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Materials, Volume 15, Issue 17

September-1 2022 - 383 articles

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Cover Story: Peptide-based hydrogels have attracted increasing attention for biological applications and diagnostic research due to their impressive features, including biocompatibility, biodegradability, injectability, mechanical stability, high water absorption capacity, and tissue-like elasticity. Such properties are extremely interesting for biomedical applications, such as drug delivery and tissue engineering. Recently, in the literature, many papers have focused their attention on peptide-based hydrogels, especially in the field of anticancer drug delivery, antimicrobial and wound healing materials, 3D bioprinting, tissue engineering, and vaccines. Moreover, some hydrogel-based materials possess the very intriguing ability to function as biosensing tools, receiving attention for cancer detection purposes. View this paper

Articles (383)

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,837 Views
32 Pages

Lignin as a Renewable Building Block for Sustainable Polyurethanes

  • Fernanda Rosa Vieira,
  • Sandra Magina,
  • Dmitry V. Evtuguin and
  • Ana Barros-Timmons

5 September 2022

Currently, the pulp and paper industry generates around 50–70 million tons of lignin annually, which is mainly burned for energy recovery. Lignin, being a natural aromatic polymer rich in functional hydroxyl groups, has been drawing the interes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,538 Views
11 Pages

Effect of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Fiber Reinforcements on the Mechanical and Tribological Behavior of Hybrid Mg-AZ91D Nanocomposites

  • G. U. Raju,
  • Vinod Kumar V. Meti,
  • N. R. Banapurmath,
  • T. M. Yunus Khan,
  • I. G. Siddhalingeshwar,
  • Vishal Vaikunte,
  • Chandramouli Vadlamudi,
  • Sanjay Krishnappa,
  • A. M. Sajjan and
  • Adarsh Patil

5 September 2022

Magnesium matrix composites are extensively used in automotive and structural applications due to their low density, high strength, and wear-resistant properties. To reach the scope of industry needs, research is carried out regarding enhancing the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,599 Views
15 Pages

Effect of the Composition of Hybrid Sands on the Change in Thermal Expansion

  • Filip Radkovský,
  • Martina Gawronová,
  • Václav Merta,
  • Petr Lichý,
  • Ivana Kroupová,
  • Isabel Nguyenová,
  • Šimon Kielar,
  • Martin Folta,
  • Josef Bradáč and
  • Radim Kocich

5 September 2022

In the foundry industry, silica sands are the most commonly used type of sands for the production of sand foundry moulds using various types of binders. Their greatest disadvantage is their significant volume changes at elevated temperatures, which a...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,235 Views
12 Pages

Effects of Endic Anhydride Grafted PPC on the Properties of PHBV Blends

  • Qing Zhang,
  • Yongguang Gao,
  • Huiyuan Liu,
  • Shili Shu and
  • Wei Chen

5 September 2022

Poly(β-hydroxybutyrate-co-β-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) was modified with endic anhydride grafted poly(propylene carbonate) (EA–PPC), and then PHBV/EA–PPC composite polymers were prepared by melt blending under the catalysis of stan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,209 Views
11 Pages

5 September 2022

Zinc oxide (ZnO) thin films are significant in various electronic applications. This study introduced an efficient, simple, low cost and timesaving method to obtain an extended and uniform ZnO thin film with tunable surface morphology over the substr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,300 Views
20 Pages

5 September 2022

This paper provides a numerical solution to the vibration of a rotating cross-ply laminated combined conical-cylindrical shell in the thermal environment. Its numerical discrete solution method uses the meshless method. The combined shell assumed the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,506 Views
17 Pages

The Transverse Bearing Characteristics of the Pile Foundation in a Calcareous Sand Area

  • Haibo Hu,
  • Lina Luo,
  • Gang Lei,
  • Jin Guo,
  • Shaoheng He,
  • Xunjian Hu,
  • Panpan Guo and
  • Xiaonan Gong

5 September 2022

Reviewing literature revealed that the studies on the bearing characteristics of pile foundations mainly focuses on clay, ordinary sand, loess, saline soil, and other areas. However, few studies on the bearing characteristics of the pile foundation i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,993 Views
12 Pages

5 September 2022

This work investigates an electrochemical impedance analysis based on synthesized TiO2 nanofibers (NFs) photoanodes, which were fabricated via electrospinning and calcination. The investigated photoanode substrate NFs were studied in terms of physico...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,188 Views
14 Pages

Iodine-Doped Graphene Oxide: Fast Single-Stage Synthesis and Application as Electrocatalyst

  • Adriana Marinoiu,
  • Daniela Ion-Ebrasu,
  • Amalia Soare and
  • Mircea Raceanu

5 September 2022

Iodine-doped graphene oxide is attracting great attention as fuel cell (FC) electrocatalysts with a high activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, most of the reported preparation techniques for iodine-doped graphene (I/rGO) could be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,780 Views
13 Pages

Effect of Dynamic Preheating on the Thermal Behavior and Mechanical Properties of Laser-Welded Joints

  • Linyi Xie,
  • Wenqing Shi,
  • Teng Wu,
  • Meimei Gong,
  • Detao Cai,
  • Shanguo Han and
  • Kuanfang He

5 September 2022

The high cooling rate and temperature gradient caused by the rapid heating and cooling characteristics of laser welding (LW) leads to excessive thermal stress and even cracks in welded joints. In order to solve these problems, a dynamic preheating me...

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