Upcycling polystyrene

JC Capricho, K Prasad, N Hameed, M Nikzad, N Salim - Polymers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Several environmental and techno-economic assessments highlighted the advantage of
placing polystyrene-based materials in a circular loop, from production to waste generation …

Conductive CNT-polymer nanocomposites digital twins for self-diagnostic structures: Sensitivity to CNT parameters

NA Gudkov, SV Lomov, IS Akhatov, SG Abaimov - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The paper describes digital twins for an electrically conductive isotropic CNT-polymer
nanocomposite, using representative volume element with boundary conditions being …

[HTML][HTML] Discrete modelling of continuous dynamic recrystallisation by modified Metropolis algorithm

S Zhu, E Borodin, AP Jivkov - Computational Materials Science, 2024 - Elsevier
Continuous dynamic recrystallisation (CDRX) is often the primary mechanism for
microstructure evolution during severe plastic deformation (SPD) of polycrystalline metals …

Towards artificial Ising spin glasses: Thermal ordering in randomized arrays of Ising-type nanomagnets

M Saccone, A Scholl, S Velten, S Dhuey, K Hofhuis… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We explore the thermodynamics in two-dimensional arrays consisting of Ising-type
nanomagnets lithographically arranged onto random sites and angular orientations …

[HTML][HTML] Clusters and avalanches of fibre breaks in a model of an impregnated unidirectional fibre bundle under tension

SV Lomov, C Breite, A Melnikov, F Mesquita… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Development of clusters and avalanches of damage events is a key characteristic in
statistical physics of structures susceptible to a catastrophic failure. This paper applies the …

Designing robust quantum refrigerators in disordered spin models

TK Konar, S Ghosh, AK Pal, A Sen - Physical Review A, 2022 - APS
We explore a small quantum refrigerator in which the working substance is made of
paradigmatic nearest-neighbor quantum spin models, the XYZ and the XY model with …

Phase transitions and the theory of early warning indicators for critical transitions

GI Hagstrom, SA Levin - How worlds collapse, 2023 - taylorfrancis.com
Critical transitions, or large changes in the state of a system after a small change in the
system's external conditions or parameters, commonly occur in a wide variety of disciplines …

Dynamics of CH/n hydrogen bond networks probed by time-resolved CARS spectroscopy

H Zhu, X Deng, VV Yakovlev, D Zhang - Chemical Science, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Hydrogen bond (HB) networks are essential for stabilizing molecular structures in solution
and govern the solubility and functionality of molecules in an aqueous environment. HBs are …

Heterogeneous dynamics, robustness/fragility trade-offs, and the eradication of the macroparasitic disease, lymphatic filariasis

E Michael, BK Singh - BMC medicine, 2016 - Springer
Background The current WHO-led initiative to eradicate the macroparasitic disease,
lymphatic filariasis (LF), based on single-dose annual mass drug administration (MDA) …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of fibre misalignment in an impregnated fibre bundle on stress concentrations

M Jafarypouria, SV Lomov, B Mahato… - Composites Part A …, 2024 - Elsevier
This work investigates the stress redistribution around a broken fibre in a unidirectional
impregnated fibre bundle accounting for misalignment of fibres. The study reveals, a …