A5072795071- Polymer composites and self-healing
- Elasticity and Material Modeling
- Soft Robotics and Applications
- Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties
- Epoxy Resin Curing Processes
- Cellular and Composite Structures
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
University of Bristol
2024
Politecnico di Milano
2023
Rigid polyurethane foams (RPUFs) are among the most used polymeric materials due to their tailorable properties. Greener and biobased polyol sources for synthesising RPUFs have been recently prototyped because of ever-growing demand more sustainable solutions. Castor Oil has also rapidly become one successful alternatives replace fossil-based components. This study extensively investigates three types developed from commercially available Oil-based resins, correlating properties across...
<title>Abstract</title> Metamaterials and metastructures are traditionally made using fossil-based components. We describe here an eco-friendly sustainable alternative to build with load-bearing characteristics by a novel modular trussed cell concept from natural composite rods derived the giant bamboo (<italic>Dendrocalamus asper</italic>) bi-phasic plant-based polymeric joints soybean (<italic>Glycine max</italic>) castor oil (<italic>Ricinus communis</italic>). The metastructure cells...
Silicone elastomers are extremely attractive materials due to their wide range of possible applications, from biomedical engineering soft robotics. In this work, an extensive thermo-mechanical characterization Ecoflex Shore hardness 00–50, a commercially available silicone elastomer, has been carried out compensate for the lack relevant literature. The mechanical behaviour material characterized by performing monotonic and cyclic loading tests. These tests were performed in different...
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