BACKGROUND In surgical and endoscopic procedures, tissue adhesives are commonly used as reinforcement of sutures or as bonding and hemostatic agents. Fibrin glues do not guarantee adequate properties for many clinical applications; on the contrary, cyanoacrylate glues guarantee high bonding strength between biologic tissues. The aim of this study was to provide evidence regarding adhesive and s...

BACKGROUND The luting cements must withstand masticatory and parafunctional stresses in the warm and wet oral environment. Mouth temperature and the temperature of the ingested foods may induce thermal variation and plastic deformation within the cements and might affect the strength properties. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the effect of temperature on the compressive and diame...

The effects of the Fenton reagent on recycled unbleached pulp in the absence and presence of a model chemical contaminant, the p-hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA), were studied. In the absence of HBA, the Fenton system clearly modified the chemical and papermaking properties of the pulp. The kappa number was reduced and the specific light absorption coefficient was increased, indicating lignin modifica...

ID No: 136 Abstract: Cracks are inevitable for concrete infrastructures during their service life. The presence of cracks reduces the mechanical properties and bring potential safety hazard to infrastructure. In this study, the influence of self-healing on the ECC’s (Engineered cementitious composite) tensile properties was investigated. ECC is a new kind of HPFRCC, featuring high strain capaci...

The purpose of this study was to measure the protective effects of arginine in oxidative coloring or bleaching process. Contact angle measurement, tensile measurement and amino acid analysis were employed. As the first step, it was shown that oxidative coloring or bleaching process decreases hair surface hydrophobicity and tensile strength in wet condition. Next the study has been conducted wit...

The effect, of varying the proportion of binder starch paste (SP) and the disintegrant sodium starch glycolate (SSG), on the compaction behavior of wet granulated acetaminophen (ACM) formulations using a fully instrumented rotary tablet press, was studied. Wet granulation formulations were prepared using ACM, SP as binder (equal to 2.5%, 5% or 10% starch concentration), SSG as disintegrant (0%,...

In recent years, concerns about environmental waste caused by petroleum-derived chemicals as well as the consumer's demand for high quality food products, have prompted people to pay more attention to developing biodegradable food packaging materials using natural resources such as cellulose fibers and chitin derivatives. In this study, chitin whiskers have been successfully generated by hydrol...

ID No: 136 Abstract: Cracks are inevitable for concrete infrastructures during their service life. The presence of cracks reduces the mechanical properties and bring potential safety hazard to infrastructure. In this study, the influence of self-healing on the ECC’s (Engineered cementitious composite) tensile properties was investigated. ECC is a new kind of HPFRCC, featuring high strain capaci...

OBJECTIVE Significant collagen content and tensile properties are difficult to achieve in tissue-engineered articular cartilage. The aim of this study was to investigate whether treating developing tissue-engineered cartilage constructs with modulators of intracellular Na(+) or Ca(2+) could increase collagen concentration and construct tensile properties. METHODS Inhibitors of Na(+) ion trans...