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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…
Meehye Oh, Yeoseong Yoon, Dongjoon Moon, Eunjin Jang
The heat dissipated pad is made of composite mixing silicon or epoxy resin with thermal conductive inorganic fillers. The heat-dissipation material improves performance as the amount of thermal conductivity filler increases. However, the optimum recipe should…
Md. Tareq Rahman, Zubair Ahmed, Md. Johurul Islam, Kamaruzzaman, Mst. Toma Khatun, Md. Abdul Gafur, Md. Shahriar Bashar, Md. Monjarul Alam
Tin oxide (SnO 2 ) thin films were deposited on glass substrate by Chemical Bath Deposition (CBD), Drop-Cast and Dip-Coating method. The thin films were post-annealed at 500°C for 2 hours. The structural, optical, and electrical properties of the SnO 2 th…
Lucas Viana Costa, Gisele C. Valle Iulianelli, Paulo Sérgio Rangel C. da Silva, Fernanda A. dos Santos
In recent years, there has been a growing discussion about the problems related to the massive use of many synthetic plastic materials, which inevitably leads to an increase in environmental pollution caused by the inappropriate disposal of these materials. I…
Md. Abdul Gafur, Md. Al-Amin, Md. Saifur Rahman Sarker, Md. Zahangir Alam
Zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) ceramics are very promising materials for structural and biomedical applications due to their high hardness, fracture toughness, strength, corrosion and abrasion resistance and excellent biocompatibility. The effect of unstabi…
Motoki Kuratani, Kenji Yamakawa, Ryuji Kurono, Yuma Kano, Takato Sasaki, Yutaka Yamada, Osamu Sakurada
Steel structures are often painted to protect against corrosion. Repainting is one of the most important factors in maintaining the corrosion protection function of the coating. Various factors affect the life of the coating film, such as the surface preparat…
Takuya Uehara
Polyhedral shapes can be found in crystalline materials ranging from macroscopic natural mineral solids to microscopic or nanoscopic particles. These shapes originate from the crystallographic properties of the constituting material, and the outer shape depen…
Satoshi Tamura, Ryotaro Kiyono, Toshihiro Hirai, 1 1
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) is inactive to electric fields, but when combined with ferroelectric cyanoethyl sucrose (CR-U), it becomes an electrically active actuator material. The PDMS/CR-U composites were prepared by casting method using tetrahydrofuran (TH…
Jiaming Huang, Henry Cardenas
In this work, electrochemical plating treatments were applied to ASTM A36 steel specimens to study the efficiency and limitations of this method for arresting fatigue crack propagation. Electroplated iron was deposited onto the crack surfaces using a circuit…
Gladys A. Quartey, John Frank Eshun, Emmanuel Attitsogbui
A study into the mechanical properties of Neem wood was done to explore the possibility of its usage as a structural material. This paper presents the results of some investigations into the strength properties of Neem ( Azadirachta indica A. Juss.) and compa…
Kunyong Kang, Haodong Zhu, Gang Zhu, Shuduan Deng
Varistor ceramics are typical electronic ceramics, which are widely used in circuits of overvoltage protection, high voltage stabilization and high energy surge absorption. TiO 2 varistor ceramics has the advantages of low varistor voltage and good dielectric…
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