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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…
Gerardo Zavala Olivares, Mónica J. Hernández Gayosso, Rafael García Esquivel
An epoxy penetration technique was used to reproduce and analyze the pitting corrosion process occurred at a steel coupon surface. The samples were exposed to the resin under high vacuum conditions, in order to fulfill the pits caused by the corrosion process…
Veluru J. Babu, Sesha Vempati, Seeram Ramakrishna
Conductive polyanilines are synthesized by doping with inorganic and organic acids, namely Hydrochloric acid (HCl) and ± 10 - camphor sulfonic acid (CSA). The direct current (DC) conductivities ( σ DC ) are found to be about 9.5 ′ 10 - 8 , 1.8, and 95.8 S/cm…
Débora D. Belarmino, Rasiah Ladchumananandasivam, Loilde D. Belarmino, Juliana R. de M. Pimentel, Brismark G. da Rocha, Alcione O. Galvão, Sania M. B. de Andrade
Because of the constant challenge to preserve the environment and the search for new materials, a comparative study was carried out using keratin fiber, a fibrous protein, found in the chicken feathers. Five different samples of the feather were analyzed by S…
I. Naimi, N. Bellakhal
The Electrochemical advanced oxidation method “Electro-Fenton” has been applied to remove 17β-estradiol (17β)- estra-1,3,5(10)-triéne-3,17-diol) in aqueous-acetonitrile mixture. This endocrine disrupting is a steroid hormone, releases from humans, animals and…
M. A. Ramadan, W. M. Raslan, E. M. El-Khatib, A. Hebeish
Finishing using TiO 2 -nanosol treatment of cellulose acetate (CA) fabrics before and after the latter were pretreated with H 2 O 2 was undertaken with a view to impart unique properties to CA fabrics, notably, self-cleaning. Finishing was performed as per th…
Mohammed Ameri, Keltouma Boudia, Abbes Rabhi, Samir Benaissa, Yarub Al-Douri, Abdelmadjid Rais, Djelloul Hachemane
The structural and the electronic properties of the ternary Sr x Ca 1-x S, Ba x Ca 1-x S and Ba x Sr 1-x S alloys have been calculated using the full-potential linear muffin-tin-orbital (FP-LMTO) method based on density functional theory, within both local de…
Fredrick N. Mutua, Peijie Lin, Jacob K. Koech, Yimin Wang
Hollow Glass Microspheres are high-strength, low-density additives made from water resistant and chemically-stable soda-lime-borosilicate glass. These hollow glass microspheres offer a variety of advantages over conventional irregularly-shaped mineral fillers…
Matthew E. Edwards, Ashok K. Batra, Ashwith K. Chilvery, Padmaja Guggilla, Michael Curley, Mohan D. Aggarwal
Pyroelectric multi-walled carbon nanotubes:polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF:MWCT) composite films have been fabriccated by the solution casting technique. The pyroelectric and dielectric properties of the composite films were examined for their use in uncooled i…
Rosa Lina Tovar-Tovar, Octavio Domínguez-Espinós, Adriana Gaona-Couto, Azdrubal Lobo-Guerrero, Salvador Palomares-Sánchez, María G. Sánchez-Loredo
The facile chemical synthesis of silver sulphide nanocrystals from metal-loaded organic media, containing a silver-selective organophosphorous ligand as extractant, is reported. The method involves the phase-transfer of silver species from aqueous nitrate med…
Xueyun Song, Xianghua Zeng, Junbin Zhang, Yuzhe Jin, Xiangdong Meng
GaN/InGaN lighting-emitting diodes with different mesa structures are studied. The current-voltage characteristics, light output power, luminous efficiency, and peak wavelength of the GaN/InGaN lighting-emitting diodes with different mesa patterns are compare…
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