2023 May - 143 articles
The fracture of viscoplastic materials is a complex process due to its time-dependent and plastic responses. Numerical simulation for fractures plays a significant role in crack prediction and failure analysis. In recent years, the phase field model...
The structural and luminescence properties of a new material, Ca10.5−xNix(VO4)7, formed by substitution of a fraction of calcium by nickel, are studied as a function of the Ni content (x). The powder X-ray diffraction results for the polycrysta...
The three-point-bending shape memory properties, microstructure, and magnetic properties of Fe40.95Ni28Co17Al11.5Ta2.5B0.05 (at.%) alloys were investigated. The magnetic results showed a martensitic transformation in the samples that were aged at 700...
In quantum dots, where confinement is strong, interactions between charge carriers play an essential role in the performance of semiconductor materials for optical gain. Therefore, understanding this phenomenon is critical for achieving new devices w...
As the microelectronic industry develops, components that can perform several different tasks receive increasingly more attention, resulting in multifunctional materials being highly sought after. Al2O3 is widely present in electronic applications as...
Crystal plasticity finite element simulations require tremendous computation time and, accordingly, coarse mesh is generally used. To improve the texture prediction, Submodelling was applied to feature grains in this study. A simulation of the Wholem...
Even though substantial advances made in the device configuration of the frontal layers of the superstrate cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cell device have contributed to conversion efficiency, unresolved challenges remain in regard to controlling the...
Black holes are objects that have a large mass and curve space time, characterized by their event horizon and singularity. Recently, an interesting concept of analogous black holes has emerged in the field of condensed matter physics. In this work, t...
We numerically and experimentally investigated the behavior of high-frequency underwater ultrasounds reflected by gradient acoustic metasurfaces. Metasurfaces were fabricated with a periodic array of gradient slits along the surface of a steel specim...
The performance of a conventional metal oxide sensor (MOX) is highly dependent on its high operating temperature. Many researchers have tried to solve the problem by exploring hybrid materials. On the other hand, ternary hybrid materials have emerged...
One of the most important issues in materials science is to overcome the strength–ductility trade-off in engineering alloys. The formation of heterogeneous and complex microstructures is a useful approach to achieving this purpose. In this inve...
In this work, hydroxylated compounds are applied to prepare polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films and the role of the hydroxy group is studied in detail by comparing the effects of the hydroxylated acrylate monomer, the hydroxylated mesogenic...
Rapid solidification during metal additive manufacturing (AM) leads to non-equilibrium microsegregation, which can result in the formation of detrimental phases and cracking. Most of the microsegregation models assume a Scheil-type solidification, wh...
Conventional billet rolling is being widely used in magnesium (Mg) alloys products, but this method gives rise to biological and environmental problems. The advantages of the short process on sheet fabrication have been widely proved in Mg alloy twin...
Chemical modification is usually utilized for preparing superhydrophobic SiC surfaces, which has the problems of long processing time, high environmental contamination risk, and high cost. To enhance the condensation heat transfer efficiency of SiC,...
The crystal structure of quintinite, Mg4Al2(OH)12(CO3)·3H2O, from the Jacupiranga alkaline complex (Cajati, São Paulo, Brazil), was refined for two samples (91002 and C7029) using single-crystal X-ray diffraction data. The mineral cryst...
Bulk multiferroic ceramics have been extensively studied due to their great potential for magneto-electric coupling applications such as low-power and multifunctional nano-electronic devices. In most of these studies the macroscopic magnetic performa...
Two multi-component coordination compounds of Mn(II), viz. [Mn(H2O)6](2-Mepy)2(4-NO2bz)2·2H2O (1) and [Mn(H2O)6][Mn(2,3-PDCH)3]2 (2) (where, 2-Mepy = 2-methylpyridine, 4-NO2bz = 4-nitrobenzoate, 2,3-PDC = 2,3-pyridinedicarboxylate), have been...
The multi-component solid form of febuxostat (FEB) with p-toluenesulfonic acid was synthesized by solvent-drop grinding and cooling-evaporative crystallization and characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRPD), thermogravimetry (TGA), differential...
A new class of Schiff base/ester compounds: ICln, 4-((2′-chlorophenylimino)methyl)phenyl-4″-alkoxy benzoates, were synthesized and their mesophase characteristics and thermal behavior were evaluated. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC...
The connectivity and inherent frustration of the kagome lattice can produce interesting electronic structures and behaviors in compounds containing this structural motif. Here we report the properties of Pt
Recent experiments have shown that more than 85% of photo-generated carriers can escape from multiple quantum wells (MQWs) sandwiched between p-type and n-type layers (PIN). In this work, we quantitatively analyze the relationship between the energy...
The study investigates the two different underlying ablation mechanisms of WS2 processed by femtosecond (fs) laser with different fluences. With increasing fluence, the saturable expansion of craters and the transformation of three distinct crater mo...
This paper presents a linear-to-dual-circular polarization metasurface decomposer, which decomposes a linearly polarized (LP) planar incident wave into a pair of circular polarized (CP) waves, namely, a right-handed circular polarized (RHCP) wave and...
