Thermal Conductivity

• The Effect of Pumice Powder on Mechanical and Thermal Properties of Polypropylene

  Pumice stone (P), which is as a cheap material, can be a good candidate for filling material for polymers because of its high thermal resistance. Its effect on properties of polypropylene (PP) has...

• Eco-friendly Flame Retardant Cellulose Nanofibril Aerogels by Incorporating Sodium Bicarbonate

  Cellulose nanofiber (CNF) aerogels offer excellent thermal insulation properties, but high flammability restricts their application. In this study, CNF aerogels were prepared by incorporating...

• Pyrolysis Behavior and Chemical Composition of the Precursors Influence on Structure and Properties

  Carbon foams with high compressive strength and low thermal conductivity were produced using coal tar pitches (CTPs) obtained from low-temperature coal tar (LTCT), after thermal treatment combined...

• Rice Straw Cellulose Aerogels

  In this study, cellulose was obtained from rice straw by dewaxing with Soxhlet extraction and treating with sodium hydroxide and hydrogen peroxide. The obtained cellulose was used to successfully...

• Thermal Conductivity of Unsaturated Soils

  Heat transfer through soils is a fundamental process in many energy geosystems such as shallow geothermal heat exchangers, energy piles, buried high-voltage power cables in wind or solar energy...

• Enhanced Electrical and Thermal Conductivities of Silicon Oxycarbide Nanocomposites

  Novel silicon oxycarbide-carbon enriched composites (SiOC-C) were prepared from mixtures of SiOC and different amounts of carbon nanofibers (CNF) (0–10%) sintered through spark plasma sintering at...

• Measuring the Thermal Conductivity of Pastes Using C-Therm TCKit

  An application for the TCKit will be highlighted here - thermal pastes and greases. Evaluating the concern of convection error when measuring the thermal conductivity of semi-solid materials using...

• Performance Evaluation and Lubrication Mechanism of 2 Water-Based Nanolubricants

  Hot rolling tests of a low-alloy steel were conducted at a rolling temperature of 850 ℃under different lubrication conditions, including benchmarks (dry condition and water) and water based...

• Thermal Conductivity of Cement Stabilized Earth Bricks Reinforced with Date Palm Fiber

  Recently, some cheap materials are available and adaptable to climate seem to meet current requirements. This paper investigates the thermal and mechanical properties of cement stabilized earth...

• Effect of Ni Content and Al 2 O 3 Particle Size on the Thermal and Mechanical Properties

  Alumina-nickel composites were prepared by carrying out spark plasma sintering(SPS) of nano-sized and micro-sized Al₂O₃ particles with 15–45 wt% Ni powders. The powder materials were sintered at a...

• Orientation of Boron Nitride Nanosheets in CM/EPDM Co-Continuous Blends

  The co-continuous blends of chlorinated polyethylene rubber (CM) and ethylene propylene diene rubber (EPDM) were prepared. Boron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs) were filled into the blends and...

• Theoretical and Empirical Thermal Conductivity Models of Red Mud Filled Polymer Composites

  The present paper deals with the prediction capability of theoretical and empirical models on thermal conductivity coefficient (TCC) of red mud/polypropylene composites. Red mud is known as an...

• Strain-Induced Oriented Crystallization of UHMWPE Enhanced Thermal Conductivity

  Thermal conductivity of bulk polymers can be enhanced by strain-induced oriented crystallization. This work reports a three-step solution-free fabrication process to promote a polymer film’s...

• Batio3-Carbonsilicon Carbidepoly-Three-Component Nanocomposites with High Dielectric Constant

  This work reports a new three-component composite which is consisted of dielectric carbon coated barium titanate hybrid particles (BT@C), thermal conductive silicon carbide nanoparticles (SiC NPs),...

• Design and Development of Thermally Conductive Hybrid Nano‐Composites in Polysulfone Matrix

  A percolating network of hybrid fillers can provide significant synergic enhancement of thermal conductivity in polymer matrix composites. Especially, when platelets and fibers of high aspect...

• Thermal Conductivity of MgO-C Refractory Ceramics Effects of Pyrolytic Liquid and Pyrolytic Carbon

  In the present study, thermal conductivity and mechanical properties of MgO-C refractory ceramic bricks were investigated. Pyrolytic liquid and pyrolytic carbon black obtained from pyrolysis of...

