Alloys, specifically steel, are considered as the workhorse of our society and are inimitable engineering materials in the field of infrastructure, industry and possesses significant applications in our daily life. However, creating a robust synthetic metallic surface that repels various liquids has remained extremely challenging. The wettability of a solid surface is known to be governed by it...

Microbial cell factories express diverse heterologous pathways for the production of a wide range valuable natural products. However, recovery and purification such compounds is major bottleneck in commercialization. In this study, novel situ solid phase adsorption strategy was investigated enhanced taxadiene, precursor to blockbuster anticancer drug, paclitaxel, from engineered Saccharomyces c...

N,N'-((dodecane-1,12-diylbis(azanediyl))bis(carbonothioyl))bis(4-nitrobenzamide) 5 and N,N'-((dodecane-1,12-diylbis(azanediyl))bis(carbonothioyl))bis(3-nitrobenzamide) 6 as bis acyl thiourea derivatives were synthesized their molecular structures characterized using 1H NMR, 13C COSY, DEPT, HMQC, FT-IR, HRMS techniques. The acid dissociation constants (pKa) of the bis-acyl 5, determined potentio...

A novel CMPO (carbamoylmethylphosphine oxide) based task specific ionic liquid (TSIL) with an NTf(2)(-) counter anion was synthesized and evaluated for actinide/lanthanide extraction from acidic feed solutions using several room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs). The extraction data were compared with those obtained with CMPO in the same set of RTILs and also in the molecular diluent, n-dodecan...

Directional imbibition of oils (hexadecane, tetradecane, and dodecane) and water is demonstrated on a chemically patterned silicon micropillar array. Four different directional imbibition types are shown: unidirectional, two types of bidirectional and tridirectional imbibition. The surfaces consist of a silicon micropillar array with an overlaid surface chemistry pattern. This configuration lea...

Non-aqueous Pickering emulsions of 16-240 μm diameter have been prepared using diblock copolymer worms with ethylene glycol as the droplet phase and an n-alkane as the continuous phase. Initial studies using n-dodecane resulted in stable emulsions that were significantly less turbid than conventional water-in-oil emulsions. This is attributed to the rather similar refractive indices of the latt...

Andrena, Mandibular Glands, Pheromone, Spiroacetals The complex volatile secretion from the mandibular glands of Andrena haemorrhoa (Hym., Apoidea) has been analysed by GC/MS. It is composed primarily of three groups of compounds: 1. Spiroacetals of five different systems: two l,6-dioxyspiro[4.4]nonanes, four l,6-dioxaspiro[4.5] decanes, two l,7-dioxaspiro[5.5]undecanes, one l,6-dioxaspiro[4.6]...

In the present work, we have developed a simple but effective method to prepare superlong vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (SLVA-CNT) and epoxy composite membranes, and we have demonstrated that various liquids, including water, hexane, and dodecane, can effectively pass through the SLVA-CNT membranes. These results were confirmed by molecular dynamics simulations. While the mechanical densi...

We have used a lamellar phase made of a nonionic surfactant, dodecane and water, as a model membrane to investigate its interactions with macromolecular inclusions bringing together two membranes, i.e., acting as macromolecular snaps. In systems devoid of inclusions, the interlamellar distance depends on the total volume fraction of membranes Phi. We show that, in presence of a transmembrane pr...