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Miguel Suffo, Celia Pérez-Muñoz, Gonzalo Alba and María Pilar Villar
In the wine bottling process, thermoplastics are commonly used to manufacture the crown of cork stoppers. The production of agglomerated cork stoppers generates a type of waste called cork powder (CoP) in large volumes with known properties but which are...
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Omar El Hawary, Luca Boccarusso, Martin P. Ansell, Massimo Durante and Fulvio Pinto
Environmental emergency awareness has been gaining momentum in recent years in the composite manufacturing industry, with a new generation of composite materials minimizing their harmful environmental impacts by employing more sustainable manufacturing p...
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Jacqueline R. da S. Rodrigues, Ramon da S. Santos, Rayssa A. Matos, José C. M. Pires and Eva M. Salgado
Microalgae harvesting by coagulation can use coagulant agents such as alum, synthetic polymers or biocoagulants. Biocoagulants have attracted the attention of researchers because they are natural, biodegradable, and promote high microalgal harvesting eff...
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Giulia Cesarini, Fabiana Corami, Beatrice Rosso and Massimiliano Scalici
Microplastics are widespread in freshwater environments and could impact these ecosystems. Bivalves are freshwater organisms that are particularly exposed to microplastic contamination. Therefore, in this preliminary study, the accumulation of microplast...
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Gabriella Caruso, Maria Grazia Giacobbe, Filippo Azzaro, Franco Decembrini, Marcella Leonardi, Stefano Miserocchi, Xiuyun Cao, Chunlei Song and Yiyong Zhou
Bacterial and phytoplankton communities are known to be in close relationships, but how natural and anthropogenic stressors can affect their dynamics is not fully understood. To study the response of microbial communities to environmental and human-induc...
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Suniti Suparp, Nazam Ali, Ahmed W. Al Zand, Krisada Chaiyasarn, Muhammad Usman Rashid, Ekkachai Yooprasertchai, Qudeer Hussain and Panuwat Joyklad
Salient features of lightweight aggregate concrete (LAC) include noticeable fire resistance, high strength-to-weight ratio, and low magnitude of dead loads. Further, LAC has a low cost, eases construction practices, and possesses an environment-friendly ...
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Kamala Kannan, Sivaperumal Pitchiah, Jeevankumar Guduri Joseph, Dhanraj Ganapathy, Subramanian Sundarrajan and Seeram Ramakrishna
In the present study, halophilic archaea were isolated from a marine sediment sample. Totally, 15 isolates (AMS 1?15) were identified by molecular identification as belonging to the ten genera. Further, their extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) were...
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Minze Zhu, Andrew K. Whittaker, Felicity Y. Han and Maree T. Smith
Biodegradable polymers have been used as carriers in drug delivery systems for more than four decades. Early work used crude natural materials for particle fabrication, whereas more recent work has utilized synthetic polymers. Applications include the ma...
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Imke Korte, Judith Kreyenschmidt, Joana Wensing, Stefanie Bröring, Jan Niklas Frase, Ralf Pude, Christopher Konow, Thomas Havelt, Jessica Rumpf, Michaela Schmitz and Margit Schulze
Exploitation of renewable resources and plant extracts for the development of sustainable materials used for active food packaging.
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Jeongyeon Choi and Heekyung Jeon
This study focused on the manufacturing of functional superabsorbent sponges using natural polymers. An alginate/CMC-embedded dextran hybrid dual-layer formulation was prepared using the freeze-drying method. The physical properties of the formulation we...
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