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Materials, Volume 4, Issue 1

January 2011 - 20 articles

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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,153 Views
12 Pages

Cell-Based Fabrication of Organic/Inorganic Composite Gel Material

  • Takuya Matsumoto,
  • Ami Mizuno,
  • Miki Kashiwagi,
  • Shin-suke Yoshida,
  • Jun-ichi Sasaki and
  • Takayoshi Nakano

24 January 2011

Biomaterials containing components similar to the native biological tissue would have benefits as an implantable scaffold material. To obtain such biomimetic materials, cells may be great contributors because of their crucial roles in synthetic organ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
11,115 Views
16 Pages

Masonry Columns Confined by Steel Fiber Composite Wraps

  • Antonio Borri,
  • Giulio Castori and
  • Marco Corradi

21 January 2011

The application of steel fiber reinforced polymer (SRP) as a means of increasing the capacity of masonry columns is investigated in this study. The behavior of 23 solid-brick specimens that are externally wrapped by SRP sheets in low volumetric ratio...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
132 Citations
14,609 Views
12 Pages

Laser Fabrication of 3D Gelatin Scaffolds for the Generation of Bioartificial Tissues

  • Aleksandr Ovsianikov,
  • Andrea Deiwick,
  • Sandra Van Vlierberghe,
  • Michael Pflaum,
  • Mathias Wilhelmi,
  • Peter Dubruel and
  • Boris Chichkov

19 January 2011

In the present work, the two-photon polymerization (2PP) technique was applied to develop precisely defined biodegradable 3D tissue engineering scaffolds. The scaffolds were fabricated via photopolymerization of gelatin modified with methacrylamide m...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
14 Citations
8,526 Views
11 Pages

{Fe6O2}-Based Assembly of a Tetradecanuclear Iron Nanocluster

  • Svetlana G. Baca,
  • Manfred Speldrich,
  • Arkady Ellern and
  • Paul Kögerler

19 January 2011

The tetradecanuclear FeIII pivalate nanocluster [Fe14O10(OH)4(Piv)18], comprising a new type of metal oxide framework, has been solvothermally synthesized from a hexanuclear iron pivalate precursor in dichlormethane/acetonitrile solution. Magnetic me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
10,506 Views
14 Pages

Enhanced Hydrogen Storage Kinetics of Nanocrystalline and Amorphous Mg2Ni-type Alloy by Melt Spinning

  • Yang-Huan Zhang,
  • Bao-Wei Li,
  • Hui-Ping Ren,
  • Xia Li,
  • Yan Qi and
  • Dong-Liang Zhao

18 January 2011

Mg2Ni-type Mg2Ni1−xCox (x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4) alloys were fabricated by melt spinning technique. The structures of the as-spun alloys were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The hydrogen absorpti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,654 Views
14 Pages

17 January 2011

We have investigated the role of the Ti–O Coulomb repulsions in the appearance of the ferroelectric state in BaTiO3 as well as the role of the Zn–O Coulomb repulsions in BiZn0.5Ti0.5O3, using a first-principles calculation with optimized structures....

  • Review
  • Open Access
301 Citations
21,525 Views
54 Pages

Thermotropic Ionic Liquid Crystals

  • Kirill V. Axenov and
  • Sabine Laschat

14 January 2011

The last five years’ achievements in the synthesis and investigation of thermotropic ionic liquid crystals are reviewed. The present review describes the mesomorphic properties displayed by organic, as well as metal-containing ionic mesogens. In addi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Citations
16,299 Views
14 Pages

Roll-to-Roll Processing of Inverted Polymer Solar Cells using Hydrated Vanadium(V)Oxide as a PEDOT:PSS Replacement

  • Nieves Espinosa,
  • Henrik Friis Dam,
  • David M. Tanenbaum,
  • Jens W. Andreasen,
  • Mikkel Jørgensen and
  • Frederik C. Krebs

11 January 2011

The use of hydrated vanadium(V)oxide as a replacement of the commonly employed hole transporting material PEDOT:PSS was explored in this work. Polymer solar cells were prepared by spin coating on glass. Polymer solar cells and modules comprising 16 s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
20 Citations
9,405 Views
23 Pages

11 January 2011

In liquid crystals (LCs), molecules are confined in peculiar environments, where ordered alignment and certain mobility are realized at the same time. Considering these characteristics, the idea of “controlling molecular events within LC media” seems...

  • Review
  • Open Access
128 Citations
16,157 Views
16 Pages

Multiferroic Compounds with Double-Perovskite Structures

  • Yuichi Shimakawa,
  • Masaki Azuma and
  • Noriya Ichikawa

7 January 2011

New multiferroic compounds with double-perovskite structures were synthesized. Bi2NiMnO6 was synthesized in bulk form by high-pressure synthesis and also in a thin-film form by epitaxial growth. The material showed both ferromagnetic and ferroelectri...

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