Materials Science & Technology: Recent submissions
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Improvement of aluminum/polyethylene adhesion through corona discharge
( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2017 , Article)Polyethylene (PE) is often used in several industrial applications including the building, packaging and transport industries. Aluminum (Al) is widely used in different applications in the automotive, railway, aeronautic, ... -
Nanoclay compatibilization of phase separated polysulfone/polyimide films for oxygen barrier
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Polyimide (PI) and Polysulfone (PSF) films are used in many applications ranging from electronic film capacitors to membranes for gas separation and water purification, yet their phase separation issues limit many potential ... -
Enhancement of gemcitabine against pancreatic cancer by loading in mesoporous silica vesicles
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)Gemcitabine (Gem) is currently the first-line chemotherapeutic drug in management of pancreatic cancer, however the therapeutic efficacy of Gem is limited due to its short half-life and poor cell membrane permeability. ... -
Date palm fibre filled recycled ternary polymer blend composites with enhanced flame retardancy
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Flammability of recycled polypropylene (PP)/low density polyethylene (LDPE)/high density polyethylene (HDPE) ternary blends containing date palm fibres is investigated in this study. Melt blending is used for the composite ... -
Mesoporous Tungsten Oxides with Crystalline Framework for Highly Sensitive and Selective Detection of Foodborne Pathogens
( American Chemical Society , 2017 , Article)Foodborne pathogens like Listeria monocytogenes can cause various illnesses and pose a serious threat to public health. They produce species-specific microbial volatile organic compounds, i.e., the biomarkers, making it ... -
2D Ti3C2Tx (MXene)-reinforced polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) nanofibers with enhanced mechanical and electrical properties
( Public Library of Science , 2017 , Article)Novel 2D Ti3C2Tx (MXene)-reinforced polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) nanofibers have been successfully fabricated by an electrospinning technique. The high aspect ratio, hydrophilic surfaces, and metallic conductivity of delaminated ... -
Facile Synthesis of Uniform Virus-like Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles for Enhanced Cellular Internalization
( American Chemical Society , 2017 , Article)The low-efficiency cellular uptake property of current nanoparticles greatly restricts their application in the biomedical field. Herein, we demonstrate that novel virus-like mesoporous silica nanoparticles can easily be ... -
Ordered Mesoporous Alumina with Ultra-Large Pores as an Efficient Absorbent for Selective Bioenrichment
( American Chemical Society , 2017 , Article)Alumina has recently turned out to be effective in enrichment of biomacrolecules like phosphopeptides due to its good affinity to phosphor groups. Ordered mesoporous alumina (OMA) materials with high surface areas, regular ... -
Structural properties, crystal quality and growth modes of MOCVD-grown AlN with TMAl pretreatment of sapphire substrate
( Institute of Physics Publishing , 2017 , Article)The growth of high quality AlN epitaxial films relies on precise control of the initial growth stages. In this work, we examined the influence of the trimethylaluminum (TMAl) pretreatment of sapphire substrates on the ... -
Mesoporous Silica Thin Membranes with Large Vertical Mesochannels for Nanosize-Based Separation
( Wiley-VCH Verlag , 2017 , Article)Membrane separation technologies are of great interest in industrial processes such as water purification, gas separation, and materials synthesis. However, commercial filtration membranes have broad pore size distributions, ... -
Facile Assembly of Aligned Magnetic Nanoparticle Chains in Polymer Nanocomposite Films by Magnetic Flow Coating
( American Chemical Society , 2017 , Article)Magnetic nanoparticle chains are found in biosystems, such as in the brain of migratory birds. Inspired by natural assemblies, in a novel approach, the facile assembly of magnetically aligned polymer grafted cobalt ... -
Natural aging of shape stabilized phase change materials based on paraffin wax
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)Natural aging of shape-stabilized phase change materials containing linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE), paraffin wax and expanded graphite (EG) in Qatari climate has been studied. It was found that expanded graphite ... -
Nanoengineering of Core-Shell Magnetic Mesoporous Microspheres with Tunable Surface Roughness
( American Chemical Society , 2017 , Article)Functional core-shell mesoporous microspheres with integrated functions, controlled structure, and surface properties and morphologies have received increasing attention due to their excellent physicochemical properties. ... -
Plasmolysis-Inspired Nanoengineering of Functional Yolk-Shell Microspheres with Magnetic Core and Mesoporous Silica Shell
( American Chemical Society , 2017 , Article)Yolk-shell nanomaterials with a rattle-like structure have been considered ideal carriers and nanoreactors. Traditional methods to constructing yolk-shell nanostructures mainly rely on multistep sacrificial template strategy. ... -
Influence of TMAl preflow on AlN epitaxy on sapphire
( American Institute of Physics Inc. , 2017 , Article)The trimethylaluminum (TMAl) preflow process has been widely applied on sapphire substrates prior to growing Al-polar AlN films by metalorganic chemical vapor deposition. However, it has been unclear how the TMAl preflow ... -
Cellulose nanofibers to assist the release of healing agents in epoxy coatings
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)Epoxy monomer and amine curing agents were immobilized on cellulose nanofibers (CNF). Obtained epoxy immobilized CNF (EiCNF) and amine curing agent immobilized CNF (AiCNF) were characterized using Fourier transform infrared ... -
Dual Imprinted Polymer Thin Films via Pattern Directed Self-Organization
( American Chemical Society , 2017 , Article)Synthetic topographically patterned films and coatings are typically contoured on one side, yet many of nature's surfaces have distinct textures on different surfaces of the same object. Common examples are the top and ... -
Stepwise construction of Pt decorated oxygen-deficient mesoporous titania microspheres with core-shell structure and magnetic separability for efficient visible-light photocatalysis
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)Solid photocatalysts with high specific surface area, superior photoactivity and ease of recycling are highly desired in chemical process, water treatment and so on. In this study, a facile stepwise sol-gel coating approach ... -
Effect of flow-induced shear stress in nanomaterial uptake by cells: Focus on targeted anti-cancer therapy
( MDPI , 2020 , Article)© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. Recently, nanomedicines have gained a great deal of attention in diverse biomedical applications, including anti-cancer therapy. Being different from normal tissue, ... -
Sputtering of electrospun polymer-based nanofibers for biomedical applications: A perspective
( MDPI AG , 2019 , Article Review)Electrospinning has gained wide attention recently in biomedical applications. Electrospun biocompatible scaffolds are well-known for biomedical applications such as drug delivery, wound dressing, and tissue engineering ...
