TU article in the top 100 of Nature Scientific Reports 2020

Nature Publishing Group announced that an article by Goshtasp Cheraghian and Professor Michael P. Wistuba is among the top 100 articles in the journal “Scientific Reports” in 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-68007-0). The annual Scientific Reports list ranks the articles with the most downloads. The listing is considered a predicate for particularly valuable research contributions from the global community. The Chief Editor Dr Richard White congratulated Cheraghian and Wistuba: “A position in the TOP 100 is an extraordinary achievement – your science is of real value to the research community.” Goshtasp Cheraghian is a research associate at the Institute of Highway Engineering, which is headed by Professor Michael P. Wistuba. Both described how bitumen can be protected from UV radiation and thus from premature wear in the paper “Ultraviolet aging study on bitumen modified by a composite of clay and fumed silica nanoparticles.” A nanocomposite of clay and fumed silica improves the aging resistance of bitumen, a binder in asphalt.