A composite sandwich structure is made up of a facesheet and core bonded together. The sandwich structures have been used in applications ranging from aerospace, construction, marine, biomedical ...

Department of Polymer and Surface Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. Wood adhesives account for a considerable part of the costs and dependency on petroleum sources. In ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. In this study, a biobased phenolic adhesive was successfully developed by entirely ...

The care of plastics in collections is challenging. Plastics are a new class of materials and their individual weaknesses are little known and often unexpected. Traditional display and storage methods ...

Department of Polymer and Surface Engineering, Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai, India. Polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) emulsions are commonly used in bonding porous materials at room temperature.

Nanomaterials possess unique features which make them particularly attractive for biosensing applications. In particular, carbon nanotubes (CNTs) can serve as scaffolds for immobilization of ...

Abstract: The esterification involved in Durable Press (DP) finishing is one among several chemical reactions that can be improved by microwave radiation. Cotton material is usually esterified with ...

As part of our continuing study of the solid-state morphology of poly (urethane urea) segmented block copolymers, we focus in the current paper on the use of atomic force microscopy to visualize the ...