Materials
Materials
Modeling of Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Nanofluid
27/11/2023 -
The enhanced oil recovery performance of Al2O3 in water was modeled for different porosities and diffusion coefficients. Continuity, momentum, and energy equations were applied and solved numerically...
Bacteria and Yeasts Isolated from the Environment in Biodegradation of PS and PVC Microplastics: Screening and Treatment Optimization
29/11/2023 -
Biodegradation is the most environmentally friendly and, at the same time, economically acceptable approach to removing various pollutants from the environment. However, its efficiency in removing...
Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Reusable and Disposable Distribution Packaging for Fresh Food
30/11/2023 -
In this study, a comparative life cycle assessment of three different products with reusable and single-use packaging for fresh food distribution was conducted. For the reusable packaging, one...
Passive Energy Conservation Strategies for Mitigating Energy Consumption and Reducing CO2 Emissions in Traditional Dwellings of Peking Area, China
30/11/2023 -
Within China, brick dwellings stand as archetypal relics of traditional habitation, embodying a “living fossil” status. The sustainability of these dwellings is contingent...
Repurposing endogenous type II CRISPR?Cas9 system for genome editing in Streptococcus thermophilus
23/11/2023 -
Streptococcus thermophilus has been extensively used in industrial milk fermentation. However, lack of efficient genetic manipulation approaches greatly hampered the industrial application of this...
Exploring the Plastic Collection and Recycling Trends in Sri Lanka
26/11/2023 -
This study examined plastic waste management in Sri Lanka, concentrating on the contributing factors to plastic waste generation and collection. Data were gathered through a questionnaire survey from...
Oxidation of Ceftazidime by Modified Rice Husk Biochar-Activated Persulfate
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Rice husk biochar (RHB-2) was prepared from agricultural waste rice husk by high-temperature pyrolysis and modified with NaOH. The char structure before and after modification was characterized by...
Robust global arrangement by coherent enhancement in Huygens-Fresnel traveling surface acoustic wave interference field
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The application of standing surface acoustic wave (SSAW) tweezers based on backpropagation superposition to achieve precise behavior manipulation of microscale cells and even nanoscale bacteria...
Understanding adsorption behavior of Polysorbate?20 to sterile filters in therapeutic proteins final filtration process
21/11/2023 -
Surfactants are commonly used in the therapeutic protein manufacturing process as stabilizer. Polysorbate?20 (PS?20) is one of the most commonly used surfactants to mitigate protein aggregation in...
Swelling of star polymer thin films exposed to supercritical carbon dioxide
20/11/2023 -
Impact of polymer chain architecture on the swelling of supported single?layer polymer thin films with thicknesses below 80 nm in the presence of supercritical CO2 (scCO2) is investigated using...
Untargeted Lipidomics Reveal Quality Changes in High-Moisture Japonica Brown Rice at Different Storage Temperatures
22/11/2023 -
Low temperatures are an effective way of delaying grain rancidity and deterioration. However, little is known about the difference in quality changes in high-moisture japonica brown rice at different...
pH-Dependent Adsorption of Human Serum Albumin Protein on a Polystyrene-Block–Poly(acrylic acid)-Coated PVDF Membrane
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This study reports the investigation of human serum albumin (HSA) adsorption on a poy-styrene-block–poly(acrylic acid) (PS-b-PAA)-coated PVDF membrane, which is a potential smart...
Preparation, stretch?induced crystallization and thermo?oxidative aging behavior of poly (lactic acid)/saponite grafted polystyrene nanocomposites films
20/11/2023 -
In this work, modified saponite (SAP?g?PS) was prepared by Pickering emulsion polymerization, and the optimum synthesis conditions of SAP?g?PS were investigated. Furthermore, SAP?g?PS was used as a...
Atrazine Removal from Aqueous Solution by Biogenic Manganese Oxide and Persulfate: Kinetics and Removal Mechanism
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New treatment methods based on biologically produced metal catalysts and reagents are being developed for the removal of pollutants. Biogenic manganese oxide (BMO) is one of the biogenic metal oxide...
Inhibition of FLT1 Attenuates Neurodevelopmental Abnormalities and Cognitive Impairment in Offspring Caused by Maternal Prenatal Stress
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Abstract Fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (FLT1) has been shown to regulate processes such as angiogenesis, neurogenesis, and cognitive impairment. However, the role of FLT1 in prenatal...
Improvement of the quantitativeness of the thermal desorption-GC/MS method and development of polystyrene certified reference material for the quantification of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) by using isotope dilution mass spectrometry
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A polystyrene (PS) certified reference material (CRM) for the analysis of decabromodiphenyl ether (BDE 209) was issued. PS disk was prepared by injection molding of the mixture of versine PS and...
MIL-101(Fe)/WS2 composites activated Na2S2O8 with visible light for removal of tetracycline
16/11/2023 -
MIL-101(Fe)/WS2 catalyst was composited using a solvothermal method. To study the physical and chemical properties of the composite material, a series of characterizations such as scanning...
Sulfonated polysulfone proton exchange membrane with flexible side chains for fuel cells
14/11/2023 -
In this study, chloromethylated polysulfones (CPS) were used as precursors to synthesize two kinds of sulfonated polysulfones with flexible side chains, namely PS-BS (The end of the side chain...
Engineering Mesoscopic 3D Tumor Models with a Self?Organizing Vascularized Matrix
10/11/2023 -
3D bioprinting and bioengineering approaches are combined to cultivate 3D vascularized tumors, including patient?derived ones, at the mesoscopic scale. Functional connections between self?evolved...
Antitumor and antioxidant activities of polysaccharides from the seaweed Durvillaea antarctica
09/11/2023 -
The present study was carried out to determine the antitumor and antioxidant activities of the seaweed Durvillaea antarctica.The present study was carried out to determine the antitumor and...
Photocatalytic degradation of polyethylene and polystyrene microplastics by ?-Fe2O3/g-C3N4
13/11/2023 -
This study investigated the photodegradation of microplastics (MPs) by ?-Fe2O3/g-C3N4. The effects of ?-Fe2O3/g-C3N4 on MPs' surface were investigated through various techniques. With the addition...
