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Nacre-inspired Hard and Tough Materials

Nature fabricates materials with properties that are difficult to reproduce with manmade counterparts. For example, nacre, composed of layers of CaCO3 crystals that are interspaced with small quantities of organic components, is one of the toughest known b ...

2019

Mechanical properties of replicated cellular Zn and Zn1.5Mg in uniaxial compression

Andreas Mortensen, Ludger Weber, Karel Lietaert

We present here a study of the mechanical behavior of cellular Zn and Zn1.5Mg with densities between 11.9 and 24.5%, produced by replication processing using NaCl as a spaceholder. Cellular Zn and Zn1.5Mg deform homogeneously during quasi-static compressio ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2019

Magnetic Properties of Nanocomposites

Yves Leterrier

The magnetic properties of various families of nanocomposite materials containing nanoparticles of transition metals or transition-metal compounds are reviewed here. The investigated magnetic nanocomposites include materials produced either by dissolving a ...

2019

Phase Changing Materials-Based Variable-Stiffness Tensegrity Structures

Dario Floreano, Jun Shintake, Davide Zappetti

Soft robots leverage deformable bodies to achieve different types of locomotion, improve transportability, and safely navigate cluttered environments. In this context, variable-stiffness structures provide soft robots with additional properties, such as th ...

2019

Marine transport of plastic fragments from dolly ropes used in demersal fisheries in the North Sea

Florence Marie Renée Cuttat

Dolly ropes (DR) are used in beamtrawling and other types of fishing to protect the nets from being ripped by the sea bottom. They constitute an important source of plastic pollution in the regions where this type of fishing prevails. The aim of this proje ...

2018

Assessing the Effect of Calcite Impurities in Clay on Optimal Dehydroxylation Parameters for Enhanced Reactivity

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva

This study focused on understanding the influence of different amounts of calcite impurities (0 to 10% by mass) on the optimal parameters for clay dehydroxylation and the reactivity of the final calcined clay. A surface response experimental design was use ...

SPRINGER2018

Augmented Reality to Facilitate a Conceptual Understanding of Statics in Vocational Education

Lorenzo Lucignano

At the core of the contribution of this dissertation there is an augmented reality (AR) environment, StaticAR, that supports the process of learning the fundamentals of statics in vocational classrooms, particularly in carpentry ones. Vocational apprentice ...

EPFL2018

Fe-Ni ideality during core formation on Earth

James Badro

Earth's core is essentially composed of a light-element bearing iron-nickel alloy (Birch 1964). The nickel content in the core has negligible effects on physical properties such as density and compressibility (e.g., Lin et al. 2003; Kantor et al. 2007; Mar ...

MINERALOGICAL SOC AMER2018

What Limits Mobility in Hydrogenated Indium Oxide?

Monica Morales Masis, Laura Ding, Michael Elias Stückelberger, Martial Duchamp, Fabien Paul Jacques Dauzou

Understanding the electron scattering mechanisms dominating transport in high and low mobility transparent conducting oxides can provide insight into improving the properties of this crucial photovoltaic device layer. Contributions from ionized impurity sc ...

IEEE2018

Organic aerosol in the summertime southeastern United States: Components and their link to volatility distribution, oxidation state and hygroscopicity

Athanasios Nenes, Spyros Pandis

The volatility distribution of the organic aerosol (OA) and its sources during the Southern Oxidant and Aerosol Study (SOAS; Centreville, Alabama) was constrained using measurements from an Aerodyne high-resolution time-of-flight aerosol mass spectrometer ...

Copernicus GmbH2018

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