i-manager's Journal on Material Science (JMS)


Volume 5 Issue 4 January - March 2018

Research Paper

Enhancing Design Decisions in Material Selection

Tom Page* , Gisli Thorsteinsson**
* Senior Lecturer, Loughborough Design School, United Kingdom.
** Professor, Department of Design and Craft Education, Iceland University of Education, Iceland.
Page,T., and Thorsteinsson, G. (2018). Enhancing Design Decisions in Material Selection. i-manager’s Journal on Material Science, 5(4), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.5.4.13968

Abstract

At present, designers usually carry the responsibility to select adequate materials for their designs, and without supportive expert knowledge in materials, there will be chances that wrong choices are made inevitably in material selection, which leads to product failures. The aim of this paper is to determine the enhancement of design decisions in the material selection process with the history of material application failures in order to find out what information should be provided for designers so that a well-informed decision can be made on the material selection. From the literature survey conducted, material selection should be considered early and in all stages of the design process so that designers can identify suitable range of materials earlier thus narrowing their choice of material when the design concept is developed. Designers should explore the opportunity to manipulate the intangible characteristics of materials to deliver the desired sensation or emotion to users. The history of material application failures were often not recorded or made available to designers, which explained why poor decision were made in material selection. In order to overcome this problem, a reference library of possible material application failures may be linked to an automated knowledge based material selection system which can include a pro-active warning mechanism that alerts the user when a failure history was discovered with the selected material.

Research Paper

Performance Investigation of Fully Vertical Organic Material Based Multi-Layer OLEDs

Anshika Srivastava * , Brijesh Kumar**
* M.Tech Student, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, Gorakhpur, India.
** Associate Professor, Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology.
Gorakhpur, India.
Srivastava, A., and Kumar, B. (2018). Performance Investigation of Fully Vertical Organic Material Based Multi-Layer OLEDs. i-manager’s Journal on Material Science, 5(4), 23-29. https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.5.4.13969

Abstract

Organic material based Light Emitting Diodes (OLEDs) have greatly dominated solid state semiconductor display technology because of their stupendous features and are accepted world-wide as an emerging trend in the field of display devices. These features of OLEDs introduce low fabrication temperature, low cost, low power consumption, high performance, and flexibility in various applications. This paper demonstrates the performance investigation of fully vertical organic materials based multi-layer OLEDs. For the performance analysis, the extensive comparisons have been performed among the standard three, four, and five layer OLED with their fully vertical device structures by using 4, 4’, 4”– Tris [phenyl-(m-tolyl)-amino]-tri-phenylamine (m_MTDATA) organic material. These impacts are illustrated with the help of performance parameters in terms of current density, luminescent power, and electric field. The complete analysis has been performed by using ATLAS Silvaco numerical simulator. It was found that the concept of fully vertical OLED shows best results in low driving voltage, high current, and high power three layer device applications whereas, four and five layer fully vertical OLED shows best results for high current and low power applications. In three layer fully vertical device, at 18 V the maximum current density obtained was 362.34 mA/cm2 and luminescent power was 0.0185 W/μm. These were raised by 82.07% and 73.18%, respectively when compared with its standard three layer structure. Moreover, in four and five layer fully vertical OLED, current density increases, but luminescent power diminishes due to its electric field effects.

Research Paper

Optical and Structural Properties of Cerium Doped Zinc Phosphate Glasses

Manpreet Kaur*
*Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, DAV College, Amritsar, India.
Kaur,M. (2018). Optical and Structural Properties of Cerium Doped Zinc Phosphate Glasses. i-manager’s Journal on Material Science, 5(4), 30-35. https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.5.4.13970

Abstract

Phosphate glasses having composition 50P2O5 -10Al2O3 -20ZnO-(20-x)Na2O-xCeO2 with x varying from 0- 5 mol% have been prepared using the conventional melt quench technique. The amorphous nature of prepared glasses is confirmed from the XRD spectra. The density of prepared glasses has been evaluated using the Archimedes' principle. The density of the prepared glasses is found to increase with the concentration of CeO2 while molar volume just follows the reverse trend. The density and molar volume values are then used to calculate rare earth ion concentration, polaron radius, inter-nuclear distance, and field strength. UV-Visible absorption spectroscopy has been carried out in the range 300-1000 nm. The onset value of absorption edge is shifted from 370 nm to higher wavelengths with cerium doping and the absorption coefficient is enhanced. The indirect optical band gap energies have been found to be attenuated with CeO2 doping due to formation of more Non-bridging Oxygen (NBOs) atom. Fourier Transform-Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) spectra have been obtained for the prepared glass samples and it is found that some new peaks are formed with doping of CeO2 in prepared glasses.

Research Paper

Fabrication and Characterization of Rice Husk Unsaturated Polyester Composite Material

M. K. Ahire* , D. D. Sonawane**, S. S. Phase***, S. K. Tade****
* Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik, India.
**-**** UG Scholar, Department of Chemical Engineering, K. K. Wagh Institute of Engineering Education & Research, Nashik, India.
Ahire,M. K., Sonawane, D.D., Phase, S.S and Tade, S.K. (2018). Fabrication and Characterization of Rice Husk Unsaturated Polyester Composite Material. i-manager’s Journal on Material Science, 5(4), 36-39. https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.5.4.13971

Abstract

Rice Husk (RH) natural fiber that forms around rice grains during their growth accounts for 20% of rice produced annually worldwide and can be used as a filler in composite materials in various polymer matrices. Rice Husk Ash (RHA) reinforced unsaturated polyester composites containing 5% to 25% rice husk ash with respect to the weight of unsaturated polyester resin have been prepared by simple casting process. In this method, raw materials used are unsaturated polyester resin and rice husk ash. Methyl ethyl ketone peroxide (MEKP) is used as hardener (2 wt % of unsaturated polyester resin). Different percentage of rice husk ash and unsaturated polyester resin were taken to prepare composite from 0 to 25 wt % and raw materials were mixed very carefully for about 15 minutes. Then the composite material was released from the mould after drying for 1 hour. It has been found that the properties like hardness number and flexural strength increased with 10% of rice husk ash with a decrease in the tensile strength; also the impact test increases with 5 % of rice husk ash.

