BACKGROUND Peripheral nerve repair is often complicated by fibroblastic scar formation, nerve dysfunction, and traumatic neuroma formation. Use of silicone may improve outcomes of these repairs. In this study, we tried to evaluate effectiveness of silicone gel on rats’ sciatic nerve repair, axon regeneration and scar formation around and in the nervous tissues. METHODS This experimental stud...

Silicone rubber has excellent insulation properties such as good hydrophobic mobility and anti pollution flashover performance. It plays an important role in the power system provides guarantee for reliability of supply. However, due to erosion various harsh environments, especially wet environments rain snow, a large amount dirt water are easily attached surface insulating parts. not only redu...

Liquid permeation into silicone rubber (SR) may lead to the degradation or complete failure of composite insulators. Aiming inhibit liquid permeation, two kinds superhydrophobic coatings are applied SR surface. The properties with different types liquids investigated, and Langmuir diffusion model is analyse experimental data. results show that coating can effectively by reducing contact area be...

Abstract Self?cleaning and repellent coatings ensure enduring performance of surfaces in many areas technology everyday life. An ideal coating is efficient removing contaminations, yet easy to apply on a wide range surface materials. To devise such coating, two bioinspirations are combined that show opposing interfacial properties: the peristome pitcher plant versatile mussel?inspired chemistr...

The thermal insulation effect of the coating was closely related to content filler, but too much filler would cause interfacial compatibility problems various substances in coating, micro-defects and affect anti–corrosion performance coating. Therefore, solving interface problem key preparing a with heat anticorrosion functions. In this study, organic–inorganic hybrid polymer used modify surfac...

Absorption determined by mass transfer in the liquid is described well with the Graetz-L&&que equation adapted from heat transfer. The influence of a chemical reaction on the mass transfer was simulated with a numerical model and tested on the absorption of CO2 in a hydroxide solution. Absorption determined by mass transfer in the gas phase and the pores of the membrane was also analysed experi...

Iron particle coating can improve the behavior of magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) by inhibiting iron particle rusting; however, such a process can change physical properties of MREs such as oxidation resistance, shear modulus, and stiffness change due to an applied magnetic field. In this study, MRE samples are fabricated with regular and polymerized iron particles. To investigate the poss...

We demonstrate a simple, low-cost, and green approach to deposit a microstructured coating on the silicone elastomer polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) that can be coated with gold to produce highly stretchable and conductive films. The microstructured coating is fabricated using an aqueous emulsion of poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc): common, commercially available white glue. The aqueous glue emulsion sel...