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Can Elastomers Combine Stiffness, Toughness and Fatigue Resistance?

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review studies how the molecular and macroscopic architecture of elastomers influence their mechanical properties including: stiffness, stretchability, toughness, fatigue resistance, and damping behavior. By linking the structure to performance, it proposes design principles for advanced elastomeric systems that combine mechanical properties ...
Eva Baur, Esther Amstad
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Polylactide microcapsules and films: preparation and properties [PDF]

, 2009
This thesis aims at preparation of hollow polylactide (PLA) microcapsules for use as ultrasound contrast agents with controlled size, structure and mechanical and thermal properties.
Sawalha, H.I.M.
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Explosive spontaneous emulsification [PDF]

, 2022
Spontaneous emulsification, resulting from the assembly and accumulation of surfactants at liquid-liquid interfaces, is an interfacial instability where microdroplets are generated and diffusively spread from the interface until complete emulsification ...
Omar, Ahmad K., Wang, Dong, Wu, Xuefei, Wang, Jianjun, Hasnain, Jaffar, Streubel, Robert, Xue, Han, Russell, Thomas P., Bordia, Gautam, Geissler, Phillip L.   +9 more
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Ionizable Lipid‐Dependent Optimization of Steroid Lipid Nanoparticles With Tunable Immunomodulatory Properties

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A novel engineering strategy that establishes material design principles for incorporating anti‐inflammatory steroids into lipid nanoparticles to reduce LNP‐induced inflammation while retaining mRNA delivery. Results are validated in vitro and in three animal models of inflammation and autoimmunity in vivo.
Ajay S. Thatte, Benjamin E. Nachod, Julia Baena, Jenna Muscat‐Rivera, Lesley Chaboub, Hannah C. Safford, Hannah C. Geisler, Hannah M. Yamagata, Melgious J. Y. Ang, Michael Kegel, Alexandre Poirier, Elaine R. Tong, Zhe Zhong, Qiangqiang Shi, Jinjin Wang, Elisa Battistini, Ye Zeng, Alex G. Hamilton, Kelsey L. Swingle, Drew Weissman, Jilian R. Melamed, Michael J. Mitchell   +21 more
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Microfluidic Emulsification [PDF]

, 2011
This dissertation investigates the emulsification of aqueous liquid in immiscible organic liquid in various microfluidic environments, and addresses both experimental characterization and theoretical interpretation of the dynamics and design guidelines ...
He, Peng
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Effect of membrane parameters on the size and uniformity in preparing agarose beads by premix membrane emulsification

, 2009
Agarose microbeads were prepared by premix membrane emulsification with Shirasu-Porous; Glass (SPG) membrane and Polyethylene (PE) membrane. The effects of membrane parameters, including pore size, pore size distribution, contact angle between membrane ...
Zhou, Qjng-Zhu, Ma, GH, Su, Zhi-Guo, Ma, Guang-Hui   +3 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
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Simultaneous Extraction and Emulsification of Food Waste Liquefaction Bio-Oil

Energies, 2018
Biomass-derived bio-oil is a sustainable and renewable energy resource, and liquefaction is a potential conversion way to produce bio-oil. Emulsification is a physical upgrading technology, which blends immiscible liquids into a homogeneous emulsion ...
David Längauer, Yu-Ying Lin, Wei-Hsin Chen, Chao-Wen Wang, Michal Šafář, Vladimír Čablík   +5 more
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Sustainable Poly(Lactic Acid)/Graphene Oxide Bioelectronic Platform for Neurotransmitters Sensing and Tunable Stimulation of Astrocytes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces sustainable PLA/graphene oxide bioelectronic interfaces featuring electrodes with tunable conductivity and strong electrocatalytic performance. These platforms were used to implement a new method for tuning astrocyte Ca2+ signaling and for the efficient detection of key biomarkers.
Alessandra Scidà, Giulia Cazzador, Roberta Fabbri, Matteo Calosi, Alessandro Silvestri, Andrea Candini, Fabiola Liscio, Franco Corticelli, Aikaterini Konstantoulaki, Andrea D'Iorio, Marco Caprini, Vincenzo Palermo, Monica Bertoldo, Valentina Benfenati, Chiara Zanardi, Emanuele Treossi   +15 more
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Preparation and Optimization of Porous Regenerated Cellulose Microspheres from Cellulose Tetraethyl- Ammonium/Urea Solution for Adsorption of Cationic Methylene Blue Dye

BioResources, 2022
Porous regenerated cellulose microspheres (RCMs) have attracted increasing attention due to their wide range of applications from medical carriers to environmental remediation.
Feng Xu, Byoung-Uk Cho
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