One research field in Leipzig deals with the design of high strength lightweight-aggregate concretes (HSLWAC). Due to the huge waveband of this concretes with all possible combinations of lightweight-aggregates and mortar matrix the formulation of general rules is difficult. Therefore both components lightweight-aggregates and mortar matrix will be investigated in detail in order to achieve a d...

Reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) contributes substantially to the volume of recycled waste in world. This research aims evaluate mechanistic performance concrete with 100% RAP (RAP-AC) modified natural hemp fiber (HF) reinforcement. The effects HF lengths and contents on were investigated. static tests included Marshall stability, strength index (SI), indirect tensile (ITS), whilst cyclic resil...

Concrete shrinkage and creep under variable hydric conditions are important factors for the safety durability of concrete especially in nuclear reactor or waste storage background. A large (and long – more than 900 days) experimental campaign, conducted on two different concretes, has therefore been designed to study strains non loaded concretes submitted drying liquid water imbibition cycles. ...

Polymer-modified bitumen is used to combat different pavement distresses and to increase the life span of pavement. Unmodified bitumen cannot perform better with the range extreme minimum and maximum pavement temperatures. The polymers commonly used to modify the bitumen are ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) styrene butadiene styrene (SBS). The aim this study to compare the performance of EVA modifi...

This paper discusses about preparation of biodegradable polymer /clay nanocomposites based on organically modified montmorillonite clay; i.e. cloisite 10A and biodegradable polymer chitosan by solution mixing technique and their characterization. The nanocomposites were successfully prepared and their structures were characterized by powder x-ray diffraction (XRD), particle size analyzer (Beckm...

a molecular imprinted polymer (mip) was computationally designed and synthesized for the selective extraction of metaproterenol (mtp), from human plasma. in this regards semi empirical mp3 and mechanical quantum (dft) calculations were used to find a suitable functional monomers. on the basis of computational and experimental results, acrylic acid (aa) and dmso:meoh (90:10 %v/v) were found to b...

Multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs) have been successfully modified by polystyrene, poly( caprolactone), and their block copolymers by addition reaction of the alkoxyamine-terminated precursors. Polymer-modified MWNTs are easily dispersed in good solvents for the grafted polymer, such as toluene and THF. This observation has been confirmed by TEM analysis. The grafting ratio of polystyrene ch...

Thermal transport is critical to the performance and reliability of polymer-based energy devices, ranging from solar cells to thermoelectrics. This work shows that the thermal conductivity of a low band gap conjugated polymer, poly(4,8-bis-alkyloxybenzo[1,2-b:4,5-b']dithiophene-2,6-diyl-alt-(alkylthieno[3,4-b]thiophene-2-carboxylate)-2,6-diyl) (PBDTTT), for photovoltaic applications can be acti...