Polymeric materials have become an integral part of every aspect of today's industry. They have wide applications, inter alia, in areas such as medicine, food industry and agriculture. In agriculture, for example, they are used for the production of pots, irrigation systems and for soil mulching. The aim of this study was the attempt to produce a biodecomposable agricultural mat, by coating cot...

This paper presents a study of dynamic mechanical properties of Fused Deposition Modelling (FDM) rapid prototyping processed material Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS). It involves the measurement of modulus and damping properties of the material as it is deformed under periodic stress. In this study, frequency sweep is performed in DMA 2980 equipment to determine modulus, damping and visco...

The authors report on fast phase imaging in liquids achieved by fast phase detection in rapid scan atomic force microscopy. The phase-shift images clearly revealed the compositional heterogeneities in styrene-butadiene-styrene block copolymer films even at an imaging rate of less than 100 ms/ frame. They found that the contrast variations of the phase images depended on the phase-shift detectio...

Many new biomarkers are being studied, in addition to classical biomarkers, such as chemical substances and their metabolites in blood and urine and modified enzymes. Among these new biomarkers, hemoglobin adducts are thought to be especially useful for the estimation of chemical exposures. We review here the use of biomarkers for monitoring exposures to nine substances, mainly focusing on PRTR...

In road paving industry, asphalt emulsion is used for cold mix application such as chip seal, slurry seal, microsurfacing, cold recycled mixture and etc. Asphalt emulsion has several advantages compared to normal asphalt such as eco-friendly, easy to handle at ambient temperature and energy saving material because it does not need any heating process in its application. The history of asphalt e...

Due to the condition of the original material, there are unavoidable flaws in this reproduction. We have made every effort possible to provide you with the best copy available. If you are dissatisfied with this product and find it unusable, please contact Document Services as soon as possible. ABSTRACT Simultaneous determination of the lamellar morphological length scale and the grain size of s...