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[News Clip: Stolen Tires]

open access: yes, 1961
Video footage from the WBAP-TV television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story about burglars who stole ten tires that were valued at a total about 1,200 ...
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
core   +1 more source

From nature to application: Transformative developments in natural rubber compounding

open access: yesIndustrial Crops and Products
Natural rubber (NR) is a high-performance elastomer valued for its elasticity, tensile strength, and tear resistance, making it indispensable in diverse industrial applications, including automotive tires, vibration-damping systems, medical devices, and ...
J.I. Mnyango   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

SMART-Plant project flyer (H2020)

open access: yes, 2016
Scale-up of low-carbon footprint MAterial Recovery Techniques in existing wastewater treatment PLANTs SMART-plant aims to support the water sector to improve and ensure environmental protection, become more adaptive, and respond to contemporary ...
SMART-Plant Consortium   +1 more
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Intelligent Energy Optimization for User Intelligible Goals in Smart Home Environments [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Intelligent management of energy consumption is one of the key issues for future energy distribution systems, smart buildings, and consumer appliances. The problem can be tackled both from the point of view of the utility provider, with the intelligence ...
Faisal Razzak   +2 more
core   +1 more source

1‐D Collocated Dual‐Gradient Sensory Fibers for Comprehensive Sensing and Decoding of Complex Human Motion and Physiology

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Coupled materials design enables a monolithic fiber that integrates complementary sensing regimes into a single wearable strand. By preserving informative signal features across subtle physiological deformation, large body motion, and mixed mechanical inputs, the dual‐gradient architecture generates synchronized, less redundant outputs that improve ...
Yunheum Lee   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of permanent replacement workers by Bridgestone/Firestone in the mid-1990s contributed to the production ...
Alan B. Krueger, Alexandre Mas
core   +2 more sources

Soft Skins With Reversible Thickness Morphing: Materials, Mechanisms, and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Evolution of electronic skin (e‐skin) technologies toward adaptive, multifunctional soft skins. Phase I highlights early rigid and discrete sensory interfaces. Phase II shows the transition toward flexible, stretchable, and large‐area e‐skin. Phase III captures the emergence of computational e‐skin.
Oliver Ozioko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Breaking the Surface: Buoyant Metal–Polymer Open–Cell Hybrid Lattice Metamaterials

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Open‐cell metal–polymer lattice metamaterials that defy sinking. (a) Injection process of the polyurethane (PU) foam into the titanium (Ti‐6Al‐4V) hollow‐strut lattice creating the open‐cell Ti‐6Al‐4V+PU hybrid lattice, (b) flotation test of a hybrid lattice specimen, and (c) a digital representation and experimental validation of a marine buoy ...
Jordan Noronha   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carbon black-reinforced polymer composites: multifunctional advancements, characterization, and industrial applications

open access: yesZaštita Materijala
Carbon black (CB) has emerged as a transformative additive in polymer matrix composites (PMCs), offering unparalleled enhancements in mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties.
Yahaya Musa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Interfacial Failure and Self‐Healing in Solid‐State Batteries

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Dynamic interfacial self‐healing offers an adaptive route to mitigate coupled mechanical, chemical, and electrochemical degradation in solid‐state batteries. This review connects evolving interfacial failure mechanisms with physical‐flow, chemical‐restoration, stimuli‐responsive, and electric‐field‐assisted repair strategies, highlighting targeted self‐
Xinxin Zhu   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

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