The aim of this work is to study the applications of soft computing technique on the machinability of bagasse fiber-reinforced vinyl ester composites. The prediction accuracy of regression, artificial neural networks, and neuro-fuzzy methods on the response variables during machining of bagasse fiber-reinforced vinyl ester composite sheets.. In experimental part, a total of 27 experiments was c...

Thermoplastic elastomers based on polyesters/carbonates have the potential to maximize recyclability, degradability and renewable resource use. However, they often underperform suffer from familiar trade-off between strength extensibility. Herein, we report well-defined reprocessable poly(ester-b-carbonate-b-ester) with impressive tensile strengths (60 MPa), elasticity (>800 %) recovery (95 %)....

Juvenile hormone (JH) undergoes metabolic degradation by two major pathways involving JH esterase and JH epoxide hydrolase (EH). While considerable effort has been focussed on the study of JH esterase and the development of inhibitors for this enzyme, much less has been reported on the study of JH-EH. In this work, the asymmetric synthesis of two classes of inhibitors of recombinant JH-EH from ...

A cyanate ester/microcapsule system with low cure temperature and self-healing " Abstract: Microcapsules filled with epoxy resin were blended into cyanate ester resin to produce systems with low cure temperature and self-healing capacity. A 4,4′-diaminodiphenylsulfone (DDS) curing agent was adopted for the systems. The mechanical properties, thermal stability and self-healing ability of the sys...

A new method is reported on preparation of multifunctional free-standing Ni/epoxy composite films with comprehensive physical properties under an applied magnetic field. A water soluble poly(vinyl alcohol) film is used as an interlayer film to separate epoxy resin and glass wafer. Ultrafine Ni particles are incorporated into a self-designed flexible-type transparent epoxy resin to get composite...

The results of a study environmental ageing on the apparent interfacial shear strength glass fibre–vinyl ester microbond samples are presented. scale related issues estimating water absorption levels in reviewed and discussed solution based Fickian diffusion is given. Interphase microdroplets aged at 23°C was relatively stable up to 6 days exposure after which degradation fairly rapid. Immersio...

A novel method for D-glucose (D-Glu) and trimethylammonium chloride immobilization onto the surface of cellulose powder was studied. Cellulose powder was grafted with vinyl monomer glycidyl methacrylate (GMA), using ceric ammonium nitrate as an initiator, and further derived with quaternary ammonium groups to build the D-GluN-type cellulose absorbent (Cell-g-GMA-D-GluN). Epoxy cellulose was fou...