The cutting, lay-up and bagging of out-of-autoclave (OOA) prepregs for composite part fabrication can take from several days to weeks, depending on the desired part size. This period of ambient temperature “out-time” induces resin polymerization/cross-linking, and affects critical physicochemical phenomena such as minimum viscosity, gelation, and vitrification. Therefore, the capability to moni...

chitosan (chito) as a biopolymer with high antibacterial, biocompatibility and biodegradability and polyaniline (pani) as a conductive polymer and silver (ag) nanoparticles to enhance antibacterial property were used to prepare polyanilin-chitosan-silver (pani-chito-ag) nanocomposites. the synthesis of panichito composite and pani-chito-ag nanocomposite was performed through aniline polymerizat...

Silver-impregnated membrane was facilely prepared by ex situ silver nanoparticles (NPs) blending method using polyethersulfone (PES) as the base polymer. A total of three membranes [F1(S0), F2(S0.5) and F3(S2.0)] were fabricated at different weight percentages of polymer and silver (Ag) loadings to compare their effects on membrane morphological and performance properties. All membrane types we...

A quantitative structure-property relationship (QSPR) analysis of aliphatic alcohols is presented. Four physicochemical properties were studied: boiling point (BP), n-octanol-water partition coefficient (lg P(OW)), water solubility (lg W) and the chromatographic retention indices (RI) on different polar stationary phases. In order to investigate the quantitative structure-property relationship ...

A wide range of weathering processes contributes to the degradation plastic litter items which leads formation microplastics that may be detrimental marine ecosystems and organisms inhabiting them. In this study, impact UV exposure on clear polypropylene (CPP), black (BPP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET) packaging materials was investigated over a period 6 weeks under dry air conditions repre...