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Stimulus-responsive materials have great potential in advanced controllable oil/water separation applications. Here, a novel, cost-effective, and green approach is developed to produce a pH-responsive ...

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Billions of tires are discarded globally every year, and this is identified as one of the major causes of serious ...

The resulting PE-s/SiO20.2 fabric possessed special wettability with a water contact angle of 156.2 ± 1.5° and a sliding angle of 5.2 ± 1.0°, ... PE-s/SiO20.2 fabrics achieved ultrafast and efficient ...

You toss a shirt into the laundry basket without much thought. Later, it reappears in your closet, clean and folded. But what happens in between is more than a mechanical spin — it’s a process ...

Abstract: This paper provides a comparative study of synthetic and natural esters to mineral oil under thermal stress, in terms of oil and Kraft paper degradation. Published in: IEEE Electrical ...

As of 2025, the global poly cotton market was valued at USD 16,802.8 Million, demonstrating its significance in the textile ...

One gardener asked the r/NativePlantGardening subreddit how to contain goldenrod without using plastic edging.

This paper deals with obtaining aromatherapic textiles via applying stimuli-responsive poly N-isopropyl acryl amide (PNIPAAm) /chitosan (PNCS) nano hydrogels containing cinnamon oil on cotton fabric ...