Vanillic acid represents a potentially interesting bio-based building block for the production of new aliphatic-aromatic polymers, characterized by thermal properties similar to those analogous terephthalic polyesters. However, poly(ethylene vanillate) proved be very brittle material, probably due high degree crystallinity, and, then, not suitable melt processing. Therefore, synthesis copolymer...

BASED on vast experience watching the fruit of my hard work fall apart time and again, I feel highly qualified to discuss the manner in which systems break. In particular, the goal of this paper is to define and analyze systems which exhibit brittle behavior. This behavior is characterized by a sudden and steep decline in performance as system state changes as shown by point D along curve Ph in...

background: anti-angiogenic therapy is a crucial step in cancer treatment. the discovery of new anti-angiogenic compounds from marine organisms has become an attractive concept in anti-cancer therapy. because little data correlated to the pro- and anti-angiogenic efficacies of ophiuroidea, which include brittle star, the current study was designed to explore the anti-angiogenic potential of bri...

Three-dimensional (3D) helical mesostructures are attractive for applications in a broad range of microsystem technologies, due to their mechanical and electromagnetic properties as stretchable interconnects, radio frequency antennas and others. Controlled compressive buckling of 2D serpentine-shaped ribbons provides a strategy to formation of such structures in wide ranging classes of material...

The deformation mechanism of pharmaceutical powders, used in formulating directly compressed matrix tablets, affects the characteristics of the formed tablets. Three polymers of different deformation mechanisms were tested for their impact on theophylline directly compressed tablets namely Kollidon SR (KL SR, plastic deformation), Ethylcellulose (EC, elastic deformation) and Carnauba wax (CW, b...

The failure of brittle and quasi-brittle polymers can be attributed to a multitude of random microscopic damage modes, such as fibril breakage, crazing, and microfracture. As the load increases, new damage modes appear, and existing ones can transition into others. In the example polymer used in this study--a commercially available acrylic bone cement--these modes, as revealed by scanning elect...

A theory of yielding and failure for homogeneous and isotropic materials is given. The theory is calibrated by two independent, measurable properties and from those it predicts possible failure for any given state of stress. It also differentiates between ductile yielding and brittle failure. The explicit ductile-brittle criterion depends not only upon the material specification through the two...

Abstract There is growing interest in biodegradable and bio‐based materials that can replace conventional plastics applications such as packaging. Polymers based on 2,5‐furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) have been proposed analogues for polymers terephthalic acid. However, they tend to be brittle, exhibit limited biodegradability, there are few examples of biocomposites from these polymers. Describe...