Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis and Escherichia coli are the common causes of wound infections. For treatment these infections, ciprofloxacin can be recommended as a broad-spectrum antibiotic that acts on both Gram-negative Gram-positive microorganisms. Besides, antimicrobial agents could integrated into polymeric materials. Cryogels, one materials, spongy polymers showing high mac...

Despite its importance for hydrological and ecological soil functioning, characterizing, quantifying structure in the field remains a challenge. Traditional characterization of often relies on point measurements, more recently, we advanced use minimally invasive geophysical methods that operate at plot-field scales provide information under natural conditions. In this study, expand application ...

Oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is critical for producing high purity hydrogen and oxygen via electrocatalytic water splitting. In this work, single crystalline, nanoporous nickel oxide (NiO) was prepared using a hydrothermal, soft-templated synthesis route followed by calcination at different temperatures. It shown that the NiO crystals have cubic lattice, pore size can be tuned from ?1 to ?70...

Context Many regions in the world have undergone rapid land use change and intensification of agricultural land, such as through irrigation expansion, upgrading systems, changing grassland, stock, nutrient management practices. With more intensive use, changes to soil properties can occur, compaction water storage. The effects modern sprinkler-irrigated pastoral farming on physical are not well...

Pore structure and network configuration in shales greatly impacts physical processes important for hydrocarbon migration, methane extraction, gas storage, or carbon sequestration. The multi-scale nature of the porosity presents significant challenges to its comprehensive accurate characterisation. under-used overcondensation technique can bridge characterisation micropores, below detection lim...

The objective of this paper is to assess the changes in soil physical and chemical properties resulting from conversion native forest pasture secondary state Santa Catarina, Brazil. Seven forest–pasture successional stages were identified using aerial photographs satellite images acquired 1957, 1978, 2008. Successional coded as FFF, FPF, PFF, PPF, FPP, FFP, PPP, where first, second, third lette...

Quantification of soil macropores is important to enhance our understanding preferential flow behavior in soils. However, knowledge 3D architecture for different land uses a continental climate region limited. X-ray computed tomography novel technique that can provide valuable information about the features soil, such as connectivity, length density, and tortuosity, largely control water throug...

UNLABELLED In order to improve implant success rate, it is important to enhance their responsiveness to the prevailing conditions following implantation. Uncontrolled movement of inflammatory cells and fibroblasts is one of these in vivo problems and the porosity properties of the implant have a strong effect on these. Here, we describe a hybrid system composed of a macroporous titanium structu...

chlorotica Aporrectodea rosea X-ray tomography Burrow networks Microcosms Earthworms are considered as key actors of soil processes at different spatial and temporal scales and provide essential ecosystem services linked to climate regulation or primary production. However, little is known about their basic functional roles (e.g. organic matter decomposition, soil structuring processes) in pert...

Compared with pure silica-based or organic-polymer monoliths, hybrid organic-silica monoliths offer the combined advantages of mechanically strong stationary phases, simpler preparation protocols, resistance to swelling and shrinking in many solvents and better pH stability. Comprehensive data on the systematic characterization of the pore space morphology of hybrid organic-silica monoliths and...