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Piccoli, Francesco (author)Recent advancements in machine learning (ML) have shown promise in accelerating polymer discovery by aiding in tasks such as virtual screening via property prediction, and the design of new polymer materials with desired chemical properties. However, progress in polymer ML is hampered by the scarcity of high-quality, labelled datasets, which are...master thesis 2024
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Pak, A. (author)Currently, neurostimulation holds the capability of treating symptoms associated with epilepsy, essential tremor, depression, migraine, incontinence, Parkinson's, Tourette's, and other diseases and disorders. Given the constant evolution in the field of biomedical technology and the increasing demand for advanced solutions in neural interface...doctoral thesis 2024
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Shanmugam Anandan, Kalaivanan (author)Green hydrogen produced by water electrolysis is one of the most promising technologies to realize the most effective way of utilizing intermittent renewable energy globally. Among the various electrolysis technologies, the emerging Anion-Exchange Membrane Water Electrolysis (AEMWE) shows promising potential for producing green hydrogen at a...master thesis 2024
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van der Lingen, Kevin (author)The emergence of innovative construction materials is dawning a new era of ambition within the civil engineering community. Among these innovative materials, Basalt Fibre Reinforced Polymer (BFRP) has recently surfaced with promising potential as a reinforcing material in concrete. Currently, in the Dutch concrete construction industry, the...master thesis 2024
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Dijkstra, Bas (author)This research investigates the challenges a user faces in the activation step in shape-changing products. First, previous research on the topic of 4DP is reviewed and important factors are described. Namely, activation temperature, print temperature, print speed, and layer height have a signifi cant impact on the shrinkage...master thesis 2024
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Sekar, S.A. (author), Hunt, A. (author)Additive manufacturing of sensors and actuators together with structural materials and electronics will make it possible to fabricate innovative system designs that are overly laborious to realise with conventional methods. While printing of the structural materials and electronics are advancing fast, the additive manufacturing methods for...journal article 2024
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IJssel de Schepper, S.R. (author), Hunt, A. (author)The additive manufacturing of electroactive polymer (EAP) devices poses significant challenges due to their distinct structure and dissimilar properties of their constituent materials. It requires deposition of multiple functional materials with different properties, achieving μm-scale resolution in layer thickness, and executing incremental...journal article 2024
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Luan, Liping (author), Shi, Puxin (author), Wang, Zhi (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Liu, Xinlei (author)Novel membrane materials for H<sub>2</sub> separation are wanted. How to overcome the “trade-off” between membrane permeability and selectivity is a tough challenge. Here we report new random organic framework membranes with benzimidazole and imine linkages to form hierarchical channels. Both high H<sub>2</sub>-selective and fast H<sub>2</sub...journal article 2024
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Wang, Xintu (author), Xu, Yanghui (author), Ou, Q. (author), Chen, Wenwen (author), van der Meer, W.G.J. (author), Liu, G. (author)The excessive use and accumulation of water-soluble polymers (WSPs, known as “liquid plastics”) in the environment can pose potential risks to both ecosystems and human health, but the environmental fate of WSPs remains unclear. Here, the adsorption behavior of WSPs with different molecular weight on kaolinite (Kaol) and montmorillonite (Mt)...journal article 2024
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Tu, W. (author), Pascoe, J.A. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author)In this study, a novel experimental approach was devised to investigate shear dominant and combined opening-shear planar delamination behaviours in composite laminates subjected to quasi-static out-of-plane loading. The patterns of planar delamination growth were depicted through different inspection techniques, including digital image...journal article 2024
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Pajonk, A.M. (author), Luna-Navarro, Alessandra (author), Knaack, U. (author), Blum, Ulrich (author)Additive Manufacturing with Varying Material Properties enables controlled spatial variation of material properties in 3D-printed components, facilitating custom-tailored characteristics, added functionalities and reduced assembly processes. To promote this approach in building façade applications, this paper presents a novel framework for...journal article 2024
