• Ablation behavior studies of charring materials with different thickness and heat flux intensity 

      Xiao, Jie; Das, Oisik; Mensah, Rhoda Afriyie; Jiang, Lin; Xu, Qiang; Berto, Filippo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Surface ablation and in-depth temperature distribution of the charring material are the key properties of the thermal protection system in re-entry vehicles subjected to aerodynamic heating. To investigate the factors ...
    • Circular economy in biocomposite development: State-of-the-art, challenges and emerging trends 

      Shanmugam, Vigneshwaran; Mensah, Rhoda Afriyie; Försth, Michael; Sas, Gabriel; Restás, Ágoston; Addy, Cyrus; Xu, Qiang; Jiang, Lin; Neisiany, Rasoul Esmaeely; Singha, Shuvra; George, Gejo; Jose E, Tomlal; Berto, Filippo; Hedenqvist, Mikael S; Das, Oisik; Ramakrishna, Seeram (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Biocomposites being environmentally-friendly alternative to synthetic composites are gaining increasing demand for various applications. Hence, biocomposite development should be integrated within a circular economy (CE) ...
    • Fire behavior of wood-based composite materials 

      Renner, Juliana Sally; Mensah, Rhoda Afriyie; Jiang, Lin; Xu, Qiang; Das, Oisik; Berto, Filippo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      Wood-based composites such as wood plastic composites (WPC) are emerging as a sustainable and excellent performance materials consisting of wood reinforced with polymer matrix with a variety of applications in construction ...
    • The Flame Retardancy of Polyethylene Composites: From Fundamental Concepts to Nanocomposites 

      Rezvani Ghomi, Erfan; Khosravi, Fatemeh; Mossayebi, Zahra; Saedi Ardahaei, Ali; Morshedi Dehaghi, Fatemeh; Khorasani, Masoud; Neisiany, Rasoul Esmaeely; Das, Oisik; Marani, Atiye; Mensah, Rhoda Afriyie; Jiang, Lin; Xu, Qiang; Försth, Michael; Berto, Filippo; Ramakrishna, Seeram (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Polyethylene (PE) is one the most used plastics worldwide for a wide range of applications due to its good mechanical and chemical resistance, low density, cost efficiency, ease of processability, non-reactivity, low ...
    • Wood dust flammability analysis by microscale combustion calorimetry 

      Xu, Qiang; Jiang, Lin; Majlingova, Andrea; Ulbrikova, Nikoleta; Mensah, Rhoda Afriyie; Das, Oisik; Berto, Filippo (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      To study the practicability of a micro combustion calorimeter to analyze the calorimetry kinetics of wood, a micro combustion calorimeter with 13 heating rates from 0.1 to 5.5 K/s was used to perform the analysis of 10 ...