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Waste Cooking Oil as Eco-Friendly Rejuvenator for Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement
24/03/2024 - Over 50 MioT of Waste Cooking Oil (WCO) was collected worldwide in 2020 from domestic and industrial activities, constituting a potential hazard for both water and land environments, and requiring...
Characterization of Ceria Nanoparticles as Abrasives Applied with Defoaming Polymers for CMP (Chemical Mechanical Polishing) Applications
19/03/2024 - Chemical mechanical polishing/planarization (CMP) is an essential manufacturing process in semiconductor technologies. This method combines chemical and mechanical forces to smooth the surfaces of...
Property Enhancement of Waste Printed Circuit Boards Powders Reinforced Polypropylene by In Situ Magnesium Hydroxide Impregnation from Waste Lye
15/03/2024 - Using alkali pretreatment can effectively remove residual variable-valence metals from non-metallic powder (WPCBP) in waste printed circuit boards. However, substantial amounts of waste lye are...
Dynamics of Tribofilm Formation in Boundary Lubrication Investigated Using In Situ Measurements of the Friction Force and Contact Voltage
14/03/2024 - The complex dynamics of tribofilm formation on boundary-lubricated steel surfaces were investigated in real time by combining in situ measurements of the temporal variation of the coefficient of...
Acetylation of Kapok Fibres as an Oil Absorbent for Oil Spill Mitigation
08/03/2024 - Oil spills are significant environmental events that can harm marine life and human health globally. Booms, skimmers, dispersants and burning have drawbacks such as instability in strong currents...
Determination of 24 Trace Aromatic Substances in Rosemary Hydrosol by Dispersed Liquid–Liquid Microextraction–Gas Chromatography
28/02/2024 - A combined dispersed liquid–liquid microextraction (DLLME) and chromatography (GC) method was developed for the determination of 24 aromatic substances in rosemary hydrosol in this...
Experimental Study on Dispersion Stability and Polishing Performance of Polishing Solution Based on Micro-Abrasive Water Jet Polishing
22/02/2024 - In micro-abrasive water jet polishing (MAWJP) technology, where abrasive particles serve as polishing tools, particles tend to form large clusters, leading to increased nozzle wear and diminished...
Investigation on enhancement of filler dispersion and prediction of mechanical behavior of hexagonal boron nitride/epoxy nanocomposites through machine learning and deep learning models
10/02/2024 - A Multimodal Approach of Tailoring hBN Epoxy Nanocomposites: From Dispersion to Prediction.Two?dimensional hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) based nanocomposites exhibit excellent mechanical and thermal...
Use of alumina dispersant in alumina?spinel castable: Comparison between in situ and preformed spinels
26/01/2024 - The role of alumina dispersant as a flow modifier, completely replacing fume silica, on the properties of preformed and in situ spinel?containing low cement high alumina castables was investigated...
Synthesis of copolymers of N?vinylpyrrolidone and 2?ethylhexyl acrylate by DL?methionine?mediated reversible deactivation radical polymerization and their dispersion behavior in preparation of LiFePO4 battery positive slurry with high solid content
26/01/2024 - Dispersants play a significant role in the formulation of positive battery slurry. Adding a small amount of dispersant can effectively reduce the viscosity of the slurry, which is beneficial for the...
Influence of Silane Coupling Agent and Anionic Dispersant on the Dispersion Effect of Silicon Carbide Particles
15/01/2024 - Silicon carbide (SiC), as a widely used material, has great properties. To improve the flowability of ultrafine silicon carbide slurry, this study used sodium humate, tetramethylammonium hydroxide...
Synthesis of Amphiphilic Block Copolymer and Its Application in Pigment-Based Ink
09/01/2024 - Amphiphilic block copolymers-based aqueous color inks show great potential in the field of visual communication design. However, the conventional step-by-step chemistry employed to synthesize the...
Structured polymer dispersant for efficient phthalocyanine blue dispersion and color paste preparation
19/12/2023 - Implantable scaffold vaccine against. MelanomaAbstractAlthough tumor?antigen?based therapeutic cancer vaccines are a potential cancer immunotherapy strategy, recent clinical trials show low efficacy...
Fabrication of Vitrified Bond Diamond Grinding Wheel via LCD Photopolymerization
13/12/2023 - In this paper, a liquid crystal display (LCD) photopolymerization method is proposed, and a vitrified bond diamond grinding wheel is successfully prepared. A high-performance vitrified bond was...
Photocurable Carbon Nanotube/Polymer Nanocomposite for the 3D Printing of Flexible Capacitive Pressure Sensors
14/12/2023 - A photocurable resin/carbon nanotube (CNT) nanocomposite was fabricated from aligned CNTs in an acrylic matrix. The conductivity of the nanocomposite increased rapidly and then stabilized when the...
Carbon Nanotube?Directed 7 GPa Heterocyclic Aramid Fiber and Its Application in Artificial Muscles
10/12/2023 - The damage?free single?walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) dispersed using poly(p?phenylene?benzimidazole?terephthalamide) (PBIA) are selected as the orientation seed to improve the fiber microstructure...
Femtosecond Pulsed Laser Irradiation of Zirconia for Embedding Silver Nanoparticles in Surface Nanopores
08/12/2023 - Femtosecond pulsed laser irradiation was performed to investigate the feasibility and fundamental characteristics of embedding silver nanoparticles onto zirconia ceramic surfaces. By irradiating...
Effect of flame?retardant melamine and dispersants on the mechanical, thermal, and foaming properties of flexible polyurethane foam
06/12/2023 - The objective of this study was to investigate the effect of adding flame?retardant melamine and five different dispersants on the precipitation, foaming, mechanical, and thermal properties of...
Polymeric dispersant incorporated with fatty acid as TiO2 anchoring group for surface coating applications
21/11/2023 - Abstract Compatibility of polymeric dispersant with other components in a coating is an important criterion to formulate coating with desirable optical properties, particularly...
Effects of suspended particles and dispersants on marine oil snow formation of crude oil/diesel oil
06/11/2023 - Marine oil snow (MOS) potentially forms after an oil spill. To fully understand the mechanism of its formation, we investigated the effects of suspended particles (SP) and dispersants on MOS...
YSZ–Al2O3 thermal barrier nanocomposites coatings: Electrophoretic deposition and characterization
11/10/2023 - This paper presents the development of yttria?stabilized zirconia–alumina (YSZ–Al2O3) nanocomposite coatings deposited on Inconel 738LC superalloy substrates using the electrophoretic deposition...