{"title":"Mechanism of Softening Effect of Fabric Softener","authors":"T. Igarashi, K. Nakamura","doi":"10.5539/JMSR.V8N1P35","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/JMSR.V8N1P35","url":null,"abstract":"The mechanism of softening effect for fabric softeners has been explained as lowering of friction between the fibers. This explanation, however, has not been verified. The trend date of B-value of KES-FB2 and the result of perfect drying cotton threads indicate that the increase of hardness of cotton threads after the process of wetting by water and drying is caused by the cross-linking by the bound water between the cotton fibers. Thus, the softening effect of fabric softeners can mainly be discussed as the prevention of the formation of this cross-linkage.","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"214 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84106968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Syed, C. Hynes, Brittany Anderson, T. S. Ahmadi, B. Goh, Nur Fatin Farhanah binti Nazarudin, M. Syed, A. Ali
{"title":"Hydrogenated Nano-Crystalline Silicon Thin Films in SiO2 Matrix for Next Generation Solar Cells Using Glow Discharged Decomposition","authors":"M. Syed, C. Hynes, Brittany Anderson, T. S. Ahmadi, B. Goh, Nur Fatin Farhanah binti Nazarudin, M. Syed, A. Ali","doi":"10.5539/JMSR.V8N1P25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/JMSR.V8N1P25","url":null,"abstract":"Hydrogenated Nanocrystalline Silicon (nc-Si:H) thin films using SiH4/H2 mixture by glow discharged decomposition were investigated on c-Si and glass substrates. The effects of substrate temperature on the Structural, Optical and Electrical properties of the films were investigated by X-ray diffraction, Raman scattering, FT/IR, Optical transmission and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Substrate temperatures ([TSB]) of the films were changed from 100oC to 250oC. It has been revealed the strong dependence on the film’s properties with the substrate temperatures. XRD and Raman measurements were shown that the higher substrate temperature (250oC) exhibits the highest crystalline volume fraction ([ρ] = 95%) and the lowest crystalline size ([Ω] = 3.5 nm) as well, having the highest H-content and the lowest O-content. At 250oC, the lowest mobility and the highest resistivity were also found to be ~37.5 cm2/v.s and 7.35 Ω-cm. Refractive index and the optical energy gap (Eg) were estimated by 3.8 and 1.9 eV having the growth rate of 4.2 nm/min. At 250oC, it was resulted in a blue shift of the absorption edge having uniform grain distributions. Results indicate that in situ hydrogen cleaning effects is prominent and localized orderly high density Si-Si bonds are exhibiting quantum size effects at highest substrate temperature.","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82650862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Experimentally and Numerically Analyzed Piezoelectric Characteristics of PZT Ceramics","authors":"Lale Yang, Hirokazu Nagano, M. Okayasu","doi":"10.5539/JMSR.V8N1P10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/JMSR.V8N1P10","url":null,"abstract":"The electric generation characteristics of the PZT piezoelectric ceramics were examined experimentally and numerically. In this case, cyclic bending loading was applied to the PZT ceramics: bulk and thin-film membrane. Electric voltage increased with increasing the strain value. There was a sharp initial increase in positive voltage for the PZT ceramics as bending load was applied. Following this initial increase stage, a rapid fall to zero occurred. The reduction rate of the positive voltage was changed depending on the rigidly of the PZT ceramic: the higher the reduction rate, the higher the rigid of the ceramic. The electrical voltage from the circular membrane PZT ceramic during cyclic loading showed the higher level compared to that for the bulk one, in which the flexibility of the PZT ceramic was significant factor to obtain the high electric voltage. The variation of the electric voltages was estimated numerically, which was relatively in good agreement with the experimental one.","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88690809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structure Property Correlation of Thin Wall Ductile Iron","authors":"R. Upadhyaya, K. Singh","doi":"10.5539/JMSR.V8N1P1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/JMSR.V8N1P1","url":null,"abstract":"This research work concerns an assessment of the effect of one step inoculation method on thin section castings (2-5) mm analyzed. In this study inoculants representing Ce, Zr and Sr bearing Fe-Si alloys were used. It has been observed that section thickness of 2 mm thin plate containing Ce bearing Fe-Si alloys at 0.4wt% contain mainly pearlitic matrix having microhardness (HV20), ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and percentage of elongation are 272 HV, 720 MPa and 4.5% respectively. It was observed that wear of 2 mm section thickness of thin plate containing Ce bearing Fe-Si alloys have greater wear resistance (272HV) compare to Zr bearing Fe-Si alloys (262HV) and Sr bearing Fe-Si alloys (259HV) respectively at 0.4wt% due to reason of pearlitic and ferritic volume fraction contents present in matrix.","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86718338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Effect of Na2O and B2O3 Addition on Nonlinear Electrical Properties of WO3-Based Capacitor–Varistors","authors":"Hidetoshi Miyazaki, Hiraku Oyabu, T. Ota","doi":"10.5539/jmsr.v7n4p53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/jmsr.v7n4p53","url":null,"abstract":"WO3-based varistors with added Na2O and B2O3 were synthesized by the solid-state reaction. The undoped and B2O3-doped WO3 ceramics exhibited weak nonlinear I–V characteristics. The nonlinear I–V characteristics of the ceramics increased slightly after the addition of Na2O and more significantly after the addition of Na2O and B2O3. The nonlinearity coefficients α of the WO3, Na0.005WO3, and Na0.005WO3–5 wt % B2O3 ceramics were 1.86, 2.03, and 5.22, respectively. The breakdown voltages of the WO3, Na0.005WO3, and Na0.005WO3–5 wt % B2O3 ceramics were 1.56, 6.05, and 12.42 V/cm, respectively. The dielectric constant and the dielectric loss of the Na0.005WO3–5 wt % B2O3 ceramic were ~50–150 and less than 0.3, respectively, for frequencies ranging from 1 to 1000 kHz.","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"36 1","pages":"53"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77242064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Noritomi, Jumpei Nishigami, N. Endo, Satoru Kato, S. Takagi
