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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…
Gabriela Figueroa, Jesus L. Valenzuela, Jose R. Parga, Victor Vazquez, Alejandro Valenzuela
Over the past decade the concern about toxic metals in freshwater has increased. Environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act have forced industries that produce metal containing wastewater to treat their wastewater prior to discharge. The purpose of this s…
T. M. Nagiev
Various types of possible interactions between reactions are discussed. Some of them are united by the general idea of chemical reaction interference. The ideas on conjugated reactions are broadened and the determinant formula is deduced; the coherence condit…
Hussein A. Ahmed, A. Mohammed, A. Said Ahmad
The aim of this paper is to determine the maximum values of the track length (L<SUB>max</SUB>) of alpha particles in Nuclear Track Detector (type CR-39) using a new method by taking the relation between the etching time and the diameter square of alpha partic…
Osamu Takakuwa, Akihiko Chiba, Hitoshi Soyama
The impact produced when cavitation bubbles collapse can be utilized to modify surfaces in the same way as shot peening and it is called cavitation peening (CP). CP is one of a number of surface modification techniques used to improve the fatigue strength of…
Yoshinari Taguchi, Hidetoshi Tanabe, Kiyomi Fuchigami, Masato Tanaka
It was tried to microencapsulate the ascorbic acid powder as a redox initiator with tripalmitin by use of the dry coating method. In the experiment, the feed ratio of the amount of tripalmitin to that of ascorbic acid, the coating time and the concentration o…
José R. Parga, Jesús V. Valdés, Jesús L. Valenzuela, Gregorio Gonzalez, L. María de J. Pérez, T. Francisco Cepeda
The Merrill-Crowe zinc-precipitation process has been applied worldwide on a large number of operations for recovering gold and silver from cyanide solutions. However, in some of the large plants this precipitate is of low quality, because copper and especial…
Georgios K. Triantafyllidis, Natalyia V. Pukhalska, Dimitrios I. Zagkliveris
Recently results were presented for an R & D program for handling the as-cast billets of an Al-Si-Mg A6060 Al alloy at the solutionizing heat treatment temperature. A reduction in the solutionizing temperature of the as-cast billets from 585 ℃ to 540 ℃ was fo…
S. A. Hosseini Ravandi, R. Bayat Tork, F. Dabirian, A. A. Gharehaghaji, A. Sajjadi
Nowadays, while human requirements are extending, producing nanofibers and nanofiber based products are progressing rapidly. Nanofibers have received considerable study in recent years using various polymers and methods. PAN (Polyacrylonitryle) nanofibers hav…
H. Al-Dmour
We report the effect of ruthenium dye on negative capacitance of nanocrystalline titanium dioxide/poly(3-hexyl thiophene), nc-TiO 2 /P3HT, heterojunction solar cells. It has been found that the low frequency capacitance reaches a high positive value and then…
G. K. Triantafyllidis, I. Kiligaridis, D. I. Zagkliveris, I. Orfanou, S. Spyridopoulou, E. Mitoudi-Vagourdi, S. Semertzidou
Heat treatable Al alloys of the 6xxx series are produced by the industry following a path that consolidates melting of raw materials, casting the melt in billets, solutionizing the billets following a suitable thermal cycle, pre-heating and extruding the mate…
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