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Materials, Volume 7, Issue 10

October 2014 - 20 articles

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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
6,484 Views
16 Pages

23 October 2014

This study aims to analyze contamination with the use of soil reclaimed with ferronickel slag (FNS). In order to investigate any contamination due to FNS disposal, soils were collected from three sites. The contamination analysis was done on these s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
10,916 Views
15 Pages

22 October 2014

The reuse system proposed by the authors is an overall business system for realizing a cyclic reuse flow through the processes of design, fabrication, construction, maintenance, demolition and storage. The reuse system is one of the methods to reduce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,753 Views
12 Pages

22 October 2014

The fabrication of transparent polycrystalline Y3Al5O12 (YAG) is still a challenge, requiring the achievement of highly pure and fully dense, homogeneous materials. An important role is played by the powder characteristics: pure, fine and unagglomera...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,475 Views
13 Pages

Bulk TiB2-Based Ceramic Composites with Improved Mechanical Property Using Fe–Ni–Ti–Al as a Sintering Aid

  • Chao Yang,
  • Hao Guo,
  • Daguang Mo,
  • Shengguan Qu,
  • Xiaoqiang Li,
  • Weiwen Zhang and
  • Laichang Zhang

21 October 2014

The densification behavior, microstructure and mechanical properties of bulk TiB2-based ceramic composites, fabricated using the spark plasma sintering (SPS) technique with elements of (Fe–Ni–Ti–Al) sinter-aid were investigated. Comparing the change...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,231 Views
12 Pages

21 October 2014

In this paper, the corrosion residual strength of the AZ91D magnesium alloy in the presence of sulfate-reducing bacteria is studied. In the experiments, the chemical composition of corrosion film was analyzed by a scanning electron microscope with en...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
6,932 Views
14 Pages

20 October 2014

Li2SO4 or (Li2SO4 + SiO2)-mixture fluxes were used to prepare a Lu2O3:Eu powder phosphor as well as an undoped Lu2O3 utilizing commercial lutetia and europia as starting reagents. SEM images showed that the fabricated powders were non-agglomerated an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,021 Views
20 Pages

Property Relationship in Organosilanes and Nanotubes Filled Polypropylene Hybrid Composites

  • Alejandra J. Monsiváis-Barrón,
  • Jaime Bonilla-Rios and
  • Antonio Sánchez-Fernández

20 October 2014

Polypropylene composites with different filler contents were prepared by creating a masterbatch containing 3 wt%. filler. A variety of silanol groups were used to synthetized three compounds in different media trough a sol-gel process with acetic aci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,530 Views
12 Pages

Effect of Spark Plasma Sintering on the Structure and Properties of Ti1−xZrxNiSn Half-Heusler Alloys

  • Ruth A. Downie,
  • Srinivas R. Popuri,
  • Huanpo Ning,
  • Mike J. Reece and
  • Jan-Willem G. Bos

20 October 2014

XNiSn (X = Ti, Zr and Hf) half-Heusler alloys have promising thermoelectric properties and are attracting enormous interest for use in waste heat recovery. In particular, multiphase behaviour has been linked to reduced lattice thermal conductivities,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,513 Views
12 Pages

Suppression of 3C-Inclusion Formation during Growth of 4H-SiC Si-Face Homoepitaxial Layers with a 1° Off-Angle

  • Keiko Masumoto,
  • Hirokuni Asamizu,
  • Kentaro Tamura,
  • Chiaki Kudou,
  • Johji Nishio,
  • Kazutoshi Kojima,
  • Toshiyuki Ohno and
  • Hajime Okumura

17 October 2014

We grew epitaxial layers on 4H-silicon carbide (SiC) Si-face substrates with a 1° off-angle. The suppression of 3C-inclusion formation during growth at a high C/Si ratio was investigated, because a growth technique with a high C/Si ratio is needed to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,186 Views
17 Pages

Photocatalytic H2 Production Using Pt-TiO2 in the Presence of Oxalic Acid: Influence of the Noble Metal Size and the Carrier Gas Flow Rate

  • Ákos Kmetykó,
  • Károly Mogyorósi,
  • Viktória Gerse,
  • Zoltán Kónya,
  • Péter Pusztai,
  • András Dombi and
  • Klára Hernádi

17 October 2014

The primary objective of the experiments was to investigate the differences in the photocatalytic performance when commercially available Aeroxide P25 TiO2 photocatalyst was deposited with differently sized Pt nanoparticles with identical platinum co...

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