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Many soft natural tissues display a fascinating set of mechanical properties that remains unmatched by manmade counterparts. These unprecedented mechanical properties are achieved through an intricate interplay between the structure and locally varying the ...

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Hybrid granular hydrogels: combining composites and microgels for extended ranges of material properties

Dominique Pioletti, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, Peyman Karami, Céline Samira Wyss

Developing hydrogels with optimal properties for specific applications is challenging as most of these properties, such as toughness, stiffness, swelling or deformability, are interrelated. The improvement of one property usually comes at the cost of anoth ...

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Nanocellulose-MXene Biomimetic Aerogels with Orientation-Tunable Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Performance

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Sina Abdolhosseinzadeh

Designing lightweight nanostructured aerogels for high-performance electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding is crucial yet challenging. Ultrathin cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) are employed for assisting in building ultralow-density, robust, and highly f ...

2020

A smart low molecular weight gelator for the triple detection of copper (II), mercury (II), and cyanide ions in water resources

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Novel supramolecular gelators based on quinoline-indolin-2-one structure were synthesized. These gelators formed stable organogels in a mixture of DMSO/H2O (1:1). The scanning electron microscopy (SEM), IR and NMR spectroscopies, and rheological measuremen ...

ELSEVIER2020

Ultrafast carbothermal reduction of silica to silicon using a CO2 laser beam

Jaeki Jeong

We report the extraction of silicon via a carbothermal reduction process using a CO2 laser beam as a heat source. The surface of a mixture of silica and carbon black powder became brown after laser beam irradiation for a few tens of seconds, and clear peak ...

NATURE RESEARCH2020

Investigation of femtosecond laser-tuned thermomechanical properties of fused silica

Pieter Vlugter

The thermomechanical properties of materials are among the most important properties for designing precision instruments, in particular for devices seeking high-dimensional stability, invariant temperature-elastic properties or low thermoelastic losses. De ...

EPFL2020

Influence of curing temperature on cement paste microstructure measured by H-1 NMR relaxometry

Karen Scrivener, Arnaud Charles Albert Muller

H-1 nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry, supported by X-Ray diffraction and thermogravimetric analysis, has been used to characterise microstructure of white cement pastes underwater cured at temperatures in the range 10 degrees C to 60 degrees C. ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2019

Water Redistribution-Microdiffusion in Cement Paste under Mechanical Loading Evidenced by H-1 NMR

Karen Scrivener

The mobility of water within the microstructure of hardened cement paste has been at the center of a long-lasting debate, motivated by the need to understand the fundamental mechanisms that play a role in drying, shrinkage, creep, and thermal expansion. Ou ...

2019

Post-synthesis deposition of mesoporous niobic acid with improved thermal stability by kinetically controlled sol–gel overcoating

Jeremy Luterbacher, Florent Emmanuel Héroguel, Yuan-Peng Du

Niobia is a well-known solid acid catalyst owing to its intrinsic Brønsted and Lewis acidity. However, catalyst development with this oxide has been limited by our ability to control its pore structure and thermal stability. Here we report a novel post-syn ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2019

Stable perovskite solar cells using tin acetylacetonate based electron transporting layers

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Robin Humphry-Baker, Yi Zhang, Emad Oveisi, Hiroyuki Kanda, Sanghyun Paek, Kyung Taek Cho, Yonghui Lee, Aron Joel Huckaba, Hobeom Kim, Mousa Abdulla M E Abuhelaiqa

Organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites with over 23% power conversion efficiency have attracted enormous academic and industrial attention due to their low-cost fabrication and high device performance. Self-passivated tin oxide as an electron transport ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019