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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…
Chen Lai, Yi Chen, Shujiang Zhang
The motive of this work was to provide an inexpensive potential wound dressing using chitosan lactate (LCH) which was synthesized by the grafting lactic acid onto the amino groups in chitosan (CH) without a catalyst. The XRD and 13 CNMR results demonstrated t…
Dongmei Hu, Hongyuan Chen, Zhenzhong Yong, Minghai Chen, Xiaohua Zhang, Qingwen Li, Zhen Fan, Zhihai Feng
A carbonization method is reported to improve the thermal conductivity of carbon nanotube (CNT) arrays. After being impregnated with phenolic resins, CNT arrays were carbonized at a temperature up to 1400°C. As a result, pyrolytic carbon was formed and connec…
Nicolae Rezlescu, Elena Rezlescu, Liliana Sachelarie, Paul Dorin Popa, Corneliu Doroftei, Maria Ignat
MgFe 2 O 4 spinel ferrite and La 0.6 Pb 0.2 Mg 0.2 MnO 3 perovskite nanopowders were synthesized by a combined sol-gel and self-combustion method and heat treatment. The morphological and structural characterization of the obtained powders has been performed…
Anuar Zhukeshov, Asylgul Gabdullina, Assem Amrenova, Svetlana Pak
The phase structure of surfaces of steel samples, modified by pulse plasma processing, was analyzed using XRD and metallographic methods. It has been shown, that after pulse plasma processing under different conditions a modified structure consisting of three…
Satoshi Akamaru, Mitsuhiro Inoue, Takayuki Abe
In this study, the surfaces of NaCl particles were modified with metal films using the polygonal barrel-sputtering me thod. When Pt was sputtered on NaCl particles, the individual particles changed from white to metallic. Characteriza tion of the treated samp…
Osamu Takakuwa, Amrinder S. Gill, Gokul Ramakrishnan, Seetha R. Mannava, Vijay K. Vasudevan, Hitoshi Soyama
The introduction of compressive residual stress is an effective way to reduce fretting fatigue and fretting wear between a spinal implant rod and its holding fixture. The objective of this paper is to demonstrate that cavitation peening can introduce compress…
Riccarda Antiochia, Federico Tasca, Luisa Mannina
The aim of the work was the modification of a carbon nanotube paste electrode with a highly original osmium-polymer hydrogel for the development of a new amperometric biosensor for detection of sucrose and fructose. The biosensor for sucrose is based on the a…
Andreas Faltermeier, Claudia Reicheneder, Peter Götzfried, Peter Proff
The purpose of this study was to compare the shear bond strength and Adhesive Remnant Index of four different ven eering ceramic materials to ceramic brackets. Additionallly, a further aim of this study was to overcome the etching using hydrofluoric acid whic…
Marcela E. Penoff, Patricia A. Oyanguren, Wido Schreiner, Pablo E. Montemartini
Recently developed low fluorine containing polymers are advanced materials which confer advantageous properties to surfaces at a lower cost than conventional fluoropolymers (like PTFE), and are also more easily processable. Fluoro polymer surfaces are charact…
Le Thi Hong Lien, Hoang Lam Hong
The weathering steel (Corten B) was exposed to out-door atmosphere of Hanoi (urban site) and Donghoi (marine site). The results showed the protective ability of corrosion product layer formed on weathering steel in the initial stage. The SEM-EDX analysis dete…
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