The industrialization and urbanization expansion have increased the demand for precious rare earth elements (REEs). In addition, environmental concerns regarding toxic effects of heavy metals on living organisms imposed an urgent need efficient methods their removal from wastewaters aqueous solutions. most technique metal ions is adsorption due to its reversibility high efficiency. Numerous ads...

Photodegradable polyesters were synthesized with a photolabile monomer 2-nitrophenylethylene glycol and dioyl chlorides with different lengths. These polymers can be assembled to form polymeric particles with encapsulation of target substances. Light activation can degrade these particles and release payloads in both aqueous solutions and RAW 264.7 cells.

We show that the origin of the enhanced electrical fluctuations under flow, observed over the last is years in polymer solutions, can be traced back to a dissipative cross coupling between the strain tensor (characterizing transient polymeric networks) and electric fields. Additional experiments to further test our picture are suggested.

Evaporative self-assembly of dilute solutions containing single-chain polymeric nanoparticles results in characteristic morphologies imaged using atomic force microscopy. Quantitative comparison of experimental data to morphologies obtained by lattice-gas simulations shows that the nonequilibrium patterns emerge from a complex interplay between dewetting, solvent evaporation and nanoparticle di...

This survey paper reviews recent developments concerning the existence of global weak solutions to Fokker–Planck equations with unbounded drift terms, and coupled Navier–Stokes–Fokker–Planck systems of partial differential equations, that arise in finitely extensible nonlinear elastic (FENE) type kinetic models of incompressible dilute polymeric fluids in the case of general noncorotational flow.

Wormlike micellar solutions are composed of long flexible structures that result from self-assembly processes of surfactant molecules. At high enough concentration, these wormlike micelles can entangle and give viscoelastic properties to the solution just like typical polymers. Micellar solutions, in contrast to polymeric solutions, have two different relaxation mechanisms. One is the reptation...