Composites of hydroxyapatite and poly(ethylene terephthalate) bearing carboxylate groups were prepared by coprecipitation in water. The fracture energy the compact was four times larger after immersion water at 37 °C for 1 week.

Depolymerization behavior polyesters (poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) and poly(ethylene 2,6-naphthalene dicarboxylate) (PEN)) in suband supercritical water was investigated for the purpose of monomer recycling. In case of the depolymerization of PET, the yield of terephthalic acid (TPA) increased to 90 % with increasing reaction temperature up to 693 K while the maximum yield of ethylene gly...

Iron oxide nanoparticles (NPs) with a diameter 21.6 nm were coated with poly(maleic acid-alt-1-octadecene) (PMAcOD) modified with grafted 5,000 Da poly(ethyelene glycol) (PEG) or short ethylene glycol (EG) tails. The coating procedure utilizes hydrophobic interactions of octadecene and oleic acid tails, while the hydrolysis of maleic anhydride moieties as well as the presence of hydrophilic PEG...

Poly (amide-6-b-ethylene oxide)/Zinc Oxide (PEBA/ZnO) mixed matrix membranes were fabricated using ethanol/water as solvent by solvent casting method. The concentration of ZnO in membrane was set to 0.1 wt.% and the synthesized membranes were characterized by AFM and FTIR. Effects of ZnO nanoparticle on CO2, CH4 and N2 permeabilities, and CO2/N2<...

A new concept for simultaneous detection of two model proteases based on immobilized fluorescently labelled peptides was developed and evaluated. Each probe composed a carrier modified by poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) chains, specifically cleavable linker, fluorescent dye incorporated in the peptide tail. Based single excitation–double emission fluorescence response liberated fluorophores caused ...

The term “nanocomposite” is widely used to describe a very broad range of materials, where one of the phases has a submicrometer dimension [1–4].1 In the case of polymerbased nanocomposites, this typically involves the incorporation of “nano” fillers with one (platelets), two (fibers, tubes), or all three dimensions at the submicrometer scale. However, strictly speaking, simply using nanometer-...

The aim of this present study was to develop a pH sensitive interpenetrating polymeric network (IPN) hydro gels (HG) based on chitosan-acryl amide-grafted-poly ethylene glycol (CTS-AM-PEG) followed by hydrolysis that are cross-linked with glutaraldehyde (GA). Cefotaxime is an antibiotic drug was successfully loaded in these IPNHG’s. The HGs formed were characterized by Fourier transform infrare...

In this study, dyeing of two regenerated polyester fibers, poly-trimethylene terephthalate (PTT) and poly-lactic acid (PLA), with natural dyes were compared with that of poly-ethylene terephthalate (PET) fiber. Lac was used as the primary natural colorant while Catechu was chosen as a natural color that can also act as a biomordant. The effects of temperature, initial pH of dye bath and dyeing ...

Inflammatory responses to implanted biomedical devices elicit a foreign body fibrotic reaction that limits device integration and performance in various biomedical applications. We examined chronic inflammatory responses to microgel conformal coatings consisting of thin films of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) hydrogel microparticles cross-linked with poly(ethylene glycol) diacrylate deposited on p...