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Beata Kaczmarek-Szczepanska, Lidia Zasada, Marta Michalska-Sionkowska, Jithin Vishnu and Geetha Manivasagam
Titanium is one of the most widely used metals in implantology owing to its reduced modulus, improved corrosion resistance and good biocompatibility. In spite of its excellent biocompatibility, it does not exhibit inherent antibacterial and antioxidant a...
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Duoxun Fang, Adham Al-akhali, Molin Cao, Jiahao Liu and Zhengqiang Tang
Preparing underwater superoleophobic surface is an effective method to solve the problems of oil adhesion on the underwater surfaces and oil spill in water. However, the underwater superoleophobic surfaces at present are not reliable in practical applica...
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Daniel Brüggemann, Tahereh Shojamejer, Michelle Tupinamba Lima, Dzenna Zukova, Rahel Marschall and Reinhard Schomäcker
For a group of nonionic surfactants with polar head groups synthesized by the copolymerization of ethylene oxide and carbon dioxide, the potential for their application in the foam flotation of microplastic particles was investigated. Their performance w...
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Qi Qiu, Mingchang Gao, Changtao Shao, Shaofang Sun, Yusen Liu and Huawei Zhang
Membrane fouling is a key factor limiting the application of a membrane bioreactor (MBR), and membrane-surface modification holds the potential to control membrane fouling and solves this problem. In the research, novel nanocomposite membranes were desig...
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Michele Arienzo and Carlo Donadio
Microplastics, MPs, in aquatic environments pose serious threats when associated with other pollutants, such as pharmaceuticals, PHs. This review is a continuation of an earlier paper on the role of MPs as containers and carriers of heavy metals, HMs, pe...
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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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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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Amal Alfawaz, Khalid Alzahrani, Abdurahman Niazy, Hamdan Alghamadi, Rhodanne Lambarte, Abeer Beagan, Latifah Alfhaid, Khalid Alotaibi and Abdullah Alswieleh
A platform technology based on inorganic/organic nanoparticles for carrying drugs could be of enormous potential benefit in treating cancer. Surface modification of the nanoparticles with pH-responsive and biocompatible polymers can improve the selectivi...
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Yangyang Luo, Ahmed Humayun and David K. Mills
Three-dimensional (3D) printing techniques have received considerable focus in the area of bone engineering due to its precise control in the fabrication of complex structures with customizable shapes, internal and external architectures, mechanical stre...
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M. Nuzaimah, S.M. Sapuan, R. Nadlene and M. Jawaid
This study investigated the optimum NaOH concentration treatment for rubber crumbs that improves adhesion between the polymer matrix and rubber filler in rubber polyester composites. The composite was prepared by mixing rubber crumbs from waste rubber gl...
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