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Jalalvand, Meisam (author), Fotouhi, M. (author), Wisnom, Michael R. (author)A new method of creating in-plane combined tension-shear stress states using only tensile loading is proposed. Thin-ply angle-ply carbon/epoxy laminates are sandwiched between unidirectional glass layers to eliminate any stress concentration around the samples ends and gripping zone. Use of the thin plies successfully suppresses early...journal article 2024
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Egelhaaf, Stefan U. (author), Mao, Xiaoming (author), Dijkstra, Marjolijn (author), Pine, David J (author), Kumar, Sanat K. (author), Aubin-Tam, M.E. (author), Koenderink, G.H. (author)Soft materials are usually defined as materials made of mesoscopic entities, often self-organised, sensitive to thermal fluctuations and to weak perturbations. Archetypal examples are colloids, polymers, amphiphiles, liquid crystals, foams. The importance of soft materials in everyday commodity products, as well as in technological applications,...journal article 2024
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Staal, Jeroen (author), Caglar, Baris (author), Michaud, Véronique (author)Frontal polymerisation has the potential to bring unprecedented reductions in energy demand and process time to produce fibre reinforced polymer composites. Production of epoxy-based fibre reinforced polymer parts with high fibre volume content, commonly encountered in industry, is however hindered by the heat sink created by the fibres and...journal article 2024
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XUN, L. (author), Mosleh, Yasmine (author), Sun, Baozhong (author), Pascoe, J.A. (author), Gu, Bohong (author)3-D braided composites are a promising material for manufacturing tubular structures. However, a thorough understanding of their damage mechanisms under torsion is required to maximize their potential applications. The present work constructed a multiscale equivalent model, integrating mesoscopic and homogeneous structures to reveal torsional...journal article 2024
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Shan, Meixia (author), Zhang, Jingjing (author), Cong, Shenzhen (author), Zhang, Yatao (author), He, Xuezhong (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Liu, X. (author)Separation of hydrogen from carbon dioxide for sustainable H<sub>2</sub> production and CO<sub>2</sub> capture still faces great challenges due to the smaller size of H<sub>2</sub> and higher condensability of CO<sub>2</sub>. Herein, a high-performance benzimidazole-linked polymer (BILP) membrane for hydrogen separation was directly prepared...journal article 2024
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Li, Yuanyuan (author), Li, Jun (author), Bai, Tao (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Gu, Dengjun (author), Gao, Y. (author)Based on the efficient resource utilization of scrap tires, pyrolysis carbon black (PCB), and pyrolysis oil of waste tire (TPO), scrap tires' products were treated using dry styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) polymer modification of asphalt. The products of scrap tires, PCB and TPO, were handled using dry SBS polymer modification of asphalt...journal article 2024
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de Winter, Jikke (author), Manzaneque Garcia, T. (author), Ghatkesar, M.K. (author)The emerging high-resolution 3D printing technique called two-photon polymerization (2PP) enables to print devices bottom-up rapidly, contrary to the top-down lithography-based fabrication methods. In this work, various polymer microbeams are 3D printed and their resonant characteristics are analyzed to understand the origin of damping. The...journal article 2024
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Tubiana, Luca (author), Alexander, Gareth P. (author), Barbensi, Agnese (author), Buck, Dorothy (author), Cartwright, Julyan H.E. (author), Chwastyk, Mateusz (author), Cieplak, Marek (author), Coluzza, Ivan (author), Japaridze, A. (author)The last years have witnessed remarkable advances in our understanding of the emergence and consequences of topological constraints in biological and soft matter. Examples are abundant in relation to (bio)polymeric systems and range from the characterization of knots in single polymers and proteins to that of whole chromosomes and polymer melts....review 2024
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Yao, L. (author), Chuai, Mingyue (author), Li, Hanyue (author), Chen, Xiangming (author), Quan, D. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Beyens, M. (author)Temperature can significantly affect fatigue delamination growth (FDG) behavior in composites, while fiber bridging has been frequently reported during FDG. The focus of this study was therefore on investigating temperature effects on FDG behavior with fiber bridging. Mode I fatigue delamination experiments were conducted on a thermoset...journal article 2024