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Omar El Hawary, Luca Boccarusso, Martin P. Ansell, Massimo Durante and Fulvio Pinto
Environmental emergency awareness has been gaining momentum in recent years in the composite manufacturing industry, with a new generation of composite materials minimizing their harmful environmental impacts by employing more sustainable manufacturing p...
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Pasqualino Corigliano, Vincenzo Crupi, Serena Bertagna and Alberto Marinò
The aim of the present investigation was to assess the behaviour of strip-planked parts by comparing wooden specimens glued using two different bio-based adhesives with wooden specimens glued using a conventional epoxy resin generally used in boatbuildin...
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Jose Cucharero, Tuomas Hänninen and Tapio Lokki
Sound-absorbing materials are usually measured in a reverberation chamber (diffuse field condition) or in an impedance tube (normal sound incidence). In this paper, we show how angle-dependent absorption coefficients could be measured in a factory-type s...
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Prima Yane Putri,Keiyu Kawaai,Isao Ujike,Saya Yamamoto
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Concrete is the most widely used construction material in civil engineering. But plain concrete is a brittle material and has little resistance to cracking. The cracking in concrete promotes deterioration such as the corrosion of reinforcing rebar, there...
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Madeline Smith, Amanda Payne, Kyle Edwards, Steven Morris, Brenda Beckler and Rafael L. Quirino
Tung oil is uniquely reactive among plant-based natural oils due to the series ofconjugated carbon-carbon double bonds in its fatty acid chains. These conjugatedcarbon-carbon double bonds impart a high reactivity towards cationic polymerization in thepre...
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Cassandra Lafond and Pierre Blanchet
The energy efficiency of buildings is well documented. However, to improve standards of energy efficiency, the embodied energy of materials included in the envelope is also increasing. Natural fibers like wood and hemp are used to make low environmental ...
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André Luiz Missio,Darci Alberto Gatto,Gianluca Tondi
In a world seeking environmentally sustainable products, bio-resources are investigated as suitable replacements to oil-derived products. Tannin extracts represent one of the most abundant phenolic resources of the earth, with more than 200,000 T/year. T...
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Henriette Fischer and Azra Korjenic
The use of renewable building materials in construction is crucial to minimising the environmental impact of new buildings. Bio-based building materials have a wide range of positive properties, many of which are due to their hygroscopic behaviour. The p...
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Elise Bertheau, Valérie Simon and Christine Delgado Raynaud
Wood-based panels are ubiquitous in our daily lives, both as building materials and as furnishing materials. Numerous studies have revealed that these materials emit volatile organic compounds, such as formaldehyde, into indoor air, which can be harmful ...
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Arantzazu Valdés, Nuria Burgos, Alfonso Jiménez and María Carmen Garrigós
The most fashionable trends in food packaging research are targeted towards improvements in food quality and safety by increasing the use of environmentally-friendly materials, ideally those able to be obtained from bio-based resources and presenting bio...
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Seonghun Kim
Mushroom ligninolytic enzymes are attractive biocatalysts that can degrade lignin through oxido-reduction. Laccase, lignin peroxidase, manganese peroxidase, and versatile peroxidase are the main enzymes that depolymerize highly complex lignin structures ...
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Damien Mathis, Pierre Blanchet, Véronic Landry and Philippe Lagière
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Miimu Airaksinen and Pellervo Matilainen
Current office buildings are becoming more and more energy efficient. In particular the importance of heating is decreasing, but the share of electricity use is increasing. When the CO2 equivalent emissions are considered, the CO2 e...
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Choosing building materials is usually the stage that follows design in the architectural design process, and is rarely used as a main input and driver for the design of the whole building’s geometries or structures. As an approach to have control ...
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Rim Ouhichi, Sacha Pérocheau Arnaud, Abdelkader Bougarech, Souhir Abid, Majdi Abid and Tobias Robert
Recently, itaconic acid has drawn considerable attention as a novel radical-curing building block for polyester resins. These bio-based materials have been used in thermal, as well as ultra violet (UV) curing applications, such as printing inks or coatin...
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Mary T. Motloung, Sifiso I. Magagula, Andiswa Kaleni, Tlholohelo S. Sikhosana, Kgomotso Lebelo and Mokgaotsa J. Mochane
Clean water is very important for the good health of society. In South Africa, it is estimated that people need 20 to 50 litres of safe water daily for basic hygiene, drinking, and cooking. In recent times, water bodies have harboured harmful pollutants,...
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Karol J. Kowalski, Jan Król, Piotr Radziszewski, Raquel Casado, ... Matt Wayman
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It is estimated that more than 90% of the 5.2 million kilometers of European paved roads and highways are surfaced with asphalt. Also, about 44% of goods are transported by road in the EU; maintaining their condition whilst in transit is crucial for the ...
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Daniel Satola, Martin Röck, Aoife Houlihan-Wiberg and Arild Gustavsen
Improving the environmental life cycle performance of buildings by focusing on the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions along the building life cycle is considered a crucial step in achieving global climate targets. This paper provides a systemati...
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Samir Kopacic, Andrea Walzl, Armin Zankel, Erich Leitner and Wolfgang Bauer
Paper-based food packaging materials are widely used, renewable, and biodegradable. Because of its porous structure, paper has poor or no barrier performance against grease, water vapor, water, and volatile organic compounds. Moreover, recycled paperboar...
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Jens Bachmann, Xiaosu Yi, Konstantinos Tserpes, Carmen Sguazzo, Lucia Gratiela Barbu, Barbara Tse, Constantinos Soutis, Eric Ramón, Hector Linuesa and Stéphane Bechtel
Fiber reinforced polymers play a crucial role as enablers of lightweight and high performing structures to increase efficiency in aviation. However, the ever-increasing awareness for the environmental impacts has led to a growing interest in bio-based an...
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