{"title":"A Wear Sensor Based on Nanocrystalline Diamond Multilayer Films: A Mini Review","authors":"Xin Chen","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1040","url":null,"abstract":"Major amounts of industrial wear parts, e.g. machining tools, are working under extreme wear load, especially abrasive. This short article reviews the development and fabrication of a well-performing nanodiamond-based multilayer wear sensor system consisting of alternating conductive and non-conductive films. Meanwhile, the deposition and characterization of such highly conductive nanocrystalline diamond films without dopant are also introduced.","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124213172","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":"The Influence of the Different Gain Material on the Loss Compensation of Hybrid Plasmonic Waveguide","authors":"P. Cavaliere","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1039","url":null,"abstract":"The influence of different gain materials and waveguide parameters on propagation properties are analyzed in detail. In this paper, three materials including Al2 O3 , Si3 N4 , and Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) as low index materials are introduced instead of SiO2 which is used in many experiments. The results obtained via simulations showed that by increasing the width of metal, field confinement increased and for widths larger than 450 nm the filed profile was completely confined in below the metal (zone I). In addition to, simulation results showed that Al2 O3 and Si3 N4 are more efficient than SiO2 whereas PMMA is completely similar to SiO2 in loss compensation. It was attributed to the fact that the refractive index of PMMA is close to the refractive index of SiO2 . Moreover, the effect of InGaAsP as high index gain material instead of Si is analyzed. In this case, InGaAsP also reveals a loss compensation effect similar to Si due to their close refractive indexes. Therefore, the configuration with new different gain materials potentially offers an appealing solution to provide lossless light transport via low compensation gain, hence opening venues for ultra-compact active plasmonic devices.","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115301814","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":"Characterization and Application of Nigerian Clay Raw Resources for Porcelain Formulation and Manufacture","authors":"Inyiama Fidelis Chidozie","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1036","url":null,"abstract":"Porcelain is a ceramic material made by heating refined minerals (clay) in the form of kaolinite to high temperature in a kiln at temperatures between 1200 °C – 1400 °C thus converting ceramic body irreversibly to hard product, impermeable to water and chemicals. The use of three minerals (kaolin, feldspar and sand) from Nigeria in the formulation and production of porcelain has been investigated in this study, with kaolin bond in the formulation intended to increase the thermal strength of the product. Characterization results showed that the clay contains kaolinite (58%), quartz (15%), rutile (0.5%) and illite (15%). Sample was formulated and shaped by casting into molds and sintered at temperatures ranging from 1200 °C – 1300 °C. Characterization of porcelain specimen sintered at 1250oC showed interesting results: a density ranging from 2.16- 2.25g/cm3 ; open porosity of less than 1.03%; flexural strength above 50MPa and water absorption below 0.5%.","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117233456","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":"Electrochemical Surface Treatment of Ni–Cu Alloy in a Deep Eutectic Solvent to form High Performance Electrocatalysts for Hydrogen Production","authors":"V. Protsenko","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1037","url":null,"abstract":"Anodic electrochemical treatment of nickel-copper alloy (45 wt.% Ni) was conducted in a deep eutectic solvent, ethaline (a eutectic mixture of choline chloride and ethylene glycol). The electrochemical behavior of the Ni–Cu alloy was investigated by means of linear voltammetry technique. Anodic treatment of nickel-copper alloy in ethaline was stated to enhance the electrocatalytic activity towards hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline water electrolysis. The results obtained can be used to develop new electrocatalysts for hydrogen synthesis in hydrogen energy.","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"53 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115039741","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":"Conductive Natural Rubber Composites Based on Carbon Nanotubes and its Hybrid Filler: A Short Review","authors":"C. Nakason","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1035","url":null,"abstract":"Natural Rubber (NR) composites are attractive novel materials due to being high molecular weight hydrophobic polymers with good elasticity and flexibility together with other important properties [1]. NR composites with various types of reinforcing fillers have been widely used in many industrial applications including tires, sports articles, sealing materials, and dairy rubber items [2]. NR is intrinsically insulator by nature of their molecular characteristics. However, conductive rubber materials are important in many industrial applications including computing, military, medical devices, and telecom sector. Also, conductive rubber gaskets are used in applications where an environmental seal is required and the material must possess moderate to excellent shielding effectiveness. Conductive rubber composites have been developed by adding electrically conductive fillers into the insulating rubber matrix. In recent years, a great deal of attention has been paid to Carbon Nanotubes (CNT). The CNT typically consists of rolled-up graphite sheets built from sp2 hybridized carbon units, which contain one valence electron that is capable of moving around the CNT surfaces. This influences on enhancement of thermal and electrical conductivities [3]. Therefore, CNT has been extensively studied in rubber nanocomposites due to their unique structure and properties [4]. The CNT networks disperse in rubber matrix typically act as electrically conducting pathways to provide electrical conductivity of rubber composites [1]. Therefore, good dispersion of CNT particles in rubber matrix contributes to significant improvement of various mechanical properties including tensile strength, and tensile modulus [5]. The CNT networks in NR matrix with very low percolation threshold concentrations (eg, about 0.086 vol%) with high electrical conductivity and dielectric constant can be prepared [6].","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128287277","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":"The Important Role of