Recently, a new type of bioreactor for air pollution control referred to as the foamed emulsion bioreactor (FEBR) has been developed. The process relies on the emulsion of an organic phase with a suspension of an actively growing culture of pollutant-degrading microorganisms, made into a foam with the air undergoing treatment. In the current paper, a diffusion and reaction model of the FEBR is ...

Many insects cling to vertical and inverted surfaces with pads that adhere by nanometre-thin films of liquid secretion. This fluid is an emulsion, consisting of watery droplets in an oily continuous phase. The detailed function of its two-phasic nature has remained unclear. Here we show that the pad emulsion provides a mechanism that prevents insects from slipping on smooth substrates. We disco...

Suspensions of single-walled, double-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (CNTs) were generated in the same solvent at similar concentrations. Films were fabricated from these suspensions and used in carbon nanotube/silicon heterojunction solar cells and their properties were compared with reference to the number of walls in the nanotube samples. It was found that single-walled nanotubes ge...

All-Natural Pickering Double Emulsions A facile and green one-step emulsification approach using oppositely charged binary bio-based particles to readily prepare all-natural double emulsion is presented in article number 2101568 by Yunxing Li, Cheng Yang, To Ngai, co-workers. The formation of attributed the suitable wettability aggregates formed phase inversion during preparation. Furthermore, ...

We have obtained nearly one thousand events of the Ξ− hyperon captured at rest in nuclear emulsion. Among them, production and decay of double-Λ hypernuclei was successfully found and analyzed for five events which correspond to five nuclear species with double strangeness. Preliminary results are discussed for the binding energy and interaction energy of two Λ hyperons. By comparison with olde...

Differential terahertz (THz) time-domain spectroscopy (TDS) is a technique for decreasing noise levels in THz thin film characterization experiments. Characterizing thin films in the GHz to THz range is critical for the development of fast integrated circuits and photonic systems, and is potentially applicable to biosensors and proteomics. This paper shows how the differential technique, combin...

PURPOSE Sumatriptan succinate (Sum) is a Serotonin 5- HT1 receptor agonist, used in the treatment of migraine. It is absorbed rapidly but incompletely when taken orally and underwent first - pass metabolism, resulting in a low bioavailability of about 15%. The aim was to design mucoadhesive buccal discs and sublingual films of Sum and metoclopramide (Met) combined to improve their bioavailabili...