Thermo-set based composites using epoxy resin systems currently dominate the composite industry. Glass-reinforced epoxy composites are extensively used in the structural composites of aircraft industry due to low shrinkage, ease of fabrication, chemical resistance, and higher mechanical and electrical properties. The above characteristics coupled with techno-economic considerations are mainly r...

Thermo-set based composites using epoxy resin systems currently dominate the composite industry. Glass-reinforced epoxy composites are extensively used in the structural composites of aircraft industry due to low shrinkage, ease of fabrication, chemical resistance, and higher mechanical and electrical properties. The above characteristics coupled with techno-economic considerations are mainly r...

Many natural fibres, including wool, cashmere and silk, are protein-based materials; the dry weight of wool is almost entirely derived from proteins (Maclaren & Milligan 1981). As such, they possess an inherent structural and chemical heterogeneity not found in synthetic polymers. Although typically less heterogeneous than biological fibres, the rapidly emerging range of commercially available ...

The long-standing view of chromosome packaging is that 10-nm beads-on-a string chromatin fibres fold into higherorder 30-nm fibres, which further twist and coil to form highly condensed chromosomes. After four decades of intense pursuit of the structure and properties of 30-nm chromatin fibres, work of Nishino et al (2012) in this issue of The EMBO Journal demonstrates that regular 30-nm fibres...

Despite the use of modern materials, clay bricks are reasonably preferable materials nowadays. However, the moo fetched and flexibility of clay bricks are not related with tall natural and feasible values, particularly with regard to crude fabric sources and fabricating processes. Agricultural world is growing fast, with increased rural arrive development and land cultivation leading to massive...

The geometrical structure of fibrous extracellular matrix (ECM) impacts on its biological function. In this report, we demonstrate a new algorithm designed to extract quantitative structural information about individual collagen fibres (orientation, length and diameter) from 3D backscattered-light confocal images of collagen gels. The computed quantitative data allowed us to create surface-rend...

Structural, fibre reinforced, battery prototypes with two types of electrolyte matrix material, a gel and a solid polymer, have been manufactured. This was to confirm the concept of using carbon fibres as current collector in the anode as well as providing a mechanical load-carrying functionality. As a result, functioning batteries with gel electrolyte have been produced and their properties ha...

endometriosis is a common gynaecological disease that can cause severe pelvic pain such as dysmenorrhoea and dyspareunia, however the mechanisms by which pain is generated are not well understood. nerve fibres in endometriotic plaques have been reported by several authors. we have recently demonstrated the presence of unmyelinated sensory nerve fibres (using the pan-neuronal marker pgp9.5) in t...

The Eggshell fabrication process combines the 3D printing of formwork with simultaneous casting a fast-hardening concrete. One limiting factor to reaching mass-market adoption is suitable reinforcing strategy. In this study, reinforcement strategy combining steel bars fibres explored. A series eight beams were produced using or conventionally cast. longitudinal was provided by two bars, and typ...

The small and large intestine of adult horses were histochemically and immunohistochemically investigated in order to evidence components of the intramural nervous system. The general structural organization of the intramural nervous system was examined by using Nissl-thionin staining as well as the anti-neurofilament 200 (NF200) immunoreaction, which demonstrated the presence of neurons in the...