Fatima Al Zohbi, F. Ghamouss, B. Schmaltz, M. Abarbri, K. Cherry, Mohamad fadel Tabcheh, F. Tran Van
{"title":"Nanostructuring Polyaniline Using Non-Substituted Imidazolium-Based Ionic liquid as Polymerization Medium Enabling Faster Supercapacitor Operation","authors":"Fatima Al Zohbi, F. Ghamouss, B. Schmaltz, M. Abarbri, K. Cherry, Mohamad fadel Tabcheh, F. Tran Van","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.03.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.03.0001","url":null,"abstract":"Non-substituted imidazolium-based protic ionic liquid, namely imidazolium hydrogen sulfate [Imi][HSO4], has been investigated as a polymerization medium for PANI (designated as PANI/PIL). The resulting material was then investigated as electrode materials for supercapacitors. [Imi][HSO4] was prepared via a one-step acid-base reaction, and its structure was confirmed by 1H NMR. [Imi][HSO4] displayed full miscibility with water owing to the charge density distribution of its ions. Furthermore, the binary mixture [Imi][HSO4]/water is highly acid (e.g. pH ~ 0.1 for [Imi][HSO4]/water in a weight ratio of 70/30). As the polymerization medium for PANI/PIL, [Imi][HSO4] plays the role of a soft template agent and induces nanostructured PANI formation with fibrillar morphology (as shown by SEM images) without affecting the typical structure of PANI (as confirmed by FT-IR analysis). Furthermore, PANI/PIL was obtained in emeraldine salt form without any undesirable byproduct. Moreover, the electrical conductivity was seven times superior to that of the conventional PANI (i.e. PANI/HCl) when measured by the four-probe technique of PANI/PIL (~ 21.8 S/cm). This improvement in the PANI/PIL’s electrical conductivity of as well as the fibrillar morphology of PANI/PIL positively influences its electrochemical performances and highlights the suitability of [Imi][HSO4] as a polymerization medium for PANI material.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"87269246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Study on Preparing β-Ga2O3 Films with Temperature-Controlled Buffer Layer by RF Magnetron Sputtering","authors":"Yi Liu, T. He, Sufen Wei","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.03.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.03.0003","url":null,"abstract":"β-Ga2O3 thin films were prepared on (0006) sapphire substrates by RF magnetron sputtering. Under the conditions of sputtering power of 80 W, time of 10 min, and total flow rate of 40 sccm in oxygen and argon atmosphere (2.5 % oxygen ratio). Different preparation temperatures were used to conduct layering by temperature modulation. A homogenous β-Ga2O3 buffer layer was grown first, and then the second β-Ga2O3 film was grown on top of it. When the stratified sputtering of different temperature combinations was completed, high-temperature thermal annealing with the same parameters was performed. The effects on the structure, surface morphology, and optical properties of β-Ga2O3 thin films were compared and analyzed when using the preparation sequence of the homogenous buffer layer and the top layer at different temperatures after annealing. Finally, based on the stratified preparation temperature parameters, the optimal stratified temperature parameters were summarized.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"146 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77628899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Evangelos Ximinis, Maria Tsiafitsa, O. Naka, D. Dionysopoulos
{"title":"Clinical Significance of Accurate Transfer of Provisional Resin-Based to Permanent Lithium Disilicate Glass Ceramic Dental Restorations","authors":"Evangelos Ximinis, Maria Tsiafitsa, O. Naka, D. Dionysopoulos","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.03.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.03.0002","url":null,"abstract":"Smile reconstruction is, yet, a challenging procedure for dental practitioners. A stable and satisfactory aesthetic result demands a meticulous procedure, which involves many clinical and laboratory steps. The purpose of this article is to present a case of aesthetic reconstruction in the anterior region with a successful 14-year recall. A 40-year-old female patient came to the dental clinic complaining about her smile appearance. Lithium disilicate glass-ceramic full-coverage restorations for the six upper anterior teeth were the selected treatment plan for this case. The key to this successful result was the used therapeutic methodology, where the characteristics of the provisional restorations were copied to the final restorations. In this article, the therapeutic methodology is presented step by step and all the clinical and laboratory steps are explained thoroughly. The patient has visited the dental clinic annually as arecall visit. The final result from the 14-year recall visit revealed that the aesthetic result was stable, the restorations were intact and there were no signs of gingival infection or dental decay. Consequently, the presented therapeutic methodology leads to a successful and long-term result.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"11 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86663065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Arumugam Parasuraman Arumugam, Govindan Elango, S. Guhanathan
