Nonstructural layers

A bleeder cloth, a nonstructural layer of material such as polyester felt, is used to allow the escape of excess gas and resin during cure. This material is removed after the curing process is completed and the excess resin taken with it. Next, a barrier film is... 

Because of the high residence time of standing dead tissue of emergent macrophytes such as Typha and Cladium, a signihcant degree of decomposition occurs by the time the leaf material enters the soil detrital layer. Leaching and mineralization of water-soluble, nonstructural components... 

The data presented here were acquired using nonstructured polymer films with large-area grafted polymer brush layers. Note that light can quite easily be focused to a spot size on the order of micrometers or be directed to the sample using fiber optics, allowing for the acquisition of data from areas with micrometer dimensions and for characterization of structured samples with micrometer resolution. Furthermore,... 

Previous sections have dealt with the production of supported bioassemblies by transfer of precast constructs to solid supports, by structured assembly on functionalized surfaces, or by nonstructured incorporation into polymeric films. An intriguing avenue to the realization of structured nanoscale biocatalytic films is the utilization of crystalline bacterial cell surface layers (S layers or crystallines) as preorganized and functionalized substrates for biomolecule attachment [147-151]. 

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