Understanding of the potential leaching plastic particles, particularly nanoplastics (NPs), from food packaging is crucial in assessing safety materials. Therefore, objective this study was to investigate exposure risks by simulating release NPs various materials, including polypropylene (PP), general casting (GCPP) or metalized (MCPP), polyethylene (PE), terephthalate (PET), and polyphenylene ...

• Recycled carbon fibres were used for laminate interlayer toughening. The commingled rCFs/Polyphenylene-sulfid showed excellent toughening performance. mode-I and mode-II fracture energies of the significantly increased by 220% 105%, respectively. This study demonstrated an attractive application recycled fibres. Exploring routes effective use (rCFs) is critical to close loop in life cycle wor...

Non-adiabatic excited-state molecular dynamics is used to study the ultrafast intramolecular energy transfer between two-, three-, and four-ring linear polyphenylene ethynylene chromophore units linked through meta-substitutions. Twenty excited-state electronic energies, with their corresponding gradients and nonadiabatic coupling vectors were included in the simulations. The initial laser exci...

The demand for increased miniaturization of integrated circuits has opened the way to the emerging field of molecular electronics. Recent experimental studies have established that single molecules or a finite ensemble of self-assembled molecules can perform the basic functions of conventional electronic components (i.e., transistors, wires and diodes). In particular, it has been demonstrated t...

The synthesis and the characterization of new polymeric systems to be used as protective coatings for space vehicles is described. Particular emphasis is placed on ablators which have low irradiation and particle emissivity under the conditions of typical reentry of a space vehicle into the atmosphere. Crosslinking by ionizing radiation in carbon black filled Kel-F and Teflon has been establish...

I read with interest the recent article by Schilder et al. reporting that plasma levels and the biomarker value of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) in critically ill patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) are not affected by continuous venovenous hemofiltration (CVVH) [1]. Recently, Honore et al. [2] commented on the data by Schilder et al., suggesting that further studies are...

The ban and restrictions on some of the brominated flame retardants (BFRs) has led to an increase in use and production of alternatives such as halogenated free flame retardants (HFFRs). Limited information is available on the occurrence and fate of inorganic HFFRs. Inorganic HFFRs such as aluminum polyphosphinate (AlPi), melamine polyphosphate (MPP) and zincstannate (ZS), dissociate into ions ...