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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Silicone rubber"”.
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Controlled radiation grafting of N-vinyl pyrrolidone into silicone rubber for biomedical application
<p>http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/20899619</p>
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Composite compliant coatings for drag reduction utilizing low modulus high damping silicone rubber
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, 1985.
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Aging Assessment of High Voltage Single Component Room Temperature Vulcanized Silicone Rubber (RTV-1) Subjected to Aqueous Salt
… component room temperature vulcanized (RTV-1) silicone based caulk used in high voltage insulators and other applications is frequently subjected to environmental pollutants. Aging of RTV-1 silicone rubber is the result of various stressors, including environmental aging conditions such as UV, …
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Bioavailability of organic contaminants in sediments.
… An equilibrium passive sampling device made of silicone rubber was developed in this research to measure the freely dissolved concentrations of lipophilic contaminants and other parameters (water extractable proportions and sediment-water partition coefficients) that describe the availability of …
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New Approaches to Automated Analytical Instrumentation
… generation, including a glass 'U' tube GLS, a silicone rubber membrane GLS and a microporous polytetrafluoroethylene membrane GLS.
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Experimental and Numerical Modelling of Gasket Materials and Property Correlation
… developed to study the shore hardness testing of rubber materials principally used for gasket applications. The correlation between shore hardness and linear elastic and hyperelastic properties has been systematically investigated. A detailed FE model of the shore A hardness test has been …
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Transient oxygen consumption rate measurements with the BDT̳M̳ oxygen biosensor system
… to qualitatively understand the effects of silicone rubber thickness, medium volume, and OCR density on the transient behavior of the OBS. It was shown that medium volume and OCR density should be increased as much as well-volume and tissue constraints allow. Commercial OBS plates were used …
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The Creep Behaviour of Rubbers Reinforced with Particulate or Short Fibres
… have been carried out on unfilled polyurethane rubber and two rubber composites filled with 10 vol% and 20 vol% alumina particulates. They have been run at three different temperatures (20°C, 45°C and 65°C) for all three materials. The stress-strain curves of the rubber conformed well to the …
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Design and fabrication of pressure-compensating compliant tubes
… explored consist mainly of molding of liquid silicone rubber and production from existing silicone stock by folding or binding multiple sheets of material together. Based on small-scale production and testing, the sheet fabrication method showed some promise of equaling the performance of the …
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Monitoring and regulating cyanobacterial metabolites (microcystins and geosmin) in aquatic systems.
… samples. Furthermore the application of silicone rubber membranes as passive samplers was explored in spiked and environmental samples, demonstrating that silicone rubber membranes can successfully be used in environmental applications to deliver rapid and accurate determinations of both …
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Flexible and stretchable tactile sensing skins using microwave transmission lines and piezoresistive rubber
… for creating a sensing skin based on molded PDMS silicone rubber. The first, which serves as a baseline technology for this thesis, consists of arrays of sensors made of insulating PDMS, conducting metal doped PDMS, and piezoresistive carbon black doped PDMS. Flexible and stretchable sensors …
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Occurrence and fate of endocrine disrupting chemicals and other hydrophobic organic compounds in a tropical river in Kenya
… samplers, namely polyethersulfone (PES) and silicone rubber (SR), were used to monitor some endocrine disruptors (EDCs) and hydrophobic organic chemicals (HOCs) in freshwater and sediments of a tropical river in Kenya. PES was applied for the first time for time-integrative sampling of these …
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Development of tissue printed nitrocellulose cards/arrays for real time PCR amplification and detection
… created by laser cutting an assembly of molded silicone rubber and a double-sided tape (silicone-acrylic). Experiments showed when the gasket was adhered to a glass slide and subjected to the PCR, there was no leakage. FAST Slides, nitrocellulose slides provided by Grace Bio-Labs, are cut with a …
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Investigation of defects on acoustic scattering in cloak by molding process
… trichlorosilane was also demonstrated by casting silicone rubber into original acoustic cloak. The low-temperature metal alloy, CerroBend, was used to microcast the metamaterial networks at a melting point of 70°C. Some damaged replicas were prepared to investigate defects in the cloak, and the …
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Design, fabrication, and testing of a multichannel microfluidic device to dynamically control oxygen concentration conditions in-vitro
… microfluidic devices, using highly gas permeable silicone rubber (polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS)). The stacked microchannel architecture, channel dimensions, and layer thicknesses in the device were optimized for rapid diffusion and saturation of 02 N2 mixtures into the testing areas. The oxygen …
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Combined effects of bioavailable organic contaminants in the aquatic environment.
… study investigated the feasibility of coupling silicone rubber passive sampling devices (SR-PSDs) with bioassay techniques for both chemical and ecotoxicological assessment of complex mixtures of organic contaminants in the aquatic environment. SR-PSDs were deployed for seven to nine weeks in …
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Development of an integrated microfluidic platform for oxygen sensing and delivery
… capillary devices were fabricated from silicone rubber using multilayer soft lithography to create dense 2D networks of bifurcating channels. To quantify the effectiveness of mass transfer in various channel geometries under differing experimental conditions, a mathematical model of …
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Pressure difference-based sensing of leaks in water distribution networks
… technologies are explored and evaluated. A silicone-rubber deflecting membrane is selected for the application. The relationship between pressure-derived force acting on its surface and its maximum deflection is evaluated as a means of leak detection. Ultimately, testing reveals that these …
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Development and Analysis of a Minimally Invasive Post-Infarction Epicardial Patch Delivery Device
… using thermoplastic polymer films and casted silicone rubber components, designed for minimally invasive subxiphoid surgery. It utilizes vacuum for stabilization during application. By characterizing the material properties with a universe mechanical tester, it was also found that the tool can …
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Polymer Gels: Kinetics, Dynamics Studies and Their Applications as Biomaterials
… enhance the drug uptake and release capacity of silicone rubber (SR), NIPA hydrogel particles have been incorporated into a SR membrane. This SR/NIPA composite gel has promising attributes for wound dressing and other uses. Tissue-simulating optical phantom has been synthesized and studied using …
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