{"title":"Effect of Solvent on Catalysis of Protease Adsorbed on Biochar in Organic Media","authors":"H. Noritomi, Jumpei Nishigami, N. Endo, Satoru Kato, S. Takagi","doi":"10.5539/JMSR.V7N4P46","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/JMSR.V7N4P46","url":null,"abstract":"We have found that the adsorption immobilization of the serine protease α-chymotrypsin (Alpha-CT) onto bamboo charcoal powder (BCP), which is a kind of biochar, improves the transesterification rate of N-acetyl-L-tyrosine ethyl ester (N-Ac-Tyr-OEt) with n-butanol (BuOH) in 9 organic solvents. Organic solvents strongly affected the catalysis of BCP-adsorbed Alpha-CT. The transesterification rate of BCP-adsorbed Alpha-CT was much superior to that of free Alpha-CT in every organic solvent. Especially, the transesterification rate of BCP-adsorbed Alpha-CT was about 760 times higher than that of free α-CT in n-butyl acetate.","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"150 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76405576","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Relation between Sub-grain Size and Dislocation Density During Steady-State Dislocation Creep of Polycrystalline Cubic Metals","authors":"M. Tamura","doi":"10.5539/JMSR.V7N4P26","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/JMSR.V7N4P26","url":null,"abstract":"The sub-grain size, d, during steady-state dislocation creep of polycrystalline metals is theoretically formulated to be inversely proportional to the dislocation density, ρ, which is defined as the number of dislocations swept out of a sub-grain divided by the cross-sectional area of the sub-grain. This dislocation density differs from the typically observed dislocation density inside a sub-grain after unloading, ρ_ob. In the current work, the ρ_ob values inside sub-grains in steadily crept specimens of Al, Cu, Fe, Fe–Mo alloy, austenitic stainless steel, and high-Cr martensitic steel reported in the literature were used to evaluate the relation ρ_ob=ηρ. It was confirmed that η≈1 for pure metals (regardless of the type of metal) crept at high temperatures and low stresses or for long durations and η>1 for Mo-containing alloys and martensitic steel crept at low temperatures and/or high stresses. Moreover, it is suggested that the condition η>1 corresponds to a state of excess immobile dislocations inside the sub-grain. The theoretical relation d_ob (≈d)∝η∙〖ρ_ob〗^(-1), where d_ob is the observed sub-grain size, essentially differs from the well-known empirical relation d_ob∝〖ρ_ob〗^(-0.5).","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"67 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75021109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optical and Photoacoustic Properties of Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles Solutions","authors":"F. Aldosari, A. M. Azzeer, A. Hassib","doi":"10.5539/JMSR.V7N4P1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/JMSR.V7N4P1","url":null,"abstract":"The study has aimed to investigate optical and photoacoustic properties of some colloidal silver nanoparticles at different concentration over the time. The phase purity with crystal structure of silver nanoparticles were studied using X-ray diffraction (XRD) and was confirmed by Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM). Optical property was changed during the variable concentration of nanoparticles and duration time of sample. The absorbance of silver colloidal solutions is increased, when concentration increases but decreased with respective to the longer period of sample. Absorption peaks and stability of particles in solutions is influenced by the duration time of solution and its concentration. The low concentration-based solutions fall in the absorbance over the times. The observed PA signal is subjected by the factor of parameters; such as, pump wavelengths, energy, repetition rate, concentrations, and temperature. Stability of fluorescence and absorption peaks are influenced by the concentration of particles and time period of colloidal solution. Effects on PA signal with fluorescent and absorption peaks upon the concentration was also significant.","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89533887","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Biswas, R. Furtado, M. Bastos, S. Benevides, M. Oliveira, V. Boddu, H. N. Cheng
{"title":"Preparation and Characterization of Carboxymethyl Cellulose Films with Embedded Essential Oils","authors":"A. Biswas, R. Furtado, M. Bastos, S. Benevides, M. Oliveira, V. Boddu, H. N. Cheng","doi":"10.5539/JMSR.V7N4P16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5539/JMSR.V7N4P16","url":null,"abstract":"There is current interest in using biobased materials to produce food packaging that can increase the shelf-lives of fruits and vegetables and minimize food spoilage in supermarkets and at the same time not generating plastic waste that causes long-term disposal problems. A good candidate for such materials is the polysaccharide, such as carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC), which is edible and biodegradable. In this work films were produced from two CMC materials with different degrees of substitution (DS) that encapsulated four different essential oils (eugenol, rosemary oil, coriander oil, and nutmeg oil) that are known to have beneficial properties for food applications. The mechanical properties, opacity, and water vapor permeation were evaluated. In general, the essential oil-embedded CMC with the two DS values behaved rather differently. In particular, the essential oil-embedded CMC with 0.7 DS degree of substitution gave stronger and more flexible films and may be more suited for use in food packaging.","PeriodicalId":16111,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Materials Science Research","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90822333","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}