiveness and safety of the mouthguard depend on the sheet material thickness. The thickness of the thermoformed mouthguard is affected by the model undercut and the thermal shrinkage that occurs when the extruded-molded sheet is reheated. The aim of…
Fei Jiang, Wen Zhang, Siyu Guo, Xin Zhang
Bacterial cellulose/polyacrylic acid (BC/PAA) pH-responsive hydrogels were prepared by free-radical polymerization ( in situ ) using BC as the raw material and AA as the monomer. The hydrogels were loaded with curcumin (Cur) to prepare pH-responsive intellige…
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