Table S1. Host materials and references for Figure 5 in the main text. Reference numbers are those used in the main text. Filler material Host material Reference SWNT PDMS [15] SWNT epoxy [18] SWNT polystyrene [14] SWNT PEDOT-PSS [21] MWNT PDMS [3] MWNT epoxy [17] MWNT polystyrene [11] MWNT polyurethane-urea [10] EG polystyrene [12] EG NBR [5] silver particles PDMS [1] CB polystyrene [16] CB po...

The use of recycled paper for the manufacture of food contact materials is widespread, but very little is known about the presence of potential contaminants in the paper. The purpose of this study was to assess the worst-case migration of estrogenic active compounds using extracts of paper for household use. Twenty different brands of kitchen rolls, nine of which were made from recycled paper a...

The design and employment of envelope components showing high thermal performances for new buildings deep renovations must take into account the overall impact production process in terms environmental sustainability. To this end, precast construction solutions secondary raw materials provide added value to energy quality building products. With regard abovementioned issues, paper is focused on...

Plastics follow a linear economic structure, leading to detrimental environmental effects, such as global warming and ecosystem destruction, through incineration accumulation throughout their life cycle. This study examined the types, potential generation amounts, properties of recycled plastics from waste electrical electronic equipment (WEEE) assess feasibility closed-loop recycling WEEE unde...

Non-specific protein adsorption is detrimental to the performance of many biomedical devices. Polystyrene is a commonly used material in devices and thin films. Simple reliable surface modification of polystyrene to render it protein resistant is desired in particular for device fabrication and orthogonal functionalisation schemes. This report details modifications carried out on a polystyrene ...

Plastic wastes (PW) create chronic environmental problems mainly because it is not biodegradable. The utilization of PW as a fractional substitution fine aggregate in concrete production sustainable application. However, the smooth surface plastic weakens cement-plastic bond and consequently lessens mechanical properties concrete. This research improves by increasing hydrophilicity coarseness p...

BACKGROUND Human mesenchymal stem/stromal cells (hMSCs) are at the forefront of regenerative medicine applications due to their relatively easy isolation and availability in adults, potential to differentiate and to secrete a range of trophic factors that could determine specialised tissue regeneration. To date, hMSCs have been successfully cultured in vitro on substrates such as polystyrene di...

in this study, polystyrene ethylene butylene polystyrene (psebs) was functionalized to prepare mono and bipolar ion exchange membranes. in the case of the bipolar membrane, platinum was used as the intermediate layer. nacl solution of concentration ranging from 5 g/l to 25 g/l was used as the feed solution. a commercially procured ion exchange membrane made of polystyrene divinyl benzene was al...

a series of polystyrene hybrid nanocomposites have been fabricated with varying amounts of tio2 viz., 0, 0.5 and 1 % w/w along with 3% ts by in-situ polymerization method. the influence of surface modified tio2 nanoparticles on the thermal properties of ps matrix was examined using thermogravimetry and differential scanning calorimetry. thermal characteristics of the polystyrene/ts/tio2 hybrid ...

The high molecular weight poly (ethylene oxide) was used to synthesize telechelic bromine terminated poly (ethylene oxide) polymers. The low molecular weight polystyrene anion was generated by living anionic polymerization by controlling monomer/initiator ratio. The living polystyrene anion was reacted with telechelic bromine terminated poly (ethylene oxide) polymers to obtain water soluble pol...