Films of oriented bacteriorhodopsin have been formed in polyvinyl alcohol with excellent optical quality. Images with high contrast have been impressed and erased on these films. Second-harmonic microscopy has been used to read the image on a bacteriorhodopsin-polyvinyl alcohol film without erasure. The potential of these films for molecular information storage and computation is discussed.

An alternative oxygen sensor to conventional ZrO2 based automotive sensors (COS) was successfully manufactured. nanoparticles were used as base material and nanofibers fabricated via electrospinning using polyvinyl alcohol solution (ZrO2+PVOH) obtain active surface of the where engine exhaust gas interacts chemisorption reactions take place prior calcination process at 700 oC. Thanks operating ...

A methylene-blue-sensitized polymer blend of polyvinyl alcohol and polyacrylic acid is fabricated and tested for holographic recording. It was found to have good characteristics such as high sensitivity, storage stability, ease of fabrication, and environmental stability. Optimization of the ratio of polyvinyl alcohol/polyacrylic acid, the sensitizer concentration, pH, energy, diffraction effic...

The optical properties of polyvinyl (pyrrolidine and alcohol) PV(P/A) blend polymer have been improved using Co-metal as a filler for optoelectronic shielding applications. casting technique solutions was used in order to prepare composite films with different Co-ratios (x: 0-18.5). XRD, FT-IR, SEM, UV-visible spectrophotometry were operated study the structure, morphology, features flexible pl...

Thermoplastic starch (TPS) materials present several advantages to the plastic industry andwhen blended with other materials they can exhibit improved mechanical and moisturesensitivity properties compared to pure TPS materials. Further investigations on TPS: PVAblends are of particular interest due to their excellent compatibility and improved properties suchas tensile strength, elongation, to...

Polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) / starch (S) /Carboxy methyl cellulose (CMC) composite films were prepared from PVA, three different loading of CMC and soluble starch aqueous suspensions by casting method in the presence of plasticize containing glycerol. The effects of the CMC addition on the some physical properties of the resulted blend films were investigated. Tensile tests demonstrated positive re...

Modified starch was prepared in this work by acid-thinning and oxidizing corn starch with ammonium persulfate. Also, starch-based aqueous polymer isocyanate (API) wood adhesive was prepared. The effect of the added amount of modified starch, styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), polymeric diphenylmethane diisocyanate (P-MDI), and the mass concentration of polyvinyl alcohol (PVOH) on the bonding stren...

The mechanical properties of rodlike cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) suggest great potential as bioderived reinforcement in (nano)composites. Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVOH) is a useful industrial material and very compatible with CNC chemistry. High performance CNC/PVOH composite fibers were produced coaxial coagulation spinning, followed by hot-drawing. We showed that CNCs increase the alignment and...