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Can the properties of composite materials be predicted? Empa scientists have mastered this feat and thus can help achieve research objectives faster. This leads, for instance, to better recycling techniques and electrically conductive synthetic materials for the solar industry. Ali Gooneie simulate more

A new way of protecting concrete from fire damage using materials recycled from old tyres has been successfully tested by researchers at the University of Sheffield. The team used fibres extracted from the textile reinforcement commonly embedded into tyres to guarantee their performance. Adding thes more

While the polyester leisure suit was a 1970s mistake, polyester and other synthetic fibers like nylon are still around and are a major contributor to the microplastics load in the environment, according to a Penn State materials scientist, who suggests switching to biosynthetic fibers to solve this more

Sustainability, Vol. 10, Pages 2216: Experimental Analysis of Stresses in Subsoil below a Rectangular Fiber Concrete Slab † Sustainability doi: 10.3390/su10072216 Authors: Eva Hrubesova Marek Mohyla Hynek Lahuta Tuan Quang Bui Phi Dinh Nguyen This paper is focused on sensitivi more

Materials, Vol. 11, Pages 1075: Online Structural-Health Monitoring of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastics Using Different Carbon Allotropes in the Interphase Materials doi: 10.3390/ma11071075 Authors: Michael Thomas Müller Hendrik Florian Pötzsch Uwe Gohs Gert Heinrich An ele more

IJMS, Vol. 19, Pages 1825: The Bacterial Protein CNF1 as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy against Mitochondrial Diseases: A Pilot Study International Journal of Molecular Sciences doi: 10.3390/ijms19071825 Authors: Alessia Fabbri Sara Travaglione Zaira Maroccia Marco Guidotti Ciro L more