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Cellulose Nanomaterials: Measurement Needs and Potential Solutions
As global efforts continue to discover new applications for cellulose nanomaterials, commercial production and processing of these materials will have unique measurement needs.
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Paper Solutions for Food Packaging Webinar
Paper Solutions for Food Packaging Webinar Folia Materials’s patented nano-metal coating technology transforms paper into an advanced material platform capable of replacing billions of plastic
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Paper Solutions for Food Packaging Webinar
Paper Solutions for Food Packaging Webinar Folia Materials’s patented nano-metal coating technology transforms paper into an advanced material platform capable of replacing billions of plastic
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Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success
Conquering Innovation Fatigue: Overcoming the Barriers to Personal and Corporate Success
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Labeling Strategies for Cellulosic Materials
Labeling Strategies for Cellulosic Materials . Presenter: Professor Douglas Fox, Professor American University Summary: Identifying and quantifying cellulose in dilute solutions or in a complex
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Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications (3rd Edition)
Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications (3rd Edition)
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Designing Plant-Based Functional Materials Towards Carbon-Negative Applications Webinar
Recent developments towards resource-wise societies and use of renewable materials have created a strong incentive to utilize biomass-derived materials as an alternative to oil-based polymers.
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Effects of different ammonium lignosulfonate contents on the crystallization, rheological behaviors, and thermal and mechanical properties of ethylene propylene diene monomer/polypropylene/ammonium lignosulfonate composites, TAPPI Journal January 2020
ABSTRACT: Thermoplastic elastomer (TPE), made from ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM) and polypropylene (PP) based on reactive blending, has an excellent processing performance and characteristics and a wide range of applications. However, there are currently no reports in the literature regarding the usage of TPE in making composite boards. In this paper, EPDM, PP, and ammonium lignosulfonate (AL) were used as the raw materials, polyethylene wax was used as the plasticizer, and a dicumyl peroxide vulcanization system with dynamic vulcanization was used to make a new kind of composite material. This research studied the influences of the AL contents on the crystallization behaviors, rheological properties, thermal properties, and mechanical properties of the composites. The results showed that the AL content had a noticeable impact on the performance of the composite board. Accordingly, this kind of composite material can be used as an elastomer material for the core layer of laminated flooring.
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Eco-Design Strategies for Engineering Renewable Nanomaterials Webinar
Nanotechnology Webinar
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Understanding extensibility of paper: Role of fiber elongation and fiber bonding, TAPPI Journal March 2020
ABSTRACT: The tensile tests of individual bleached softwood kraft pulp fibers and sheets, as well as the micro-mechanical simulation of the fiber network, suggest that only a part of the elongation potential of individual fibers is utilized in the elongation of the sheet. The stress-strain curves of two actual individual pulp fibers and one mimicked classic stress-strain behavior of fiber were applied to a micromechanical simulation of random fiber networks. Both the experimental results and the micromechanical simulations indicated that fiber bonding has an important role not only in determining the strength but also the elongation of fiber networks. Additionally, the results indicate that the shape of the stress-strain curve of individual pulp fibers may have a significant influence on the shape of the stress-strain curve of a paper sheet. A large increase in elongation and strength of paper can be reached only by strengthening fiber-fiber bonding, as demonstrated by the experimental handsheets containing starch and cellulose microfibrils and by the micromechanical simulations. The key conclusion related to this investigation was that simulated uniform inter-fiber bond strength does not influence the shape of the stress-strain curve of the fiber network until the bonds fail, whereas the number of bonds has an influence on the activation of the fiber network and on the shape of the whole stress-strain curve.