• Thermally Conductive Polybutylene Terephthalate Hexagonal Boron Nitride Composites

  Thermally conductive polymer matrix composites (PMC) are promising alternatives to traditional electronic packaging materials to enhance the heat dissipation of integrated circuits, due to...

• Effect of Al2O3/ Water Nanofluid on Performance of Parallel Flow Heat Exchangers

  A comprehensive experimental investigation is intended to survey consequence of nanofluid on performance of sundry parallel flow heat exchangers with the same heat transfer surface area. An...

• Realizing Nanoscale Quantitative Thermal Mapping of Scanning Thermal Microscopy

  Quantitative assessment of thermal property by scanning thermal microscopy (SThM) is a demanded technology but still not available yet due to the presence of unpredictable thermal contact...

• Sustainable One-part Geopolymer Foams with Glass Fines Versus Sand as Aggregates

  The ever-increasing demand for high-quality river sand in construction, which poses economic and environmental concerns, highlights the necessity for finding suitable alternatives. Waste glass has...

• Thermal Enhancement of ParaffinHydrophobic Expanded Perlite Granular Phase Change Composite

  Thermal performance of latent heat thermal energy storage (LHTES) systems is often limited by low thermal conductivity of phase change materials (PCMs), which reduces the heat transfer rate and...

• Intriguingly High Thermal Conductivity Increment for CuO Nanowires Contained Nanofluids

  Nanofluids offer the exciting new possibilities to enhance heat transfer performance. In this paper, experimental and theoretical investigations have been conducted to determine the effect of CuO...

• Mechanical, Thermal, and Viscoelastic Investigations on Expanded High-Density Polyethylene Composite

  Perlite is a glassy amorphous volcanic rock and generally used in construction industries. Possible uses of perlite powder in polymeric composites allow producing value-added products. In this...

• Fabrication of Open-Cell Thermoelectric Polymer Nanocomposites by Template-Assisted Carbon Coating

  In this work, open-cell polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) templates were employed to assist the formation of multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT) network in polymer matrices. The continuous network...

• Thermal and Electrical Conductivity of Unsaturated Polyester Resin Filled with Copper Composites

  Thermal and electrical conductivity of unsaturated polyester resin with copper filler composite material is investigated both theoretically and experimentally. In the experiments, polyester matrix...

• Thermal Conductivity and Diffusivity of Fine-Grained Sedimentary Rocks

  Thermal conductivity is an important thermophysical rock property, needed for heat flow determination, deep thermal regime determination, and reconstruction of thermal history of sedimentary basin....

• Design of Sustainable Porous Materials Based on 3D-Structured Silica Exoskeletons, Diatomite

  3D-structured silica exoskeletons-diatomite was used as reactive inorganic ingredient, with and without metakaolin to produce sustainable multifunctional diatomite-based geopolymeric foams....

• Evaluation of Rheological and Thermal Properties of Polyvinylidene Fluoride GNP Composites

  Polyvinylidene Fluoride (PVDF)/graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) composites were prepared by solution blending with various loadings of graphene nanoplatelets (GNP). Rheological behavior and thermal...

• Development of Thermally Conductive Thermoplastic Polyurethane Composite Foams

  In this work, thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU)-hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) composite foams have been fabricated by physical foaming processes using carbon dioxide (CO2) as the blowing agent....

• Investigate the Effect of Solvents on Wet Granulation of Microcrystalline Cellulose

  Since decades, granulation is operational as a critical size enlargement process for powder agglomeration in tablet manufacturing. Dry granulation, melt granulation and wet granulation are some of...

• Sodium Acetate Trihydrate-Chitin Nanowhisker Nanocomposites with Enhanced Phase Change Performance

  Inorganic phase change materials possess superior properties such as better thermal conductivity, higher latent heat of fusion, and cheaper price to their organic counterparts. However, their...

• Enhanced Thermal Conductivity of 5A Molecular Sieve with BNs Segregated Structures

  5A molecular sieves have been widely used as adsorbents in cryogenic distillation for hydrogen isotope separation in fusion reactor engineering, but its low thermal conductivity is detrimental to...

• Sodium Silicate Insulating Foam Reinforced with Acid-Treated Fly Ash

  A set of insulating foams based on sodium silicate were prepared using acid-treated fly ash as an additive. It was found that the HCl-treated fly ash was able to remove the undesirable...

