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Materials, Volume 12, Issue 18

September-2 2019 - 210 articles

Cover Story: The challenges in finding new low cost, safe and high capacity electrode materials for Li-ion batteries have become immense. Computer modelling techniques play a key role in examining defect and diffusion properties that are relevant to the development of batteries. Current computational simulation on Li2Ti6O13 material shows that Li-ion diffusion is fast in this material. Furthermore, doping Co3+ at the Ti site is identified as an efficient strategy to introduce extra Li in Li2Ti6O13 leading to high capacity. View this paper.
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Articles (210)

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
3,831 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2019

Construction and demolition (C&D) materials obtained from the demolition of buildings are proven to be qualified and sustainable subgrade fillers. The permanent deformation response of subgrade C&D materials under different moisture contents,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
6,109 Views
14 Pages

Printable Stretchable Silver Ink and Application to Printed RFID Tags for Wearable Electronics

  • Tao Zhong,
  • Ning Jin,
  • Wei Yuan,
  • Chunshan Zhou,
  • Weibing Gu and
  • Zheng Cui

19 September 2019

A printable elastic silver ink has been developed, which was made of silver flakes, dispersant, and a fluorine rubber and could be sintered at a low temperature. The printed elastic conductors showed low resistivity at 21 μΩ·cm, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,122 Views
12 Pages

Current Characteristics Estimation of Si PV Modules Based on Artificial Neural Network Modeling

  • Xiaobo Xu,
  • Xiaocheng Zhang,
  • Zhaowu Huang,
  • Shaoyou Xie,
  • Wenping Gu,
  • Xiaoyan Wang,
  • Lin Zhang and
  • Zan Zhang

19 September 2019

In the photovoltaic (PV) field, the outdoor evaluation of a PV system is quite complex, due to the variations of temperature and irradiance. In fact, the diagnosis of the PV modules is extremely required in order to maintain the optimum performance....

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,555 Views
9 Pages

Nitrogen-Doped Cu2O Thin Films for Photovoltaic Applications

  • Ørnulf Nordseth,
  • Raj Kumar,
  • Kristin Bergum,
  • Irinela Chilibon,
  • Sean Erik Foss and
  • Edouard Monakhov

19 September 2019

Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) is a p-type semiconductor with high optical absorption and a direct bandgap of about 2.1 eV, making it an attractive material for photovoltaic applications. For a high-performance photovoltaic device, the formation of low-resisti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,642 Views
14 Pages

The Use of Biodrying to Prevent Self-Heating of Alternative Fuel

  • Teresa Gajewska,
  • Mateusz Malinowski and
  • Maciej Szkoda

19 September 2019

Alternative fuels (refuse-derived fuels—RDF) have been a substitute for fossil fuels in cement production for many years. RDF are produced from various materials characterized by high calorific value. Due to the possibility of self-ignition in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,864 Views
11 Pages

19 September 2019

Prestressed concrete structures are used in various fields as they can reduce the cross-sectional area of members compared with reinforced concrete structures. In addition, the use of high-performance and strength concrete can help reduce weight and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
48 Citations
10,317 Views
10 Pages

Peri-Implant Soft Tissue Conditioning by Means of Customized Healing Abutment: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

  • Mario Beretta,
  • Pier Paolo Poli,
  • Silvia Pieriboni,
  • Sebastian Tansella,
  • Mattia Manfredini,
  • Marco Cicciù and
  • Carlo Maiorana

19 September 2019

Introduction: An optimal aesthetic implant restoration is a combination of a visually pleasing prosthesis and adequate surrounding peri-implant soft tissue architecture. This study describes a novel workflow for one-step formation of the supra-implan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,789 Views
18 Pages

19 September 2019

The temperature-dependent microstructure evolution and corresponding mechanical stability of retained austenite in medium-Mn transformation induced plasticity (TRIP) 0.17C-3.1Mn-1.6Al type steel obtained by thermomechanical processing was investigate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,912 Views
12 Pages

Corrosion Behavior of SMA490BW Steel and Welded Joints for High-Speed Trains in Atmospheric Environments

  • Xiangyang Wu,
  • Zhiyi Zhang,
  • Weichuang Qi,
  • Renyong Tian,
  • Shiming Huang and
  • Chunyuan Shi

19 September 2019

Currently, high-speed trains work under various atmospheric environments, and the bogie as a key component suffers serious corrosion. To investigate the corrosion behavior of bogies in industrial atmospheric environments, the periodic immersion wet/d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,228 Views
11 Pages

19 September 2019

We developed a novel yet commercially viable strategy of synthesizing superior high-TC superconducting composites by dispersing fully exfoliated carbon nanotubes (CNTs) uniformly throughout the grain of CNT-MgB2 composites. First, we optimized the am...

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