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Elsa M. Gonçalves, Mafalda Silva, Luiza Andrade and Joaquina Pinheiro
In the wake of escalating global concerns over the environmental impact of plastic pollution, there has been an unprecedented call for sustainable alternatives. The food-packaging industry, responsible for a staggering 40% of global plastic consumption, ...
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Sarah Bill Ulaeto, Rajimol Puthenpurackal Ravi, Inime Ime Udoh, Gincy Marina Mathew and Thazhavilai Ponnu Devaraj Rajan
Polymer-based coatings are a long-established category of protective coatings for metals and alloys regarding corrosion inhibition. The polymer films can degrade, and when coated on metallic substrates, the degradation facilitates moisture and oxygen pen...
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Frédéric Debeaufort, Julien Riondet, Claire-Hélène Brachais and Nasreddine Benbettaieb
Single-use plastics are a major source of pollution and biodegradable polymers could be the best substitute, as they possess similar barrier and functional properties. Aiming at improving barrier properties and providing antioxidant bioactivity, PLA (Pol...
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Marta D. da Fonseca de Albuquerque, Daniele C. Bastos, Stefan Talu, Robert S. Matos, Marcelo A. Pires, Marco Salerno, Henrique D. da Fonseca Filho and Renata A. Simão
The development and efficient production of effective bioplastics is a hot topic, required to face up to the issue of the difficult disposal of plastics derived from oil. Among the different natural sources of bioplastics, starch is one of the most promi...
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Gunnar Suchaneck, Evgenii Artiukh, Nikolai A. Sobolev, Eugene Telesh, Nikolay Kalanda, Dmitry A. Kiselev, Tatiana S. Ilina and Gerald Gerlach
Thin-film strontium ferromolybdate is a promising material for applications in room-temperature magnetic tunnel junction devices. These are spin-based, low-power-consuming alternatives to CMOS in non-volatile memories, comparators, analog-to-digital conv...
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Espedito Vassallo, Marco Aloisio, Matteo Pedroni, Francesco Ghezzi, Pierfrancesco Cerruti and Riccardo Donnini
Poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) films were processed by a radio frequency (RF; 13.56 MHz) low-pressure plasma of oxygen and argon/oxygen, and an oxygen plasma with an argon post-crosslinking plasma to improve their wettability property. Specimens were tre...
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Luis Ocaña, Carlos Montes, Sara González-Pérez, Benjamín González-Díaz and Elena Llarena
In this work, the performance of a new ethylene-vinyl acetate-based low temperature encapsulation method, conceived to protect perovskite samples from UV irradiation in ambient conditions, has been analyzed. To this purpose, perovskite samples consisting...
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Carmen Rodica Pop, Teodora Emilia Coldea, Liana Claudia Salanta, Alina Lacramioara Nistor, Andrei Borsa, Anca Corina Farca?, Vasile Constantin Florian and Ancuta Mihaela Rotar
Kefiran is an exopolysaccharide classified as a heteropolysaccharide comprising glucose and galactose in equimolar quantities, and it is classified as a water-soluble glucogalactan. This work aimed to investigate the effect of different extraction condit...
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Chen Li, Jiliu Pei, Xiaohui Xiong and Feng Xue
A dry-heated Maillard reaction was used to prepare plum seed protein isolate and gum acacia conjugates. Emulsion-based edible films (EBEF) were prepared by the encapsulation of grapefruit essential oil using conjugates solution as the continuous phase. T...
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Marcin H. Kudzin, Anna Kaczmarek, Zdzislawa Mrozinska and Joanna Olczyk
In this study, copper films were deposited by magnetron sputtering on poly(ethylene terephthalate) knitted textile to fabricate multi-functional, antimicrobial composite material. The modified knitted textile composites were subjected to microbial activi...
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