Multilayer plastic films provide a range of properties, which cannot be obtained from monolayer films but, at present, their recyclability is an open issue and should be improved. Research to date has shown the possibility of using whey protein as a layer material with the property of acting as an excellent barrier against oxygen and moisture, replacing petrochemical non-recyclable materials. T...

A study of the effects of synthetic detergents and wetting agents on respiration and glycolysis of Gram-positive and Gram-negative microorganisms has led to the following conclusions. 1. All the cationic detergents studied are very effective inhibitors of bacterial metabolism at 1:3000 concentration, and several are equally active at 1:30,000. Few of the anionic detergents inhibit as effectivel...

Firefighters regularly respond to fire scenes where a mixture of chemicals including volatile, semi-volatile, and nonvolatile compounds are present in smoke soot. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) common contaminants at that may be deposited on the gear individual firefighter. Laundering is approach for decontamination contaminated gear. Surfactants widely used by firefighters during laun...

All the synthetic detergents and bile salts I have tried denature proteins such as hemoglobin and egg albumin at the isoelectric point 1 and keep the denatured isoelectric protein in solution. Some detergents in sufficiently high concentration can prevent the precipitation of denatured protein by trichloracetic acid, tungstic acid, and acid ferric sulfate. In fact, the origin of the present inv...

Anionic detergents have been shown to lower markedly the differential-pulse voltammetric peak currents obtained for 12-molybdophosphate and 12molybdosilicate in aqueous solutions, but when ethanol water or acetone water (1 + 1 V / V ) solutions are used there is no interference. Static differential-pulse voltammetric and flow injection voltammetric procedures have been developed for the determi...

A protease producing microorganism was isolated from soil collected from a detergent industry and identified as Bacillus species. Isolate K-30 produced thermostable alkaline protease utilizing rice bran. The optimum conditions for protease activity was 55°C at pH 9 with 4% inoculum in the medium containing 1% rice bran after 96 h of incubation. Beef extract, tryptone and yeast extract were good...

Partial resistance of cell membranes to solubilization with mild detergents and the analysis of isolated detergent-resistant membranes (DRMs) have been used operationally to define membrane domains. Given the multitude of detergents used for this purpose, we sought to investigate whether extraction with different detergents might reflect the same underlying principle of domain formation. We the...