Thermal Mending of Electroactive Carbon/Epoxy Laminates Using a Porous Poly(ε-caprolactone) Electrospun Mesh.

For the first time, a porous mesh of poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) was electrospun directly onto carbon fiber (CF) plies and used to develop novel structural epoxy (EP) composites with electro-activated self-healing properties. Three samples, i.e.

Healable Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy/Cyclic Olefin Copolymer Composites.

Cyclic olefin copolymer (COC) particles were dispersed in various amounts in an epoxy matrix, and the resulting blends were used to impregnate unidirectional carbon fibers (CF) by hand lay-up. The thermal stability was not substantially modified by the presence of COC particles. The mixture of the two polymers resulted in a phase separated blend and the flexural modulus and interlaminar shear strength progressively decreased with the addition of COC particles in the laminates.

A Bayesian approach for estimating protein-protein interactions by integrating structural and non-structural biological data.

Accurate elucidation of genome wide protein-protein interactions is crucial for understanding the regulatory processes of the cell. High-throughput techniques, such as the yeast-2-hybrid (Y2H) assay, co-immunoprecipitation (co-IP), mass spectrometric (MS) protein complex identification, affinity purification (AP) etc., are generally relied upon to determine protein interactions.