Earth building materials offer architects, engineers and clients a low carbon walling solution for rise properties (under 3 storeys). Unfortunately, the mixture of sub-soil fibre known as Cob does not currently comply with thermal aspects many regulations across world. This paper designs optimises low-density cob mix intended to maintain material’s credentials whilst conforming regulations. Sam...

Low density aramid and carbon fibre-reinforced epoxy foam has been synthesised with the aim of improving mechanical properties, principally fracture performance. The properties measured were energy, compressive strength, density. influence fibre type, loading, length was investigated. In addition, composite face-sheet bond tests performed to ascertain how effective toughness transferred from in...

We demonstrate a spray pyrolysis method to grow carbon nanotubes (CNTs) with high degree of crystallinity, aspect ratio and degree of alignment on a variety of different substrates, such as conventional steel, carbon fibres (CF) and ceramics. The process consists in the chemical vapour deposition of both a thin SiO2 layer and CNTs that subsequently grow on this thin layer. After CNT growth, inc...

The superminimality of the fibres of an almost contact metric submersion is used to study the integrability of the horizontal distribution and the structure of the total space.

Microplastics have been detected all around the globe in freshwaters which are frequently used to produce drinking water. Therefore, contamination of raw water with microplastics that supplies treatment plants, and their removal efficiency is raising more concern interest. In present study, we evaluated microplastic a conventional plant (Geneva, Switzerland) contribution coagulation on filtrati...

The compound {Fe(2)(CO)(6)[µ-S(2)C(6)H(2)(OH)(2)]} is organized by H-bond interactions on graphite and SiO(2) surfaces as micron-length nanofibres. Thermal degradation of these fibres adsorbed on SiO(2) leads to a very homogeneous surface filled with Fe(2)O(3) nanoparticles (ca. 2.5 nm diameter) suitable to produce few-walled carbon nanotubes laying on a clean surface.

Improving the properties of fibre reinforced ceramics and glasses by optimizing their microstructure requires the knowledge of this structure down to the atomic level. In these materials energy-dissipative processes during fracture particularly act within an interface layer or layer system between fibre and matrix which can either be produced by fibre coating, or which develops during the proce...

Specific genotoxicity of solid particles are discussed by using three different examples. Carcinogenic asbestos fibres have primary genotoxic effects as well, that can be studied in in vitro studies. Nevertheless, demonstration of their mesothelioma inducing effect is only possible in in vivo studies. Their carrier function seems to be essential for the biological activity. Carbon nanotubes do ...

Reward-induced burst firing of dopaminergic neurons has mainly been studied in the primate midbrain. Voltammetry allows high-speed detection of dopamine release in the projection area. Although voltammetry has revealed presynaptic modulation of dopamine release in the striatum, to date, reward-induced release in awakened brains has been recorded only in rodents. To make such recordings, it is p...