A review on natural cellulose fiber applications: Empowering industry with sustainable solutions.

Cellulose fiber, a prevalent natural biopolymer, offers numerous benefits including renewability and biodegradability. It presents a cost-effective, chemical-free alternative for various applications such as textiles, packaging, food preservation, wastewater treatment, medicine, and cosmetics. Recent research has focused on cellulose's potential in advanced polymeric materials, highlighting its versatility and sustainability.

Structural and morphological characterizations of glass based composites in thin films form.

By using a low-cost sol gel method, neat and loaded phosphate glass containing Cr, Co, Ni, and Zn was synthesized and then placed on a silica glass substrate. Cr, Ni, Co, and Zn loading amounts were diluted inside the matrix using rates varying from 0 wt% to 16 wt% in order to study the impact of loading elements on glass characteristics. By using XRD and SEM, it was determined how loading factors affected the structural and morphological characteristics of glass thin layers.

Surface and Interface Investigations of Matrix-Fillers in Heterogeneous Amorphous Semiconductors.

Phosphate glass-based composites are prone to be as effective as amorphous semiconductors, enhancing the glass properties by the addition of a small amount of metallic fillers (Cr, Co, Ni, and Zn) and leading to the creation of composite materials where the conductive particles can be distributed in the glass matrix PbO-PO (PbP) at the micrometer level. This paper deals with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) examination and the wetting behavior of the phosphate glass-metal powder composites. We focused on the filler effect on wetting characteristics, such as interfacial free energy.

Epoxy/alumina composite coating on welded steel 316L with excellent wear and anticorrosion properties.

The main purpose of this study is to elaborate anticorrosive coatings for the welded steel 316L, since this later is widely used in industrial field. Hence, within this work we have studied the electrochemical behaviour of different zones of the welded steel 316 in 1 M HCl media. The macrography study of the welded steel has revealed the different areas with a good contrast.