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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…
Sergey Guk, Wolfhart Müller, Katja Pranke, Rudolf Kawalla
In the present work, a new method to predict the stress-strain curves for three-phase materials has been developed. It was applied using the example of an Mg-stabilized zirconia reinforced TRIP-matrix-composite. The content of the ceramic phase was varied bet…
Victor A. Zhuravlev, Valentin I. Suslyaev, Evgeny Yu. Korovin, Kyrill V. Dorozhkin
Results of measurements of permeability, permittivity and radar absorption properties of composites on basis of carbonyl iron particles R-10 brand are presented in this paper. The calculations and experimental studies have shown that in the super high frequen…
Thach-Mien Nguyen, SeChin Chang, Brian Condon, Jade Smith
Recent studies have shown interest in flame retardants containing phosphorus, nitrogen and sulfur a combination small molecule with a promising new approach in preparing an important class of flame retardant materials. Tetraethyl piperazine-1,4-diyldiphosphon…
Elisabete H. S. de C. Menezes, Peter König, Mohammad Hussein Jilavi, Peter William de Oliveira, Severino Alves Júnior
Anti-reflective (AR) single layer of silica-titania (SiO 2 -TiO 2 ) coatings were obtained from sols containing pyromellitic dianhydride (PMDA) derivatives and Ti and Si precursors on glass substrate by dip-coating method. The coatings showed very high optica…
Masamichi Sakaino, Syogo Hatake, Yong Sun, Fumio Morimoto, Kenta Kirimoto, 1 1
Ageing behaviors of the positive electrode of lithium ion battery are characterized by measuring mechanical properties of the electrode reeds, such as resonance frequency and internal friction, as a function of temperature. In the measurements of the electrod…
Joanna Cabaj, Jadwiga Sołoducho
The emerging nanotechnology has opened novel opportunities to explore analytical applications of the fabricated nano-sized materials. Recent advances in nano-biotechnology have made it possible to realize a variety of enzyme electrodes suitable for sensing ap…
Ioanna-Efpraxia Parigoridi, Konstantoula Akrida-Demertzi, Panagiotis G. Demertzis
A modified analytical procedure has been developed to test for 5 organic pollutants [benzophenone, 2 diisopropylnaphthalenes (DIPNs) {2,6- and 2,7-diisopropylnapthalene} and 2 hydrogenated terphenyls (HTPs) {m-terphenyl and o-terphenyl}] that can be found as…
Mostafa Omar El-Bealy
In order to study the central quality of continuously cast tool steel slabs, the simple model has been developed to simulate the macrosegregation quality criteria. The model calculates different quality criteria such as average macro-segregation level criteri…
Aleksey Vladimirovich Andrianov, Elena Gennadievna Kandalova, Evgeniy Vladimirovich Aryshensky
Insoluble constituents in 3104 alloy for beverage cans manufacturing play an important role in deep ironing process. This paper studies the effect of Fe content in the alloy on volume fraction of the constituents Al 6 (Fe, Mn) 3 and Al 12 (Fe, Mn) 3 Si and it…
Jari Vartiainen, Mika Vähä-Nissi, Ali Harlin
This review covers the recent developments in the field of biobased packaging materials. Special emphasis is placed on the barrier properties, which are crucial in terms of food packaging. The state-of-the-art of several biopolymers including pectin, starch,…
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