Abstract: During the field service of composite insulators, high temperature vulcanized (HTV) silicone rubber (SIR) material used for insulator's sheath and sheds is gradually aging, and thus how to ...

Abstract: We measured the effective complex magnetic permeability /spl mu//sub eff//sup */ and dielectric permittivity /spl epsiv//sub eff//sup */ spectra in rubber ...

National Synchrotron Radiation Lab, Anhui Provincial Engineering Laboratory of Advanced Functional Polymer Film, CAS Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Chemistry, University of Science and Technology of ...

In science and engineering, impressive technical feats sometimes draw on the arts—such is the case for a new study in Nature. First author Ahyoung Kim started taking pottery classes during the second ...

Department of Chemistry, Université de Montréal, Science Pavilion, 1375 Thérèse-Lavoie-Roux Avenue, Montreal H2V 0B3, Quebec, Canada ...

It wasn’t until 1844, when Charles Goodyear patented vulcanized rubber, that modern-day soccer balls began to really take shape—literally. But it wasn’t until 1844 that the modern-day soccer ball as ...

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