Aluminium foil is widely accepted as being one of the best barrier materials in flexible packaging, even in the face of many new and up-and-coming high-barrier plastic layer combinations, copolymers, blends or nano-composites. Besides high thermal conductivity, which facilitates enhanced converting and sealing performance, other key criteria that distinguish “converter foil” from competing mate...

Crack initiation and propagation is a common concern for molecular composites such as plastic bonded explosives (PBXs) and pharmaceutical tablets. Under compressive stresses, cracks form at contacts between crystals and propagate along crystal-binder interfaces, causing composite failure. To investigate this process, crystal-binder interfaces have been characterised and their mechanical propert...

We have fabricated paper- and nitrocellulose-based lateral-flow devices that are shaped in two dimensions by a computer-controlled knife. The resulting star, candelabra, and other structures are spotted with multiple bioassay reagents to produce multiplex lateral-flow assays. We have also fabricated laminar composites in which porous nitrocellulose media are sandwiched between vinyl and polyest...

Polycaprolactone (PCL) and its blended composites (chitosan, gelatin, and lecithin) are well-established biomaterials that can enrich cell growth and enable tissue engineering. However, their application in the recovery and proliferation of genetically modified cells has not been studied. In the study reported here, we fabricated PCL-biomaterial blended fiber membranes, characterized them using...

Graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) are used to produce wood plastic composites (WPC) with improved electrical and thermal conductivity. The polypropylene/wood/GNP hybrid produced by melt compounding followed hot pressing. effect of GNP loadings (5, 10 15 wt%) on conductivity, tensile properties, degradation WPC containing 20 wt% flour is studied. fast slow cooling rates during pressing the surface re...

Aim of study: In this study, the effect lignocellulosic filler and coupling agent amount on physical mechanical properties produced sugar beet pulp/LDPE composites were researched.
 Material methods: Wood-plastic using compression molding method. The (maleic anhydride grafted polyethylene) (density water uptake analyses) (tensile strength, tensile modulus, elongation at break, flexural imp...

surements can be performed at much reduced exposure times THE load-bearing capacity of a metal matrix composite and in small diffracting volumes, thus allowing for investi(MMC) is dictated by the load transfer occurring from the gating the time dependenceof lattice strains and for mapping compliant, soft matrix to the stiff, hard reinforcements. such strains with a lateral resolution of a fract...

Glycolyzed PET was esterified then vulcanized to produce composites with strength exceeding that of mineral cement. The process may allow replacing environmentally-damaging materials while recycling plastic waste.