Alvim, Clara; Bes-Piá, M.A.; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio(Elsevier, 2021-06-01)
[EN] During the secondary treatment of Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTP) previous studies have reported that microplastics (MPs), which correspond to plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm, are mostly retained in the activated ...
Romero Morte, Sara(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-02-22)
[ES] Hoy en día, somos fuertemente dependientes de la energía, la mayoría de ellas proviene de combustibles fósiles y esta tendencia aumentará con el paso del tiempo si no encontramos una alternativa mejor. Paralelamente ...
Morcillo Esquerdo, María del Carmen(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2024-01-15)
[ES] Debido a la gran problemática que concierne el uso de plásticos, se ha incrementado la conciencia social derivada de los problemas medioambientales como la gran cantidad de desechos plásticos generados, la escasez de ...
Alvim, C. Bretas; Castelluccio, S.; Ferrer-Polonio, Eva; Bes-Piá, M.A.; Mendoza Roca, José Antonio; Fernández-Navarro, J.; Alonso Molina, José Luís; Amoros, Inmaculada(Elsevier, 2021-04)
[EN] According to previous research, it has been proved that wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) can retain more than 90 % of the MPs contained in wastewater. However, a significant fraction of the MPs removed in WWTPs is ...
Rojas, Karina; Canales, Daniel; Amigo, Nicolas; Montoille, Lisette; Cament, Alejandro; Rivas, Lina M.; Gil-Castell, O.; Reyes, Pablo; Ulloa, Maria Teresa; Ribes-Greus, A.; Zapata, Paula A.(Elsevier, 2019-09-01)
[EN] Effective antimicrobial polymeric nanocomposites were prepared with low density polyethylene (LDPE) and zinc oxide nanoparticles by melt compounding. These nanoparticles (~17 nm) obtained by the sol¿gel method, were ...
Polyethylene (PE) is characterized by low surface energy as a consequence of its non-polar nature. This characteristic is responsible for poor adhesion properties on polyethylene substrates. It is well known that some ...
Morcillo, María del Carmen; Tejada, Ramón; Lascano-Aimacaña, Diego Sebastián; Garcia-Garcia, Daniel; Garcia-Sanoguera, David(MDPI AG, 2021-12)
[EN] The use of wood plastic composites (WPC) is growing very rapidly in recent years, in addition, the use of plastics of renewable origin is increasingly implemented because it allows to reduce the carbon footprint. In ...
[EN] Carbon nanotubes dispersion within the polymer matrix is a very important factor to take into account when developing new nanocomposites with optimized properties. In this article, dispersion studies have been carried ...
Fombuena Borrás, Vicent; García Sanoguera, David; Sánchez Nacher, Lourdes; Balart Gimeno, Rafael Antonio; Boronat Vitoria, Teodomiro(Taylor & Francis: STM, Behavioural Science and Public Health Titles, 2014-01-02)
One of the major disadvantages of low density polyethylene (LDPE) films is their poor adhesive properties. Therefore, LDPE films have been treated with atmospheric pressure air plasma in order to improve their surface ...
Hervàs Arnandis, Susi(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-10-02)
[ES] Funcionalización directa del polietileno con ésteres de diferentes longitudes y formas, adición de carbenos y posterior transesterificación, para el estudio de sus diferentes estabilidades hidrolíticas.
Balagué García, María(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2022-11-04)
[ES] En los últimos tiempos la tendencia para mejorar los resultados de aislamiento acústico a ruido aéreo en edificación es la inserción de láminas de alta densidad. Se insertan láminas de polietileno (reticulados, ...
Sencadas, V.; Lanceros-Mendez, S.; Sabater i Serra, Roser; Andrio Balado, A.; Gómez Ribelles, José Luís(SPRINGER, 2012-05)
[EN] The aim of this study is to analyze the mobility of polymer chains in semicrystalline poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF). PVDF crystallizes from the melt in the crystalline phase. The transformation from the phase to ...
Peinado López-Cepero, Francisco(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2023-06-26)
[ES] La revalorización del reciclado de plástico de envases se ha convertido en una de las prioridades ambientales más importantes a nivel mundial debido a que el plástico se ha convertido en uno de los materiales más ...
[EN] The present study reports on the development of wood plastic composites (WPC) based on micronized argan shell (MAS) as a filler and high-density polyethylene obtained from sugarcane (Bio-HDPE), following the principles ...