… Cocoons of silkworm silk are made of a single continuous silk strand with length in the
range of 1000–1500 m, where the fibroin filaments are cemented by sericin. Mechanical …

Spinal cord injury (SCI) leads to a massive disconnection between the brain and the body
parts below the lesion level representing a unique opportunity to explore how the body …

Although in the last three decades philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists have
produced numerous studies on human cognition, the debate concerning its nature is still …

… where T m 0 and T m are the melting temperatures of the pure polymer and of the polymer
… As mentioned in the Experimental, T m and T m 0 are taken as the temperatures where the …

… The modulus results (Table 2) were fitted using the modified rule-of-mixture [30], [32](2) E=η
o η l V f E f +(1−V f )E m where E, E f and E m are the moduli of composite, fibre and matrix, …

… We explain this behavior in ΔH m by increased mobility of lower molecular weight PBF
chains that allows them to crystallize to greater extent than correspondingly higher molecular …

Simple esterification and etherification reactions were applied to steam‐exploded Flax (Linum
usitatissimum) with the aim of changing the surface properties through modification of …

… The ΔH m value obtained for the PHBV used in this work (10 mol % of HV units) was consistent
with previous results on PHBV copolymers with different HV contents. From the slope of …

… 20) blend has been recently attributed to nondegradability of the interlamellar PHB-CAB
mixture that prevents enzymatic attack on the pure PHB lamellar crystals (Tomasi and Scandola …

… measurements were carried out with a DETA instrument (Polymer Laboratories Ltd), at a
heating rate of 1 K min- 1 at five selected frequencies (0.3, 1, 3, 10, 50 kHz), on films (40 #m …