Materials engineering topic list of research papers
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Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity of Nitrogen Doped TiO2 Anatase Nano-Particle under Simulated Sunlight Irradiation
Abstract Nitrogen doped TiO2 nanoparticles were successfully synthesized by the addition of ammonia water. The as-synthesized TiO2 nano-particles were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission...
2012 / Xiuwen Cheng, Xiujuan Yu, Zipeng Xing, Jiafeng Wan -
A Study on the Wind as Renewable Energy in Perlis, Northern Malaysia
Abstract This paper represented analysis of wind speed and study of vertical axis wind turbine. There are two type vertical axis wind turbine that had been discussed on this paper that are Darrieus type and Savonius type wind turbine. The wind speed ...
2012 / I. Daut, A.R.N. Razliana, Y.M. Irwan, Z. Farhana -
Constitution and Optimization on the Performance of Microbial Fuel Cell Based on Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria
Abstract A mediator-less double-chamber microbial fuel cell was constituted by sulfate-reducing bacteria for the first time, using the Sodium lactate as the substrate (carbon source) and adding a fixed resistor resistance. Taking output voltage and...
2012 / Da-yu Yu, Gang Wang, Fu-chao Xu, Li-min Chen -
Hybrid modelling of crowd simulation
Abstract Macroscopic and microscopic modeling have become mainstream methodologies for crowd simulation in dynamic environments. The two models make a trade-off between efficiency and accuracy, but neither of them is able to achieve both goals at...
2010 / Muzhou Xiong, Michael Lees, Wentong Cai, Suiping Zhou, Malcolm Yoke Hean Low -
Numerical analysis of morphing corrugated plates
Abstract In this paper a numerical model for investigating the moment-rotation response of corrugated plates is presented. In particular, the effect of the geometry of the plate on the bending response is considered. Results are compared with a...
2009 / Cristina Gentilinia, Lucio Nobilea, Keith A. Seffen -
Fully integrated FBAR sensor matrix for mass detection
Abstract A fully integrated Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) based mass detection sensor matrix was developed for label-free in-vitro DNA and protein diagnostics. A 64 pixels sensor matrix was post-processed on top of a CMOS readout circuitry at...
2009 / K. Tukkiniemi, A. Rantala, M. Nirschl, D. Pitzer, T. Huber, et al. -
Selective sensors for sulfadiazine potentiometric transduction
Abstract This work proposes several sensors sulfadiazine (SDZ). Sensing materials are cyclodextrin or porphyrin-based. PVC selective membranes are prepared with these electroactive materials dispersed in plasticizer and having different amounts of a ...
2009 / S.A.A. Almeida, A.M. Heitor, M.C.B.S.M. Montenegro, M.G.F. Sales -
I-Pet Individual Persuasive Eco-travel Technology: A Tool for VTBC Program Implementation
Abstract Voluntary Travel Behaviour Change programs aim to improve both community information and awareness about personal contributions to the negative effects produced by private car use. Indeed, providing individuals with feedback (travel time...
2015 / Italo Meloni, Benedetta Sanjust di Teulada -
Optimum design of B-series marine propellers
Abstract The choice of an optimum marine propeller is one of the most important problems in naval architecture. This problem can be handled using the propeller series diagrams or regression polynomials. This paper introduces a procedure to find out...
2011 / M.M. Gaafary, H.S. El-Kilani, M.M. Moustafa -
Drift-mobility measurements and mobility edges in disordered silicons2004 / E A Schiff
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The research of energy sustainable development strategy in China-Based on the analysis of multi-objective decision
Abstract Currently, major countries in the world are scheduling or revising their energy strategies, showing the tendency of regionalization and internationalization. The concern of energy strategy of China is transforming from the supplydemand...
2011 / Qiu Lixin -
Scribing of Thin-film Solar Cells with Picosecond Laser Pulses
Abstract The thin-film CIGS technologies for photovoltaics are attractive due to their potential low cost and optimal performance. Efficiency of cells with a large area might be maintained if small segments are interconnected in series in order to...
2011 / Paulius Gečys, Gediminas Račiukaitis, Eimantas Miltenis, Alexander Braun, Steffen Ragnow -
InSb films grown on the V-grooved Si(001) substrate with InSb bilayer
Abstract V-shaped grooves were prepared by patterning of line and space (LS) using photolithography and Reactive Ion Etching (RIE), and anisotropic etching using hot KOH solution on the patterned 100 nm- SiO2/Si(001) substrate. The V-shaped grooves...
2010 / M. Mori, S. Khamseh, T. Iwasugi, K. Nakatani, K. Murata, et al. -
Sustainability issues in laser-based additive manufacturing
Abstract Sustainability is a consideration of resource utilization without depletion or adverse environmental impact. In manufacturing, important sustainability issues include energy consumption, waste generation, water usage and the environmental...
2010 / R. Sreenivasan, A. Goel, D.L. Bourell -
Effects of annealing on the microstructure and properties of Cua1copper processed by Equal Channel Angular Extrusion
Abstract Pure Cu of 99.99 wt.% purity has been processed at room temperature by equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE), the evolution on the microstructural was characterized by the use of, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and X-ray...
2010 / R. Daly, S. Zghal, N. Njeh -
Research and Design of Rootkit Detection Method
Abstract Rootkit is one of the most important issues of network communication systems, which is related to the security and privacy of Internet users. Because of the existence of the back door of the operating system, a hacker can use rootkit to...
2012 / Leian Liu, Zuanxing Yin, Yuli Shen, Haitao Lin, Hongjiang Wang -
Improved Threshold Denoising Method Based on Wavelet Transform
Abstract Signals are easily polluted by noises in their transmission process and then they can’t be received in the receiver correctly. So the polluted signals should be processed to reduce noises and improve the quality of received signals. After...
2012 / CUI Huimin, ZHAO Ruimei, HOU Yanli -
Technique of top coal caving with vibration
Abstract How to understand the top coal caving process and increase the top coal recovery ratio is one of the urgent problems to be resolved for the longwall top coal caving technology. The paper mainly studies a new theory and technique of top coal ...
2009 / Yao-she Xie, Yang-sheng Zhao -
Ynamic Variation of Glaciers in Bomi County of Tibet During 1980∼2010
Abstract Applied by remote sensing (RS) and geographical information system (GIS), an analysis of big glaciers dynamic variation was shown during the past 40 years in Bomi County utilized the meteorological data provided by Bomi Meteorological...
2011 / Xiang Lingzhi, Liu Zhihong, Liu Jinbao, Zou Xiao -
By-example Synthesis of Compactly Stored Textures
Abstract This paper proposes a novel by-example texture synthesis algorithm. Unlike most present algorithms whose synthesized textures of different sizes must be stored in memory until rendering, our results are compactly stored as paths of the...
2012 / Kun Zou, Xiang Xu, Rong Li, Yueqiao Li, Zan Li