The amount of plastics disposed from modern lifestyles have increased sharply in recent
years. Solid biomass is an abundant energy resource that exists worldwide. Transformation …

One of the biggest challenges in the biocompatibility of implantable metals is the prevention
of the stress shielding effect, which is related to the coupling of the bone-metal mechanical …

Currently, a range of sectors are implementing three-dimensional (3D) printing, which is a
part of additive manufacturing (AM) technology via the fused deposition modelling (FDM) …

3D printing is a smart additive manufacturing technique that allows the engineering of
biomedical devices that are usually difficult to design using conventional methodologies …

Polyvinyl alcohol is unique among polymers. Apart from its preparation, it is not built up in
polymerization reactions from monomers, unlike most vinyl-polymers, and it is …

Cellulose-based biodegradable hydrogel proves to be excellently suitable for the medical
and water treatment industry based on the expressed properties such as its flexible structure …

The vitreous humour is a gel-like structure that composes the majority of each eye. It
functions to provide passage of light, be a viscoelastic dampener, and hold the retina in …

In this work, we investigated the potential of PVA-borax hydrogel for cleaning limestones
and the dependence of the cleaning on the porosity of the rock and on the action time of the …

Nature is endowed with several nanomaterials that can be obtained easily from animals and
plants. Cellulose, chitin, polycaprolactone, and starch are abundant, naturally occurring …

The mechanical behavior of amorphous polymers and semicrystalline polymers is modeled
using finite element analysis (FEA) through user material subroutine VUMAT in …