Ultrathin, Unsinkable, Janus‐Faced Solar–Thermal Interfacial Evaporator for High‐Throughput Seawater Distillation and Solar‐Water Production [PDF]
Advanced ScienceSolar–thermal distillation offers immense and hitherto untapped potential for energy‐efficient, sustainable freshwater production. However, critical limitations in material and system design continue to hinder water‐evaporation rate (Rw) and specific ...
Mohammed Aslam Villan +6 more
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Surfactant-free gelatin-stabilised biodegradable polymerised high internal phase emulsions with macroporous structures [PDF]
Frontiers in Chemistry, 2023 High internal phase emulsion (HIPE) templating is a well-established method for the generation of polymeric materials with high porosity (>74%) and degree of interconnectivity.
Rachel Furmidge +15 more
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Gelatin-containing porous polycaprolactone PolyHIPEs as substrates for 3D breast cancer cell culture and vascular infiltration [PDF]
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Tumour survival and growth are reliant on angiogenesis, the formation of new blood vessels, to facilitate nutrient and waste exchange and, importantly, provide a route for metastasis from a primary to a secondary site.
Caitlin E. Jackson +12 more
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Development of PCL PolyHIPE Substrates for 3D Breast Cancer Cell Culture [PDF]
Bioengineering, 2023 Cancer is a becoming a huge social and economic burden on society, becoming one of the most significant barriers to life expectancy in the 21st century. In particular, breast cancer is one of the leading causes of death for women.
Caitlin E. Jackson +5 more
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Macroporous Poly(hydromethylsiloxane) Networks as Precursors to Hybrid Ceramics (Ceramers) for Deposition of Palladium Catalysts [PDF]
MoleculesPoly(hydromethylsiloxane) (PHMS) was cross-linked with 1,3,5,7-tetramethyl-1,3,5,7-tetravinylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4Vi) in water-in-oil High Internal Phase Emulsions to form macroporous materials known as polyHIPEs.
Jan Mrówka +4 more
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Monolithic Papain-Immobilized Enzyme Reactors for Automated Structural Characterization of Monoclonal Antibodies [PDF]
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences, 2021 The characterization of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) requires laborious and time-consuming sample preparation steps before the liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC-MS) analysis. Middle-up approaches entailing the use of specific proteases (papain,
Francesca Rinaldi +7 more
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Effect of polyHIPE porosity on its hydrodynamic properties
Polymer Testing, 2021 Several polymerized high internal phase emulsions (polyHIPE) of various porosity but the same pore diameter were prepared. It was demonstrated that the pore size distribution of void pores and interconnecting pores is similar and it can be described by a
Rok Mravljak +3 more
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Materials Today Advances, 2023 Polymer scaffolds are an important enabling technology in tissue engineering. A wide range of manufacturing techniques have been developed to produce these scaffolds, including porogen leaching, phase separation, gas foaming, electrospinning and 3D ...
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e-Polymers, 2020 High internal phase emulsions (HIPEs) are among complex biphasic fluids that expand on the traditional emulsion compositions, for instance, for the preparation of macroporous polymers by emulsion templating.
Huerta-Marcial Silvia T. +1 more
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Acta Chimica Slovenica, 2020 Porosity in polymers and polymeric materials adds to their functionality due to achieving the desired tailored characteristics porosity offers, such as improved mass transfer through the material, improved accessibility of reactive sites, reduced overall
Amadeja Koler, Irena Pulko, Peter Krajnc
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