Materials

This invention is about a facile method to modify polyesters to improve mechanical properties of the neat resin as well as to increase the interfacial interaction between resins and reinforcement fillers such as nanocellulose.

This invention pertains to a solvent extraction system that extracts rare earth elements . The organic system successfully extracts rare earth elements, and the metal loaded organic system can be completely stripped.

The invention proposes a one-step surface preparation technique for painting and application of coating systems.

Lignins are a renewable and cheap, yet least-valued material obtained from plant biomass. Uses of lignins remains very limited due to their poor thermal stability and hyperbranched structures.

The developed fibers are very important for applications such as rigid and thermal insulation materials, polymer and metal matrix composites, vehicle tires, body armor, and water filtration. Fibers can have applications also in hydrogen storage vessels.

The presently disclosed subject matter relates generally to the processing of steel laminates during manufacturing electromechanical devices.

Here, we present a new method to fabricate carbon-based supports for electrocatalysis using waste tires. Using the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) as an example, we loaded each carbon with Pt cubes and evaluated the resulting ORR activity.

AMIPC enables local strengthening in conventionally cast parts that otherwise conventional alloying techniques can not provide.

We employed lignins to tune the thermomechanical and rheological properties of host rubber for shape memory applications.

Die-Casting accounts for approximately 80% of all aluminum parts in the automotive sector and are used across many other industries.