Compression Molding of Polyhydroxybutyrate Nano-Composite Films as Coating on Paper Substrates

Mechanical Coating Technique for Composite Films and Composite Photocatalyst Films

nano-composite carbon nitride films

A modified cathodic arc technique has been used to deposit carbon nitride thin films directly on n Si substrates. Transmission Electron Microscopy showed that clusters of fullerene-like nanoparticles are embedded in the deposited material. Field emission in vacuum from as-grown films starts at an electric field strength of 3.8 V/μm. When the films were etched in an HF:NH4F solution for ten minu...

The Influence of Nano-Fibrillated Cellulose as a Coating Component in Paper Coating

This work investigates nano-fibrillated cellulose (NFC) as a component in mineral pigment paper coating. In this work, bleached Eucalyptus pulp was pretreated by TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethyl-1-piperdinyloxy)-mediated oxidation. The oxidized pulp was then isolated to obtain NFC by sonication. Aqueous coating colors consisting of calcium carbonate, clay, carboxylated butadiene-styrene latex, additi...

Nano-indentation of Copper Thin Films on Silicon Substrates

Indentation methods are finding increasing use in the study of mechanical properties of bulk and thin-film materials over a wide range of size scales (e.g., [1,2]). With the increasing sophistication of instrumented, depth-sensing indentation equipment and of computational methods to model the deformation of materials subjected to indentation, there is growing interest in studying the elastopla...

Compression Molding of Green Composite made of Wood Shavings

Creation of recycle-based society is an important factor in order to resolve geoenvironmental issues that are happening recently. A general recycling method for wooden materials is to make engineered board from wasted woods. For example, particle board, fiber board, ply board are used widely in architectural industry and so on. However, these boards contain chemical compounds such as urea resin...