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Materials, Volume 6, Issue 11

November 2013 - 35 articles

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Articles (35)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,558 Views
7 Pages

Efficiency Improvement of HIT Solar Cells on p-Type Si Wafers

  • Chun-You Wei,
  • Chu-Hsuan Lin,
  • Hao-Tse Hsiao,
  • Po-Chuan Yang,
  • Chih-Ming Wang and
  • Yen-Chih Pan

22 November 2013

Single crystal silicon solar cells are still predominant in the market due to the abundance of silicon on earth and their acceptable efficiency. Different solar-cell structures of single crystalline Si have been investigated to boost efficiency; the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,045 Views
15 Pages

21 November 2013

To connect different scale models in the multi-scale problem of microwave use, equivalent material constants were researched numerically by a three-dimensional electromagnetic field, taking into account eddy current and displacement current. A volume...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,684 Views
16 Pages

Optimized Slurries for Spray Drying: Different Approaches to Obtain Homogeneous and Deformable Alumina-Zirconia Granules

  • Valentina Naglieri,
  • Dan Gutknecht,
  • Vincent Garnier,
  • Paola Palmero,
  • Jérôme Chevalier and
  • Laura Montanaro

21 November 2013

Spray drying is widely used for producing granulated feed materials for compaction process, which is the current industrial method for manufacturing alumina-zirconia femoral heads. The optimization of the granules compaction behavior requires the co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,606 Views
12 Pages

21 November 2013

Synthetic materials for bone replacement must ensure a sufficient mechanical stability and an adequate cell proliferation within the structures. Hereby, titanium materials are suitable for producing patient-individual porous bone scaffolds by using g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,551 Views
17 Pages

Rapid Microwave Synthesis, Characterization and Reactivity of Lithium Nitride Hydride, Li4NH

  • Nuria Tapia-Ruiz,
  • Natalie Sorbie,
  • Nicolas Vaché,
  • Tuan K. A. Hoang and
  • Duncan H. Gregory

21 November 2013

Lithium nitride hydride, Li4NH, was synthesised from lithium nitride and lithium hydride over minute timescales, using microwave synthesis methods in the solid state for the first time. The structure of the microwave-synthesised powders was confirmed...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,749 Views
13 Pages

Voltammetric Studies on Gold Electrodes Coated with Chitosan-Containing Layer-by-Layer Films

  • Shigehiro Takahashi,
  • Ryota Watahiki,
  • Kohji Tomida,
  • Baozhen Wang and
  • Jun-ichi Anzai

21 November 2013

Gold (Au) electrodes coated with layer-by-layer (LbL) thin films composed of chitosan (CHI) were prepared to evaluate the redox properties of hexaammine ruthenium ions, Ru(NH3)63+, and ferricyanide ions, Fe(CN)63− LbL films were prepared on an Au ele...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
7,295 Views
15 Pages

20 November 2013

The neutral dinuclear complexes [(η5-C5Me5)2Rh2(μ-dhnq)Cl2] (1) and [(η5-C5Me5)2Ir2(μ-dhnq)Cl2] (2) (dhnqH2 = 5,8-dihydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone) were obtained from the reaction of [(η5-C5Me5)M(μ-Cl)Cl]2 (M = Rh, Ir) with dhnqH2 in the presence of CH3...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,677 Views
11 Pages

A Bone-Thickness Map as a Guide for Bone-Anchored Port Implantation Surgery in the Temporal Bone

  • Jérémie Guignard,
  • Andreas Arnold,
  • Christian Weisstanner,
  • Marco Caversaccio and
  • Christof Stieger

19 November 2013

The bone-anchored port (BAP) is an investigational implant, which is intended to be fixed on the temporal bone and provide vascular access. There are a number of implants taking advantage of the stability and available room in the temporal bone. Thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,947 Views
12 Pages

19 November 2013

In this work, geometrical dimensions and ablation yields as a function of the machining method and reference position were studied when advanced ceramics and glass-ceramic materials were machined with pulsed lasers in the nanosecond range. Two laser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,690 Views
21 Pages

Geosynthetic Reinforcement of Sand-Mat Layer above Soft Ground

  • Jong-Beom Park,
  • Hyun-Soo Park and
  • Daehyeon Kim

19 November 2013

In order to improve the bearing capacity of soft ground for the purpose of getting trafficability of construction vehicles, the reinforcement of geosynthetics for sand-mat layers on soft ground has often been used. As the strength of the geosyntheti...

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