Introduction: Colloidal materials and suspended solids cause turbidity in water. To remove turbidity, clarification method is used that includes processes of coagulation, flocculation, and sedimentation. Due to the long duration of coagulation process, coagulant aids are applied. Despite the favorable efficiency of synthetic polyelectrolytes as a coagulant aid, due to their harmful effects on h...

Rheological techniques and methods have been employed for many decades in the characterization of polymers. Originally developed and used on synthetic polymers, rheology has then found much interest in the field of natural (bio) polymers. This review concentrates on introducing the fundamentals of rheology and on discussing the rheological aspects and properties of the two major classes of biop...

Organometallic polymer research offers many potential academic and industrial rewards because of the number of elemental variations possible. Unfortunately, there are no general synthetic methods as found for carbon based polymers. Transition metal catalysed dehydrocoupling reactions may prove to be generally applicable to the synthesis of silicon based organometallic polymers. We report here o...

Ergot alkaloids, in their active isomeric form, affect animal health and performance, and adsorbents are used to mitigate toxicities by reducing bioavailability. Adsorbents with high specificity (molecularly imprinted polymers: MIP) adsorb ergot alkaloids in vitro, but require evaluation for biological implications. Using ex vivo myography, synthetic polymers were evaluated for effects on the b...

Synthetic polymers typically adopt a random-coil conformation in solution primarily driven by the tendency to maximize entropy. Generation of well-defined secondary structures in synthetic polymers, therefore, will need to include specific intrachain intersegment interactions that will provide adequate enthalpic contribution to overcome this entropic penalty associated with the formation of wel...

Exhaustive studies on the degradation of plastics have been carried out in order to overcome the environmental problems associated with synthetic plastic waste. Recent work has included studies of the distribution of synthetic polymer-degrading microorganisms in the environment, the isolation of new microorganisms for biodegradation, the discovery of new degradation enzymes, and the cloning of ...

Previous studies have reported many discrepancies about the best type and concentration of cryoprotective agents (CPAs) and biological variability among various pre-antral follicle classes after cryopreservation of ovarian tissue. The aim of this study was to investigate the impacts of some synthetic polymers on histological characteristics of different types of pre-antral follicles after bovin...

Methods to evolve synthetic, rather than biological, polymers could significantly expand the functional potential of polymers that emerge from in vitro evolution. Requirements for synthetic polymer evolution include (i) sequence-specific polymerization of synthetic building blocks on an amplifiable template, (ii) display of the newly translated polymer strand in a manner that allows it to adopt...

Floating matrix tablets of Cephalexin were prepared by using synthetic and natural polymers each in two different concentrations. The floating properties and in-vitro drug release properties were optimized and total 10 formulations were developed. The synthetic and natural polymers used were HPMC K4M, HPMC K15M and Guar Gum, Xanthan gum respectively. Each formulation consists of polymer in any ...