Inequalities in thermomechanical properties of materials at interfaces of a modern package lead to a rise in periodic stresses during normal operation, making these sites crucial to the integrity of the entire product. Proper lifetime analysis for highly miniaturized interconnects is a real challenge. In addition, broad application of 100% quality standards in various industries has caused a ra...

Introduction Many industries are calling for electronics that can operate reliably in harsh environments, including extremely high temperatures. Traditionally, engineers had to rely on active or passive cooling when designing electronics that must function outside of normal temperature ranges, but in some applications, cooling may not be possible—or it may be more appealing for the electronics ...

■ ■ A rapid and automated way to evaluate information for an unknown component (m/z) by ranking the possible elemental compositions, and searching databases for likely structures ranked based on fragmentation matching. INTRODUCTION Characterization of packaging, food contact materials, medical devices, and many other consumables used in various industries is becoming more and more important due...

The physical and chemical properties of composite starch-based films containing cellulosic fiber, chitosan, and gelatin were investigated. Films containing both cellulosic fibers and chitosan demonstrated tremendous enhancements in film strength and gas permeation. The water absorbency of composite films could be greatly reduced in film composites containing cellulosic fibers and gelatin, but t...

Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) are a family of biopolyesters synthesized by many types of bacteria as carbon and energy reserve materials. PHAs combine properties of thermal processibility, biodegradability, biocompatibility and sustainability. They have attracted attention from fermentation, materials and biomedical industries. Recent environmental concerns such as CO(2) emissions and plastic po...

Plasma cleaning of solid surfaces is one of the hot topics of the very fast developing field of plasma treatment of materials. Plasma cleaning has been implemented already in several industries such as semiconductor processing and microchip fabrication, metallurgy, the optical industry, dentistry, medical technologies, food packaging – to name just the most important areas. Understanding the ba...

Inequalities in thermomechanical properties of materials at interfaces of a modern package lead to a rise in periodic stresses during normal operation, making these sites crucial to the integrity of the entire product. Proper lifetime analysis for highly miniaturized interconnects is a real challenge. In addition, broad application of 100% quality standards in various industries has caused a ra...

ground beef. This summary briefly addresses the remaining questions about food irradiation. In addition, it provides a useful summary of the regulatory history and the current state of scientific knowledge of the technology as applied to food. Federal regulators, food scientists, food processors, and consumers will write the next chapter in the story of irradiation. New challenges awaiting reso...

13 Within the framework of the European project EcoBioCap (ECOeffi14 cient BIOdegradable Composite Advanced Packaging), aiming at con15 ceiving the next generation of food packagings, we have designed an 16 argumentation-based tool for management of conflicting viewpoints 17 between preferences expressed by the involved parties (food and pack18 aging industries, health authorities, consumers, w...