Bio-based materials have been used traditionally for millennia. Their use was overtaken in recent times by the discovery and utilization of fossil-based resources energy. However, concerns about non-renewability fossil greenhouse gas other emissions associated with their brought forth a renewed interest using bio-based years. The environmental advantages cannot be taken granted without rigorous...

The growing world population accompanied by urbanisation and improved economies has resulted in an increased demand for diets rich animal proteins. rearing of livestock existing practices is also becoming increasingly difficult due to changing environmental conditions. use black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) grown on organic side streams (bioproducts) as feed animals presents a sustainable alternat...

Dilution of contact, hard sphere-like, nanoparticle-nanoparticle interactions upon mixing plays a key role in explaining nanoparticle dispersion in athermal all-polymer nanocomposites, as illustrated for polystyrene-nanoparticle/linear-polystyrene blends as a model system.

Complex formation between a weak flexible polyelectrolyte chain and one positively charged nanoparticle in presence of explicit counterions and salt particles is investigated using Monte Carlo simulations. The influence of parameters such as the nanoparticle surface charge density, salt valency, and solution property such as the pH on the chain protonation/deprotonation process and monomer adso...