Five new pimarane diterpenoids 1-5 were synthesized using ent-8(14)-pimarene-15R,16-diol as starting material. The structures were elucidated by means of extensive NMR and MS analysis. The antifouling activity against larval settlement of the barnacle Balanus albicostatus were evaluated using capsaicin as a positive control. Compounds 1-3 and 5 showed more potent antifouling activity than capsa...

Abstract In this study, the polyether sulfone (PES) based membranes containing various concentrations of graphene oxide (GO), polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), and polyethylene glycol (PEG) were synthesized via phase immersion method. This study aims to evaluate effect GO addition on structural properties performance membranes. The analyzed by x-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SE...

AIMS To develop a method to screen antifouling agents against marine bacterial adhesion as a sensitive, rapid and quantitative microplate fluorescent test. METHODS AND RESULTS Our experimental method is based on a natural biofilm formed by mono-incubation of the marine bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. D41 in sterile natural sea water in a 96-well polystyrene microplate. The 4'6-diamidino-2-phe...

Abstract Water pollution and the unsustainable use of fossil fuel derivatives require advanced catalytic methods to clean waters produce fine chemicals from modern biomass. Classical homogeneous catalysts such as sulfuric, phosphoric, hydrochloric acid are highly corrosive non-recyclable, whereas heterogeneous appear promising for lignocellulosic waste depolymerization, pollutant degradation, m...

Study the effect of blending hydrophilic agent and water and oil repellent agent on cotton fabric property of antifouling and easy decontaminating. The study shows that blending could make the fabric have property of antifouling and easy decontaminating.

In this review, a comprehensive overview about the antifouling compounds from marine invertebrates is described. In total, more than 198 antifouling compounds have been obtained from marine invertebrates, specifically, sponges, gorgonian and soft corals.

In this work, 2,2’-azo-bis-butyronitrile (AIBN) was exploited as an initiator for the successful bulk heterogeneous functionalization of polyethersulfone (PES) using polymethacrylic acid (PMAA), for the first time. To this end, pH-responsive and exceptionally low fouling membranes of extremely low grafting degrees with low adhesion and high rejection of protein were fabricated. An added advanta...

This work aims at studying the potential of modifying surface used polyamide (PA) reverse osmosis (RO) commercial membranes by coatings made renewable and biodegradable polymers, chitosan (CS) polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), filled with Cu-ion-exchange layered AM-4 titanosilicate UZAR-S3 stannosilicate to provide antifouling properties enlarging life time thin-film composite (TFC) membranes. The water...