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Materials, Volume 3, Issue 6

2010 June - 15 articles

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Articles (15)

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
9,587 Views
37 Pages

21 June 2010

The theoretical study of magnetic semiconductors using the dynamical coherent potential approximation (dynamical CPA) is briefly reviewed. First, we give the results for ferromagnetic semiconductors (FMSs) such as EuO and EuS by applying the dynamica...

  • Review
  • Open Access
277 Citations
20,687 Views
17 Pages

Rare-Earth Activated Nitride Phosphors: Synthesis, Luminescence and Applications

  • Rong-Jun Xie,
  • Naoto Hirosaki,
  • Yuanqiang Li and
  • Takashi Takeda

21 June 2010

Nitridosilicates are structurally built up on three-dimensional SiN4 tetrahedral networks, forming a very interesting class of materials with high thermomechanical properties, hardness, and wide band gap. Traditionally, nitridosilicates are often use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
97 Citations
21,746 Views
14 Pages

Properties and Clinical Application of Three Types of Dental Glass-Ceramics and Ceramics for CAD-CAM Technologies

  • Christian Ritzberger,
  • Elke Apel,
  • Wolfram Höland,
  • Arnd Peschke and
  • Volker M. Rheinberger

19 June 2010

The main properties (mechanical, thermal and chemical) and clinical application for dental restoration are demonstrated for three types of glass-ceramics and sintered polycrystalline ceramic produced by Ivoclar Vivadent AG. Two types of glass-ceramic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
51 Citations
13,342 Views
15 Pages

19 June 2010

Studies using cellular therapies, scaffolds, and tubular structured implants have been carried out with the goal to restore functional recovery after spinal cord injury (SCI). None of these therapeutic strategies, by themselves, have been shown to be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
13,788 Views
6 Pages

Digital Computer Matching of Tooth Color

  • Won-suk Oh,
  • John Pogoncheff and
  • William J. O’Brien

18 June 2010

This study aimed to determine the validity of the digital photocolorimetric (PCM) method in matching the color of human teeth. First, two Vitapan Classical shade guides, each containing 16 shade guide teeth, were visually shade matched, and digital p...

  • Review
  • Open Access
483 Citations
25,185 Views
21 Pages

14 June 2010

Polymers are considered to be good hosting matrices for composite materials because they can easily be tailored to yield a variety of bulk physical properties. Moreover, organic polymers generally have long-term stability and good processability. Ino...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
11,486 Views
11 Pages

Effects of Interfacial Charge Depletion in Organic Thin-Film Transistors with Polymeric Dielectrics on Electrical Stability

  • Jaehoon Park,
  • Jin-Hyuk Bae,
  • Won-Ho Kim,
  • Min-Hoi Kim,
  • Chang-Min Keum,
  • Sin-Doo Lee and
  • Jong Sun Choi

9 June 2010

We investigated the electrical stabilities of two types of pentacene-based organic thin-film transistors (OTFTs) with two different polymeric dielectrics: polystyrene (PS) and poly(4-vinyl phenol) (PVP), in terms of the interfacial charge depletion....

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,276 Views
17 Pages

9 June 2010

A new inclusion compound (IC) using di-t-buthyl nitroxide (DBNO) radical and tris(o-phenylenedioxy)cyclotriphosphazene (TPP) (1), which has an organic one-dimensional (1-D) nanochannel in the crystal, is reported. According to the characterization us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
12,532 Views
12 Pages

Ti-doped ZnO Thin Films Prepared at Different Ambient Conditions: Electronic Structures and Magnetic Properties

  • Zhihua Yong,
  • Tao Liu,
  • Tomoya Uruga,
  • Hajime Tanida,
  • Dongchen Qi,
  • Andrivo Rusydi and
  • Andrew T. S. Wee

9 June 2010

We present a comprehensive study on Ti-doped ZnO thin films using X-ray Absorption Fine Structure (XAFS) spectroscopy. Ti K edge XAFS spectra were measured to study the electronic and chemical properties of Ti ions in the thin films grown under diffe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
155 Citations
21,166 Views
28 Pages

Polymeric Microspheres for Medical Applications

  • Ketie Saralidze,
  • Leo H. Koole and
  • Menno L.W. Knetsch

7 June 2010

Synthetic polymeric microspheres find application in a wide range of medical applications. Among other applications, microspheres are being used as bulking agents, embolic- or drug-delivery particles. The exact composition of the spheres varies with...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
12,792 Views
49 Pages

7 June 2010

Dilute magnetic semiconductors (DMS) are envisioned as sources of spin-polarized carriers for future semiconductor devices which simultaneously utilize spin and charge of the carriers. The hope of discovering a DMS with ferromagnetic order up to room...

  • Review
  • Open Access
103 Citations
18,545 Views
19 Pages

2 June 2010

This article reviews the applications of silicone resins as ceramic precursors. The historical background of silicone synthesis chemistry is introduced to explain the production costs and supply availability of various silicones. Thermal degradation...

  • Review
  • Open Access
774 Citations
37,961 Views
50 Pages

28 May 2010

The addition of inorganic spherical nanoparticles to polymers allows the modification of the polymers physical properties as well as the implementation of new features in the polymer matrix. This review article covers considerations on special featur...

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