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Self‐Seeded Nucleation of PET in a Benign Solvent Yields a High Modulus Aerogel With Ultra‐Low Thermal Conductivity

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A new benign solvent (1,3‐diphenylacetone) enables a simple, safe, and sustainable dissolution and gelation method to convert waste PET into low density, monolithic aerogels with high mechanical strength (E = 20 MPa) and remarkably low thermal conductivity (k = 21.9 to 28.9 mW/m·K).
Kira R. Baugh, Garrett F. Godshall, Glenn A. Spiering, Isabela Trindade Coutinho, Alejandro A. Rodriguez, Katherine J. Wood, Aiyana Gonzalez‐Arellano, Sadeq Malakooti, Stephanie L. Vivod, Robert B. Moore   +9 more
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Sustainable manufacturing for rubber waste industries with integrated circular economy

Discover Sustainability
Introduction The rubber industry generates significant waste during production, particularly from defective and excess materials such as scrap from production processes.
Arzo Rani, Sakshi Tyagi, Anshika Singh, Abhinav Goel, Shubham Kumar Singh, Anand Chauhan   +5 more
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Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrocatalysis

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Lead halide perovskite semiconductors have emerged as highly promising materials for solar fuel and chemical synthesis. This perspective discusses advances made in the rational photoelectrode design to improve solar‐to‐chemical conversion, product scope, and scalability.
Virgil Andrei
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New insights into the molecular structure and dynamics of a recyclable and ionically crosslinked carboxylated nitrile rubber (XNBR)

Materials & Design, 2023
Ionic crosslinking offers a route to rubber reprocessability due to ion pairs’ dynamism, with recent studies focusing on tensile properties recovery.
Saul Utrera-Barrios, Reyes Verdugo Manzanares, Antonio Mattia Grande, Raquel Verdejo, Miguel Ángel López-Manchado, Marianella Hernández Santana   +5 more
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Bamboo Medical Application: A State‐of‐the‐Art Review

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review presents a structured classification of bamboo's current use in healthcare. It organizes applications into medical textiles and medical devices, with further divisions based on function and level of invasiveness. It also examines material utilization based on bamboo's structural role, highlighting how it supports both protective and ...
Haymanot Beza Lamesgin, Koosje van der Stoel, Vera Popovich, Paul Breedveld   +3 more
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Inverse Vulcanization Through Epoxide Chemistry: A Low Temperature Non‐Olefin Route to Sulfur‐Rich Polymer Networks

Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.
Epoxide monomers undergo base‐catalyzed ring‐opening copolymerization with elemental sulfur to afford sulfur‐rich polymers under mild conditions. The resulting materials exhibit excellent mechanical performance, strong adhesion (up to 10 MPa on stainless steel), and outstanding reprocessability.
Pan Yang, Youfu Wang, Xinyuan Zhu, Jinhong Jia, Xiaofeng Wu, Tom Hasell   +5 more
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Preparation of High-Performance Composite Hydrogel Reinforced by Hydrophilic Modified Waste Rubber Powder

Molecules, 2021
In order to reduce the environmental pollution caused by waste rubber and to realize the recycling of resources, we proposed a facile method for the hydrophilic modification of waste rubber powder (HRP) and used it to reinforce a composite hydrogel.
Rui Wu, Zuming Jiang, Zhenxing Cao, Zhaoyang Yuan, Yao Zhang, Lanlei Guo, Fuqing Yuan, Jinrong Wu, Jing Zheng   +8 more
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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li, Shuai Liu, Xinyi Wang, Xinglong Gong, Shouhu Xuan   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Progress in devulcanization of waste tire rubber: Upcycling towards a circular economy

eXPRESS Polymer Letters
As a complex composite material, tire rubber has always presented significant environmental and waste management concerns due to its non-biodegradability and accumulation in landfills.
Zaheer ul Haq, Teng Ren, Xinyan Yue, Krzysztof Formela, Denis Rodrigue, Xavier Colom Fajula, Tony McNally, Dong Dawei, Yong Zhang, Shifeng Wang   +9 more
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A review of Waste Tyre Rubber as an Alternative Concrete Consituent Material

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
The current global waste tyre generation far exceeds its consumption in terms of recycling and re-use. The traditional recycling and re-use methods like thermal incineration have proven ineffective, costly and in some cases environmentally unsustainable.
Mushunje Kudzai, Otieno Mike, Ballim Yunus   +2 more
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