Material Science

Development of a Resilient 3-D Printer for Humanitarian Crisis Response

Rapid manufacturing using 3-D printing is a potential solution to some of the mos

Micromorphology analysis of sputtered indium tin oxide fabricated with variable ambient combinations

Micromorphology analysis of sputtered indium tin oxide fabricated with variable a

Effects of silver catalyst concentration in metal assisted chemical etching of silicon

A systematic investigation is performed to determine the effects of the concentra

Properties of Al-Doped Zinc Oxide and In-Doped Zinc Oxide Bilayer Transparent Conducting Oxides towards Solar Cell Applications

Novel aluminum and indium doped zinc oxide bilayer transparent conducting oxide t

Design Optimization of Polymer Heat Exchanger for Automated Household-Scale Solar Water Pasteurizer

A promising approach to reducing the >870,000 deaths/year globally from unsafe

Expanding the Consumer Bill of Rights for Material Ingredients

In President John F. Kennedy’s original Consumer Bill of Rights speech to the Uni

Anisotropic Mechanical Property Variance Between ASTM D638-14 Type I and Type IV Fused Filament Fabricated Specimens

The open source introduction of fused filament fabrication (FFF) enables distribu

Optimal Design of Thin-film Plasmonic Solar Cells using Differential Evolution Optimization Algorithms

An approach using a differential evolution (DE) optimization algorithm is propose

Self-sufficiency of 3-D printers: utilizing stand-alone solar photovoltaic power systems

A self-replicating rapid prototyper (RepRap) is a type of 3-D printer capable of

Expanded microchannel heat exchanger: Non-destructive evaluation

Recent theoretical developments in expanded microchannel polymer-based heat excha

Chemical Compatibility of Fused Filament Fabrication-based 3-D Printed Components with Solutions Commonly Used in Semiconductor Wet Processing

3-D printing shows great potential in laboratories for making customized labware

Prospects of applying 3-D printing to economics of remote communities: reindeer herder case

Purpose – Isolated communities face a variety of inconveniences including severe

Fused Particle Fabrication 3-D Printing: Recycled Materials' Optimization and Mechanical Properties

Fused particle fabrication (FPF) (or fused granular fabrication (FGF)) has potent

Economic Advantages of Dry-Etched Black Silicon in Passivated Emitter Rear Cell (PERC) Photovoltaic Manufacturing

Industrial Czochralski silicon (Cz-Si) photovoltaic (PV) efficiencies have routin

Compatibility of 3-D Printed Devices in Cleanroom Environments for Semiconductor Processing

3-D printing has potential to revolutionize manufacturing of customized low-cost

Approaches to open source 3-D printable probe positioners and micromanipulators for probe stations

Three types of highly-customizable open source probe positioning systems are eval

Wood Furniture Waste-Based Recycled 3-D Printing Filament

The Michigan furniture industry produces >150 tons/day of wood-based waste, wh

MACE nano-texture process applicable for both single- and multi-crystalline diamond-wire sawn Si solar cells

The photovoltaic (PV) industry requires efficient cutting of large single and mul

3-D Printable Polymer Pelletizer Chopper for Fused Granular Fabrication-Based Additive Manufacturing

Although distributed additive manufacturing can provide high returns on investmen

Improved Model and Experimental Validation of Deformation in Fused Filament Fabrication of Poly Lactic Acid

RepRaps (self Replicating Rapid prototypers), which 3-D print objects using fused

Scalable honeycomb top contact to increase the light absorption and reduce the series resistance of thin film solar cells

This paper presents a novel design for the top contact of thin film photovoltaic

Effect of microwave power irradiation on TiO2 nano-structures and binder free paste screen printed dye sensitized solar cells

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanostructures (nanorods and nanoparticles) were prepared

Mechanical properties of 3-D printed truss-like lattice biopolymer non-stochastic structures for sandwich panels with natural fibre composite skins

A full mechanical characterisation of three types of 3-D printed lattice cores wa

Dual morphology titanium dioxide for dye sensitized solar cells

Anatase TiO2 displaying dual morphologies were synthesized with a simple chemical

Influence of metal assisted chemical etching time period on mesoporous structure in as-cut upgraded metallurgical grade silicon for solar cell application

In this work, upgraded metallurgical grade silicon (UMG-Si) wafer was used to fab

Fab Lab Applications of Large-Area Waste Polymer-based Additive Manufacturing

Fab labs, which offer small-scale distributed digital fabrication, are forming a

Surfactant Assisted Production of Graphene

Graphene has attracted world-wide attention due to its intriguing set of properti

Extrudate characteristics produced from high density screw-type extruder machine

Etrudate characteristics of briquettes produced and effects of extrusion factors

Abrasive wear behaviour of Al-Cu-Mg/palm kernel shell ash particulate composite

This paper presents a systematic approach to develop a wear model of Al-Cu-Mg/Pal

THE POTENTIALS OF SNAILSHELL AS A REINFORCEMENT FOR DISCARDED ALUMINIUM BASED MATERIALS.

ABSTRACT Snail  shells  and  discarded  aluminium  components  are  of  low  econ