The objective of this research was to prepare an optimized bio-composite for packaging based on alkali-treated banana pseudo-stem fiber (BPSF), PBAT, and PLA using response surface methodology (RSM). effects three factors, i.e., BPSF (0.8 2.4 g), PBAT (0.75 2.25 (1.6 3.2 g) two dependent variables, bending strength tensile bio-composite, were investigated. Box-Behnken design (BBD) provided the ...

Abstract In this paper an attempt has been made to prepare bio-composite using water hyacinth fiber as reinforcement and potato starch matrix. The renewable resource, is used the major composition of proposed bio-composite. Since bio polymer can contribute better mechanical properties, it act a substitute for existing synthetic fibers. biodegradable, environmentally friendly less expensive char...

Bioceramics such as hydroxyapatite (HAP) have been conventionally deposited by plasma spray technique. However, due to the inherent high temperature in the plasma, deleterious effects such as evaporation, phase alteration, residual stress, debonding, and gas release etc., commonly occur in these coatings. This paper presents a novel approach to deposit bioceramic coatings at temperatures well b...

– Good insulation materials have low thermal conductivity which is mainly related with the density of material. Bio-composite contribute to reduce environmental footprint buildings. The main goal this study effectiveness a self-growing, bio-composite building material made Miscanthus x giganteus and mushroom Mycelium. Different mix proportions Mycelium were considered identify most suitable mix...

The in silico prediction of the functional consequences of mutations is an important goal of human pathogenetics. However, bioinformatic tools that classify mutations according to their functionality employ different algorithms so that predictions may vary markedly between tools. We therefore integrated nine popular prediction tools (PolyPhen-2, SNPs&GO, MutPred, SIFT, MutationTaster2, Mutation...

The rapid development of numerous microscale electronic devices, such as smart dust, micro or nano bio-sensors, medical implants and so on, has induced an urgent demand for integratable micro or nano battery supplies with high energy and power densities. In this work, 3D hexagonal bottle-like Si/Ge composite nanorod (NR) array electrodes with good uniformity and mechanical stability potentially...

The synthesis and properties of an oxygen reduction catalyst based on a unique 3-dimensional (3D) nitrogen doped (N-doped) carbon composite are described. The composite material is synthesised via a two-step hydrothermal and pyrolysis method using bio-source low-cost materials of galactose and melamine. Firstly, the use of iron salts and galactose to hydrothermally produceiron oxide (Fe₂O₃) mag...

When three or more ontologies have been aligned, longer chains of mapped concepts start to appear. In this paper, we empirically study the nature of these composite mappings, focusing on chains of (near) equivalence links of length two. We ask human experts to evaluate samples of composite mappings, taken from large real life data sets. Based on these evaluations, we analyze the features of map...

One novel composite kernel based support vector machine (SVM), which is called DOCKSVM (Data Oriented Composite Kernel based Support Vector Machine) is proposed in the paper. SVM have been proved good potential in various studies, and tried to application for pattern classification problems such as text categorization, image classification, objects detection etc. Recently, more and more researc...