Cooperative assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) with carbonizable polymer precile route to nanoporous carbon materials with well-defined pore size and morphology. There is a subtle balance in reaction kinetics of the ...
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In many polyolefin applications, such as electrical cables or automotive applications, the fire protection is a very important task. Unfortunately flame-retardant polymeric materials are often halogenated and form tox...
In many polyolefin applications, such as electrical cables or automotive applications, the fire protection is a very important task. Unfortunately flame-retardant polymeric materials are often halogenated and form toxic substances in case of fire, which explains the general requirement to reduce the halogen content to zero. Non-halogenated, state-of-the-art flame retardants must be incorporated into the polymer in very high grades (> 40 wt%) leading to massive decrease in mechanical properties and/or processability. In this research work halogen-free flame-retardant polypropylene (PP) /expandable graphite (EG) were filled with minerals fillers such as layered silicates (MMT), magnesium hydroxide (MgOH), zeolite (Z) and expanded perlite (EP) in order to enhance the flame-retardant effect. The rheological, mechanical and thermal properties of these materials were investigated to gain more fundamental knowledge about synergistic combinations of flame-retardants and other additives. The rheological properties were characterized with a rotational rheometer with plate-plate setup. The EG/EP/PP compound exhibited the highest increase in viscosity (∼ 37 %). As representative value for the mechanical properties the Young’s modulus was chosen. The final Young’s modulus values of the twofold systems gained higher values than the single ones. Thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) was utilized to investigate the material with respect to volatile substances and combustion behavior. All materials decomposed in one-step degradation. The EG filled compounds showed a significant increase in sample weight due to the expansion of EG. The combustion behavior of these materials was characterized by cone calorimeter tests. Especially combinations of expandable graphite with mineral fillers exhibit a reduction of the peak heat release rate during cone calorimeter measurements of up to 87% compared to pure PP.
Among the various existing energy storage technologies, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors have been considered as two important solutions to the increasing needs for high-performance electrochemic...
Among the various existing energy storage technologies, rechargeable lithium-ion batteries and supercapacitors have been considered as two important solutions to the increasing needs for high-performance electrochemical power sources. N ovel centrifugally-spun nanofibers with functional properties can dramatically alter surface reaction rates and charge transport throughout the batteries and supercapacitors,
polymer nanocomposites have been extensively investigated over the past two decades, resulting in a wide range of applications because of their excellent performance. Halloysite, a type of naturally occurring aluminos...
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To improve the mechanical and the thermal performance of poly(lactic acid) materials, this work focuses on the formation of stereo-complex crystals by blending poly(l-lactic acid) (PLLA) with poly(d-lactic acid) (PDLA...
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The design and fabrication of multi-layer amperometric electrochemical glucose sensors is dependent upon the diffusional kinetics of the chemical/biochemical species which contribute to the sensor’s response. Conside...
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The design and fabrication of multi-layer amperometric electrochemical glucose sensors is dependent upon the diffusional kinetics of the chemical/biochemical species which contribute to the sensor’s response. Considerable effort has been carried out to coat the working electrode with appropriate glucose flux-limiting membranes which is pertinent for superior in vivo performance, and hence requires a careful understanding of the participating species within the sensor cross-sectional architecture. This contribution reports the computational modeling of Clark’s first generation amperometric glucose sensor coated with an electro-polymerized glucose oxidase (GOx) layer along with a layer of polyurethane (PU) employed to reduce the glucose-influx in order to generate linear operation over the normal physiological glucose range in vivo . The model was programmed using MATLAB and utilizes the finite-difference method for the solution to the enzymatic reaction-based diffusion equations. Additionally, experimental devices were fabricated, tested and compared with the simulated results. The simulation of these devices have been shown to align well with experimentally fabricated devices in terms of amperometric current density. The increase in device linearity with the addition of the outer glucose-flux limiting PU membrane corroborate our experimental findings reported in this study which can be used as a powerful analytical tool in designing high–performance next generation implantable glucose sensors.
In the present study, randomly aligned jute fiber/poly(lactic acid) (PLA) and two-directionally aligned jute fabric/PLA green composites with jute (50% by weight) treated with electron beam at different dosages (0, 5,...
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Co3O4/carbon composite nanofibers were prepared by a combination of electrospinning and carbonization methods using 10 - 30 nm and 30 - 50 nm Co3O4 nanoparticles, respectively, and their potential use as the anode mat...
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