{"title":"Novel Schiff Base Co(II) Complexes: Potential Biological Applications","authors":"Arumugam Parasuraman Arumugam, Govindan Elango, S. Guhanathan","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.03.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.03.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Cobalt (Co) complexes with the N2O2 category have been created synthetically by the reaction of salicylaldehyde / 3,4-diamino benzophenone with acetylacetone and glutaric anhydride respectively. The ligands and individual Cobalt (II) complexes were recognized through spectroscopical data (Fourier Transform Infrared, Ultra Violet-visible, proton and carbon-13 NMR, & Mass). Non-electrolytic in nature of the complex found from their molar conductivities (Ω-1cm2mol-1) in DMSO of 10-3M solution. The ESR revealed the geometry of the complexes to be octahedral. The Schiff base Cobalt (II) complex was characterized by anticancer activity and cytotoxicity","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-09-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83774558","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Photovoltaic Performance of CH3NH3PbI2Cl Perovskite Solar Cell","authors":"Yi-Tzu Tseng, Y. Tseng, C. Wu","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0003","url":null,"abstract":"Perovskite solar cells have attracted extensive research attention recently as they are promising high-performance solar cells with long-time stability at a low cost. In this study, we demonstrated a one-step solution approach to prepare the CH3NH3PbICl2 perovskite layer by adding lead chloride (PbCl2) to the standard methylamine iodide (MAI) precursor solution and annealing process of the perovskite layer at different temperature. Finally, the Ag/Spiro-OMeTAD/CH3NH3PbI2Cl /mp-TiO2/c-TiO2/FTO/Glass perovskite solar cell was successfully fabricated by using solution processing.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82795784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electromechanical Property Calculation of Carbon Nanotubes Using Linear Augmented Cylindrical Wave Method","authors":"P. D’yachkov","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0006","url":null,"abstract":"Deformations of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) change their band structure in the nanoelectromechanical systems. In this study, we investigated the response of the electronic structure of chiral and nonchiral SWNTs (8,7), (9,6), (10,5), (7,7), (11,0), (12,0), and (13,0) to twisting and axial tension modes by using the symmetrized linear augmented cylindrical wave technique. We showed that perturbations of the band structures depend on a “family” index p = (n1 − n2)mod 3 (where p = −1, 0 or 1). Twisting the semiconducting (8,7) tubule with p = 1 in the direction of the screw axis is accompanied by the large broadening of minimum gap E11 and narrowing of the second gap E22, while these gaps drastically change in the tubule (10,5) with p = −1. In these tubules, changing the direction of twisting leads to the reversal in direction of the gap shifts. Regardless of the twisting direction, in metallic (7,7) and quasi-metallic (9,6) SWNTs with p = 0, the E11 gap rapidly increases from 0.0 and 0.035 eV to about 1 eV. When twisting the zigzag tubules (13,0) p = 1 and (11,0) p = −1, the gaps E11 equal to about 0.8 eV increase and decrease by several hundredths of eV. On the contrary, the compression and extension of these tubules cause a sharp change in their band structure with approximately a twofold change in the gaps E11 and E22 and inversion in the sequence of the boundary bands. The similar deformation of the armchair nanotube (7,7) has practically no effect on its electronic levels. In the case of zigzag (12,0) p = 0 SWNT, all deformation modes transform the quasi-metallic tubule into the semiconductor.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"62 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85782763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modeling of Optical Characteristics of Silver Nanoparticles—Water Suspension Subject to Electromagnetic Irradiation","authors":"H. R. Dehghanpour","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0004","url":null,"abstract":"Electromagnetic radiation on the suspension of silver-water nanoparticles was simulated using Maxwell equations and the phenomenological equation of extinction crosssection and application of appropriate boundary conditions for nanoparticles with spherical geometry. The outputs of this simulation (extinction coefficient in different conditions) were compared with previous experimental results. The similarity between the simulation outputs and the experimental results indicates the high degree of reliability of the simulation method to predict the results of situations in which there is no experimental data.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90614365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saransh Tiwari, Sudhaker Dixit, Ved Kumar, A. Rastogi
