Polymers, Volume 16, Issue 22

The manufacture of composites with bioactive compounds represents a promising strategy for developing advanced materials in biomedical, food, and industrial applications. However, challenges such as stability, bioactivity retention, and controlled re...

One of the key parameters characterizing the microstructure of a layer is its degree of order. It can be determined from optical studies or X-ray diffraction. However, both of these methods applied to the same layer may give different results because...

Zeolites, known for their unique structural and catalytic properties, are added to the natural rubber matrix to investigate their influence on the vulcanization process and the resultant properties of composites. The natural rubber-based composites w...

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in phase change materials (PCM) based on dulcitol and other sugar alcohols. These materials have almost twice as large latent heat of fusion as other organic materials. Sugar alcohols are relativ...

To investigate the feasibility of composite modification techniques in improving the performance of recycled asphalt mixtures, in this study, the high-viscosity agent (HVA) and crumb-rubber materials (CRM) were used to modify asphalt with a styrene-b...

The chain-length-dependent nature of the termination reaction in radical polymerization (RP) renders the overall termination rate coefficient, <kt>, a complex parameter in the usual situation where the radical chain-length distribution is non-u...

This study investigates how varying concentrations of hydroxyapatite (OHAp) and the addition of gelatin influence the ionic crosslinking time of alginate-based bioinks, as well as the shear stress experienced by neonatal human dermal fibroblasts (HDF...

Tracheal stenosis (i.e., the abnormal narrowing of the trachea) can occur due to a variety of inflammatory and infectious processes as well as due to therapeutic procedures undertaken by the patient. The most common cause of tracheal obstruction in p...

This work is devoted to the creation of biocompatible fibrous materials with a high antimicrobial effect based on poly-3-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) and chlorophyll (Chl). The data obtained show the possibility of obtaining fibrous materials from PHB and C...

Physics-guided machine learning (PGML) methods are emerging as valuable tools for modelling the constitutive relations of solids due to their ability to integrate both data and physical knowledge. While various PGML approaches have successfully model...