• Cellulose Aerogels Prepared from Rice Straw

  Cellulose aerogels are green, ultralight and highly porous materials which are promising alternatives to common thermal insulation materials. In this study, cellulose aerogels were prepared from...

• Glass Foams Produced from Glass and Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguarinensis) Waste

  In this study, compositions containing green glass bottles and desiccated and crushed yerba mate (Ilex paraguarinensis) of different mass fractions (10–30%) were prepared to obtain glass foams for...

• Influence of Thermo-Pressing Conditions on Insulation Materials from Bamboo Fibers and Bone Glue

  Reducing energy consumption for future buildings using bio-based insulation materials is currently one of the most attractive research pursuits. The specific purpose of this research was to...

• WC-Stainless Steel Hardmetals

  WC-AISI304 (SS) composites with the phase composition controlled by adequate carbon addition are being developed as potential alternatives to the established WC-Co hardmetals, following the REACH...

• Three-Dimensional Blood Vessel Model with Temperature-Indicating Function for Evaluation

  Surgical simulators have recently attracted attention because they enable the evaluation of the surgical skills of medical doctors and the performance of medical devices. However, thermal damage to...

• Stiffness-Thermal Conduction Relationship at Composite Interface

  The polymer/filler interface is usually considered as a thermal barrier in composites due to the mismatch of the phonon frequency across the interface. How the interface plays its role in thermal...

• Wear Maps and Models in Tribological Damage Analysis of SI3N4 Ceramics with Tribochemical Wear

  Si3N4 ceramics and their composites are excellent materials for tribological applications due to their outstanding mechanical, thermal characteristics, combined with good wear and corrosion...

• Accommodating Volume Change & Imparting Thermal Conductivity by Encapsulation of PCM

  A Pickering-type emulsion is used as a template to encapsulate the phase change material stearic acid (SA) using graphene oxide nanosheets stitched together. GO-coated SA particles are solid at...

• Crystal Growth, Spectroscopy and Laser Performances of Pr 3+ Sr 0.7 La 0.3 Mg 0.3 Al 11.7

  We report on the crystal growth, spectroscopic properties and visible laser performances of Pr3+ -doped Sr0.7La0.3Mg0.3Al11.7O19 (ASL). ASL crystals doped with 2 at.% and 4 at.% Pr3+ were grown by...

• Polyaniline Cryogels: Biocompatibility of Novel Conducting Macroporous Material

  Polyaniline cryogel is a new unique form of polyaniline combining intrinsic electrical conductivity and the material properties of hydrogels. It is prepared by the polymerization of aniline in...

• Experimental & Numerical Investigation on the Performance of Carbon-based Nanoenhanced PCMs

  Phase change material (PCM)-based thermal management is one of the most promising approaches for the thermal management of energy conversion devices such as electric vehicle batteries and...

• A Simple Novel Mix Design Method and Properties Assessment of Foamed Concretes with Limestone Slurry

  The paper aims to study the effects of LSSW fillers on different properties of foamed concretes (also known as cellular lightweight concretes (CLCs)) with a wide range of concrete densities...

• Novel Segregated-Structure PCMs Composed of Paraffin Graphene Microencapsules with High Latent Heat

  Paraffin, due to its linear chain and saturated hydrocarbons with low thermal conductivity, is difficult to transfer energy effectively. Using amphiphilicity of graphene oxide (GO), Pickering...

• Development of Thermal Energy Storage Cementitious Composites (TESC) containing novel composite PCM

  This study demonstrates the development of thermal energy storage cementitious composites (TESCs) by integrating a form-stable phase change material (PCM) composite into cement matrix. The PCM...

• Solution-Processed Ni–CNTs Filled Ferroelectric P(VDF–TrFE) Composites with Improved Die

  Dielectric composites made using two kinds of poly(vinylidene fluoride–trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF–TrFE)] (70/30 and 80/20 mol%) as polymer matrices and nickel particles coated carbon nanotubes...

• Hygrothermal Properties of Bio-insulation Building Materials based on Bamboo Fibers and Bio-glues

  This study focuses on manufacturing by thermo-pressing new low-environmental-impact bio-insulation fiberboards from bamboo fibers and bone glue, modified with sodium lignosulfonate. The aims are to...

• Construction of 3D Multiple Networks Skeleton by Thiol-Michael Addition Click Reaction to Fabricate

  Novel porous polymer/graphene composite aerogels with multiple network structure, enhanced compressive properties and high thermal conductivity are first fabricated by adsorbing water vapour,...

