López, Joan Pere; El Mansouri, Nour-Eddine; Alba Fernández, Jesús; Rey Tormos, Romina María del; Mutjé, Pere; Vilaseca, Fabiola(North Carolina State University, 2012)
[EN] Currently, acoustic isolation is one of the problems raised with building construction in Spain. The publication of the Basic Document for the protection against noise of the Technical Building Code has increased the ...
Llamas Pacheco, Rosario; Talamantes Piquer, María del Carmen(Elsevier, 2014)
The artist Jordi Teixidor is one of the leading exponents of twentieth century Spanish abstract art. In
recent years, he has used a synthetic polymer as a support for his art work, namely polypropylene. The
behaviour of ...
[EN] The present study aims to investigate the effects of gum rosin (GR) microspheres coating over the hydrophobicity of the outer layer of a polypropylene (PP) based surgical face mask. The gum rosin coating was deposited ...
Peris Abad, Fernando(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-03-30)
[ES] Los Nanotubos (CNTs) y Nanofibras de Carbono (CNFs) son materiales de nueva generación que tienen características mejores que los materiales convencionalmente utilizados. Los Nanotubos están formados por carbono, ...
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 ...
Rey Tormos, Romina María del; Serrat, Ramon; Alba Fernández, Jesús; Perez, Ildefonso; Mutje, Pere; Espinach, Francesc X.(MDPI AG, 2017)
[EN] The formulation of greener composite materials by substituting glass fibers with natural fibers is a current field of research. If such natural fiber reinforcements come from industrial side streams, as hemp core ...
Giro-Paloma, J.; Rayón Encinas, Emilio; Roa, J. J.; Martínez, M.; Fernández, A. I.(Elsevier, 2015-02)
[EN] As the changes on the mechanical properties with depth of indentation provide valuable information that may be suitable for design purposes, nanoindentation is an adequate technique for investigating the nanomechanical ...
[EN] Natural antioxidants are added in very low amounts to protect a polypropylene (PP) matrix against thermo-oxidative degradation during processing. Thus, PP is melt-blended with caffeic, chlorogenic, trans-ferrulic, and ...
Alamar Tarazona, Carlos(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2021-01-27)
[ES] El TFG, asistido por la profesora Lidija Slemenik Per e, actual encargada del departamento de Ciencia de Materiales de la facultad de Mechanical Engineering de la Universidad de Eslovenia, trata sobre el estudio de ...
Talavera Sánchez, Santiago(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-10-18)
[EN] Recently, experimental campaigns are being carried out in the field of fibre reinforced concrete, in the Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología del Hormigón (ICITECH) of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), as well ...
[EN] The 10-ring zeolites TNU-9 and IM-5 were obtained by a desilication and evaluated in series of acid-catalysed cracking reactions. n-Decane and 1,3,5-tri-iso-propylbenzene cracking were performed as model reactions, ...
[EN] In this work, the presence of biodegradable polymers in recycled plastic materials was characterized using readily available techniques. Recycled polypropylene (PP), polystyrene (PS) and polyethylene terephthalate ...
Sustainable biocomposites based on thermoplastic starch copolymers (Mater-Bi KE03B1) and biofibres (cotton, hemp and kenaf) were prepared and characterised in terms of their thermo-mechanical and morphological properties. ...
Samper, María-Dolores; Bertomeu, D.; Arrieta, M. P.; Ferri, J. M.; López-Martínez, Juan(MDPI AG, 2018)
[EN] Recycling polymers is common due to the need to reduce the environmental impact of these materials. Polypropylene (PP) is one of the polymers called commodities polymers' and it is commonly used in a wide variety of ...
Parres, F.; Crespo Amorós, José Enrique; Nadal Gisbert, Antonio Vicente; Navarro Vidal, Raúl(Smithers Rapra Technology, 2012)
The importance of recovering waste materials generated by industrialised societies is mainly due to the environmental impact that they have, and one of the principal problems is the presence of end of life tyres. The use ...
Apátiga, Jorge Luis; del Castillo, Roxana Mitzayé; del Castillo, Luis Felipe; Calles, Alipio G.; Espejel-Morales, Raúl; Favela, José F.; Compañ Moreno, Vicente(MDPI AG, 2021-06)
[EN] It is well known that a small number of graphene nanoparticles embedded in polymers enhance the electrical conductivity; the polymer changes from being an insulator to a conductor. The graphene nanoparticles induce ...
Gil Castell, Óscar; Badía Valiente, José David; Teruel Juanes, Roberto; Rodríguez, Marie-Isabelle; Meseguer Rico, Francisco Javier; Ribes Greus, María Desamparados(Elsevier, 2015-06)
Oxidation of polyolefins by ultraviolet/visible irradiation is a significant limitation for their use in several technological applications. The use of high-tech additives such as silicon microparticles becomes a compositing ...
[EN] This article describes a new simultaneous method for the analysis of sulfur-type poisons, hydrocarbons and permanent gases affecting the productivity of the Ziegler Natta catalyst during the synthesis of polypropylene ...
[EN] Additives play an important role in the production of plastic materials through their application, in which the mechanical, thermal, and physical properties of polymers are improved, making them last longer and be ...
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 ...