Recent Patents on Materials Science

Volume 3, 3 Issues 2010
ISSN: 1874-4648 (Print)
ISSN: 1874-4656 (Online)

Editor-in-Chief:

Khurshid Zaman
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.

Associate Editors:

Steven L. Suib
Department of Chemistry
The University of Connecticut
Storrs, CT, USA


Lianzhou Wang
School of Chemical Engineering
The University of Queensland
Brisbane, Australia



Regional Editors:

Mohammed S. Aida
Thin Films and Interfaces Laboratory
Faculty of Science, University of Constantine
Constantine, Algeria


Akgun Alsaran
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Engineering Faculty
Ataturk University
Erzurum, Turkey


Hristoforou V. Evangelos
School of Mining and Metallurgical Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Athens, Greece


Vladislav V. Kharton
Department of Ceramics and Glass Engineering, CICECO
University of Aveiro
Aveiro, Portugal


Peter Majewski
School of Advanced Manufacturing and Mechanical Engineering
Mawson Institute
University of South Australia
Mawson Lakes, Australia


Lianwei Wang
Department of Electronic Engineering
School of Information Science and Technology
East China Normal University
Shanghai, China

Editorial Advisory Board:

A. Abdel-Latif (National Research Centre, Cairo, Egypt)
A. Abedian (Sharif Univ. of Technology, Tehran, Iran)
T. Adachi (Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan)
A.A. Adesina (Uni of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia)
A. Agarwal (Florida International Univ,,Miami, FL, USA)
S. Ahmad (National Physical Laboratory,New Delhi, India)
T.L. Alford (Flexible Display Center, Tempe, AZ, USA)
J. Ali (Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, India)
C. Allen (Univ of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA)
R. Allen (Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
E.D. Atanassova (Institute of Solid State Physics, Sofia, Bulgaria)
A.A. Athawale (Pune Univ, Maharashtra, India)
A. Bairi (Univ. Paris X, Ville D'avray, France)
S.R. Bakshi (Florida International University, FL, USA)
K. Balani (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India)
A. Bandyopadhyay (Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA)
V. Basiuk (Univ. Nacional Autonoma de México, Mexico, USA)
R. Bayford (Middlesex Hospital, London, UK)
A. Bezerianos (Univ of Patras, Patras, Greece)
A.R. Boccaccini (Imperial College London, London, UK)
R.K. Bordia (Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA)
A. Boroczki (GE Consumer & Industrial technology, Budapest, Hungary)
A.J. Böttger (Uni of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)
A. Burns (Kent State University, Ohio, OH, USA)
A. Çelik (Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey)
Y.C. Chan (City Univ of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
M. Changej (Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju, South Korea)
L. Chen (Analog Devices Inc., Wilmington, MA, USA)
H. Cheng (Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China)
A.P. Chiriac (Petru Poni Inst Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania)
T.V. Chirila (Univ of Queensland, Queensland, Australia)
Ki. H Chon (Stony Brook Univ., New York, NY, USA)
P.K. Chu (City Univ of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong)
R. Curtis (King's College, London, UK)
A. Dahle (Uni of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)
S.C. Deevi (Philip Morris USA, Inc., Richmond, UK)
T. Deligeorgiev (University of Sofia, Sofia, Bulgaria)
C.P. de Leon (University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
A. Domb (Hebrew Univ, Jerusalem, Israel)
E. Drioli ( Univ of Calabria, Rende, Italy)
A. Dukhin (Dispersion Technology Inc, Bedford Hills, NY, USA)
S. Earthman (Univ. of California, Irvine, CA, USA)
A.K. Eddine (Univers de Ouargla,Quargla, Algeria)
A.M. Efstathiou (Univ. of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus)
T. Eliades (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Nea Ionia, Greece)
A. Ennaoui (Institute Heterogeneous Material Systems, Berlin, Germany)
S. Fakirov (The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand)
M. Ferraris (Polytechnic of Torino, Torino, Italy)
A. Feteira (Uni of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK)
G.F. Fernando (Univ. of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham)
A. Flood (Suranaree Univ. of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand)
C.D. Geddes (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA)
A. Gemeay (Tanta Univ, Tanta, Egypt)
A.M. Gheidari (Delft Univ. of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)
I.E. Ghiocel (ICMPP- “Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi, Romania)
A. Goyal (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA)
D. Graiver (Michigan State University, Midland, MI, USA)
A. Grueneis (Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research, Dresden, Germany)
H. Hadavinia (Kingston University, London, UK)
A.S. Hamdy (Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm, Germany)
J. Hargreaves (University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK)
A. Hashim (Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK)
J. He (Clemson University, SC, USA)
N. He (Southeast University, Nanjing, China)
R.B. Heimann (Ruhr-Universita¨t Bochum , Bochum, Germany)
A.J. Hill (CSIRO, Victoria, Australia)
P.H. Holloway (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
C.H. Hsueh (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN USA)
D. Hui (Univ.of New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, USA)
Y. Ikada (Nara Medical Univers, Nara, Japan)
H. Ishida (Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, USA)
G. Jabbour (Arizona State Univ,Tempe, AZ, USA)
