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Rehab R. S. Ali, Ibrahim N. Nassar, Ahmed Ghallab, Esmat F. Ali, Ahmad I. Alqubaie, Mostafa M. Rady and Ahmed A. M. Awad
Water deficit is one of the major limiting factors of seed crop germination and productivity. Consequently, superabsorbent polymers (SAPs) are among several technologies that enhance water use efficiency, leading to worthy seed germination. The objective...
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Syed Sikandar Shah, Bruno Ramos and Antonio Carlos Silva Costa Teixeira
Hydrogels have attracted great attention as good adsorbents due to their extraordinary water retention capacity, unique hydrophilic nature, biocompatibility, and abundance in availability. In this work, a superabsorbent polymer (SAP) hydrogel and its com...
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Jan Fort, Jan Kocí, Jaroslav Pokorný, Lubo? Podolka, Michal Kraus and Robert Cerný
Ambient comfort maintenance accompanied by excessive energy consumption is hugely criticized concerning the limited sustainability of the building sector in the long-term. In this sense, the energy reduction strategies based on the employment of passive ...
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Marin Micutz, Rodica Mihaela Lungu, Viorel Circu, Monica Ilis and Teodora Staicu
Hydrogels containing both carboxyl and hydroxyl functional groups have been prepared by ?-irradiation of either aqueous solutions of acrylic acid (AA) and mixtures of AA and 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) in different ratios, or aqueous solutions of ...
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Bart Craeye, Geert Cockaerts and Patricia Kara De Maeijer
The scope of the paper is to report an investigation on durability of infrastructure concrete for roads and bridges by creating a size and shape-designed pore systems in concrete in order to improve it, especially in terms of freeze?thaw resistance. By m...
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Giuseppe Cannazza, Andrea Cataldo, Egidio De Benedetto, Christian Demitri, Marta Madaghiele and Alessandro Sannino
In this work, an innovative cellulose-based superabsorbent polymer (SAP) was experimentally assessed as an environmentally friendly alternative to acrylate-based SAPs, for the optimization of water consumption in agriculture. The cellulose-based SAP was ...
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