• We integrated As(III) oxidizing bacteria with Fe electrocoagulation (bio-FeEC). Effective removal of to WHO guideline in bio-FeEC than conventional FeEC. Bio-FeEC created less sludge and used power is a promising alternative arsenic treatment technologies. Arsenic (As) toxic element present many (ground)water sources the world. Most As techniques require pre-oxidation neutral arsenite (As(III...

Calcium phosphate salts, or more specifically hydroxyapatite, are products of great interest in the fields of medical and dental science due to their biocompatibility and osteoconduction property. Deproteinized xenografts are primarily constituted of natural apatites, sintered or not. Variations in the industrial process may affect physicochemical properties and, therefore, the biological outco...

Utilisation of bio-derived platform molecules in polymer synthesis has advantages which are, broadly, twofold; to digress from crude oil dependence of the polymer industry and secondly to reduce the environmental impact of the polymer synthesis through the inherent functionality of the bio-derived platform molecules. Bulk polymerisation of bio-derived unsaturated di-acids has been employed to p...

Crude bio-oil from pine chip fast pyrolysis was upgraded with olefins (1-octene, cyclohexene, 1,7-octadiene, and 2,4,4-trimethylpentene) plus 1-butanol (iso-butanol, t-butanol and ethanol) at 120 °C using a silica sulfuric acid (SSA) catalyst that possesses a good catalytic activity and stability. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) and ...

Catalytic fast pyrolysis of Alcell lignin with various additive ratios (5%, 10%, and 15%, mass ratio) of nano-NiO was investigated using a horizontal pyrolyzer. Characterization methods, including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), gas chromatography (GC), gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS), and elemental analysis, were utilized to identify the catalytic fast...

In this paper, tapping mode atomic force microscopy was applied to visualize the higher order chromatin structure reconstituted from calf thymus DNA and calf thymus whole histone in vitro. All the revealed reconstituted chromatin structures consisted of similar well-defined subunits. In some of the chromatin structures, four to six subunits per turn were wrapped right-handed to form a flattened...

Characterization and the antibacterial potential of gold (AuNPs) and silver nanoparticle (SNPs) biosynthesized greenly using exopolysaccharides (EPS) and Culture Free Supernatant (CFS) of Wesiella confusa against some multidrug resistance (MDR) E. coli was investigated. The biosynthesized nanoparticles were characterized by UV-visible spectra, Fourier Transfor...

Metronidazole is used to treat trichomoniasis, bacterial vaginosis, and other diseases. There are controversy aspects about its teratogenicity. A teratogenic agent can alter morphology or subsequent function of the fetus. The aim of this study was to examine an alternative method for the recognition of the mechanism or the bimolecular potential changes in mice fetus caused by Metronidazole usin...

Michael Ruggenthaler,1,* Johannes Flick,2 Camilla Pellegrini,3 Heiko Appel,2 Ilya V. Tokatly,3,4 and Angel Rubio2,3,† 1Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Innsbruck, Technikerstraße 25, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria 2Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Faradayweg 4-6, D-14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany 3Nano-Bio Spectroscopy Group and ETSF Scientific Development Centre, Departam...

Pierluigi Cudazzo,1 Matteo Gatti,1 Friedrich Roth,2 Benjamin Mahns,2 Martin Knupfer,2 and Angel Rubio1,3 1Nano-Bio Spectroscopy group and ETSF Scientific Development Centre, Departamento Fı́sica de Materiales, Universidad del Paı́s Vasco, Centro de Fı́sica de Materiales CSIC-UPV/EHU-MPC and DIPC, Av. Tolosa 72, ES-20018 San Sebastián, Spain 2IFW Dresden, P.O. Box 270116, DE-01171 Dresden, Germany ...