J.D. Juan (INASMET-Tecnalia, Donostia, Spain)
G.M. Kale (Univ. of Leeds, Leeds, UK)
K. Kanny (Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa)
C.R. Kao (National Taiwan Univ.,Taipei, Taiwan)
V.M. Karbhari (University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL, USA)
H. Kawahara (Osaka Dental Univ, Osaka, Japan)
M.A. Keane (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, UK)
A.N. Khlobystov (University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK)
J.-K. Kim (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
J.C. Knowles (Univ College London, London, UK)
A. Kumar (Harcourt Butler Tech Inst, Kanpur, India)
R.J. Lanzafame (Rochester General Hospital Laser Center, New york, NY, USA)
R.M. Leblanc (University of Miami, Florida, FL, USA)
S. Ledakowicz (Technical University of Lodz, Lodz, Poland)
C.M. Lieber (Harvard Univ., Cambridge, UK)
J. Limtrakul (Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand)
Y. Lin (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA, USA)
Y.M. Mai (Univ. of Sydney, Sydney, Australia)
P. Majewski (University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, Australia)
A.F.T Mak (Hong Kong Polytechnic Univ., Kowloon, Hong Kong)
J.F. Mano (University of Minho,Taipas Guimarães, Portugal)
D. Mantovani (Laval University, Quebec, QC, Canada)
A.A. Mazouzi (Lhma, Boeretang, Belgium)
A.S. Milani (The University of British Columbia, Okanagan, BC, Canada)
P. Milani (Milani univ, milan, Italy)
S.T. Mileiko (Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow Distr, Russia)
A.K. Mohanty (Michigan State Univ., Michigan, MI, USA)
M. Monthioux (CEMES,Toulouse, France)
A. Mostafa (Universite Abdelmalek Essaadi, Boukhalef Tanger, MAROC)
A.H.I Mourad (United Arab Emirates University, Al-Ain, UAE)
A. Najafizadeh (Isfahan University of Technology,Isfahan, Iran)
A.G. Nascimento (Federal Univers of Viçosa, Viçosa, MG, Brazil)
S. Nazarpour (University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain)
P. Netti (Univ. of Naples, Napoli, Italy)
L. Nicolais (Universita` di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy)
L.E. Nita ("Petru Poni" Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Iasi , Romania)
A.A. Paiziev (Arifov Institute of Electronics, Tashkent, Uzbekistan)
V. Pillay (University of the Witwatersrand,Johannesburg, South Africa)
S.N. Piramanayagam (Data Storage Institute, Singapore, Singapore)
T. Pizzi (Univers of Nancy, Nancy, France)
A.A. Rahim (Univ Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang, Malaysia)
J.F. Rakow (Exponent Failure Analysis Associates, CA, USA)
A. Rao (Clemson Univ, Clemson, SC, USA)
D. Rathna (Naval Materials Research Lab, Chickloli, Thane, India)
A.K. Ray (Univ. of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA)
V. Renugopalakrishnan (Harvard Univ, Boston, MA, USA)
D. Reuter (Chemnitz University of Technolog, Chemnitz, Germany)
M. Roberto (Laboratory for Engineering of Neuromuscular System, Torino, Italy)
S. Roy (Lerner Research Institute,Cleveland, OH, USA)
M. Salvo (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
A.B. Samui (Naval Materials Research Laboratory, Thane, India)
M.S. Scurrell (Univ of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa)
J. Schmidt (UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA)
I.K. Schulte (Technische Univ Hamburg -Harburg, Hamburg, Germany)
T.P. Schultz (Mississippi State univ, Mississippi State, MS, USA)
H. Sekine (Tohoku University Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan)
W. Sigmund (University of Florida, Gainesville, FL USA)
S. Slomkowski (Center of Molecular and Macromolecular Studies, Sienkiewicza, Poland)
F. So (Univ of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA)
A. Song (University of Manchest,Manchester, UK)
A.G. Souza (Univ Federal do Ceará ,Fortaleza, Brasil)
A.S.J. Suiker (Delft Univ of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands)
J. Sunner (Montana State Uni, Bozeman, MT, USA)
H. Swart (Uni of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa)
R. Talreja (Texas A&M Univ, Canyon, TX, USA)
J.M.D. Tascon (Instituto Nacional del Carbón, Oviedo, Spain)
R. Tenne (Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
D.A. Tomba (INTEMA, Mar del Plata, Argentina)
C. Traino (Azienda Ospedaliera Univ Pisana, Rome, Italy)
C.A. Ulven (North Dakota State University, ND, USA)
M. Venkatesan (Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
E. Verné (Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy)
A. Voelkel (Poznan Univ. of Technology, Poznan, Poland)
F.C. Walsh (Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
H. Wang (Monash University, Clayton, Australia)
A.M. Wass (Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA)
Q. Wei ( University of North Carolina, Charlotte, NC, USA)
Y. Wu (National Univ Singapo, Singapore, Singapore)
W. Xie (Jilin Univ, Jilin, China)
W. Xue (Jinan University, Guangzhou, China)
H. Yan (Univ. of Yamanashi, Kofu, Japan)
L. Yang (Cheng Shih University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
T.H. Yang (Cheng Shiu Univ, Kaohsiung, Taiwan)
Y.G. Yanovsky (Inst. of Appl. Mechanics of Russ. Acad. of Sci., Moscow, Russian Federation)
Y.Z. You (Univ. of Technology, Anhui, China)
C.C. Young (National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan)
A. Yu (Univ. of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia)
S. Zhang (Griffith University, Queensland, Australia)
T.S. Zhao (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong, China)
A. Zhou (University City Boulevard, Charlotte, NC, USA)
Y. Zhou (Nanjing University, Nanjing, China)
S. Zinelis (University of Athens, Athens, Greece)
A.I. Zouboulis (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece)