The growing need of multifunctional materials with tailor made properties led in the last
decades to the development of novel commercial polymer blends, possessing superior …

The disposal of worn tyres and their economic recycling mean a great challenge nowadays.
Material recycling is the preferred way supported by legislative actions and …

Recycling and management of rubber wastes experiences an early-stage maturity in the
quest for sustainable and circular materials. Up to now, solutions proposed for sustainable …

Flame retardants are used in a wide range of plastics to extend the time-of-escape from fires.
By definition, they are designed to perform this task only in case of a fire, which is then …

Rubbers combine the flexibility with mechanical strength, supporting myriad applications,
but suffer from inherent flammability. Development of flame-retardant rubber composites …

The moisture induced damage is considered a serious threat to the durability of the high-
speed railway system. In this paper, an innovative application of thermoplastic …

In Portugal, most end‐of‐life tires are recycled through a process involving a cryogenic
grinding technology. The purpose of this work was to envisage new applications for …

Thermoplastic elastomers were prepared from recycled low density polyethylene [rLDPE]
and virgin low density polyethylene (LDPE), respectively, ground tyre rubber (GTR), and …

The analytical applications of the evolved gas analysis (EGA) performed by infrared
spectroscopy, for the period extending from 2005 to 2009, are collected in this review. By …

The growing amount of plastics waste produced every year resulted in development of
mechanical and chemical recycling methods of polymers and their blends or composites …