Longitudinal lesions in menisci are among the most frequent orthopedic problems of the knee. Repair by simple techniques is only limited to the vascular part of the meniscus. For repair of the avascular part of the meniscus a scaffold, which will assist the body in the formation of new meniscus cell tissue, might be applicable. In this study a biomedical segmented polyurethane with poly(epsilon...

Copolymers of poly(butylene succinate) (PBS) with amino acids were produced from succinic acid (1), 1,4-butanediol (2) and 1 mol% of various amino acids. Their reaction time and molecular weight, as well as thermal and mechanical properties, were studied. The reaction time for polymerization was found to increase as the amount of amino acid was increased, except when L-aspartic acid (3) was use...

BACKGROUND In recent years, constraint-based metabolic models have emerged as an important tool for metabolic engineering; a number of computational algorithms have been developed for identifying metabolic engineering strategies where the production of the desired chemical is coupled with the growth of the organism. A caveat of the existing algorithms is that they do not take the bioprocess int...

in this work, a thermoplastic polyurethane elastomer (tpue) model based on polytetramethylene glycol, toluene diisocyanate and 1,4-butanediol was selected and synthesized. according to this model two types of polyurethane nanocomposites were prepared by in situ polymerization and melt intercalation procedures. the organo-modified nanoclay was used in nanocomposites samples in 0.4 weight percent...

With the purpose of development high efficiency catalysts for reactions oxidative conversion lower olefins and paraffins into desired products petrochemical industry it has been synthesized by ion exchange method a range metalzeolite on basis synthetic (NaY) natural (pure dealuminated clinoptilolite mordenite) zeolites cations different metals. It established that prepared zeolite NaY shows rel...

Acetoin is widely used as flavor agent and serves as a precursor for chemical synthesis. Here we focused on identifying the best physiological conditions (initial substrate concentrations, pH, temperature, and agitation) for enhanced acetoin accumulation by Bacillus subtilis 168. The optimal physiological conditions support maximum acetoin accumulation by minimizing byproduct (acetate and butan...