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Introduction CdTe was one of the promising photovoltaic absorber materials due to the optimum band gap of 1.5 eV for the efficient photoelectric conversion, high optical absorption coefficient and successful development of high efficiency solar cells and modules [1].
Kaskel, CdTe nanoparticles for the deposition of CdTe films using close spaced sublimation, Journal of Crystal Growth 312 (2010) 2449-2453
Durose, Early stage growth mechanisms of CdTe thin films deposited by close space sublimation for solar cells, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 95 (2011) 3165-3170
Zubia, CdTe thin film growth model under CSS conditions, Solar Energy Materials & Solar Cells 93 (2009) 15-18
Hernandez, Preparation and characterization of CdTe thin films, Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 37 (1995) 273-281

Introductions Electro plastic effect refers to a kind of phenomenon: deformation resistance decreases dramatically and plasticity rises obviously when materials (various kinds of metals, ceramics, super-conduction materials, powder metallurgy products) are conducted by active electrons (current or electric field) Electro plastic effect generated by high energy impulse current is a compound effect and a result caused simultaneously by various of physic effects.
Contrast tension tests as to temperature were conducted, for the material would produce thermal effects when the currents were added.
Tensile strength decreased slightly, but the changes were very minute and were in the scope of normal test error compared to the elongation and strength of the material by adding impulse currents.
Acknowledgements This work is supported by general program of National Science Foundation of China, with Science Research Project No. 51071077.
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Introduction Electrocaloric (EC) materials have recently attracted considerable interest for use in solid-state cooling devices.
On the other hand, ferroelectric materials, such as Ba1-xSrxTiO3, Pb1-xSrxTiO3, etc., have been recognized for their importance as extraordinary functional materials due to their attractive dielectric properties, such as high dielectric constant, low dielectric loss, spontaneous polarization, and strong field dependence of dielectric constant.
Acknowledgement This work has been supported by the Outstanding Young Scholars Growth Plan of Liaoning Province under Grant No LJQ2011117, and the Science & Technology fund of Liaoning Province under No 2010220012.
Mathur: Science Vol. 311 (2006), p. 1270 [2] A.
Sci Vol 44 (2009), p. 5263 [6] Yinglong Wang, Tongru Wei, Baoting Liu, Lizhi Zhu, and Guangsheng Fu: Journal of Functional Materials Vol. 7 (2008), p. 1115

Processing and Properties of Polymer Composites Reinforced by Functionalized SWNTs Jiang Zhu1 , Valery Khabashesku2 , Ashraf Imam3* , Roger Crane4 , Karen Lozano5 , Enrique Barrera1 1 Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, 2Department of Chemistry and Center for Nanoscale Science and Technology, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA 3 Naval Research Laboratory, 4555 Overlook Ave, Washington D.C., 20375, USA 4 NSWC Carderock Division, 9500 Macarthur Blvd, West Bethesda, MD, 20817, USA 5 Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Texas Pan American, 1201 W.
Key Words: Composites, nanotubes, functionalization Introduction Single wall carbon nanotube (SWNT) has been seen as an excellent reinforcement candidate for advanced composite materials with multifunctionality.
Experimental The starting materials used in this work were SWNTs in the form of BuckyPearls from Carbon Nanotechnologies Inc.
Gerard, Journal of Materials Science, 36 (2001), 5245-5252

Introduction Modern science and technology progress has made human beings can fabricate and create a new life forms.
Now the organ artificialization technology has become one of the tip of the medical science technologies, and the core is the development of biomedical materials these years, as our country pays more attentions and investments on aerospace field, the research of titanium alloy materials gradually deepens.
Choose the cemented carbide YW2 as cutting tool material [7], and take commonly used Ti6Al4V in medical as the titanium sheet sample, its physical performance parameters just as shown in Table 1.
The Development and Research Present Status of Biomedical Titanium Alloys [J]: Development and Application of Materials: 2010, 2: 81-85 [2] Cao Chun-xiao and Yan Yuan-lin.
Simulation and Experimental Investigation of Minipore Dring of Austenitic Stainless Steel: Journal of South University of Technology (Natural Science Edition): 2008, 10, 120-124

Hanada: Materials Science and Engineering A,Vol. 346 (2003), p. 65-74
DeVan : International Journal of Refractory Metals & Hard Material, Vol.18 (2000), p.237-243
Mrowec: Materials Science and Engineering, A Vol. 267(1999), p.267-276
Tsakiropoulos and Materials Science and Engineering A Vol. 441 (2006) p. 26- 38
Hanada: Materials Science and Engineering A Vol. 364 (2004) p.151-158.

Raw materials were mixed and preheat for 30 minutes, melted for 10 minutes without annealing process.
Glasses with suitable characteristic such as high chemical stability, good host structure were usually selected to be doped with various types of materials.
By engineering glass materials with specific emission and absorption profile enables applications in laser technology and also as construction materials for green building [2].
Hussin, Advanced Materials Research 501 (2012) 51-55 [2] X.
Ardelean, Solid State Sciences, 9 (2007) 850-854 [5] P.M.

Conductive ceramic materials were obtained by sintering TiO2 ceramics in vacuum [1,2].
Various advanced shaping techniques such as spark plasma sintering and hot pressing have been used for preparation of thermoelectric materials.
Clarke, Electrodes based on Magnéli phase titanium oxides: the properties and applications of Ebonex® materials, J.
Diebold, The surface science of titanium dioxide, Surface Science reports 48 (2003) 53-229
Siegel, Optical determination of the oxygen stoichiometry of nanophase metal-oxide materials, J.

The simulation of materials which wins the majority of user’s acceptance is not easy.
In the finite element analysis, the control of the mesh density is very important because of the damage and strain concentration and the softening of concrete materials.
(2) Contrast to the results of the experiment and numerical simulation, it shows the CDP model in ABAQUS elastoplastic damage simulation of concrete materials is feasible
Acknowledgements This work was financially supported by the China Natural Science Foundation (51078011 and 51178014).
[7] Zhongqiang Wang, Zhiwu Yu: Concrete Damage Model Based on Energy Loss, Journal of Building Materials Vol. 7 (2004), p. 365-369

Rheology of Nanometric Powders Mufit Akinc 1 , and Chuanping Li2 1 Department of Materials Science and Engineering, 2220 Hoover Hall, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011, U.S.A. 2Northborough Research & Development Center, Saint-Gobain High-Performance Materials 9 Goddard Road, Northborough, MA 01532 makinc@iastate.edu, chuanping.li@saint-gobain.com Keywords: Rheology, alumina, fructose, viscosity, nano powders Abstract.
This research was supported in part by the Office of Basic Energy Science, Materials Science Division.
Prasad, Journal of American Chemical Society 125 (2003) 7860-7865
Skorokhod, Journal of American Ceramic Society 86 (2003) 299-304
Miller, Journal of Colloid and Interface Science 184 (1996) 594-600