Sustainable polymers

AK Mohanty, F Wu, R Mincheva… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Sustainable polymers are materials derived from renewable, recycled and waste carbon
resources and their combinations, which at the end of life can be recycled, biodegraded or …

Recent advances in corrosion science applicable to disposal of high-level nuclear waste

GS Frankel, JD Vienna, J Lian, X Guo, S Gin… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
High-level radioactive waste is accumulating at temporary storage locations around the
world and will eventually be placed in deep geological repositories. The waste forms and …

Vibrational spectroscopy analysis of silica and silicate glass networks

H Liu, H Kaya, YT Lin, A Ogrinc… - Journal of the American …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Vibrational spectroscopy has been widely used to investigate various structural aspects of
the glass network, and there are a plethora of papers reporting subtle but consistent …

Revealing 'invisible'subsurface structural change/damage in silicate glass made by 'nearly-elastic contact'with a spherical smooth surface

YT Lin, AL Ogrinc, AN Zoba, J Lee, S Jang, NJ Smith… - Acta Materialia, 2024 - Elsevier
This research delves into the hypothesis that elastic contact with an external object can
generateinvisible'surface defects, consequently reducing the apparent load to failure, or …

Searching for correlations between vibrational spectral features and structural parameters of silicate glass network

H Liu, SH Hahn, M Ren… - Journal of the …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared (IR) and Raman spectroscopic features of silicate glasses are often interpreted
based on the analogy with those of smaller molecules, molecular clusters, or crystalline …

Additive manufacturing of optical quality germania–silica glasses

K Sasan, A Lange, TD Yee, N Dudukovic… - … applied materials & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Direct ink writing (DIW) three-dimensional (3D) printing provides a revolutionary approach to
fabricating components with gradients in material properties. Herein, we report a method for …

Water adsorption on silica and calcium‐boroaluminosilicate glass surfaces—thickness and hydrogen bonding of water layer

YT Lin, NJ Smith, J Banerjee, G Agnello… - Journal of the …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Adsorption isotherm of water on silica (modeled with fused quartz) and calcium‐
boroaluminosilicate (Ca‐BAS) glass surfaces as a function of relative humidity (RH) was …

Photothermal atomic force microscopy coupled with infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) analysis of high extinction coefficient materials: a case study with silica and silicate …

YT Lin, H He, H Kaya, H Liu, D Ngo, NJ Smith… - Analytical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Photothermal atomic force microscopy coupled with infrared spectroscopy (AFM-IR) brings
significant value as a spatially resolved surface analysis technique for disordered oxide …

The effect of boron on zeolite-4A immobilization of iodine waste forms with a novel preparation method

Y Liu, G Wei, Y Feng, X Lu, Y Chen, R Sun… - … of Radioanalytical and …, 2020 - Springer
Immobilization of radioiodine is a significant requirement for future nuclear fuel
development. This research mainly focuses on the production of iodosodalite through a …

Gamma irradiation effectuality on the antibacterial and bioactivity behavior of multicomponent borate glasses against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus …

WM Abd-Allah, RM Fathy - JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Recently some borate bioactive glasses have been discovered to have an
antibacterial effect when interacting with pathogenic bacteria. In this study, borate bioactive …