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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…
Yongxin Wang, Daniel Orol, Jeffery Owens, Katherine Simpson, Hoon Joo Lee
An anti-icing surface has been designed and prepared with an aluminum panel by creating an artificial lotus leaf which is highly hydrophobic. The hydrophobicity of a solid surface can be generated by decreasing its surface tension and increasing the roughness…
Chaouki Sadik, Iz-Eddine El Amrani, Abderrahman Albizane
Different mixtures of Moroccan silica-alumina geomaterials were used for the preparation of refractory ceramics. A formula of composition (M2) has allowed obtaining a good quality of refractory. Addition of a small quantity of carbon (1%) to the M2 formula ha…
Xueqing Hou, Jing Ling, Navamoney Arulsamy, Jianqiang Huo
Two piezochromic fluorescent compounds are prepared by introducing thiomethyl substituents to the peripheralposi tions of two related cyano oligo(p-phenylene vinylenes) (CN-OPV). The new derivatives, namely, 1,4-bis[2-cyano-2 (4-thiomethylphenyl)ethenyl]benze…
Md. Abdul Mannan, Yuji Baba, Norie Hirao, Tetsuya Kida, Masamitsu Nagano, Hideyuki Noguchi
Hexagonal nano-crystalline boron carbonitride ( h- BCN) films grown on Si (100) substrate have been precisely investi gated. The films were synthesized by radio frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition using tris-dime thylamino borane as a single-s…
Sergei Bulyarsky, Vyacheslav Galperin, Levan Ichkitidze, Michael Ermakov, Alexander Pavlov, Yuri Shaman
The results of the research and development of the moisture-sensitive elements based on the carbon nanotubes (CNT) array are presented. It was shown that CNT arrays that were grown by low-temperature plasma enhanced chemical va por deposition ( PECVD) method…
Levan Ichkitidze, Vitally Podgaetsky, Sergei Selishchev, Eugenie Blagov, Vyacheslav Galperin, Yuri Shaman, Alexander Pavlov, Eugenie Kitsyuk
Specific conductivity of the composite nanomaterial layers with micron and submicron dimensions, consisting of carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) and multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) was investigated. Ultradispersed aque ous suspension was deposited on soft (a…
Saif Ebraheem, Antar El-Saied
Ultraviolet - visible UV - Vis diffuse reflectance measurements of irradiated lithium tetra - borate glass have b een acquired using . Evolution 600 Spectrophotometer equipped with praying Mantis Diffuse Reflectance Accessory DRA base upon the onset of the di…
Zelikha Necira, Ahmed Boutarfaia, Malika Abba, Hayet Menasra, Nora Abdessalem
The purpose of this research is to study the effect of thermal conditions such as temperature ramp rate and isothermal times in the phase formation of Pb(Zr 1- x Ti x )O 3 solid solutions with composition near the morphotropic phase boundary (MPB) by using th…
Samia Saoula, Khedoudja Soudani, Smail Haddadi, Maria Eugenia Munoz, Antxon Santamaria
The aging of bitumen has a significant impact on the mechanical behavior of asphalt. This aging is carried out at the mixing operation with the aggregates generally at 163° C in the case of pure mixtures or at temperatures higher than in the case of the modif…
B. Zhang, M. Li, J. Z. Wang, L. Q. Shi, H. S. Cheng
Microstructure of ZnO:Mn films with various Mn concentration was investigated with XANES and XPS. The experi mental results revealed a substitution of Mn in ZnO and also excluded the existence of Mn oxides or metallic manga nese clusters. The substitutional M…
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