Biochar-Mineral Components in Adsorption Applications","authors":"T. Seçkin","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1034","url":null,"abstract":"Biochar consisting of both carbon and mineral fractions is a porous carbonaceous material with a large specific surface area produced by the pyrolysis of biomass in closed containers, in an oxygen-free or limited oxygen environment [1]. Biochar, sometimes called agrichar, is obtained from the thermal decomposition of a wide variety of carbon-rich biomass materials such as grasses, hard and soft woods, and agricultural and forest residues [2]. Although biochar is generally used for improving soil fertility, increasing soil nutrient levels and water holding capacity, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions through carbon sequestration, it is suitable for adsorption of both organic (antibiotics, pesticides, dyes) and inorganic pollutants (nutrients, heavy metals). It has been used as a costly adsorbent [3-6]. Lately it has been demonsrated that biochar with minerals such as alkaline or earth alkaline metals have enormous effect on the final properties of the materials. Clay minerals are widely applied in agriculture and industrial engineering. A few of the important physical and chemical properties that make clay minerals valuable are particle size, surface chemistry, and surface area [7]. The negatively charged layers in the clay mineral are balanced by the hydrated exchangeable cations (Na+, Ca2+, Mg2+) in the interlayer space [8]. Clay minerals have a great potential to absorb various pollutants such as heavy metals, dyes and organic compounds through the cation exchange mechanism due to their high surface area and high ion exchange capacity [9,10]. It has been observed that biochar is less effective in removing pollutants from the aqueous medium by adsorption, compared to activated carbon, due to the characteristics of the extraction processes, its relatively low surface area and adsorption capacity [11]. Therefore, it has been observed that biochar composites prepared by impregnating biochar with specific materials such as clay minerals have been successfully used for the adsorption of organic and inorganic pollutants from water [6,12-14].","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121901871","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 SiO2 /TiO2 Ratio on the Mechanical Behaviour at High Temperature of Refractory Bauxites","authors":"Caballero A","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1033","url":null,"abstract":"The effect of silica/titania ratio on the mechanical behaviour, compression test at high temperature (1550 ⁰C), of a series of synthetic refractory bauxites has been studied. The stress-strain test have shown that when alumina (Al2 O3 ) and iron oxide (Fe2 O3 ) are kept constant and the SiO2 /TiO2 ratio is increased both the maximum load stress and toughness of samples is raised as a consequence of increasing mullite vol.% content and mullite/tiellitess ratio.","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128006207","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 Cement Fineness on the Penetrability of CEM IV/B Based Cement Grouts","authors":"Christodoulou Dimitrios","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1032","url":null,"abstract":"Grouting is a common technical method with many applications, e.g. it is used for soil stabilization and strengthening, for reduction for water ingress to underground facilities or of the water loss through a dam foundation, etc. Grouts comprise several constituents, which are combined in many ways depending on the in-situ conditions and the outcome desired. The use of very fine cement grouts for injections into fine-to-medium sands has been proposed to circumvent problems associated with the permanence and toxicity of chemical grouts and the inability of ordinary cement grouts to permeate soil formations finer than coarse sand. A laboratory investigation was conducted in order to evaluate the penetrability of cement suspensions. Four gradations from CEM IV/B (according to EN 197-1) type of cement were used having nominal maximum grain sizes of 100 μm, 40 μm, 20 μm and 10 μm. Suspension properties with water-to-cement (W/C) ratios of 1:1, 2:1 and 3:1 by weight, were determined in terms of apparent viscosity. Penetrability was evaluated by conducting one-dimensional injections into four different, clean sands using a specially constructed device. Penetrability of cement suspensions increases with increasing cement fineness and water-to-cement (W/C) ratio. Microfine cement suspensions with water-to-cement (W/C) ratios of 2:1 and 3:1 can penetrate into medium-to-fine sands.","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134027058","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":"The Coal Industry in Australia and the East of Russia: A Lot in Common, But There Are Differences","authors":"Ya V Kryukov","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"405 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132151665","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":"Rock Fragmentation Evaluation towards Blast-To-Mill Concept of Blast Optimization in Hard Rock Mines","authors":"Bright Oppong Afum","doi":"10.54026/jmms/1030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.54026/jmms/1030","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional blast optimisation studies ensure efficient mining operation but ignore potential impact of blasting on primary crushing. The performance of the primary crusher is key to the ore beneficiation process. Optimisation studies conducted through the mining operations to the comminution circuit is vital to the mine-to-mill concepts in the mining industry. In this approach, an innovative approach to the assessment of in-situ blasting is proposed and evaluated. This approach focuses on the acceptability of rock fragments on the Run-of-Mine (ROM) pad as opposed to the pits. Fragmentation analysis was conducted in the pit and on the ROM pad. A correlation efficiency of 0.92 was realized between the measured rock fragments in the pit and that on the ROM pad. About 10% of the rock fragments in the pit were classified as boulders while about 30% of the same rock fragments deposited on the ROM pad were classified as boulders. However, about 30% of the rockpile on the ROM pad was estimated to be lower than the Close Side Setting (CSS) of the primary crusher. It is recommended that future research evaluates the energy consumption and its related cost at the primary crusher in comparison to in-pit fragmentation and mucking cost performance.","PeriodicalId":199420,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mineral and Material Science (JMMS)","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132996930","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}