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Non-thermal plasma technology for the development of antimicrobial surfaces: a review [PDF]

, 2016
Antimicrobial coatings are in high demand in many fields including the biomaterials and healthcare sectors. Within recent progress in nanoscience and engineering at the nanoscale, preparation of nanocomposite films containing metal nanoparticles ( such ...
Cvelbar, U, De Geyter, Nathalie, Deng, XL, Leys, Christophe, Morent, Rino, Nikiforov, Anton, Xiong, Q   +6 more
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Progress in design of halloysite nanotubes-polymer nanocomposite membranes and their applications

Advanced Membranes
Driven by the diverse functionalization of halloysite nanotubes (HNTs) and advanced membrane preparation technologies, a tremendous progress in HNTs-polymer nanocomposite membranes has been made during the last dozen years.
Lijuan Qin, Guanying Dong, Yi Nie, Rawil Fakhrullin, Bing Zhang, Yatao Zhang   +5 more
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Scale Design of Dual-Layer Polyphenylsulfone/Sulfonated Polyphenylsulfone Hollow Fiber Membranes for Nanofiltration

Membranes, 2023
This study focuses on the synthesis and characterization of dual-layer sulfonated polyphenylenesulfone (SPPSu) nanocomposite hollow fiber nanofiltration membranes incorporating titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles through the phase inversion technique ...
Javed Alam, Arun Kumar Shukla, Lawrence Arockiasamy, Mansour Alhoshan   +3 more
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Cation Exchange Nanocomposite Membrane Containing Mg(OH)2 Nanoparticles: Characterization and Transport Properties [PDF]

Journal of Nanostructures, 2018
In this study, ion exchange nanocomposite membranes was prepared by addition of Mg(OH)2 nanoparticles to a blend containing sulfonated polyphenylene oxide and sulfonated polyvinylchloride via a simple casting method.
Alireza Khodabakhshi, Farhad Heidary, Davood Ghanbari   +2 more
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Application of retardation-modulation polarimetry in studies of nanocomposite materials

, 2019
We demonstrate an application of retardation-modulation polarimetry in studies of nanocomposite materials. Molecular ordering is explored on both nonchiral and chiral liquid crystals (LCs) in the bulk state and embedded into parallel-arrays of ...
Andrushchak, Anatoliy, Huber, Patrick, Kityk, Andriy V., Kula, Przemysław, Piecek, Wiktor   +4 more
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Thermal transport enhancement of hybrid nanocomposites; impact of confined water inside nanoporous silicon

, 2020
The thermal transport properties of porous silicon and nano-hybrid "porous silicon/water" systems are presented here. The thermal conductivity was evaluated with equilibrium molecular dynamics technique for porous systems made of spherical voids or water-
Isaiev, Mykola, Lacroix, David, Termentzidis, Konstantinos, Wang, Xiaorui   +3 more
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Nanocarrier lipid composition modulates the impact of pulmonary surfactant protein B (SP-B) on cellular delivery of siRNA [PDF]

, 2019
Two decades since the discovery of the RNA interference (RNAi) pathway, we are now witnessing the approval of the first RNAi-based treatments with small interfering RNA (siRNA) drugs. Nevertheless, the widespread use of siRNA is limited by various extra-
De Backer, Lynn, De Smedt, Stefaan, Echaide, Mercedes, Guagliardo, Roberta, Merckx, Pieterjan, Pérez-Gil, Jesus, Raemdonck, Koen, Zamborlin, Agata   +7 more
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Novel electrospun polyvinylidene fluoride-graphene oxide-silver nanocomposite membranes with protein and bacterial antifouling characteristics

eXPRESS Polymer Letters, 2018
We developed and fabricated novel polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF)-(0.5–2%)Ag and PVDF-(0.5–2%)Ag-1% graphene oxide (GO) nanocomposite membranes with antifouling properties through electrospinning. Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were in situ synthesized from
C. Liu, J. Shen, C. Z. Liao, K. W. K. Yeung, S. C. Tjong   +4 more
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A Study for Water Purification Using Reverse Osmosis Membrane Modified with Carbon Nanotube [PDF]

آب و فاضلاب, 2018
Water desalination systems is among the methods used to produce potable water to be used for domestic, agricultural and industrial applications.  Reverse osmosis is a common methods  employed for desalination facilities, mainly because of its low energy ...
Mohammad Delnavaz, Vahid Vatanpour, Javad Farahbakhsh   +2 more
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Functionalization and Surface Modification of Mesoporous Hydrophobic Membranes by Oligomers and Target Additives via Environmental Crazing

Membranes, 2023
This work offers an ecologically friendly and facile approach for the modification of high-tonnage commercial polymers, including polypropylene (PP), high-density polyethylene (HDPE), and poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), and preparation of ...
Alena Yu. Yarysheva, Semen N. Klyamkin, Larisa M. Yarysheva, Olga V. Arzhakova   +3 more
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