Information on the preparation and properties of starch/gelatin blend microparticles with and without crosslinking for drug delivery is presented. The blend microparticles were prepared by the water-in-oil emulsion solvent diffusion method. Glutaraldehyde and methylene blue were used as the crosslinker and the water-soluble drug model, respectively. The blend microparticles were characterized b...

The R410A refrigerant blend (GWP = 2088), a near azeotropic and equimass mixture of difluoromethane (R32, GWP 675) pentafluoroethane (R125, 3500), has been included in the HFC phase down road map established worldwide. In this context, recovery value-added R32 from using membrane technology would be breakthrough refrigeration air conditioning sector, given that conventional distillation cannot ...

Membranes have a lot of potential for harvesting microalgae, but membrane fouling is hampering their breakthrough. In this study, the effects charge and corrugated surface on filtration performance were investigated. The clean water permeance (CWP), microalgae efficiency flux microalgal broth determined using patterned polysulfone (PSf) membranes with different shapes patterns containing densit...

A hydrophobic grid membrane filtration (HGMF) colony hybridization assay was developed that allows strain-specific differentiation of defined bacterial populations. The randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprinting technique was used to identify potential signature nucleic acid sequences unique to each member of a commercial cheese starter culture blend. The blend consisted of two cl...

Casein micelles (CMs) are used as raw material for processed food as well as in a number of technical applications such as blend fabrics, glues and coatings. A fast and cost-effective way of their preparation from skimmed milk is the micro-filtration of milk. During the micro-filtration a porous membrane enables the separation of CMs from smaller milk ingredients such as whey proteins, lactose ...

Proton exchange membranes for fuel cells were synthesized from the blend of copolymers of vinyl acetate-acrylic ester and styrene-acrylic ester, which were modified by sulfonation and addition of silica gel. Water uptake, ion exchange capacity, infrared spectroscopy and tensile tests were applied to characterize the prepared membranes. The results show that the prepared membranes with the proce...

We report the nanomorphology-driven two-stage hole mobility in the blend films of regioregular and regiorandom poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) polymers of which regioregularity was 92.2% and 33.0%, respectively. The hole mobility of blend films was measured by employing a top-contact type organic field-effect transistor which has an aromatic polyimide gate insulating layer and silver source/drain...