Wood is a naturally renewable material with both continuous and isolated pore systems. Wood-composite panels have the privilege of offering a homogeneous structure to be used as constructional and structural materials. However, its nature makes it susceptible to biological wood-deteriorating agents, water absorption and thickness swelling, fire, etc. Using nano-materials are very easy in the wo...

An analysis of the material properties of porcine corneas has been performed. A simple stress relaxation test was performed to determine the viscoelastic properties and a rheological model was built based on the Generalized Maxwell (GM) approach. A validation experiment using nano-indentation showed that an isotropic GM model was insufficient for describing the corneal material behaviour when e...

We present the first use of digital microfluidic techniques to perform on-chip solid phase extraction (SPE). The material used for SPE was a porous polymer monolith with 12-carbon functionality (C12 PPM) which was photopolymerized on-chip and used to desalt a peptide sample prior to nano-electrospray ionization mass spectrometric analysis (nano-ESI-MS). We anticipate this technique may be usefu...

[Abstract] In order to fabricate new dye-sensitised solar cell, we proposed a new photoresponsive electrode structure using bio nano process. Carbon nanotube-TiO2 hybrid materials having multitudious nano-sclae cavities were realized using a bifunctional cage-shaped protein possessing carbonaceous material-binding peptides and Ti-binding peptides. The obtained structure was confirmed to consist...

The zincZeolite Socony Mobil-Five nano-particles (Zn-ZSM-5 NPs) composite was prepared and applied successfully as a new coating material to improve the corrosion resistance of steel. The corrosion type and quality of both pure zinc and our new coating material, Zn-ZSM-5 NPs, were studied using mass loss, impedance and electro-chemical polarization techniques in a sodium chloride solution. Obta...

Abstract Today gold is used as contact material on electric contacts for low current applications. Gold, however, has low wear resistance, is expensive and environmentally stressful to produce. An alternative contact material to gold is nano composite Ti-Si-C-Ag deposited with DC-magnetron sputtering. Nano composite Ti-Si-C-Ag has so far been deposited by a compound Ti-Si-C sputter target with ...

Electron beam induced deposition can be applied as a direct write technique for the creation of 3 dimensional nano-scale structures. The technique does not require lift-off and mask based process steps and therefore has potential for application in rapid prototyping for nanotechnology, with a high degree of flexibility. The material quality and microstructure of the deposition however, is usual...

Nano Bioactive glass material of the type CaO–P2O5–SiO2 was obtained by the sol-gel processing method at considerably lower temperatures than required for conventional melting methods. As a new modification, volume of solution was changed in order to investigate its effects on the properties of bioglass samples. The obtained material was characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), surface ...

Nano Bioactive glass material of the type CaO–P2O5–SiO2 was obtained by the sol-gel processing method at considerably lower temperatures than required for conventional melting methods. As a new modification, volume of solution was changed in order to investigate its effects on the properties of bioglass samples. The obtained material was characterized by X-ray powder diffraction (XRD), surface ...