• Enhanced Thermal Conductivity for Nanofluids Containing Silver Nanowires with Different Shapes

  Nanofluids are the special agents to enhance the heat transfer property of the common fluids, and most of the thermal additives are the spherical nanoparticles. Up to now, the 1-D thermal additives...

• Thermal Transfer Performance of A Spherical Encapsulated PEG 6000-based Composite for Energy Storage

  A polymeric phase change composite material (70 wt% polyethylene glycol, PEG, 6000)-epoxy resin (29 wt%) with aluminum nanopowder (1 wt%) as filler, P60-E, was developed and thermally tested first...

• Effects of Covalent Functionalization of MWCNTs on the Thermal Properties

  In this study, a PPS/MWCNTs composite was prepared with poly(phenylene sulfide) (PPS), as well as pristine and covalent functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) via melt-blending...

• Geopolymer Eco-cellular Concrete (GECC) Based on Fluid Catalytic Cracking Catalyst Residue (FCC)

  This study presents a new cellular concrete design focused on the energy eco-efficiency and the sustainability concept: geopolymer eco-cellular concrete (GECC). Geopolymer systems made from...

• Investigation of Thermal Conductivity Variation of Biomass Products with Moisture

  The aim of this paper is to investigate the thermal conductivity of various biomass products and investigate the thermal conductivity when moisture is added. In this study, the biomass used was...

• Evaluation of Energy Efficient Hybrid Hollow Plaster Panel Using PCM/xGnP Composite

  Latent heat storage is considered to be the most effective way to use phase change material (PCM) to charge or discharge thermal energy as latent heat during the phase change period. In this study,...

• Microwave Heating Modelling of a Green Smoothie. Effects on Glucoraphanin, Sulforaphane

  Background: The heating of a green smoothie during an innovative semi−continuous microwave treatment (MW; 9 kW for 15 s) was modelled. Thermal and dielectric properties of the samples were...

• Evaluation of Mechanical & Thermal Properties of Glass Fiber, Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composites

  Composite material plays a vital role as it is a combination of two or more materials that results in better properties than those of the individual components used. Major proportion of engineering...

• Hydrothermal Flow-through Treatment of Wheat Straw: Coupled Heat and Mass Transfer Modeling with

  Fixed-bed processes handling lignocellulose pose several challenges for reactor modeling. The fluid and solid material as well as the complete fixed-bed show varying properties with temperature,...

• Interfacial Growth of MOF-derived Layered Double Hydroxide Nanosheets on Graphene Slab towards

  In order to develop safe electrical insulating epoxy nanocomposites with fast heat dissipation and low fire hazard, a “3D fabrication method” was proposed to employ acid-sensitive metal organic...

• Fabrication&Thermal Analysis of Epoxy Resin-carbon Fiber Fabric Composite Plate-coil Heat Exchangers

  The fabrication and thermal performance assessment of single plate heat exchangers made from carbon fiber fabric and epoxy resin are presented and discussed. To increase the thermal performance of...

• The Influence of the Molecular Structure of Used Polyolefins on Selected Properties of Foams

  The Master's thesis is composed of a literature review describing a formation of a porous structure, processing technologies of the foam production, materials suitable for a foam preparation and...

• Influence of Surrounding Powder Bed&Build Platform on Thermal Cooling Characteristics in 3D Printing

  Selective laser melting (SLM) leads to high cooling rates and correspondingly high residual stresses, which can distort the printed part on the printing platform and even lead to part cracking and...

• Enhancement of Radio-absorbing Properties and Thermal Conductivity of Polysiloxane-based

  A design for the fabrication of more effective, thin, light-weight radio-absorbers (RAs) based on magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) is demonstrated. Carbonyl iron (CI) particles were...

• Great Thermal Conductivity Enhancement of Silicone Composite with Ultra-Long Copper Nanowires

  In this paper, ultra-long copper nanowires (CuNWs) were successfully synthesized at a large scale by hydrothermal reduction of divalent copper ion using oleylamine and oleic acid as dual ligands....

• Wear Maps of HIP Sintered Si3N4 MLG Nanocomposites for Unlike Paired Tribosystems

  Hot isostatically pressed monolithic and multilayer graphene (MLG) reinforced silicon nitride nanocomposites have been investigated by ball-on-disc tests under variable loading conditions. Tests...

