The new polymer achieves impressive stiffness, up to 11 gigapascals, despite its low density of only 0.5 grams per cubic ...

Porous materials have a wide range of applications due to their capacity to act as filters, or lightweight structural ...

Two soluble nucleating agents were used to modify the optical properties of nine PP homo- and random copolymers. The ethylene content of the polymers changed between 0 and 5.3 wt %. Chain regularity ...

The optical appearance of many flowers in nature relies on their inherent pigments (“chemical color”) as well as on the surface structure of the epidermis (“structural color”). The structural color is ...

Hybrid polymer composites (HPC) are one of the recent developments to reduce the cost of expensive composites containing reinforcements like carbon fiber by incorporating a proportion of cheaper, ...

Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious ...

This process shows high selectivity of up to 92% and a yield of 82%. The produced cyclopentene can be recycled back into ...

2.3 Preparation of castings and films The prepared cardanol-based epoxidized resole resin was mixed with 15 wt% polyamide as a curing agent. The mixture of cardanol-based epoxidized resole resins and ...

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