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Light diffusion in GFRP laminates for building construction

Thomas Keller, Andreas Schueler, André Gabriel Kostro, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Carlos Pascual Agullo

The light diffusion of hand lay-up glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates was investigated with a spectrophotometric set-up using an integrating sphere. Reinforcement weights of the laminates ranged from 410 to 3280 g/m2 and fiber volume fractions ...

2014

Diffuse light transmittance of glass fiber-reinforced polymer laminates for multifunctional load-bearing structures

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Andreas Schueler, André Gabriel Kostro, Julia De Castro San Roman Fest, Carlos Pascual Agullo

The diffuse light transmittance of hand lay-up glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) laminates was investigated. Spectrophotometric experiments were performed on unidirectional and cross-ply glass fiber-reinforced polymer specimens with fiber volume fracti ...

SAGE Publications2014

Evidence for TiON sputtered surfaces showing accelerated antibacterial activity under simulated solar irradiation

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Michaël Bensimon, Sami Rtimi

New evidence is reported for TiON sputtered polyester surfaces activated by sunlight irradiation leading to the accelerated bacterial inactivation in the minute range. The absorption in Kubelka-Munk units of the TiON film was observed to be directly propor ...

Elsevier2013

Materials Taking a Lesson from Nature

Holger Frauenrath, Emmanuel Croisier, Liangfei Tian

Structural biomaterials with their often extraordinary properties and versatile functions are typically constructed from very limited sets of building blocks and types of supramolecular interactions. In this review we discuss how, inspired by nature's desi ...

Swiss Chemical Soc2013

The potential of wood fibers as reinforcement in cellular biopolymers

Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Matthieu Cuénoud, Razvan Cristian Neagu

Wood fiber-reinforced polylactic acid composite foams have been successfully produced using supercritical carbon dioxide. The addition of fibers had a strong effect on microstructure of the foams. An increase in wood fiber content implied smaller average c ...

SAGE Publications2012

Ag-surfaces sputtered by DC and pulsed DC-magnetron sputtering effective in bacterial inactivation: Testing and characterization

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Rosendo Sanjines, Oualid Baghriche

This study addresses the deposition of active, uniform nanoparticulate Ag-thin films on polyester textiles by DC-magnetron sputtering (DC) and pulsed DC-magnetron sputtering (DCP). The deposition of Ag on the polyester fiber was observed to be the function ...

2012

Design, testing and characterization of innovative TiN–TiO2 surfaces inactivating bacteria under low intensity visible light

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Sami Rtimi, Rosendo Sanjines, Oualid Baghriche

Ti was sputtered in a plasma chamber under a N2 atmosphere, depositing TiN films on polyester fibers. These films show a significant adsorption in the visible spectral region. A TiN layer 50 nm thick sputtered for 3 min under low intensity/actinic visible ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2012

Stress changes in H2-loaded SMF optical fibers induced by cw-Ar+ 244 nm irradiation

Hans Georg Limberger, Georgios Violakis, Nandita Aggarwal

Bragg gratings were inscribed in H2-loaded SMF-28e optical fibers and measured for axial stress changes for various exposure doses. Mean refractive index changes as high as 7.5 × 10-3 were observed under cw-244 nm irradiation of 143 W/cm2. Bragg grating re ...

Optical Soc Amer2012

Squaric Acid Mediated Synthesis and Biological Activity of a Library of Linear and Hyperbranched Poly(Glycerol)-Protein Conjugates

Harm-Anton Klok, Frederik Roman Wurm

Polymer-protein conjugates generated from side chain functional synthetic polymers are attractive because they can be easily further modified with, for example, labeling groups or targeting ligands. The residue specific modification of proteins with side c ...

2012

Antibacterial Ag-ZrN surfaces promoted by subnanometric ZrN-clusters deposited by reactive pulsed magnetron sputtering

César Pulgarin, Juan Kiwi, Rosendo Sanjines, Oualid Baghriche

Ag-ZrN films were deposited on polyester by direct current pulsed magnetron sputtering (from now on DCMSP) in Ar + N-2 atmosphere. ZrN on the polyester surface interacts with Ag leading to Ag-ZrN films. These composite films were more active in Escherichia ...

2012

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