Polymeric materials from natural resources - emerging as the times require

Smart polymeric materials: emerging biochemical applications.

Smart polymeric materials respond with a considerable change in their properties to small changes in their environment. Environmental stimuli include temperature, pH, chemicals, and light. "Smart" stimuli-sensitive materials can be either synthetic or natural. This review discusses the application of smart materials as tools to solve biological problems such as bioseparation, drug delivery, bio...

Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education

http://bioscience.oxfordjournals.org August 2014 / Vol. 64 No. 8 • BioScience 725 BioScience 64: 725–734. © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Institute of Biological Sciences. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: [email protected]. doi:10.1093/biosci/biu096 Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovativ...

Electrokinetic devices from polymeric materials

Synthesis and characterization of the electrospun fibers prepared from waste polymeric materials

Recently, the demands for the production of many different types of plastic wastes are greatly growing that subsequently, lead to the serious challenges in environmental considerations. Since, these materials are rarely resolved by microorganisms, hence, their recycling to the useful materials is crucial. In the present study, we used a solution electrospinning technique to synthesize nano/micr...

Lactic acid production from agricultural resources as cheap raw materials.

Agricultural resources such as barley, wheat, and corn were hydrolyzed by commercial amylolytic enzymes and fermented into lactic acid by Enterococcus faecalis RKY1. Although no additional nutrients were supplemented to those resources, lactic acid productivities were obtained at >0.8 g/l h from barley and wheat. When 200 g/l of whole wheat flour was hydrolyzed by amylolytic enzymes after the p...