• Copper Nanowire-Filled Soft Elastomer Composites for Applications as Thermal Interface Materials

  Efficient heat dissipation is a critical requirement for sustained performance and failure prevention of microelectronic components. Thermal interface materials are used to fill the voids at the...

• From Morphology of Attrited Copper MWCNT Hybrid Fillers to Thermal and Mechanical Characteristics

  Synergistic effect of copper and multiwalled carbon nanotube on thermal and mechanical properties of high-density polyethylene (HDPE)-matrix composite was evaluated. Attrition mill was employed to...

• Thermal Conductivity of Sedimentary Rocks as Function of Biot’s Coefficient

  A theoretical model for prediction of effective thermal conductivity with application to sedimentary rocks is presented. Effective thermal conductivity of sedimentary rocks can be estimated from...

• Thermal Insulating Properties of Straw-Filled Environmentally Friendly Building Materials

  The paper presents results of a research for determination of a few general thermal-physical properties of environmentally friendly building materials made by clay, sand and straw. The aim of this...

• Performance Evaluation of Macro-Packed Fatty Acid Ester Composites

  The fatty-acid composites are used for thermal-storage systems. The macro-packing method was developed to prevent leakage during the phase transition and to enhance the thermal conductivity. The...

• Glass Foams Produced from Glass Bottles and Eggshell Wastes

  Glass foams were produced from discarded glass bottles (GB) and eggshells (ES) as foaming agent in contents between 1 and 30 wt%. The raw materials (GB, ES) were homogenized and uniaxially pressed...

• Effect of Hydrogen Bonding on Polymer Coil Size and Assembled Microstructure

  Molecular level engineering of polymer or polymer blends has been recently demonstrated effective strategy to regulate thermal conductivity. Such materials are of great interest to meet critical...

• Investigation on Thermal and Mechanical Characteristics of Concrete Mixed with Shape Stabilized PCM

  This paper aims at evaluating thermal and mechanical behaviors of concrete mixed with shape stabilized phase change material (SSPCM) in order to apply the concrete mixed with SSPCM for structural...

• Thermal Performance Assessment of PCM Integrated Cementitious Composites in Buildings

  This paper presents a comprehensive experimental and numerical investigation on thermal enhancement of form-stable phase change material (PCM) integrated cementitious composites, with the goal of...

• Investigation of the Structural and Mechanical Properties of MicroNano Sized Al2O3 & cBN Composites

  Alumina-cubic boron nitride (cBN) composites were prepared using the spark plasma sintering(SPS) technique. Alpha-alumina powders with particle sizes of ~15mm and~150mm were used as the matrix...

• Developing Heat Conduction Pathways through Short Polymer Chains in a Hydrogen Bonded Polymer System

  In the past couple of decades, high thermally conductive fillers are extensively used to develop thermally conductive polymer based composites. Such conventional methods suffer from wide variety of...

• A More Effective Thermal Conductive Filler than Spherical Particles for the Thermal Grease

  ZnO particles with different structures were filled into silicone oil to form a fluid system. The experimental results demonstrate that the thermal conductivity and viscosity of thermal greases...

• Modelling and Optimization of Aging Parameters for Thermal Properties of Al 6082 Alloy

  In the present paper an effort is made to study the effect of aging parameters solution time, aging temperature and aging time on thermal conductivity and coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) of...

• Dielectric Properties and Thermal Conductivity of Graphene Nanoplatelet Filled PVDF/PMMA Blend

  Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and graphene nanoplatelet (GNP) was introduced into poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) via a solution blending process, and a series of PVDF/PMMA/GNP composites were...

• Experimental Investigation of A Latent Heat Storage for Solar Cooling Applications

  The paper presents the realization and experimental characterization of a lab-scale latent heat storage, specifically developed for solar cooling applications. The latent heat storage is based on a...

• Enhanced Thermal Conductivity of Copper Nanofluids: The Effect of Filler Geometry

  Nanofluids are colloidal dispersions that exhibit enhanced thermal conductivity at low filler loadings and thus have been proposed for heat transfer applications. Here, we systematically...

• The Synthesis of Silica-based Aerogel from Gold Mine Waste for Thermal Insulation

  Energy consumption and increase in the greenhouse gases are very critical problem for all countries. In order to solve this problem, researches are focused on new thermal insulation materials that...

