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Camila Clavijo and Johann F. Osma
The leather industry produces a high yield of solid hazardous wastes that generate a major impact on the environment. At the same time, the use of dyes by different manufacturing industries, including the footwear industry, creates large amounts of color...
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Aminur Rahman
This study explores the potential of modified shrimp-based chitosan (MSC) as an innovative adsorbent for eliminating heavy metals (HMs) from contaminated water sources. The modifications encompassed various chemical treatments, surface functionalization,...
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Sahar Fatima, Muhammad Imran, Farah Kanwal, Ayesha Javaid, Shoomaila Latif and Grzegorz Boczkaj
In this work, polymeric microspheres derived from polystyrene-co-methyl methacrylate embedded with magnetic ZnO nanoparticles (poly(styrene-co-MMA)-3MPS-Fe (ZnO)) were synthesized using the suspension polymerization method. The surfaces of polymeric Fe(Z...
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Yurim Han, Heebo Ha, Chunghyeon Choi, Hyungsub Yoon, Paolo Matteini, Jun Young Cheong and Byungil Hwang
Carbon nanotube (CNT)-based electrodes in flexible supercapacitors have received significant attention in recent years. Carbon nanotube fiber fabrics (CNT-FF) have emerged as promising materials due to their high surface area, excellent conductivity, and...
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Is Fatimah, Ganjar Fadillah, Suresh Sagadevan, Won-Chun Oh and Keshav Lalit Ameta
High demand for energy consumption forced the exploration of renewable energy resources, and in this context, biodiesel has received intensive attention. The process of biodiesel production itself needs to be optimized in order to make it an eco-friendly...
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Shuo Tang, Bing Lei, Zhiyuan Feng, Honglei Guo, Ping Zhang and Guozhe Meng
Graphene oxide (GO), derived from the two-dimensional nanosheet graphene, has received unprecedented attention in the field of metal corrosion protection owing to its excellent barrier performance and various active functional groups. In this review, the...
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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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Dhivyabharathi Balakrishnan and Cheng-I Lee
A natural polyphenolic compound was used to assemble nanocomposites. Owing to its stable bioactive properties, bamboo has earned significant attention in material science. Its high nutrient content and hydrophilicity makes bamboo more vulnerable to mold ...
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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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Wenpeng Yu, Ying Jiang, Feng Lin, Jichun Liu and Jianliang Zhou
Valve replacement is the mainstay of treatment for end-stage valvular heart disease, but varying degrees of defects exist in clinically applied valve implants. A mechanical heart valve requires long-term anti-coagulation, but the formation of blood clots...
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