Liquid crystals (LCs) are synthetic and biological viscoelastic anisotropic soft matter
materials that have a combination of fluidity of liquids and anisotropy of solids and find use …

Additive manufacturing is a technology that promises to disrupt the conventional
manufacturing industry due to its ability to create complex structures with improved …

Quantum dots (QDs) are semiconductor nanocrystals that are used in optoelectronic
applications. Most modern QDs are based on toxic metals, for example Cd, and do not …

Superparamagnetic nanocomposites were obtained by dispersion of oleic acid (OA)-coated
magnetite NPs in an epoxy system based on diglycidylether of bisphenol A (DGEBA) …

A theoretical and experimental study of mixtures of a calamitic nematic liquid crystal and
gold nanoparticles capped with mixed monolayers (alkylic+ mesogenic ligands) is …

We report the development of barcoded polystyrene microbeads, approximately 50 μm in
diameter, which are encoded by incorporating multicolored semiconductor fluorescent …

Direct electric cure (DEC) was used to cure carbon fibre-reinforced polymers (CFRPs). We
show that the energy consumption for curing is significantly reduced, with the judicious …

Thermodynamic phase diagrams are powerful tools for predicting the thermodynamic
behavior and finally, the morphology of phase inversion membranes. Addition of …

The present study explores the mechanical and thermal properties of DGEBA/IPD epoxy
reinforced with dendrimer-functionalized magnetitepolyoxometalate nanoparticles. Magnetic …

Nanocomposites of epoxy with Fe3O4 featuring dynamic disulfide bonds were fabricated. To
facilitate the dispersion of Fe3O4 nanoparticles, we synthesized poly (ε-caprolactone) …