This paper proposes a new foaming technology (solid-state foaming) to produce structural foams from waste thermosetting resins. The proposed technology is easy and does not require specific and expensive equipments. Solid tablets are produced by cold compaction of resin powder, and foam by heating in an oven. Composite foams can be produced by mixing fillers and resin powder before the cold com...

The apparent particle dispersion in a granular medium due to the combined effects of random granular arrangements and interstitial fluid flow was studied. The particle motion was a two-dimensional random walk on the transverse plane. The corresponding dispersion coefficient was found by sampling all possible trajectories with the aid of two granular media models. The theoretical results were ve...

The POWDER protocol is a Semantic Web technology that takes advantage of natural groupings of URIs to annotate all the resources in a regular expression-delineated sub-space of the URI space. POWDER is a mechanism for accreditation, trustmarking and resource discovery, emphasising the publishing of attributed metadata by third parties and trusted authorities. Demonstrating its versatility, it h...

In this study, a powder rheometer was used to measure flow characteristics of two pharmaceutical model powders. Precise measurements were obtained for one of the model powders whereas the results were less precise for the second powder. In conclusion, further work is needed to increase the mechanistic understanding of powder rheological measurements. INTRODUCTION Modern pharmaceuticals are prim...

Powder formation in silane plasmas has been considered as a technology drawback because it might lead to the formation of macroscopic defects in the deposited layers. Here we summarize our recent efforts in controlling the formation of powder precursors, in particular, nanocrystalline silicon particles, aiming at their incorporation in the films. Indeed, the incorporation of clusters and crysta...