Wardlaw, C. Prosser, R. S.
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Water, Air, & Soil Pollution
Microplastics have been identified as a widespread, persistent environmental pollutant. The investigation of microplastics in marine ecosystems has been prevalent in the literature; however, much less consideration has been given to this form of pollution in freshwater ecosystems. Relatively few studies have considered the uptake of microplastics i...
Wemken, Gregor Spies, Benedikt Christopher Pieralli, Stefano Adali, Ufuk Beuer, Florian Wesemann, Christian
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Journal of the mechanical behavior of biomedical materials
Concepts for digital denture manufacturing are market-available but studies comparing the trueness of such dentures, either milled (MIL) or additive manufactured, compared to injection molded (IM) ones are still limited. Regarding the impact of artificial aging and microwave sterilization on this parameter, no data are available. Therefore, the pur...
Di Vito, Donato Mosallaei, Milad Khorramdel, Behnam Kanerva, Mikko Mäntysalo, Matti
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Scientific Reports
Stretchable electronics promise to extend the application range of conventional electronics by enabling them to keep their electrical functionalities under system deformation. Within this framework, development of printable silver-polymer composite inks is making possible to realize several of the expected applications for stretchable electronics, ...
Perevedentsev, Aleksandr Campoy-Quiles, Mariano
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Nature Communications
Although high‐resolution methods such as photolithography allow for organic semiconductor patterning, they are often limited by their high complexity. Here, the authors report a versatile “molecular gate”‐based method for micro‐patterning organic semiconductor films.
Lustermann, Birgit Quandt, B. Maike Ulrich, Sebastian Spano, Fabrizio Rossi, René M. Boesel, Luciano F.
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Scientific Reports
The damping properties and specifically the bend losses of polymer optical fibres (POFs) have so far only been documented by experimental work, investigating bending parameters such as bending radius, length, and distance of the bends. Even though damping mechanisms and causes are well-known, no simple, generally valid formula exists. Here, a simul...
Sari, NH Pruncu, CI Sapuan, SM Ilyas, RA Catur, AD Suteja, S Sutaryono, YA Pullen, G
This work presents an experimental investigation into the effect of cornhusk fibre (CHF) content upon the mechanical properties, water absorption behaviour, and swellability of CHF/polyester (PE) composites used in water environments. The CHF/PE was prepared at different volume fractions using hot compression (~175 °C). To investigate the rate of w...
Hosono, Nobuhiko Mochizuki, Shuto Hayashi, Yuki Uemura, Takashi
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Nature Communications
Unlike 1D and 3D-networked macromolecules, the synthesis of 2D molecular networks is challenging because of the nature of the polymerisation reaction. Here the authors report the synthesis of polymeric monosheets with unimolecularly thick networks by exploiting the 2D nanospaces of metal–organic frameworks as reaction templates.
Vigil Fuentes, Miguel A. Thakur, Suman Wu, Feng Misra, Manjusri Gregori, Stefano Mohanty, Amar K.
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Scientific Reports
In this study, the 3D printability of a series of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV)/poly(lactic acid) (PLA) blends were investigated using fused filament fabrication (FFF). The studied blends suffered from poor 3D printability due to differences in compatibility and low thermal resistance. These shortcomings were addressed by inco...
You, Yujing Yang, Jian Zheng, Qiang Wu, Ningkun Lv, Zhongda Jiang, Zhiqiang
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Scientific Reports
Hydrogels are attractive for applications in intelligent soft materials and flexible electronics. Herein, we report a new hydrogel with a hierarchical hydrogen bond system consisting of (1) weak hydrogen bonds between N,N-dimethylacrylamides (DMAA) and acrylic acids (AAc) and (2) strong multiple hydrogen bonds between 2-ureido-4[1H]-pyrimidinone un...
Debnath, C. Verma, Sunil Kar, S. Bartwal, K. S. Tiwari, V. S. Karnal, A. K.
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Applied Physics A
An organic–inorganic nanocomposite (LN/PMMA) was prepared using nearly stoichiometric lithium niobate (LiNbO3; LN) nanoparticles dispersed homogeneously into a polymer matrix, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA). This composite is having anisotropic LN nanocrystals, oriented randomly in an isotropic host matrix of PMMA. So far, to the best of our know...
