ISSN: 2995-7028
Volume 10, Number 1 (2025)
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SCIREA Journal of Materials (ISSN: 2995-7028)
SCIREA Journal of Materials is an international, scientific peer-reviewed open access journal published online by SCIREA.
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Volume 10, Issue 1, February 2025
Abstract: The rising need for concrete is directly tied to urban expansion and population increases. Cement, a crucial component in concrete manufacturing, is a momentous source of global carbon dioxide secretions. To promote more sustainable concrete solutions, the adoption of alternative materials to conventional cement is essentia
Abstract: Carbon steel bucket couplings are widely used in the construction and mining industries due to their quality and versatility. These couplings are manufactured using sand casting techniques to meet international standards. This casting technique has significant shrinkage defects during solidification and needs to be improved
Volume 9, Issue 1, February 2024
Abstract: Introduction: Quinazolinone by–product disclosed various curative characteristics such as analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities, as well as antimicrobial activity. These heterocycles are beneficial intermediates in organic synthesis. Methods/Experimental:The compound, 6-bromo,2-(o-aminophenyl)
Abstract: The physical, mechanical and tribological properties of cast multicomponent high-entropy boron-doped alloys obtained by vacuum-arc melting are studied. It was found that cast multicomponent high-entropy alloys doped with boron have a hardness of 20-30 GPа and a modulus of elasticity of 400-600 GPа. Alloying high-entropy all
Volume 8, Issue 2, April 2023
Abstract: Purpose: evaluated the effectiveness of the 3D-SR monomer in comparison with the 10-MDP monomer in bond strength (enamel and dentin), nanofiltration (dentin) with application of conventional and self-conditioning modes, sorption and solubility. Materials and methods Seventy-two molars were randomly divided int
Abstract: Superconducting materials are currently the subject of interest in modern electronic technologies, especially because they exhibit quantum phenomena on a macroscopic scale. The most evident examples are quantized vortices transporting magnetic flux, which movement determines the macroscopic current carrying phenomena in the
Volume 8, Issue 1, February 2023
Abstract: The synthesis of BaFe12-2xCoxNixO19 (x = 0.5-1.5) at a calcination temperature of 1000°C using the coprecipitation method has been done by varying the concentration of the mixed precursor in order to identify the optimum sample. Barium Hexaferrite powder with 0.5% and 1% Nio-CoO h
Abstract: Thermal expansion is related to the atomic vibration amplitude. Owing to the anisotropy in the lattice, the amplitude will vary with the crystallographic direction, causing strain in the lattice. The strain caused by thermal expansion induces a force large enough to initiate plastic deformation of the metal at the beginning
Volume 7, Issue 3, June 2022
Abstract: To improve AZ31 magnesium (Mg) alloy plasticity, semisolid extruding with electromagnetic stirring process was adopted, and then the mechanical properties and microstructure were studied. The melting temperature was 730℃, and the preheat temperature of the die was set as 300℃, and electromagnetic stirring parameters were 6H
Volume 7, Issue 2, April 2022
Abstract: This paper reports the precipitation of calcium phosphate (CaP) on alkaline hydrothermally treated titanium alloy under ultraviolet (UV) lighting. Urea (NH2CONH2) with different concentrations were added into a simulated body fluid buffered by sodium lactate. CO2 and NH3 gas release during immersion tests were detected. The
Volume 7, Issue 1, February 2022
Abstract: Desert sand has the characteristics of large reserves, high quartz content, small and uniform particle size, low organic content and so on. High performance porous ceramic materials were prepared by particle stacking from Kubuqi desert sand, and the effects of forming pressure, holding time and sintering temperature on phas
Abstract: This paper is to present the design consideration of the adjustable flexible auxetic structure which is used in the soft wearable suit with the multi-layer materials. In order to design a macro-auxetic structure with the elastic flexibilities of the soft wearable suit, it is important to make the auxetic unit cell with the
Volume 6, Issue 4, August 2021
Abstract: In this investigation, it was proposed to analyze the optimized geometry, density of states (DOS) and electronic band structures of copper (4.16%, 4.16%+oxygen vacancy & 8.33%) doped Titanium Dioxide (Cu-TiO2) photocatalysts using density functional theory corrected for on-site Coulombic interactions (DFT+U). The photocata
Volume 6, Issue 3, June 2021
Abstract: SiCf/AlPO4 composites were fabricated using a hot laminating process with MWCNTs as the absorber. A coating prepared from SiO2+SiC+Al (H2PO4)3 was applied to the surface of SiCf/AlPO4 composites prior to an anti-oxidation test at 1373 K
Volume 6, Issue 2, April 2021
Abstract: Film dosage forms (FDs) prepared using water-soluble polymers can efficiently deliver drugs to local disease sites. In the present study, we prepared FDs by incorporating a model drug rebamipide into a film made of sodium alginate (Alg-Na), comprising an alginic acid hydrolysate and α-L-guluronic acid (G) block (G-block), a
Volume 6, Issue 1, February 2021
Abstract: The operation and maintenance of nuclear power plants, the non nuclear fuel cycle, etc generate low-level radioactive waste which, along with the historical radioactive waste from past nuclear activities, needs to be treated and stored, awaiting final disposal. Plasma technology offers a very effective way of treating this
Volume 5, Issue 3, June 2020
Abstract: Developing efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts that drive both oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is significant for renewable energy conversion and storage technologies. In this paper, we report a new method for synthesizing carbon nanostructures through catalytic thermolysis of natural
Volume 5, Issue 2, April 2020
