Advanced Materials & Manufacturing – Page 2

Quantum Chemical Methods to Elucidate the Mechanism of a Diastereoselective Insertion-Addition Reaction of a Chiral Titanium (IV)-Schiff Base-Benzyl Complex with Hydroxyketones

Castriciones E.V., Ramos B., University of the Philippines, PH

We present our preliminary results on the quantum chemical studies carried out to elucidate the diastereoselective insertion-addition reaction of a chiral titanium(IV)-Schiff base-benzyl complex (I) with hydroxyketones (II) to form the diastereoselective insertion product (III) [...]

Phase Change Materials for Applications in Building Thermal Energy Storage

Habib M.A., Rahman M.M., Wichita State University, US

Phase change materials (PCMs) have excellent thermal energy storage (TES) potential to provide thermal comfort in buildings by lowering the cooling and heating energy demands. The primary grid benefit of thermal energy storage is load [...]

Research and Application of Polymeric Gel Dam Technology to Control Water Channeling in Horizontal Wells of Tight Fractured Sandstone Reservoir

Qiu X., Wei K., Yang H., Zhou C.C., University of Wyoming, US

To address the challenge of water channeling in water flooding of Honghe oilfield, a tight fractured sandstone reservoir characterized by extensive fractures, experimental study on polymeric gel and field trial of constructing a polymeric gel [...]

Processing of Polypropylene by Material Extrusion Additive Manufacturing

Gonzalez-Gutierrez J., Holzer C., Spoerk M., Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST), LU

Material extrusion additive manufacturing, also known as fused deposition modeling (FDMTM) or fused filament fabrication (FFF), is one of the simplest and most economical additive manufacturing technologies. The feedstocks used in FFF are filaments, and [...]

Cirrus Paint-free Colour™: Robust Coloured Coatings on Aluminium Alloys

Goode C., Hou F., Mardon I.J., Cirrus Materials Science Ltd., NZ

Cirrus HybridTM technology offers a means to deposit thin, corrosion resistant coatings on light metal alloys. Cirrus recently developed a novel evolution of this coating technology, Cirrus Paint-free ColourTM, to directly deposit a range of [...]

Conductive Coatings Eliminate Static Discharge Risk on Aircraft

Bailey C., Christensen G., Grablander T., Hong H., Lou D., Younes H., Novum Nano, US

Electrically insulating aircraft materials and coatings increase the likelihood of dangerous charge buildup due to static electricity accumulation and cannot protect from lightning strikes. An electrically conductive coating that will prevent static charge buildup and [...]

Hydrogen bonding enhanced thermally conductive carbon nano grease for enhanced CPU performance

Bailey C., Christensen G., Grablander T., Hong H., Lou D., Younes H., Novum Nano, US

Thermal greases are vital for electronic temperature regulation and overall performance. Improved thermally conductive greases have been made utilizing hyrdogen bonding of carbon nanotubes (CNT) and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). Nanomaterial fabricated greases have similar [...]

A breakthrough in High Temperature Superconductors

Lau W.C.W., LAU Superconductors Inc., US

There has been a breakthrough in using long continuous fibers to reinforce High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) [1]. This has led to two innovations: a) Cosmic Ray Magnetic Shields protecting satellites and b) a Dipole Coilgun [...]

Precipitation-Strengthened and Microlayered Bulk Copper- and Molybdenum-Based Nanocrystalline Materials Produced by High-Speed Electron-Beam Evaporation–Condensation in Vacuum: Structure and Phase Composition

Grechanyuk N.I., Grechanyuk V.G., Manulyk A.F., Synergy ANTECH Services Corp., CA

The phase composition and structurization of three types of copper and molybdenum composite materials, 0.8 to 5 mm thick, were condensed from the vapor phase at substrate temperatures 700 and 900 0C. They are considered: [...]

Spectral Characterization of Tin Dioxide for Gas-Sensing Applications

Alghamdi H., Baliga S., Concepcion B., Misra P., Howard University, US

Thin films and powder samples of tetragonal tin dioxide (SnO2) on UV quartz and silicon wafers, created through radio frequency (RF) sputtering in an oxygen/argon mixed atmosphere, have been prepared and characterized spectroscopically. These thin [...]