Photodegradation causes a steady loss of the useful physical, mechanical and optical properties of materials, necessitating their replacement over time. Because UV (Ultraviolet) light is most harmful in this regard, many materials now contain UV-protective additives. However, these additives are not always effective and durable, can be expensive, and their natural extraction or synthetic produc...

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PURPOSE Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine has widely been used to immunize against tuberculosis, but its protective efficacy is variable in adult pulmonary tuberculosis, while it is not efficiently protective against progressive infection of virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. In this study, the protective effects of plasmid DNA vaccine constructs encoding IL-12 or IL-18 with the ...

Metals and alloys are essential in modern society, used our daily activities. However, they prone to corrosion, with the conversion of metal/alloy its more thermodynamically-favored oxide/hydroxide phase. These undesirable corrosion reactions can lead failure metallic components. Consequently, corrosion-protective technologies now important than ever, as it is reduce waste valuable resources. I...

The conservation of historic stone buildings and sculptures is recently receiving growing attention and becoming a focus of research. However, it is difficult to estimate the effects of stone conservation, especially consolidating treatments. In this work, some biomimetic materials for stone conservation were prepared. The interaction between the protective materials and stone substrate was res...

Abstract In sorption technologies, surface modification of coals is widely used in order to increase their capacity. The most promising method for improving the properties materials various structures high-frequency plasma treatment. It was revealed that after treatment sorbents with low-pressure capacitive plasma, are obtained different from original sorbent, characterized by increased propert...