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Ring-Opening Reactions of Aminocyclopropanes and Aminocyclobutanes

Nitrogen-containing compounds are an important class of molecules in medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, biochemistry, material sciences or environmental sciences. Organic nitrogen occurs in many forms, ranging from small building blocks such as urea, a ...

EPFL2022

Extraction and controlled functionalization of lignin for materials applications

Stefania Bertella

Lignin is a renewable aromatic polymer that due to its abundance and unique chemical structure is a promising candidate to replace aromatic materials that are currently sourced from fossil oil. The same structure of lignin poses however drawbacks for its v ...

EPFL2022

From vesicles to materials: bioinspired strategies for fabricating hierarchically structured soft matter

Esther Amstad

Certain organisms including species of mollusks, polychaetes, onychophorans and arthropods produce exceptional polymeric materials outside their bodies under ambient conditions using concentrated fluid protein precursors. While much is understood about the ...

ROYAL SOC2021

Topology of Pretreated Wood Fibers Using Dynamic Nuclear Polarization

David Lyndon Emsley, Jeremy Luterbacher, Arthur César Pinon, Pierrick Berruyer, Jasmine Viger-Gravel, Wu Lan, Michel Bardet

In the continuously developing field of lignocellulosic biomass, high-yield lignin depolymerization processes are sought to optimize its productivity and profitability. Recently, formaldehyde stabilization during lignin extraction and biomass pretreatment ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2019

Strategies for faster impregnation in melt thermoplastic resin transfer molding process

Damiano Salvatori

Continuous fiber thermoplastic composites are potential substitutes of steel in structural automotive components, since they combine fiber strength and rigidity with ductility, potential recyclability and low density of the thermoplastic (TP) matrix. Resin ...

EPFL2018

Glass transition evaluation of commercially available epoxy adhesives for strengthening of steel structures with bonded CFRP plates

Ardalan Hosseini, Julien Michels

In the current study, the glass transition and tensile behavior of three different cold-curing two-component epoxies, commercially available as structural adhesives for carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) strengthening of concrete and steel structures, ...

2018

Adhesive wear mechanisms uncovered by atomistic simulations

Jean-François Molinari, Enrico Milanese, Ramin Aghababaei, Tobias Brink, Lucas Henri Galilée Frérot

In this review, we discuss our recent advances in modeling adhesive wear mechanisms using coarse-grained atomistic simulations. In particular, we present how a model pair potential reveals the transition from ductile shearing of an asperity to the formatio ...

SPRINGEROPEN2018

Wafer-level micro-structuring of glassy carbon

Hans Peter Herzig, Toralf Scharf, Karin Prater, Loïc Etienne Hans, Cédric Kilchoer

Glassy carbon is used nowadays for a variety of applicationsbecause of its mechanical strength, thermal stability and non-sticking adhesion properties. One application is glass molding that allows to realize high resolution diffractive optical elements on ...

Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering2014

Cellulose nanofiber network for moisture stable, strong and ductile biocomposites and increased epoxy curing rate

John Christopher Plummer, Sylvain Cyril Claude Galland, Lars Berglund

Nanocomposites with high volume fractions (15-50 vol%) of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) were prepared by impregnation of a wet porous NFC network with acetone/epoxy/amine solution. Infrared spectroscopy studies revealed a significant increase in curing r ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2014

Process influences on the structure, piezoelectric, and gas-barrier properties of PVDF-TrFE copolymer

Yves Leterrier, Dragan Damjanovic, Antonia Neels, Olha Sereda, Alex Dommann

The influence of annealing between the Curie transition and the melting point of solvent cast polyvinylidene fluoride trifluoroethylene copolymer films on the crystalline structure, mechanical and electrical properties, and oxygen permeability is investiga ...

2014

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