Hydrophobins: multifunctional biosurfactants for interface engineering

Biosurfactants: Multifunctional Biomolecules of the 21st Century.

In the era of global industrialisation, the exploration of natural resources has served as a source of experimentation for science and advanced technologies, giving rise to the manufacturing of products with high aggregate value in the world market, such as biosurfactants. Biosurfactants are amphiphilic microbial molecules with hydrophilic and hydrophobic moieties that partition at liquid/liqui...

Surface Engineering of Multifunctional Nanocomposites for Biomedical Applications: a Brief Update

  Context: In recent years, nanotechnology has opened up several new avenues of extraordinary biomedical potential by modulating metals into their nanosize leading to significant improvement in their chemical, physical and optical properties. Introduction: <span style="color...

Multifunctional aliphatic polyester nanofibers for tissue engineering

Electrospun fibers based on aliphatic polyesters, such as poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL), have been widely used in regenerative medicine and drug delivery applications due to their biocompatibility, low cost and ease of fabrication. However, these aliphatic polyester fibers are hydrophobic in nature, resulting in poor wettability, and they lack functional groups for decorating the scaffold with che...

A Multifunctional Knowledge{Based System for Engineering

Knowledge{based systems are normally designed to perform a single task (e.g., diagnosis) for which they are competent, but their knowledge base is rarely used for other tasks, even when they are very similar and in the same application domain. An alternative approach is to build a knowledge core that has the basic knowledge for certain domain, on top of which diierent tasks could be built. In t...

Interface Engineering for Organic Electronics