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Gold/ Copper Sulphide And Gold Nanoparticles For Application In Cancer Therapy
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012-04-11)
The main goal of this research is to use Gold/ Copper Sulphide (Au/ CuS) and Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for improving the therapeutic effects in the treatment of cancer. One of the biggest successes in photothermal therapy ...
Electrodeposition Of Nickel Sulfide And Its Thermal Oxidation For Photovoltaic Applications
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012-04-11)
Alternative photovoltaic materials that feature natural abundance, low extraction and processing costs, and reasonable efficiency have to be found. In this respect, transition metal chalcogenides such as oxide and sulfide ...
Growth Mechanism And Interface Effects On Microstructure Of Perovskite-type Barium Titanate-based Epitaxial Films
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012-07-25)
This work was motivated and focused on the growth mechanism, microstructures and interfaces of barium titanate, BaTiO₃ (BTO), based epitaxial thin films. Transimission electron microscopy (TEM), high resolution TEM (HRTEM), ...
Semi-transparent ZnO:Al/Cu2O Thin-film Heterojunction Fabricated At Low Temperature: Effect Of An Intrinsic ZnO Buffer Layer At The Junction
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012-04-11)
The Al-doped ZnO (AZO)/Cu2O semi-transparent heterojunction was realized by an RF sputtering at low temperature in this study. Specifically, the usage of a buffer layer in the junction structure has been found as a key ...
Properties Of Concrete With Tire Derived Aggregate And Crumb Rubber As A Ligthweight Substitute For Mineral Aggregates In The Concrete Mix
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012-07-25)
Scrap tires continue to be a nuisance to the environment and this research proposes one way of recycling them as a lightweight aggregate which can substitute for mineral aggregates in concrete. Aggregates derived from scrap ...
Pulsatile Protein Release From A Thermoresponsive Hydrogel: Effect Of Device Architecture, Nanoparticle And Polymer Concentration Using Factorial Analyses
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012-04-11)
A pulsatile thermo-responsive drug delivery device for wound healing applications was developed in this study and its drug release during 24 hours of thermal cycling was characterized. The device consisted of a temperature ...
XANES And FTIR Study On Dried And Calcined Bones
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012-04-11)
The animal bones are common archeological finds and are helpful in understanding the human past. The bones undergo transformation when they are calcined. The cooked and cremated bones undergo different transformation, ...
An Innovative Epitaxial Growth Method For Minimizing Dislocations In Thin-film Quantum-dot Optoelectronic And Photovoltaic Device Applications
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012-07-25)
A new buffer layer method for epitaxial growth of lattice-mismatched semiconductor quantum-dots based p-i-n structures is presented. To our knowledge this is the first instance of a dislocation-reduction approach that ...
First-principles Studies On N-type And P-type Doping In Cuprous Oxide
(Materials Science & Engineering, 2012)
We have performed studies on n-type and p-type cuprous oxide with and without doping by first principles methods. Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA) is used for the geometry optimization. The total energy and the ...
Wear and Tribofilm Formation With Zinc-free Antiwear Additives
(Materials Science & Engineering, 12-10-2012)
Engine oil is used in all internal combustion engines to lubricate the moving parts & mitigate the wear due to friction. Along with the mentioned two functions, engine oil also serves to protect the engine from corrosion, ...