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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…
Saber A. Rabboh, Nadia E. Bondok, Tamer S. Mahmoud, Heba I. El Kholy
The original purpose of FGMs was the development of super resistant materials for propulsion systems. In the present work, numerical and experimental techniques are used to investigate the dynamic behavior of generally laminated composited beams. In the numer…
Abdelhek Meklid, Ahmed Boutarfaia, Zelikha Necira, Hayet Menasra, Malika Abba
Perovskite PZT variants were synthesized from stoichiometric oxide ratios of Pb, Zr, Ti, Cr, Ni and Sb. The oxide powders were mixed mechanically and calcinated, and then sintered to form the desired perovskite phase. The detailed structural and ferroelectric…
Jorge Luis Rosas-Mendoza, L. Perez-Arrieta, Miguel Aguilar-Frutis, Ciro Falcony, R. Vázquez-Arreguín, Alejandro Miguel Rosas-Mendoza
A study of the phase transitions in superconducting thin films of the Thallium-Barium-Calcium-Copper (TBCCO) sys tem is carried out. In particular, it was got the Tl-1223 phase. For this purpose, and using the ultrasonic spray pyrolysis technique, Barium-Calc…
Diène Ndiaye, Vincent Verney, Haroutioun Askanian, Sophie Commereuc, Adams Tidjani
Wood polymer composites (WPCs) were made with pine and polypropylene matrix (PP). The composites were pro duced by melt blending in a Brabender at 180° C . Characterization of the samples, with the aid of scanning electron mi croscopy supplemented by microsco…
Malika Abba, Ahmed Boutarfaia, Zelikha Necira, Noura Abdessalem, Hayet Menasra, Abdelhek Meklid
The structural and electrical properties of Pb[Zr x Ti 0 . 95-x (Mo 1/3 In 2/3 ) 0.05 ]O 3 piezoelectric ceramics system with the composition near the morphotropic phase boundary were investigated as a function of the Zr/Ti ratio. Studies were performed on th…
Robinson Musembi, Bernard Aduda, Julius Mwabora, Marin Rusu, Kostantinos Fostiropoulos, Martha Lux-Steiner
Light soaking characterization on complete SnO 2 :F/TiO 2 /In(OH) x S y /Pb(OH) x S y /PEDOT:PSS/Au, eta solar cell structure as well as on devices which do not include one or both TiO 2 and/or PEDOT:PSS layers has been conducted. Addition ally, studies of Sn…
Omar Meglali, Nadhir Attaf, Assia Bouraiou, Mohamed Salah Aida
Cu(In, Al)Se 2 thin films were prepared by electrodeposition from the aqueous solution consisting of CuCl 2 , InCl 3 , AlCl 3 and SeO 2 onto ITO coated glass substrates. The as-deposited films were annealed under vacuum for 30 min at tempera ture ranging betw…
Haider T. Naeem, Kahtan S. Mohammed
The effects of nickel in improving the mechanical properties and microstructural of Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys produced by semi-direct chill casting were investigated. Aluminium alloys were homogenized at different temperatures conditions, which aged at 120° C for 24…
Ali Hebeish, Abdul Rhman Mousa, Mohamed A. Ramadan, Amany Saleh
Starch was polymerized with methacrylic acid (MAA) to different magnitudes of poly (MAA) using potassium persulphate/sodium thiosulphate redox initiation system. The polymerization products are referred to as “ composite ” . The latter consists of poly (MAA)-…
Somchai Chinsakolthanakorn, Adisorn Buranawong, Surasing Chiyakun, Pichet Limsuwan
TiZrN films were deposited on unheated Si (100) substrates by reactive dc magnetron co-sputtering. Titanium and zirconium metals were used as sputtering targets. Ar and N 2 gas were used as sputtering gas and reactive gas, with the flow rates of 8 and 4 sccm,…
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