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Liquids as Reinforcements for Anisotropic and Tough Soft Matter Composites
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Liquid metal droplets are shaped and oriented within soft elastomers to create all‐soft matter composites with programmable mechanical anisotropy. These liquid inclusions act as fiber‐like reinforcements, enabling directional stiffness, enhanced toughness, and controlled crack steering under extreme deformation, offering new routes to resilient soft ...
Gwyneth M. Schloer +5 more
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Fennia: International Journal of Geography, 2012 The integration of improved environmental or sustainable aspects in forest management is often affiliated with the rise of market-driven governance systems, such as forest certification.
Moritz Albrecht
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Environmental and Sustainability IndicatorsCoffee certification programs are emerging as potential tools to improve livelihoods and contribute to environmental sustainability. However, these programs have faced criticism, particularly regarding their impact on participants' livelihoods and ...
Diriba Abdeta, Alemayehu N. Ayana
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Is there a commercial case for tropical timber certification? [PDF]
The authors estimate the potential commercial benefits that tropical timber producing countries could enjoy by adopting timber certification schemes. Such benefits are crucial for encouraging the supply of certified timber.
Braga, Carlos A. Primo +2 more
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Assisted natural regeneration: a tool for degraded tropical forests [PDF]
, 2011 A major part of anthropic impacts on natural tropical forests in central Africa is related to unmanaged shifting agriculture and fuelwood extraction by local communities, mainly along access tracks (roads, rivers,...)and at the edge of forests.
Dubiez, Emilien +3 more
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The Vegan Villain Sets Out to The End of Summer: Functionalized Coatings as Biohybrid UV‐Sensors
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.This study introduces biohybrid coatings incorporating E. coli biomass expressing photoconvertible fluorescent proteins as UV‐A responsive elements. Upon irradiation at 400 nm, the coatings exhibit an irreversible fluorescence shift from green to red within 15 min. Notably, the photoconversion capability is retained after >1 year of storage.
Amelie Skopp +3 more
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The environmental resource curse hypothesis: the forest case [PDF]
The resource curse hypothesis relies on the resource-rich countries tendency to grow slower than resource-poor countries. Focusing on forest issues, this paper extends the resource curse hypothesis to environmental degradation: how do forest endowment ...
Olivier Damette, Philippe Delacote
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Social policies of forest concessionaires in West and Central Africa [PDF]
, 2008 Timber concessions in West and Central Africa have traditionally left a dismal record in terms of social policies that go back to the colonial period, yet these same policies have undergone unprecedented change in a limited number of concessions over the
Jégou, Chloé +2 more
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N‐heterocyclic Carbenes as Adhesion Promoters on Aluminum Alloy 6061
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.N‐heterocyclic carbenes as novel non‐toxic surface primers for aluminum alloys for better adhesive bonding, because strong adhesive bonding shouldn't come at the cost of poisoning the human body. The impact of NHC functionalization on adhesive joint strength and durability is also evaluated using a single‐lap‐shear test, following continuous exposure ...
Jashanpreet Kaur +6 more
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Modelling as a tool for spatial planning of commodity production: the example of certified oil palm plantations in Central Africa [PDF]
, 2014 The Central African region is targeted by agri-business companies as a suitable place to develop large plantations. Most of the existing assessments of available land are based on an a priori definition of availability and without any operational-level ...
Feintrenie, Laurène +3 more
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