The circular economy promotes plastic recycling, waste minimization, and sustainable materials. Hence, the use of agricultural recycled plastics is an eco-friendly economic outlook for developing eco-designed products. Moreover, new alternatives to reinforce polyolefins add value agroindustrial byproducts are emerging develop processable materials with reliable performance industrial applicatio...

We experimentally study mechanical vibrations in planar Fabry-Perot microcavities made of metallic mirrors and a polymer spacer, using broadband pump-probe spectroscopy. These acoustic waves oscillate at a picosecond time-scale and result in spectral oscillations of the cavity transmission spectrum. We find that the oscillations are initiated at the metal mirrors and that their temporal dynamic...

Hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) is attractive for radiation detectors because of its radiation resistance and processability over large areas and with mature Si microfabrication techniques. While the use of a-Si:H for medical imaging has been very successful, the development of detectors for particle tracking and minimum-ionizing-particle detection has lagged, with almost no practical i...

A new poly(N-vinylcarbazole)-covalently grafted single-wall carbon nanotube (SWNT-PVK) hybrid material was synthesized by an in situ anionic polymerization reaction of N-vinylcarbazole and the negatively charged SWNTs. Incorporation of the PVK moieties onto the SWNTs' surface considerably improves the solubility and processability of SWNTs. At the same level of linear transmission, the SWNT-PVK...

Incomplete information produces serious consequences in information extraction: it increases costs and leads to problems in downstream processing. This work focuses on improving the completeness of extraction results by applying judiciously selected assessment methods to information extraction based on the principle of complementarity. Our recommendation model simplifies the selection of assess...

Recombinant DNA synthesis was employed to produce elastin-mimetic protein triblock copolymers containing chemically distinct midblocks. These materials displayed a broad range of mechanical and viscoelastic responses ranging from plastic to elastic when examined as hydrated gels and films. These properties could be related in a predictable fashion to polymer block size and structure. While thes...

For wavelength-selective photodetection or color discrimination, organic photodetectors (OPDs) can provide significant advantages as solution processability, chemical versatility and functionality. To eliminate the need for commonly used filters, development...

Since carbon nanotubes (CNTs) display unique structures and remarkable physical properties, a variety of applications have emerged in both materials and life sciences. In terms of applications, the functionalisation of nanotubes is extremely important, as it increases their solubility and processability, and combines the unique properties of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) with those of...