• Vitrocrystalline Foams Produced from Glass and Oyster Shell Wastes

  In this work discarded glass bottles (GB) of different colors and oyster shells, OS (1–15 wt%) as pore forming agent were used to produce vitrocrystalline foams. Homogenized powders of the...

• A Computational and Experimental Study on the Effective Properties of Al2O3-Ni Composites

  It has been demonstrated that effective medium approximation and mean field homogenization technique is a useful computational tool to predict the effective thermal and structural properties of...

• Optical Spectroscopic Properties, 0.946 and 1.074 μm Laser Performances of Nd3+-Doped Y2O3 Cera

  0.4% Nd3+-doped Y2O3 transparent ceramics have been investigated form their optical absorption and emission properties to the laser performances at two different wavelengths, 0.946 μm and 1.074 μm....

• Thermal Properties and Convective Heat Transfer of Phase Changing Paraffin Nanofluids

  Fluids containing micro-sized solid-liquid phase changing particles have been proposed to be promising candidates as future heat transfer fluids. In addition, smaller nano-sized particles have been...

• Energy Performance Evaluation of Heat-storage Gypsum Board with Hybrid SSPCM Composite

  Gypsum board with hybrid shape-stabilized PCM (hybrid SSPCM) was developed and it is composed of n-octadecane and beeswax based SSPCM. The characteristics of the hybrid SSPCM gypsum boards were...

• Study on Biomass Derived Activated Carbons for Adsorptive Heat Pump Application

  Biomasses are renewable resources and suitable precursors for synthesis of activated carbons (ACs). Two biomass sources: (i) Waste Palm Trunk (WPT) and (ii) Mangrove (M) are employed to synthesis...

• Silanization of Boron Nitride Nanosheets Through Microfluidization and Their Use

  Chemical exfoliation of boron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs) from large flakes of specially synthesized micro-sized hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) ceramics was carried out through microfluidization....

• Morphology and Physical Properties of Graphene Nanoplatelet Embedded PVA Composite Aerogel

  Three dimensional carbon nanomaterial reinforced composite aerogel was fabricated using a freeze-drying method. Graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) were used as the reinforcement and poly vinyl alcohol...

• Synergistic Effect of Selectively Distributed AlN MWCNT Hybrid Fillers on Morphological Mechanical

  A quaternary nanocomposite polycarbonate (PC)- multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNT)/SEBS-g-MA (SM)-AlN is prepared by controlling the selective distribution of nano-fillers via melt-blending....

• Improving the Flame Resistance and Thermal Conductivity of Ethylene-vinyl Acetate Composites

  Graphite has been regarded as a promising additive for improving the fire safety and thermal conductivity (TC) of polymers. In this article, graphite was modified by grafting with...

• Enhanced Vapor Transport in Membrane distillation via Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes Anchored into

  To ascertain membrane distillation (MD) as an emerging desalination technology to meet the global water challenge, development of membranes with ideal material properties is crucial. Functionalized...

• An Experimental Study on the Thermal Performance of Phase-Change Material and Wood-Plastic Composite

  The researcher assessed the usefulness of phase-change material (PCM)-based thermal plates fabricated from wood-plastic composites (WPCs) in mitigating the urban heat island effect. The thermal...

• Development of a Ceramic-based Composite for Direct Bonded Copper Substrate

  In the present paper, a computational approach is presented to design alumina-based composite with tailored properties that could replace commercial alumina used in Direct Bonded Copper (DBC)...

• Electrical and Thermal Response of Silicon Oxycarbide Materials Obtained by Spark Plasma Sintering

  In order to obtain dense silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) materials that maintain the properties of glass, non-conventional spark plasma sintering was used to sinter SiOC powders from 1300 to 1700 °C and...

• All-Natural Sustainable Packaging Materials Inspired by Plant Cuticles

  New sustainable composite materials inspired by plant cuticles have been fabricated by impregnation of fibrous cellulose substrates with a naturally occurring polyhydroxylated fatty acid...

• Theoretical Modeling of Transport and Separation Properties of CNT Electrospun Membrane Distillation

  Developing a high flux and selective membrane is required to make membrane distillation (MD) a more attractive desalination process. Amongst other characteristics membrane hydrophobicity is...

• The Use of Biodiesel Residues for Heat Insulating Bio-based Polyurethane Foams

  C-Therm TCi Thermal Conductivity Analyzer applied in the characterization of the thermal conductivity of the samples in the article. The commercial and bio-based polyurethane foams (PUF) were...