{"title":"Analogy among Center of Gravity, Center of Mass, and Centroid of Rigid body: Analysis of Formula for Their Respective Calculation as per Configuration of Body and Utilization in Composite Application","authors":"Saransh Tiwari, Sudhaker Dixit, Ved Kumar, A. Rastogi","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0002","url":null,"abstract":"The essential distinctions and similarities between the center of gravity, the center of mass, and the centroid of a rigid body in space are illustrated in this article. The use of an acceptable equation for a given configuration of the body situated at any location in a 3-D space is established and used in a composite application in the boiler lever safety valve.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74990716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pressure and Thickness Dependence of Physical Properties of ZnO:Ga Thin Films by Radio Frequency Magnetron Sputtering","authors":"Fang-Hsing Wang, Hua-Tz Tzeng","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Indium-free transparent conducting oxide films have attracted extensive attention in the field of optoelectronics. Ga-doped ZnO (GZO) thin films are deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering on glass substrates at a temperature of 200 °C with ZnO:Ga2O3 (3 wt%). The structural, electrical, and optical properties of the GZO thin films were investigated in terms of deposition pressure and film thickness variations. X-ray diffraction analysis showed that all the prepared GZO films exhibited hexagonal wurtzite crystal structure with a (002) preferential orientation along the c-axis, regardless of pressure and thickness. The average visible transmittance (including the glass substrate) in a wavelength range of 400–700 nm decreased with increasing thickness but varied less with pressure. The highest average visible transmittance reached 88.4% at the thickness of 150 nm and the pressure of 5 mTorr. The optical band gap of the GZO films calculated using Tauc’s method was in the range of about 3.6–3.9 eV. The resistivity of GZO thin films decreased with decreasing deposition pressure and increasing film thickness, and the minimum resistivity obtained at 5 mTorr and 1000 nm was 3.36 × 10-4 Ω-cm. The maximum figure of merit (FOM) of 3.09 × 10-2 Ω-1 was achieved at 5 mTorr and 1000 nm. The superior optical and electrical properties and high FOM show that the prepared GZO thin films are suitable for transparent conducting films and optoelectronic devices.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"112 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83667650","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Duc Thanh Nguyen, Hang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Hung Cam Ly, An Thi Xuan Duong
{"title":"Effect of Cobalt Composition on Electrochemical Behavior of Platinum-Based Catalyst towards Hydrogen Evolution Reaction","authors":"Duc Thanh Nguyen, Hang Thi Thuy Nguyen, Hung Cam Ly, An Thi Xuan Duong","doi":"10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.35745/afm2022v02.02.0001","url":null,"abstract":"The hydrogen production from water electrolysis is of interest as a renewable energy generation technology. However, the high price of noble platinum (Pt) catalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a big challenge to use it. Herein, we fabricate cost-effective CoPt bimetallic alloys and explore the effect of Co composition on the electrochemical behavior of such alloys, which has been rarely reported. A series of Co1-xPtx (x = 0.25; 0.5; 0.75) alloys are prepared via a room-temperature chemical reduction route without using any surfactants/stabilizers that exhibit a uniform distribution in small particle sizes (ca. 3 nm) on the carbon surface. In terms of the HER, the incorporation of a suitable Co proportion into the Pt lattices enhance significantly the HER performance in an acidic environment. For instance, the Co0.5Pt0.5 NPs/C catalyst displays a low onset potential (16.67 mV) and a small Tafel slope (19.60 mV dec-1), which is different from other Co1-xPtx catalysts and commercial C-supported Pt (NPs) catalyst. This research result not only supplies a facile strategy to synthesize alloys but also guides the choice of a suitable proportion of transition metal into Pt lattice for electrochemical reactions in green energy storage and conversion technologies.","PeriodicalId":14985,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Applied Biomaterials & Functional Materials","volume":"29 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.5,"publicationDate":"2022-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77921667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}