Particle-reinforced aluminium matrix composites (AMC) with a high-volume fraction of ceramic reinforcement (>30 vol.%) combine high specific strength and stiffness with good wear resistance and thermal stability, resulting in their increasing popu...
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The theoretical and computational framework of finite deformation mesoscale field dislocation mechanics (MFDM) is used to understand the salient aspects of kink-band formation in Cu-Nb nano-metallic laminates (NMLs). A conceptually minimal, plane-str...
This study examines the energy-localization performance of a one-dimensional phononic crystal (PnC) with a defect when exposed to burst waves of different cycle numbers under longitudinal waves. Using the finite element method, band structures of the...
Manipulating the flow of water wave energy is crucial for ocean wave energy extraction or coastal protection, and the emergence of metamaterials paves a potential way for controlling water waves. In this work, by introducing a local disorder in a cav...
The results of studying the morphological peculiarities of polycrystalline CdS1−xSex films, obtained by screen printing, with well-formed grain boundaries of high structural quality are presented here. The developed method for screen printing provide...
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A tripodal anion receptor has been obtained by an easy and fast single-reaction synthesis from commercial reagents. The three ligand arms-bearing aromatic groups able to form anion–π interactions define ligand clefts where large anions, such...
Perovskite cathodes have emerged as a promising alternative to traditional cathode materials in low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (LT-SOFCs) due to their exceptional catalytic properties and high oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity. Their f...
The processes of crystallization and melting, and the structure of ice formed under freezing in an alternating electromagnetic field with a frequency of 2.45 GHz have been studied using thermometry, differential scanning calorimetry, and X-ray diffra...
In order to study the strengthening effect of Mg–X (X = Zn, Ag) alloys, solid solution structures of Mg54, Mg53X1 and Mg52X2 (X = Zn, Ag) with atomic contents of 1.8 at.% and 3.7 at.% were established, respectively. The structural stability, te...
A nondestructive detection method that combines convolutional neural network (CNN) and photoluminescence (PL) imaging was proposed for the multi-classification and multi-grading of defects during the fabrication process of silicon solar cells. In thi...
Beta titanium (β-Ti) alloys have been widely used in aerospace and biomedical implants due to their specific strengths, low elastic modulus, and their resistance to corrosion. As β titanium alloy is a novel metastable, Ti-2Al-9.2Mo-2Fe (wt....
Molten LiCl-KCl salt and liquid cadmium are proposed as the electrolyte and the reactive cathode for the electrorefining of spent nuclear fuels, but they can be corrosive to the structural alloys. The down-selection of existing materials through corr...
Two-dimensional (2D) crystalline materials have been regarded as promising sensor materials due to their large specific surface area, high sensitivity, and low cost. In the present work, based on the density functional theory (DFT) method, the sensor...
In this work, we used the Direct Laser Writing Grayscale Photolithography technology to fabricate a normally-off p-GaN gate high-electron-mobility transistor with the air-bridge source-connection. The air-bridge source-connection was formed using the...
Friction Stir Extrusion (FSE), the focus of this research, is a process that has tremendous potential for shaping and improving the mechanical properties of the final product as well as the mechanical alloying. In this study, a cylindrical sample of...
This article describes a photonic crystal fiber (PCF) temperature sensor that utilizes a flat, metal-coated trapezoidal surface. The PCF is made up of two layers of elliptical air holes and a polished trapezoidal surface that allows temperature sensi...
Carbon dots have drawn extensive attention in the detection of metal ions with good stability, excellent biocompatibility and low toxicity. Meanwhile, the quantum yield, response rate and the detection mechanism for Cu2+ ions are vital to their devel...
In this paper, samples of titania-silica system were obtained by the sol-gel method as bulk materials, using titanium propoxide Ti(C3H7O)4 to introduce titania and two precursors of SiO2: TEOS tetraethoxysilane Si(OC2H5)4 and DDS dimethyldiethoxysila...
Although individual γ-Fe2O3 and α-Fe2O3 have been widely fabricated for gas sensors, their mixed phase of α/γ-Fe2O3 might deliver excellent sensing properties. In this study, a facile solvothermal method was used to fabricate...
The corrosion behavior of copper and copper-functionalized boron nitride nanocomposites (Cu-BNNS) was studied in a 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution. Polarization curves and cyclic voltammetry experiments were used to differentiate the various stages of corrosi...
Pyruvic acid is an organic compound used in various fields (e.g., the pharmaceutical, cosmetic, food, and chemical industries) and subject to constantly growing demand. Pyruvic acid is liquid at room temperature, rendering manipulation less straightf...
The end of fife (EoL) of new aircraft panels made of Al-Li alloys in which the stringers and skin were joined, either by laser beam welding (LBW) or by friction stir welding (FSW), was investigated at the lab scale. Different cutting strategies, rang...
A new bentonite clay composite was synthesized by modifying bentonite clay and Schiff base (SB). The purpose of the composite was to eliminate methylene blue (MB) from wastewater. To characterize its efficacy, several spectroscopic techniques (UV-Vis...
At present, Al matrix composites (AMCs) have drawn much attention owing to their light weight, high specific strength, high thermal conductivity, and superior excellent wear resistance, which endows them with great potential in the aerospace, automob...
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