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Polymeric materials suffer from chain degradation due to the absorption of ultraviolet (UV) light. Nevertheless, many polymers show excellent optical transmission properties in the visible range and are suitable replacements for glass. Coating of polymers ...
Silicone rubber films with graded and localized mechanical properties are prepared using two-part polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) elastomer, photoinhibitor compounds and conventional photolithography. First the un-cross-linked PDMS is mixed with benzophenone. ...
The function of a peptide is intimately connected to its structure, which in solution is the result of the balance between non-covalent interactions within the molecule and the molecule-solvent interactions. Theory has the power to predict the properties o ...
We investigate in this work the fabrication of polymer fluidic and mechanical devices based on evaporable compounds as sacrificial layers using the screen-printing process. The combination of thermosetting polymer resins with evaporable compounds as sacrif ...
Being good structural replacement for other conventional material, the pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) profiles are being increasingly used in civil engineering structures. The connection between components is considered the most suspect ar ...
Crack patterns of 100-nm-thick silicon oxide coating on polypropylene film subjected to equibiaxial stress loading are studied experimentally. The loading is achieved by means of a bulging cell mounted under an optical microscope with stepwise pressurizati ...
A review, with 17 refs., on research carried out by the polymer reaction engineering group at EPFL in reaction engineering, including kinetic modeling of polymn. reactions (lab. and pilot scale reactors), free radical, polyepoxydation, polycondensation. De ...
NOVELTY - The bone substitute is made in one piece from cement phosphocalcium materials consolidated chemically at low temperature and in presence of water. USE - In medicine, as artificial bone graft. ADVANTAGE - Macroporous structure promotes resorption ...
We investigate in this work the fabrication of polymer micro-fluidic and micro-mechanical devices based on sublimable compounds as sacrificial layers, using a thick-film screen-printing deposition process. Fabrication of printed polymer microstructures fea ...
The effect of high-temperature annealing on stress in AlxGa1-xN in different ambients and at different temperatures was studied using ultraviolet micro-Raman spectroscopy. Low (x=0.08) and high (x=0.31 and x=0.34) composition AlGaN, grown by metalorganic c ...
