Construction projects using emerging bio-based materials have been realized over the past ten to fifteen years within Europe. Bio-based buildings utilize properties of natural regulate internal environments, particularly fluctuations in temperature and relative humidity. Despite individual exemplar demonstrating functional performance long-term operational cost savings, there hasn’t a prolifera...

Petroleum-derived monomers are the most common building blocks for ester-based thermosets. Bio-derived thermoset elastomers becoming viable alternatives to conventional Herein, we developed a biobased vitrimer-type using abundant and sustainable raspberry ketone as feedstock. We utilize create dynamic oxime chemistry crosslinked these through free radical polymerization with poly(ethylene glyco...

Cellulose acetate (CA) as polymer, glycerol derivatives (namely triacetin, diacetin, monoacetin or glycerol-formal) solvents and 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MeTHF) co-solvent were selected bio-based ingredients for the preparation of full-bio-based nanofiltration membranes via non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS). Membrane performance was investigated using an aqueous rose bengal (1017Da)...

This paper presents a molecular mechanics study using a molecular dynamics software (NAMD) coupled to virtual reality techniques for intuitive bio-nanorobotic prototyping. Using molecular dynamic simulations the operator can design, characterize and prototype the behavior of bio-nanorobotic components and structures. The main novelty of the proposed simulations is based on the characterization ...