Route development programs have become popular with airports worldwide to enhance air connectivity. Enhanced air connectivity of an airport has been found to have a positive and significant impact on the competitiveness and attractiveness of the airport and the regional economy in which the airport is located. However, the drivers behind route development programs and their performance are not always clear; this has been less explored in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAir Transportation is a major contributor to international mobility and has high requirements to ensure safe and secure operations. Aircraft ground operations are impacted significantly by the current pandemic situation so that standard operating procedures need a redesign to incorporate the upcoming sanitation requirements. In particular, the passenger boarding process is challenged with requirements for physical distances between passengers, while in addition to standard cleaning, the cabin has to be disinfected after each flight.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn this study, 4,4'-diphenylmethane diisocyanate and polytetramethylene glycol were used to prepare a prepolymer; N,N'-bis(4-hydroxybenzylidene)-2,6-diaminopyridine (BHBP) was used as a chain extender; and these elements were combined to prepare a novel polyurethane, BHBP/PU. Gel permeation chromatography revealed that the molecular weight of the BHBP/PU samples increased as the BHBP content was increased. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy demonstrated that high BHBP content facilitated strong hydrogen bonding in the samples.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe have overcome the synthetic difficulty of 9,9',9'',9''',9'''',9'''''-((phenylsilanetriyl)tris(benzene-5,3,1-triyl))hexakis(9H-carbazole) () an advanced homologue of previously known as a solution-processed, high triplet gap energy host material for a blue phosphorescence dopant. A series of organic light-emitting diodes based on blue phosphorescence dopant iridium (III) bis(4,6-difluorophenylpyridinato)picolate, FIrpic, were fabricated and tested to demonstrate the validity of solution-processed in the device fabrication.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPure 2-iodo-9,9'-spirobifluorene was synthesized by an efficient method without troublesome iodination of 9,9-spirobifluorene (SP) or the Sandmeyer reaction of 2-amino-9,9'-spirobifluorene. A series of main group element-bridged bis-9,9'-spirobifluorene derivatives were synthesized via coupling reactions of 2-iodo-9,9'-spirobifluorene and main group element-containing precursors. These heteroatom-bridged bis-spirobifluorenes show large triplet state energy gaps, high glass transition temperatures, and varied charge-transporting properties advantageous to the host materials for blue phosphorescence organic light-emitting diodes.
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