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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…
Ian P. Maher, Richard A. Haber
Slurry parameters were controlled prior to spray-drying to visualize and govern an understanding of which parameters govern hollow coring and granule morphology during spray-drying. An aqueous alumina using a polyvinyl alcohol binder (PVA) system was analyzed…
Madeleine Nitcheu, Pierre Meukam, Jean Claude Damfeu, Donatien Njomo
Thatch fibres grow in large quantity in the Adamawa region of Cameroon. During the long dry season, these fibres cause numerous fire incidents, which not only devastate large areas of cash crops, but also contribute to increase emissions of greenhouse gases i…
Diallo Abdoul Kadri, Diallo Abdou Karim, Mané Seck, Kobor Diouma, Pasquinelli Marcel
In this contribution, we report on the effect of solvents with different boiling points and annealing temperature on the performance of TIPS-pentacene transistors. Several solvents have been used for TIPS-pentacene thin film processing: toluene, chlorobenzene…
Abdullah G. Al-Sehemi, Ahmed A. Al-Ghamdi, Nikolay T. Dishovsky, Nikolay T. Atanasov, Gabriela L. Atanasova, 1 1
The work presents studies on the complex permittivity and permeability of composites based on acrylonitrile butadiene rubber containing combinations of conductive fillers which include carbon black and nickel powder. The properties of those composites, contai…
Dimitrios I. Zagkliveris, Georgios K. Triantafyllidis
Boriding of the Ti-Al intermetallic GE48-2-2 at 1273 K for 10 hours was performed. In order to ensure that no any serious alteration occurred in the substrate, it was previously examined with X-Ray Diffractometry (XRD), after it has undergone an annealing pro…
Tomoji Ohishi, Naoki Takahashi
Formation of copper wiring on a polyimide film by laser irradiation to a stable copper-complex film consisting of glyoxylic acid copper complex and methylamine copper complex in air has been investigated. A stable metallic copper on the polyimide film was pre…
Olumide Oluwole Akinwunmi, Olakunle A. Akinwumi, Johnson Ayodele O. Ogundeji, Adetokunbo Temitope Famojuro
Chromium (Cr) doped Zinc oxide ZnO thin films were deposited onto glass substrates by Metal Organic Chemical Vapour Deposition (MOCVD) technique with varying dopant concentration at a temperature of 420°C. The effect of the chromium concentration on morpholog…
Prakash Chandra Sahoo, Rabiranjan Murmu, Sarat Chandra Patra, Chiranjit Dutta, Harekrushna Sutar
Polymer composites of virgin high density poly ethylene (HDPE) and virgin polypropylene (PP) are prepared. PP of weight% of 20, 30 and 50 are reinforced to HDPE in the form of pellets. They are converted into raw polymer sheets using a two roll milling machin…
A. N. Fouda, 1 1
The effect of La doping on the transport properties and superconducting characterizations of YBa 2 Cu 3 O 7- δ was investigated. High quality YBa 2 (Cu 1- x La x ) 3 O 7- δ superconductor was synthesized with La content of x = 0.00, 0.02, 0.04 and 0.06. The s…
Shashit Kumar Yadav, Lok Narayan Jha, Arjun Dhungana, Upendra Mehta, Devendra Adhikari
Thermo-physical properties of Al-Mg alloys in molten state at 1073 K have been studied using thermodynamic modeling. Thermodynamic properties, such as free energy of mixing, heat of mixing, entropy of mixing, activities and structural properties, such as conc…
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