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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…
Johanna Berg, Stig Morling
The Sri Lankan national water authority, that is The National Water Supply and Drainage Board ( NWS&DB ) has taken a new wastewater treatment plant into operation at Ja Ela, North of Colombo. The plant has been in operation since September 2011. In April 2012…
Hayet Menasra, Zelikha Necira, Karima Bouneb, Abdelhak Maklid, Ahmed Boutarfaia
Bismuth (Bi) and lanthanum (La) doped lead manganese antimoine zirconate titanate (PZMST) ceramic powders have been synthesized by high temperature solid-state reaction method. Preliminary X-ray structural analysis of the com pounds shows the formation of tet…
Kasim Uthman Isah
Cadmium Zinc Sulfide, Cd 1-x Zn x S thin films were deposited by chemical bath deposition technique at bath tempera ture of 75°C. The morphology of the films was analyzed by scanning electron microscope, the optical constants of the films were estimated from…
Lilian G. Carreira, Luis C. Mendes, Maria R. G. Ribeiro, Pedro J. Sebastião
Natural graphite was chemically modified by an acid mixture (H 2 SO 4 /HNO 3 , 4 : 1) using sonication. The resulting mate rial was then expanded with octadecylamine by the dispersion method. The sample was characterized by scanning elec tron microscopy (SEM)…
Nguyen Nang Dinh, Do Ngoc Chung, Tran Thi Thao, Tran Thi Chung Thuy, Le Ha Chi, Vo-Van Truong
Nanorod-like TiO 2 (nc-TiO 2 ) and MoO 3 (nc-MoO 3 ) films were thermally grown from Ti- and Mo-metallic wafers. Nanohybrid films of N,N’-diphenyl-N,N’-bis(1-naphthyl)(1,1’-biphenyl)-4,4’diamine (NPB )/TiO 2 and NPB/MoO 3 used as anode/hole transport layer (H…
Pablo Batista Guimarães, Paulo Marcelo Almeida Pedrosa, Yogendra Prasad Yadava, José Maria Andrade Barbosa, Aníbal Veras Siqueira Filho, Ricardo Artur Sanguinetti Ferreira
Residual stresses have been numerically determined in welded joints. In this study, the numerical model is based on the coupling of different physical phenomena considering the thermal, mechanical and metallurgical nature of a welding process. The ABAQUS soft…
Luis R. Carney, John J. Mecholsky
This study analyzes the relationship between fracture toughness and the fracture surface fractal dimension for a set of twenty-four CT-type AISI 4340 steel specimens heat treated to a variety of tensile strengths. Specimens were tested in accordance with ASTM…
Muhammad Rifai, Ryosuke Haga, Hiroyuki Miyamoto, Hiroshi Fujiwara
Microstructural development of ultra low C, N , Fe-Cr alloy and pure copper processed by equal-channel angular press ing (ECAP) have been examined focusing on the initial stage of the formation of ultrafine grain structure. Fe-Cr alloys were pressed at 423 K…
Isao Tsuyumoto, Akihiro Kihara
Layer-Structure lithium zinc borate, LiZnBO 3 , is prepared by a solid state reaction of LiOH· H 2 O, ZnO, and H 3 BO 3 at 1000°C for 10 h. Highly preferred orientation and a layer-structure are observed in the powder XRD patterns and the SEM images, respecti…
Radouane Daira, Vincent Chalvedin, Mohamed Boulhout
When diffusing object is illuminated by a laser, it gives the impression of being covered with a very fine grain structure. This structure commonly is nothing but the result of the interference of random waves from the object. In the early years of the invent…
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