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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…
Musa Atar, Nihat Döngel, Hamza Çinar
This study was performed to determine the effects of varnishing after impregnation with boron compounds on the combustion properties of Scotch pine. For this purpose, test samples prepared from Scotch pine ( Pinus sylvestris Lipsky ) wood were impregnated acc…
S. M. Navid Khatami, Olusegun J. Ilegbusi, Leonid I. Trakhtenberg
The deposition of metal oxide films using Spray Pyrolysis Technique (SPT) is investigated through mathematical and physical modeling. A comprehensive model is developed in the processes including atomization, spray, evaporation, chemical reaction and depositi…
Czesław Kajdas
Recently, some specificities of hydrothermal synthesis have been discussed by Avvakumov, Senna and Kosova, emphasizing the ability of water to dissolve selected materials at increased temperature and pressure, and suggest that the process is based on self-ion…
Ezgi Günay, Emre Uludogan
In this study, tubular pinewood ( Pinus sylvestris L. ) specimens are tested and shear strain measurements are performed by applying torsion in z direction in the consideration of light weight aircraft engineering. The objective of this paper is to contribute…
Ayşe Kaya Balta, Özlem Ertek, Nail Eker, İbrahim Okur
In this study, a new route to produce pure and composite ZnO-MgO thin films has been presented. In the process the pure ZnO thin films were the starting point, ending up with MgO by doping various percentages (from 0% to 100%) of Mg with the help of sol-gel s…
Mark Bediako, J. T. Kevern, Eric Opoku Amankwah
Curing of cement based products such as concrete and mortar, is very important to achieve good strength and durable products. However the curing environment plays a pivotal role in the overall quality of cement based products in terms of strength development.…
Shahbaz Ahmad, Shazia Bashir, Daniel Yousaf, Nisar Ali, Tousif Hussain
Brass targets were irradiated with various laser pulses of Excimer laser ranging from 1200 to 3000 for constant fluence of 3.4 J/cm 2 in oxygen atmosphere (100 Torr). The surface morphology and crystallographic analyses were performed by using Scanning Electr…
Adolfo Quiroz, Elizabeth Chavira, José Eduardo Espinosa, Rodolfo Palomino-Merino, Ernesto Esteban Marinero, Masaya Nishioka, Valentín García-Vázquez
We present a study of their structure, morphology, electrical and magnetic properties on the (Ca 1 – x Sr x ) RuO 3 system for x = 0.0, 0.07, 0.10, 0.15 and 1.0. The samples were prepared by the solidstate reaction method in air at ambient pressure and heat i…
Chavin Jongwannasiri, Nutthanun Moolsradoo, Shuichi Watanabe
In this article, the results obtained from a study carried out on the some elements-incorporated diamond-like carbon (DLC) films are reported. All the films were deposited using plasma-based ion implantation (PBII) technique. The deposited films were annealed…
Chieko Narita, Yutaro Shimode, Kazushi Yamada
Maki-e is a traditional Japanese decorative technique that uses the natural lacquer Urushi and metal powders. In 2014, there exist only two companies that manufacture silver powder for the purpose of Maki-e, and this study focuses on comparing the powders man…
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