The purpose of this study was to determine the lactose behaviour during partial crystallisation in spray drying. Spray-dried lactose has been widely used in pharmaceutical industries as excipient for dry powder inhalation drugs. Partial crystals of lactose were produced by spray-dried lactose solutions at different operating condition of inlet temperature, feed flow rate and sample concentratio...

Functionalization of a cobalt/dioxolene complex with branched, asymmetric alkyl chains promotes non-cooperative and cooperative valence tautomerisms synchronized with thermodynamically favoured crystal-to-melt and kinetically generated glass-to-melt phase transitions, respectively, depending on the degree of crystallinity.

Semicrystalline films of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) were prepared by annealing amorphous PVA films at temperatures above the glass transition temperature of 85°C, thus allowing the macromolecules to form crystallites, which stabilized the films and made them behave as if they were chemically cross-linked. Films were prepared by casting a 15% aqueous PVA solution onto glass slides and annealing t...

fuel cells, secondary batteries and capacitors are among many promising energy storage devices. in particular, supercapacitors have attracted much attention because of their long life cycle and high power density. graphene/nickel ferrite(g-nf) based supercapacitors were successfully fabricated through a one-step facile solvothermal route. effects of synthesis conditions i.e. solvothermal time a...

Purpose: Low crystallinity celluloses (LCC) are materials that have a substantially reduced degree of crystallinity, typically ranging between 15 and 45%. It is useful as an excipient in preparation of tablets and confectionery products. The aim of this work was to obtain from αcellulose content of corn cob, a low crystallinity cellulose (LCC-CC), and study its physical properties as well as ev...