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Nanostructured Fly Ash as Reinforcement in a Plastomer-Based Composite: A New Strategy in Value Addition to Thermal Power Station Fly Ash
Class-F fly ash (FA) from a coal-fired thermal power station was subjected to high energy ball milling-induced mechanochemical activation aided by a surfactant. Subsequently, ethylene-octene copolymer/mechanoc...
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Mechanical properties and sliding wear behavior of jatropha seed cake waste/epoxy composites
Jatropha seed cake particulate (JSCP)-reinforced epoxy composites were prepared by open mold resin casting method. The influence of JSCP on mechanical and dry sliding wear properties of epoxy was experimentall...
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Electrospun nickel oxide nanofiber webs for thermistor applications
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Natural nanoporous silica frustules from marine diatom as a biocarrier for drug delivery
The possible use of natural silica nanoporous biomaterial from marine diatom for drug delivery applications was explored. Coscinodiscus concinnus have a homogeneous size distribution with radius of 220 ± 15 µm wi...
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Use of nano-ATH as a multi-functional additive for poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide)
Flame retardant aluminum hydroxide (ATH) nanoparticles of size ≈10–20 nm were dispersed in ethylene–vinyl acetate–carbon monoxide terpolymer (EVACO) via solution casting. The effect of filler loading on the cr...
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Solution electrospinning of styrene-acrylonitrile random copolymer from dimethyl sulfoxide
Electrospinning is an efficient and versatile technique for the fabrication of ultrafine fibers having diameters ranging from nano to sub-micron level for various potential applications. In this study, we have...
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Thermoplastic vulcanizates from post consumer computer plastics/nitrile rubber blends by dynamic vulcanization
Due to depletion of natural resources and increasing greenhouse emissions, new technologies for the transformation of waste polymers into valuable materials represent one of our greatest current needs. Acrylon...
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Structural characterization of nano-crystalline Co3O4 ultra-fine fibers obtained by sol–gel electrospinning
In this paper, we report the obtention of ultrafine fibers of cobalt oxide (Co3O4) by combining electrospinning method with high-temperature calcinations from the precursor sol of poly(2-ethyl-2-oxazoline) (PEtOx...
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Isolation and characterization of cold inducible genes in carrot by suppression subtractive hybridization
Daucus carota is cultivated widely but grows best in cool climates. Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) is a PCR based method used to selectively amplify differentially expressed cDNAs an...
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Parametric study of manufacturing ultrafine polybenzimidazole fibers by electrospinning
Polybenzimidazole (PBI), a high performance polymer, was synthesized from 3,3′-diaminobenzidine (DAB) and isophthalic acid (IPA) through polycondensation. The chemical structure of PBI was confirmed by Fourier...
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Extruded poly(ethylene-co-octene)/fly ash composites – value added products from an environmental pollutant
Fly ash (FA) is a by-product generated during combustion of coal and has caused serious environmental concerns. In an effort to utilize FA beneficially, we developed composites from an ethylene-octene random c...
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Marker-free transgenic cucumber expressing Arabidopsis cbf1 gene confers chilling stress tolerance
Marker-free transgenic cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) cv. Poinsett 76 SR plants were produced by Agrobacterium mediated transformation. A transformation efficiency of 1.62 was observed on using Agrobacterium tumef...
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Characterization of poly(ethylene-co-vinyl acetate-co-carbon monoxide)/layered silicate clay hybrids obtained by melt mixing
In recent times, polymer-layered silicate nanocomposites have drawn a great deal of attention because they often exhibit tremendous improvements in material properties compared with virgin polymers or conventi...
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The cowpea trypsin inhibitor promoter drives expression in response to cellular maturation in Arabidopsis thaliana
The bowman-birk type trypsin inhibitors accumulate in high concentration in legume and cereal seeds, especially during seed maturation and are considered to be involved in insect tolerance. The 5′ flanking seq...
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Agrobacterium mediated genetic transformation of summer squash (Cucurbita pepo L. cv. Australian green) with cbf-1 using a two vector system
Efficient plant regeneration via shoot tip provided a basis for the optimization of the genetic transformation protocol. Therefore, experiments were conducted to establish an efficient in vitro regeneration pr...
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Map** of thermoplastic elastomeric nitrile rubber/poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) blends using tap** mode atomic force microscopy and transmission electron microscopy
Dynamically vulcanized thermoplastic elastomeric blends of nitrile rubber (NBR)/poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) (SAN) were mapped by tap** mode atomic force microscopy (TMAFM) and transmission electron micros...
