There has been an intense research effort in the last decades in the field of biofouling prevention as it concerns many aspects of everyday life and causes problems to devices, the environment, and human health. Many different antifouling and antimicrobial materials have been developed to struggle against bacteria and other micro- and macro-organism attachment to different surfaces. However the...

Monitoring and evaluating the biofouling state its effects on vessel’s hull propeller performance is a crucial problem that attracts attention of both academy industry. Effective reliable tools to address this would allow timely cleaning procedure able trade off costs, efficiency, environmental impacts. In paper, authors carry out critical review, accompanied with summary tables, particular foc...

The crude organic extracts of the endemic gorgonian Phyllogorgia dilatata and two sponge species Aplysina fulva and Mycale microsigmatosa were evaluated for anti-fouling properties through field experiments. To investigate this property in ecologically meaningful conditions, crude extracts from these invertebrates were incorporated at concentrations naturally found in these marine organisms int...

Exposure of therapeutic and diagnostic medical devices to biological fluids is often accompanied by interfacial adsorption of proteins, cells, and microorganisms. Biofouling of surfaces can lead to compromised device performance or increased cost and in some cases may be life-threatening to the patient. Although numerous antifouling polymer coatings have enjoyed short-term success in preventing...

The amelioration of biofouling in industrial processing equipment is critical for performance and reliability. While conventional biocides are effective in biofouling control, they are potentially hazardous to the environment and in some cases corrosive to materials. Enzymatic approaches have been shown to be effective and can overcome the disadvantages of traditional biocides, however they are...

The aim of this paper is to make a brief presentation of the results obtained by the authors regarding agent technology application in distributed monitoring systems development. Consequently, we would like to present MAgeLan and ContTest as monitoring systems based on intelligent agents technology. Formal aspects regarding intelligent agents will be mentioned. Quantitative issues concerning ef...

The ability to create biocompatible well-controlled membranes has been an area of great interest over the last few years, particularly for biosensor applications. The present study describes the fabrication and characterization of novel nanoporous micromachined membranes that exhibit selective permeability and low biofouling. Results indicate that such membranes can be fabricated with uniform p...

BACKGROUND Profiling of the immune receptor repertoire is becoming increasingly relevant to the understanding and clinical management of cancer, autoimmunity, aging, and infectious disease. FINDINGS A platform technology is described that provides comprehensive immune receptor profiling. CONCLUSION Immunosequencing is a platform technology that allows the enumeration, specification and quan...

A considerable part of scientific and technological knowledge is coded in writing. In this context, automated text categorization can be regarded as a promising tool particularly for patent data analysis. In a real-life example, we show that automated text categorization can closely resemble the time -consuming categorisation job of an expert. By comparing different algorithms we reveal systema...