School of Materials Engineering (FYP): Recent submissions
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Natural rubber toughened epoxy/graphene conductive materials
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)In this research, graphene incorporated with epoxy composite was prepared using mechanical mixing technique with the density, flexural, fracture toughness, electrical conductivity, thermal stability and SEM morphology ... -
Alginate beads for photodegradation of dye under solar light irradiation
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)Photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants with the aids of semiconductor engrossed massive attention in wastewater treatment recently. Zinc oxide (ZnO) and titanium dioxide (TiO2) are the most utilized semiconductors ... -
Degradation study on unsaturated polyester and citronella fibre composite
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)The aim of this investigation was to evaluate the effects of degradation in soil burial test and natural weathering on the mechanical properties of an unsaturated polyester/citronella fibre composite. The citronella fibre ... -
Fabrication of Photoanode and its performance in Photocatalytic fuel cell
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)Photocatalytic fuel cell system (PFC) is a new technology for simultaneous organic wastewater treatment and electricity generation. Different composition of photoanode and different layers of photoanode were fabricated ... -
Properties of carbon nanotubes and calcium carbonate filled polymer composites
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)Scholl of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)This project was focused on the fabrication and characterization of CNTs-CaCO3 filled epoxy composites. The polymer composites were prepared with different ratio of filler loading by using a mechanical stirrer with speed ... -
Characterization on the effect of electrospinning parameters on polyacrylonitrile
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)This research focuses on characterization on the effect of electrospinning parameters on polyacrylonitrile (PAN). Polyacrylonitrile (PAN) is used as the main materials in this research. PAN undergoes electrospinning ... -
Preparation and characterization of polystyrene and thermoplastic starch blends
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-04)The characterization of PS blending TPS was conducted under several measurements such as tensile testing, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy ... -
Ethylene Vinyl Acetate (EVA) nanocomposites incorporation hybrid nanofillers for Biomedical applications
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)Ethyl vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymers possess exceptional mechanical properties, barrier properties and biocompatibility, thus they are potentially to become as materials for biomedical applications. In this research, ... -
Characterization and thermal properties of Chitin from golden apple snail
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)The effect of acid and bases treatment on chitin with characterization and thermal properties were studied. In this study, golden snail shells were using as raw material in isolated the crustacean’s chitin using 1 M and ... -
Synthesis and characterisation of Niobium doped Yttria stabilised Zirconia
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)Nb-8YSZ pellets were produced by two different methods – solid state (SS) processing and sol-gel (SG) synthesis, varying the content of Nb for each of them (0 –1.5% Nb). The Nb-8YSZ pellets were sintered at 1550°C, and ... -
Study the effect of replacement of fly ashon ordinary portland cement
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)The replacement of fly ash in Ordinary Portland cement have been conducted to measure the strength of concrete in different ratio between fly ash and cement. This research is involved three stage like Raw material analysis, ... -
Beneficiation and extraction of Malaysian's iron ores
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Material Engineering, 2016-06)This present study is to study the influence of the different sizes of iron ore from Bukit Besi, Terengganu and Kulim, Kedah on the reduction process with coke from Perwaja Steel, Kemaman, Terengganu as a reducing agent. ... -
Characterization and properties of Citronella Filler Filled Low Density Polyethylene/ Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) composite reinforced with cymbopogon nardus, (citronella filler, CF) was prepared via melt blending method using heated two roll mill at temperature 160°C, screw rotational speed at 40rpm ... -
A study on the purification of Limestone
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)This research study focused on the purification of limestone by multiple reprecipitation. This study involves the application of different temperature for carbonation process as to observe the reactiveness of particles ... -
Synthesis and characterization of Fe from different source doped 8YSZ for solid electrolyte in solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC)
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)The samples from different sources of Fe in oxide form (pure iron oxide powders, Fe₂O₃) and Fe source from salt (iron nitrate, Fe(NO₃)₃) for different compositions (pure YSZ, 1FeYSZ, 2FeYSZ and 3FeYSZ) were prepared and ... -
Synthesis and characterization of stabilized zirconia toughened alumina (ZTA) doped niobium pentoxide (Nb₂O₅)
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)The main target of this research is to study the mechanical properties of the Nb₂O₅ doped with alumina-zirconia composites. Pellets form samples of ZTA (5YSZ) doped niobium pentoxide in varied amount of 0%, 0.3%, 0.5% ... -
Synthesis and characterization of zirconia filled sol-gel derived bio-glass for load-bearing bone implant material
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)At present, clinical applications of bioactive glasses are only limited to those materials synthesized by the melting process. Glass melting process required high processing temperature which contributes to several ... -
Crystal structure and ionic conductivity of different mol percentages of transition elements (manganese, iron, zinc and cobalt) doped 8YSZ
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)8YSZ and transition elements (Mn, Fe, Zn and Co) were investigated in these present researches which were crystal structure and ionic conductivity. All the ceramic samples was fabricated by conventional solid-state reaction ... -
Effect of polarization scan rate on the corrosion properties of SAC305 in acidic solution
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-06)The corrosion behaviour of the Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu (SAC305) solder to the corrosion properties of alloys in an acidic solution were investigated under polarized conditions. The corrosion parameters including the current ... -
Effect of different types of polymeric binder towards photocatalytic activity of immobilized PANI/TiO₂ system
(Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP)School of Materials Engineering, 2016-05)This thesis report studies about the effect of different type of binder towards photocatalytic activity of PANI/TiO₂ photocatalyst immobilized system. Different binder and parameter of binders which is 3g, 4g, 5g and 6g ...