Transfusion-associated bacterial infections continue to occur which may be due the formation of biofilms on inner surface blood bag. Plasticized poly (vinyl chloride) (p-PVC) platelet storage bags in three roughness states (rough, smooth and flattened) were used determine effect that a conditioning film (CF) human plasma had properties its interaction with Staphylococcus epidermidis Serratia ma...

Gas-to-PVC In their Research Article on page 24162, Guido Zichittella and Javier Pérez-Ramírez show the outstanding performance of rare earth oxychloride catalysts for selective conversion ethane into 1,2-dichloroethane, a precursor vinyl chloride monomer. The potential use natural gas as feedstock instead coal or oil represents long sought-after advancement to bring significant cost environmen...

Active packaging has played a significant role in consumers’ health and green environment over the years. Synthetic polymers, such as poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET), polyethylene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polystyrene, poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC), polycarbonate (PC), poly(lactic acid) (PLA), etc., naturally derived ones, cellulose, starch, chitosan, are extensively used materials due to their...

Vinyl chloride (VCM) is unloaded from railroad tank cars or tank trucks into pressurized storage spheres. VCM, emulsifiers, and catalysts are metered into polymerization vessels wherein PVC is produced through a chemical reaction in an aqueous medium under controlled conditions of temperature and pressure. After the reaction reaches a predetermined completion, the contents are transferred to a ...

Personnel lists from four PVC-processing industries were collected on production of employees with at least three months of employment at the beginning of 1945 and the last day of employment December 31, 1974. Of 2073 persons, 103 could not be followed up, because they had moved abroad. The remaining persons comprise the cohort of 1970 individuals who were analyzed and compared with the nationa...

The first poly(vinyl chloride) blood bag containing di-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) as a plasticizer was introduced in medicine in 1950. Since then, millions of liters of blood collected in plastic have been transfused. Aside from the obvious advantages of plastic over glass containers for the collection, storage and transfusion of blood, plastic containers have made blood component therapy po...