Background Trypsin is an enzyme widely used for digestion of peptides in proteomic research. However, this enzyme is one of the least stable of the neutral proteases and presents rapid autolysis, which causes a decrease in catalytic efficiency and a consequential increase in costs of biotechnological process. Immobilization of the enzyme offers the advantages of enhanced stability, protection a...

The objective of the present investigation was to prepare and evaluate ocular inserts of moxifloxacin. An ocular insert was made from an aqueous dispersion of moxifloxacin, sodium alginate, polyvinyl alcohol, and dibutyl phthalate by the film casting method. The ocular insert (5.5 mm diameter) was cross-linked by CaCl2 and was coated with Eudragit S-100, RL-100, RS-100, E-100 or L-100. The in v...

A method to refine corn produces highly pure corn protein isolate (CPI) and intact granular starches (CPI starch). The CPI starch is superior to other commercial starches because of its intact membrane. This paper reports on the effectiveness of the CPI starch in laundering applications by comparison with a commercial starch and polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). Influence of the different starch materia...

A <span>graphene-polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) composite saturable absorption is demonstrated at 2000 nm region. Graphene suspension produced using low-cost electrochemical exfoliation process. The mixed with PVA host polymer in 1:1 ratio and left evaporated room temperature which finally graphene-PVA thin film. Thulium doped fiber (TDF) gain medium has been shown to produce a stable Q-switched...

Abstract The protective bronze film was prepared by mixing the reaction product of oligosaccharide (COS) and modified tannic acid (TA) with polyvinyl alcohol polyethylene glycol. Chloroacetic to carboxylate TA used generate sodium tannate. N,N’-Dicyclohexylcarbodiumide (DCC)/1-Hydroxybenzotriazole (HOBt) as a condensing agent form an amide bond between carboxylic amine COS-TA. synthesized chara...

Investigations of the effect of the excitation light wavelength on the intensity distribution in the fluorescence band of l,4-diphenyl-l,3-butadiene (DPB) in polyvinyl alcohol) films (PVA) at 296 and 87 K for samples before and after heating to 423 K, and fluorescence lifetime measurements have shown that trans-trans and cis-trans conformers are responsible for the emission of fluorescence. The...

thermoplastic starch (tps) materials present several advantages to the plastic industry andwhen blended with other materials they can exhibit improved mechanical and moisturesensitivity properties compared to pure tps materials. further investigations on tps: pvablends are of particular interest due to their excellent compatibility and improved properties suchas tensile strength, elongation, to...

Direct laser writing has been utilized to fabricate highly photostable fluorescent nanocluster microstructures in an organic polymer poly(methacrylic acid), where the carboxyl functional group is reported to play a vital role in nanocluster stabilization. In this Letter, we demonstrate that not only the polymer containing the carboxyl functional group, but also the polymer comprising the hydrox...

Dynamic force microscopy (DFM) phase signals were studied using heterogeneous films of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA). The phase was measured as a function of distance and drive frequency over regions of the film with different dissipative properties. When driving below the free resonance frequency at moderate amplitudes, the tip—sample interaction jumps between non-contact and intermittent contact re...