Abstract: The integration level of modern VLSI allows developers to place an entire digital device on a chip (System-oт-Chip technology), which dramatically increases the amount of data on testing such VLSI. The most alarming situation is observed when testing VLSI memory, which is both an independent VLSI and one of the main blocks
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 2020
Abstract: Discrete element method is employed to numerically investigate the granular packing of frictional cohesive particles with a Bimodal distribution. In the granular particle system, the diameter of the small particle is 50μm and the diameter of the large particle is 100μm. Different particle population ratios including 2:8, 4:
Volume 4, Issue 2, April 2019
Abstract: Film dosage form (FD) prepared using water-soluble polymers is an excellent technique by which drugs can be delivered to local disease sites. In this study, FD was prepared with the sodium salt of chondroitin sulfate (CHS), a natural polysaccharide, by the casting method. The disintegration profile of FD was assessed and th
Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2019
Abstract: Microscale frameworks were obtained by copper phthalocyanine-sulfuric acid blends in our proposal. In the frameworks, crystals and unoccupied space are at an equivalent-size level. During dehydration, wires spontaneously weld at their contacts to construct a framework. Dehydrated and post-annealed frameworks have morphologi
Abstract: Increasing demand of the renewable and clean energy sources and the rapid depletion of fossil resources have been increased the interest in different and new alternative energy production and energy storage systems. Among the electrochemical energy storage systems, next-generation thin film batteries are so attractive becau
Volume 3, Issue 3, June 2018
Abstract: The micrometer-sized network structure of a calcium-alginate hydrogel, which was synthesized from sodium alginate, calcium sulfate dihydrate, trisodium phosphate 12-hydrate, glycerol, and water, was observed using an optical microscope, cryogenic-scanning electron microscope, and an energy-dispersive X-ray spectrometer. For
Volume 3, Issue 2, April 2018
Abstract: Low density polyethylene (LDPE) containing activated carbon (AC) was foamed with azodicarbonamide (ADC) through an extrusion process. The effects of ADC and AC contents on the cellular structure, void fraction, density, thermal and mechanical properties, and crystallinity of composite foams were investigated. The density of
Abstract: Silver modified polyacrylonitrile-activated carbon (Ag-PAN-AC) composite fibers containing various AC concentrations were prepared by using an electrospinning process. Ag-PAN nanoparticles were initially prepared via in-situ reduction of silver nitrate using hydrazinium hydroxide as a reducing agent. The influence of AC con
Volume 3, Issue 1, February 2018
Abstract: The processing of fibre reinforced carbon nanotube (CNT) loaded polymer composites (nanocomposites) requires that CNTs be mixed (or loaded) into the polymer prior to impregnating the fibres to fabricate a nanocomposite. The fabrication process uses vacuum-assisted resin transfer moulding (VARTM), which is complicated due to
Abstract: Cerium conversion coatings (CeCC) have been synthesized for corrosion protection of AA2024-T3 aircraft alloy through application of potentiostatic regime in aqueous solutions of diammonium pentanitrocerate - (NH4)2Ce(NO3)5. This cerium compound is used for first time for this purpose. The impact of the following deposition
Volume 2, Issue 1, February 2017
Abstract: In the present study, the use of ZnO nanorods sensor under the irradiation of 400 nm UV-LED illumination at room temperature was tested. The non-intentionally C-doped flower-like zinc oxide (ZnO) nanorods were synthesized through a chemical method at low temperature (60–65 °C). The hexagonal wurtzite phase of ZnO was confi
Volume 1, Issue 1, October 2016
Abstract: The no-load loss is one of the key indicators for EI transformer. In this paper, by means of the finite element simulation software, the effects of electrical steel material for the no-load loss of EI transformer was analyzed, pointed out the Iron loss of electrical steel material is the main factor to the no-load loss of E
Abstract: This paper aims to characterize structurally and thermally the calcium aluminate synthesized with the ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) by the sol-gel process. Structural analysis were made with Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction and thermal analysis were performed as thermogravimetric and d
Abstract: There is interest in the study and control of heat affected zone (HAZ) of the weld junctions, which is often regarded as the weakest point of the joints. In the present work, experimental and numerical analyses are used to characterize extension and microstructure of HAZ in friction stir welding (FSW) of 7075 Al alloy (AA)
Abstract: Nanostructured Tantalum (Ta) thin films were deposited by plasma assisted chemical vapor deposition (PACVD) at duty cycles of 17%, 25%, and 33%. FESEM and MTT assay indicated that the Ta film deposited at duty cycle of 25% provides the best surface biocompatibility because of its flawless and uniform structure. Furthermore,
Abstract: Poly-l-lactic acid (PLLA) is widely used in the fabrication of bioresorbable orthopaedic and bone fixation devices. These implants degrade over time within the in vivo environment increasing the risk of potential mechanical failure. Therefore it is necessary to better understand the fracture behaviour of PLLA under physiolo
Abstract: The aurivillius phase of optimum Mn-doped with chemical formula Bi2SrV1.9Mn0.1O9 was carefully prepared by solid state reaction technique and ceramics procedures. The analysis of X-ray confirmed the formation of single aurivillus layered perovskite structure. The sample well characterized and then forwarded to both of SE
Abstract: Advanced synthesis of free fluoride V-biotite sample having the optimized formula NaV2.5(Al,Si)4O10(OH)2 was synthesized by mixed solution-solid routes. The synthetic clay was carefully characterized by different techniques including X-ray diffraction (XRD), infrared absorption spectra (IR) and thermal analysis (TG/TDA).Fu