Research Paper

Optimization of Microencapsulation for Biodegradable Polymers using Response Surface Methodology

Yashawant* , Robinson Timung**, Sushma Gawai***
*-** Lecturer, Department of Chemical Engineering, Government Polytechnic, Daman, India.
*** Lecturer, Department of Chemistry, Government Science College, Pardi, India.
Bhalerao,Y.P., Timung,R., and Gawai,S. (2018). Optimization of Microencapsulation for Biodegradable Polymers using Response Surface Methodology. i-manager’s Journal on Material Science, 5(4), 40-46. https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.5.4.13972

Abstract

Microencapsulation has wide applications in medical, pharmaceutical, and food industries. The parameters affecting the microencapsulation process has to be optimized in order to achieve high efficiency of encapsulation. This study has the objectives of optimizing the process parameters involved in the encapsulation process of Metformin into Guar gum. The process parameters affecting the microencapsulation process of biodegradable polymers, viz. rotation speed (800-1200 rpm), drug to polymer ratio (0.2, 0.4, 0.6), and reaction time (30-90 min) were evaluated and optimized with Response Surface Methodology (RSM) using three level-three factor Central Composite Design (CCD). The P-value <<0.0001 with R2 = 0.9979 showed highly significant model. The results obtained revealed that particle size increases with increasing drug to polymer ratio and reaction time whereas speed of rotation (rpm) has a negative effect towards the particle size formation. The interaction between the speed of rotation (rpm) and reaction time has been found highly significant, however a minuscule interaction between drug to polymer ratio and speed of rotation (rpm) as well as between drug to polymer ratio and reaction time has been observed. A particle size of 24.73 ± 0.21 μ was obtained at the optimum condition of the process variables generated by the model which was 1156 rpm, drug to polymer ratio of 0.37 and reaction time of 89 minutes.

Research Paper

Effect of Manufacturing Processes on Creep Modulus, Strain Rate and Residual Stress of Polymers

Saransh Arora* , Gaurav Saini**, Lokesh Singhal***, Piyush Uniyal****, Navin Kumar*****, Prashant Jindal******
*-*** UG Scholar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University Institute of Engineering and Technology of Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
**** Research Scholar, Centre for Biomedical Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India.
***** Associate Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, India.
****** Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering at University Institute of Engineering and Technology of Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.
Arora,S., Saini,G., Singhal,L., Uniyal,P., Kumar,N., and Jindal, P. (2018). Effect of Manufacturing Processes on Creep Modulus, Strain Rate and Residual Stress of Polymers. i-manager’s Journal on Material Science, 5(4), 47-54. https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.5.4.13973

Abstract

In this work, the tensile specimen of various polymers, namely (Polycarbonate (PC), Polyketone (PK), Polypropylene (PP), Polyurethane (PU), and Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA)) were fabricated using two different manufacturing processes, viz. Injection Molding and Sigma Mixing. Creep and stress relaxation properties of these polymers have been evaluated using Creep Testing Machine. It has been observed that the creep modulus was enhanced by 20.6% in the sigma mixed material in comparison to injection molded specimen and the strain rate increased by 150.14% in the sigma mixed specimen; on the other hand, residual stress which was deduced from the stress relaxation tests decreased by 11.5% on an average in the sigma mixed material in comparison to injection molded materials. Since the sigma mixing process improves the intermixing of the granules because of the motion of the mixer rollers, it causes the increase in the bond strength in the sigma mixing process. Enhanced creep modulus and reduced strain rate enables these polymers to be used for applications which require service under a constant load for a prolonged period of time.

Survey Paper

An Investigation on Recent Trends in Metamaterial Types and its Applications

Jaydeep Suvariya* , Sunil Lavadiya**
* PG Scholar, Communication System Engineering, Marwadi Engineering College, Rajkot, India.
** Assistant Professor, Marwadi Education Foundation's Group of Institutions, Rajkot, India.
Suvariya,J., and Lavadiya, S. (2018). An Investigation on Recent Trends in Metamaterial Types and its Applications. i-manager’s Journal on Material Science, 5(4), 55-68. https://doi.org/10.26634/jms.5.4.13974

Abstract

The main objective behind this paper is to give a brief idea on Metamaterials. In this paper, history of metamaterials, its Introduction, classification, various properties, advantages, and applications are reviewed. In this paper, different methods of parameter extraction for metamaterial structure were also examined. Metamaterials are artificially invented materials. The property of metamaterials is different from the natural materials. By using Split Ring Resonators (SRR) and Wire structure, metamaterials provide the simultaneous negative value of permittivity and permeability; same properties can also be obtained by creating different shapes on patch, e.g. Coupled pi shape, Omega shape, Complementary Split Ring Resonator (CSRR), etc. Compared to conventional materials metamaterials differ in terms of their structure. In the conventional natural material we get the Positive Index of Refraction (PIR) or Right Handed Materials (RHM), while metamaterial provides Negative Index of Refraction (NIR) or Left Handed Materials (LHM). In this paper, different methods of designing and simulation of Metamaterial Unit cell and steps for the metamaterial parameter extraction were also examined.