The common premise of synthetic implants in the restoration of diseased tissues and organs is to use inert and solid materials. Here, a porous titanium implant was fabricated for the delivery of microencapsulated bioactive cues. Control-released transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) promoted the proliferation and migration of human mesenchymal stem cells into porous implants in vitro. At...

Renewable, cost-effective and eco-friendly electrode materials have attracted much attention in the energy conversion and storage fields. Bagasse, the waste product from sugarcane that mainly contains cellulose derivatives, can be a promising candidate to manufacture supercapacitor electrode materials. This study demonstrates the fabrication and characterization of highly porous carbon aerogels...

Introduction: The earth is perhaps the most obvious example of a porous medium. Flows in porous media are part of our everyday lives, from water in the garden, to oil in underground reservoirs. The mathematical modeling of flow in porous media, particularly with the ever increasing power of computers, is playing a fundamental and increasingly important role in the forecasting of petroleum reser...

To evaluate the variability of multiphase flow properties of porous media at the pore scale, it is necessary to acquire a number of representative samples of the void-solid structure. While modern x-ray computer tomography has made it possible to extract three-dimensional images of the pore space, assessment of the variability in the inherent material properties is often experimentally not feas...

An analytical characterization of forced convective ~ow through a channel _lled with a porous medium is presented in this work[ Based on a two!equation model\ including transverse conduction contributions\ exact solutions are obtained for both ~uid and solid phase temperature _elds[ The Nusselt number is also obtained in terms of the pertinent physical parameters\ namely the Biot number for the...

Silver nanoparticles (AgNP) confined within porous starch have been prepared in a simple, green and efficient manner, utilising the nanoporous structure of predominantly mesoporous starch (MS) to act as nanoparticle stabiliser, support and reducing surface. MS/AgNP materials present high surface areas (S(BET) > 150 m(2) g(-1)) and mesopore volumes (V(meso) > 0.45 cm(3) g(-1)). The interaction o...