hazelnuts are usually propagated by suckers or layering. however, other methods of propagation have been tested with variable results. grafting is a method that has a few advantages such as fast multiplication rate, earlier fruiting and reducing sucker removal cost on specific rootstocks. unfortunately, grafting is difficult due to slow formation of callus in hazelnuts. here, we report the hypo...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is a major vegetable crop world-wide, and grown in high tunnels many regions. This study investigates the use of two fertilizer sources, chemical integrated (composted poultry manure plus urea) fertilizers, grafting on growth, nitrate-N content, yield, fruit quality tomato northwestern Washington. Grafting treatments consisted ‘Panzer’ grafted one three rootstoc...

Elastomers or rubbers are materials used in a large range of industrial and household applications. A common physical-chemical treatment is curing (crosslinking), imparting the rubber mechanical and thermal stability. Elastomers show low thermal conductivity values, and therefore, require complex and high cost heating methods; thus, the ionizing (accelerated electrons) method shows high interes...

A new class of nanostructured hybrid materials is developed by direct grafting of a model thiophene-based organic dye on the surface of 3C-SiC/SiO2 core/shell nanowires. TEM-EDX analysis reveals that the carbon distribution is more spread than it would be, considering only the SiC core size, suggesting a main contribution from C of the oligothiophene framework. Further, the sulfur signal found ...

Grafting non-polar polymer chains on the surface of polar nanoparticles (e.g., silica) is an effective way to enhance particle/matrix interactions and thus promote their homogeneous dispersion within a matrix, which leads improved mechanical properties. Current grafting methods have not yet produced with well-defined polymers high density. Here, we employed anionic polymerization vacuum techniq...