This paper presents the findings of an initial study of the fabrication of polyetheretherketone (PEEK) components based on the mask-image-projection-based Stereolithography (MIP-SL) process. PEEK is a semicrystalline thermoplastic with excellent mechanical and chemical resistance properties that are retained to high temperatures. It has been extensively used in the aerospace, automotive, biomed...

Sustainability is one of the key issues that organizations confront today, and ecologically responsible ("green") information systems (IS) initiatives are manifestations of sustainable business practices. Engaging in green IS initiatives can be challenging due to poor understanding of their holistic process. In this research, we develop a multitheoretical framework to provide a holistic underst...

Green home renovation is a socio-technical process involving homeowners and professionals. Homeowners undertaking a green renovation encounter unfamiliar terms and must navigate potentially conflicting information from different sources. These challenges prevent some homeowners from being fully engaged in the renovation process, which can lead to less than optimal homeowner satisfaction and fai...

Green management and going green are not as clear cut and easy as hyped by the general media. While going ecologically green is indeed beneficial and appropriate, the process and procedure of becoming green is anything but easy. Firstly, turning green is largely not a legal requirement, but a voluntary process. Thus, even though LEED (which is by far the more publicly known green certification ...

Process database support system is one of the key technologies for green manufacturing implementation. In this paper, the process database support system for green manufacturing was developed with Browse/Server (B/S) three level structure on the basis of Web, which has the function of distributed processing and storage of the data. The composing and its green characteristics were discussed in d...

A green environment is a social as well as business issue. Business enterprises, as a large part of the global community, are obliged to make endeavours toward an environmentally sustainable operation that reflects their corporate social responsibility. One of the effective approaches of making business operations more environmental friendly is to undertake business process reengineering with t...

In order to explore the influencing factors of green process innovation path of manufacturing, this paper puts forward a concept model of influencing factors of green process innovation path of manufacturing based on the niche ecostate-ecorole theory, studying the influencing factors from three aspects: the ecostate attribute, the ecostate and ecorole interface attribute, and the ecorole attrib...

expanded graphite nanosheets (eg-nanosheets) were used for adsorption of malachite green (mg) from aqueous solution. the influences of dye concentrations, absorbent dosage, ph values and the temperatures on the adsorption were investigated as well. the dye adsorption experiments were carried out by utilizing batch procedure. eg-nanosheets were initially characterized by scanning electron micros...