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Materials, Volume 5, Issue 12

December 2012 - 31 articles

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Articles (31)

  • Review
  • Open Access
209 Citations
13,217 Views
21 Pages

Characterization of Nanocomposites by Thermal Analysis

  • Carola Esposito Corcione and
  • Mariaenrica Frigione

19 December 2012

In materials research, the development of polymer nanocomposites (PN) is rapidly emerging as a multidisciplinary research field with results that could broaden the applications of polymers to many different industries. PN are polymer matrices (thermo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
13,951 Views
25 Pages

19 December 2012

The fatigue strength, effects of a notch on the fatigue strength, and fatigue crack growth rate of Ti-15Zr-4Nb-4Ta alloy were compared with those of other implantable metals. Zr, Nb, and Ta are important alloying elements for Ti alloys for attaining...

  • Article
  • Open Access
78 Citations
9,275 Views
14 Pages

Preparation, Characterization and Release of Urea from Wheat Gluten Electrospun Membranes

  • Daniela Denisse Castro-Enríquez,
  • Francisco Rodríguez-Félix,
  • Benjamín Ramírez-Wong,
  • Patricia Isabel Torres-Chávez,
  • María Mónica Castillo-Ortega,
  • Dora Evelia Rodríguez-Félix,
  • Lorena Armenta-Villegas and
  • Ana Irene Ledesma-Osuna

18 December 2012

Homogeneous and thin porous membranes composed of oriented fibers were obtained from wheat gluten (WG) using the electrospinning technique. SEM micrographs showed an asymmetric structure and some porosity, which, in addition to a small thickness of 4...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,355 Views
10 Pages

Dispersion of Pt Nanoparticle-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide Using Aniline as a Stabilizer

  • Ali Grinou,
  • Young Soo Yun,
  • Se Youn Cho,
  • Hyun Ho Park and
  • Hyoung-Joon Jin

18 December 2012

In this study, a simple one-step method was developed to load small-sized Pt nanoparticles (3.1 ± 0.3 nm) in large quantities (50 wt %) on aniline-functionalized and reduced graphene oxide (r-fGO). In the process, an ethylene glycol solution and anil...

  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
14,010 Views
23 Pages

Recent Progress in Surface Modification of Polyvinyl Chloride

  • Ahmad Asadinezhad,
  • Marián Lehocký,
  • Petr Sáha and
  • Miran Mozetič

18 December 2012

Surface modification of polymers has become a vibrant field of research on account of a myriad of rationales which stimulated numerous efforts. The current paper serves as a condensed survey of the advances made through different approaches adopted f...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,788 Citations
43,520 Views
29 Pages

17 December 2012

Silicate mesoporous materials have received widespread interest because of their potential applications as supports for catalysis, separation, selective adsorption, novel functional materials, and use as hosts to confine guest molecules, due to their...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
6,250 Views
10 Pages

Optimization of the GaAs-on-Si Substrate for Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) Sensor Application

  • Yunbo Shi,
  • Hao Guo,
  • Haiqiao Ni,
  • Chenyang Xue,
  • Zhichuan Niu,
  • Jun Tang,
  • Jun Liu,
  • Wendong Zhang,
  • Jifang He and
  • Mifeng Li
  • + 1 author

17 December 2012

Resonant Tunneling Diodes (RTD) and High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT) based on GaAs, as the piezoresistive sensing element, exhibit extremely high sensitivity in the MEMS sensors based on GaAs. To further expand their applications to the field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
11,627 Views
16 Pages

Growth of High-Density Zinc Oxide Nanorods on Porous Silicon by Thermal Evaporation

  • Nurul Izni Rusli,
  • Masahiro Tanikawa,
  • Mohamad Rusop Mahmood,
  • Kanji Yasui and
  • Abdul Manaf Hashim

13 December 2012

The formation of high-density zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods on porous silicon (PS) substrates at growth temperatures of 600–1000 °C by a simple thermal evaporation of zinc (Zn) powder in the presence of oxygen (O2) gas was systematically investigated. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,980 Views
17 Pages

Pulmonary Inflammation of Well-Dispersed Multi-Wall Carbon Nanotubes Following Intratracheal Instillation: Toxicity by Fiber of 1–5 µm in Length

  • Masanori Horie,
  • Mayumi Stowe,
  • Tatsunori Kambara,
  • Byeong Woo Lee,
  • Shigehisa Endoh,
  • Junko Maru,
  • Takako Oyabu,
  • Toshihiko Myojo,
  • Akira Ogami and
  • Kunio Uchida
  • + 5 authors

13 December 2012

The pulmonary toxicity of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) were examined by intratracheal instillation. We prepared a well-dispersed MWCNT dispersion including MWCNTs of 3.71 µm geometric average length. The fiber length of most of the MWCNTs in t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
705 Citations
26,569 Views
22 Pages

The Toxic Effects and Mechanisms of CuO and ZnO Nanoparticles

  • Ya-Nan Chang,
  • Mingyi Zhang,
  • Lin Xia,
  • Jun Zhang and
  • Gengmei Xing

13 December 2012

Recent nanotechnological advances suggest that metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) have been expected to be used in various fields, ranging from catalysis and opto-electronic materials to sensors, environmental remediation, and biomedicine. However, the...

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