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Materials, Volume 11, Issue 7

July 2018 - 214 articles

Cover Story: In this work, we have successfully re-engineered the conventional PEDOT:PSS based hole selective interlayer (HSIL) through a low-cost and facile solvent (ethanol, ET) modification strategy to simultaneously modulate the photovoltaic performance and air stability of the fabricated bulk heterojunction polymer solar cells (BHJ-PSCs). We have systematically investigated the influence of ET on the microstructural, morphological, interfacial characteristics of modified HSIL. Consequently, the fabricated BHJ–PSC with modified HSIL witnessed ~17% increase in the power conversion efficiency and exhibited remarkably improved air stability. View Paper here.
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Articles (214)

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,866 Views
13 Pages

Impact of the Direct Ageing Procedure on the Age Hardening Response of Al-Mg-Si 6101 Alloy

  • Piotr Osuch,
  • Monika Walkowicz,
  • Tadeusz Knych and
  • Stanislaw Dymek

19 July 2018

Al-Mg-Si alloys are used not only as construction material, but also as a material for electrical conductors. For this application, it is crucial for the alloy to achieve a balance between strength and electrical properties. This is achieved in pract...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,491 Views
15 Pages

19 July 2018

In the present work, Aluminum Metal Matrix Surface Nano Composites (AMMSNCs) were manufactured using Friction Stir Processing (FSP). Moreover, the fabricated surface composite matrix was exposed to a different number of tool passes with different pro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
6,396 Views
11 Pages

Synthesis and Properties of Nanosized Stoichiometric Cobalt Ferrite Spinel

  • Vilém Bartůněk,
  • David Sedmidubský,
  • Štěpán Huber,
  • Marie Švecová,
  • Pavel Ulbrich and
  • Ondřej Jankovský

19 July 2018

Nanoparticles with controllable sizes of ferrite spinel CoFe2O4 were formed by thermal treatment of cobalt-iron glycerolate. Thermal behavior during the heating was studied by differential thermal analysis combined with thermogravimetry. The precurso...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,814 Views
19 Pages

19 July 2018

The recrystallization (RX) behavior of superalloy during standard solution heat treatment (SSHT) varies significantly with deformation temperature. Single-crystal (SX) samples of Ni-base superalloy were compressed to 5% plastic deformation at room te...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,093 Views
41 Pages

19 July 2018

The use of a single bimorph as a harmonic oscillator aimed at harvesting vibrational energy is not effective due to its inherent narrow frequency bandwidth stemming from the need to adjust the natural frequency of the harvester to the platform excita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,095 Views
9 Pages

Electronic Band Structure Variations in the Ceria Doped Zirconia: A First Principles Study

  • Sahar Ramin Gul,
  • Matiullah Khan,
  • Yi Zeng,
  • Maohua Lin,
  • Bo Wu and
  • Chi-Tay Tsai

19 July 2018

Using first principle calculations, the effect of Ce with different doping concentrations in the network of Zirconium dioxide (ZrO2) is studied. The ZrO2 cell volume linearly increases with the increasing Ce doping concentration. The intrinsic band g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,454 Views
9 Pages

18 July 2018

The effects of cooling rate 0.15, 1.5, 15, 150, and 1.5 × 105 °C/s on the microstructures and mechanical properties of Al-13Si-4Cu-1Mg-2Ni cast piston alloy were investigated. The results show that with an increase of solidification cooling...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
3,798 Views
28 Pages

18 July 2018

Orthotropic membrane materials have been applied in the numerous fields, such as civil engineering, space and aeronautics, and mechanical engineering, among others. During their serving lifespan, these membranes are always facing strong stochastic vi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,749 Views
16 Pages

18 July 2018

For the purpose of detecting the influence of grain structure of a Mg matrix on the microstructure and corrosion resistance of micro-arc oxidation (MAO) coating, prior to MAO processing, sliding friction treatment (SFT) was adopted to generate a fine...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,312 Views
15 Pages

Effects of Temperature and Strain Rate on the Fracture Behaviors of an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy

  • Yue Guo,
  • Mingxing Zhou,
  • Xingdong Sun,
  • Long Qian,
  • Lijia Li,
  • Yingjie Xie,
  • Zeyang Liu,
  • Di Wu,
  • Liguo Yang and
  • Tong Wu
  • + 3 authors

18 July 2018

Effects of temperature and strain rate on the fracture behaviors of an Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloy are investigated by isothermal uniaxial tensile experiments at a wide range of temperatures and strain rates, from room temperature (RT) to 400 °C and from 1...

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