Biopolymers have been employed in many soil applications, such as oil-contaminated soil remediation, due to their environmentally friendly characteristics. This study focused on changes in the wettability and viscosity of polyethylene oxide (PEO) and sodium alginate (SA), according to the variation in concentration and their impact on oil-contaminated soil remediation using biopolymer-decane di...

Intercropping legume with cereal is an extensively applied planting pattern in crop cultivation. However, forage potential and the degradability of harvested mixtures from intercropping system remain unclear. To investigate the feasibility of applying an intercropping system as a forage supply source to ruminants, two consecutive experiments (experiments 1 and 2) involving a field cultivation t...

Using a path integral technique, we show exactly that for a semiflexible biopolymer in constant extension ensemble, no matter how long the polymer and how large the external force, the effects of short-range correlations in the sequence-dependent spontaneous curvatures and torsions can be incorporated into a model with well-defined mean spontaneous curvature and torsion as well as a renormalize...

We exhibit a possible road towards a strong converse for the quantum capacity of degradable channels. In particular, we show that all degradable channels obey what we call a “pretty strong” converse: When the code rate increases above the quantum capacity, the fidelity makes a discontinuous jump from 1 to at most 1 √ 2 , asymptotically. A similar result can be shown for the private (classical) ...

Degradable and cell-compatible hydrogels can be designed to mimic the physical and biochemical characteristics of native extracellular matrices and provide tunability of degradation rates and related properties under physiological conditions. Hence, such hydrogels are finding widespread application in many bioengineering fields, including controlled bioactive molecule delivery, cell encapsulati...

Achieving traditional Byzantine agreement in the presence of arbitrary faults requires that the total number of nodes be larger than three times the number of faulty nodes. Two approaches have been proposed in the literature to circumvent this requirement: (i) hybrid fault model approach 4, 7] considers three types of faults of varying degree of severity, and (ii) degradable agreement approach ...

Cartilage defects in the knee are often seen in young and active patients. There is a need for effective joint preserving treatments in patients suffering from cartilage defects, as untreated defects often lead to osteoarthritis. Within the last two decades, tissue engineering based techniques using a wide variety of polymers, cell sources, and signaling molecules have been evaluated. We start ...

The current study proposed a topology optimization method accounting for base material degradation and create a degradable device that retains sufficient stiffness through the degradation process to provide load bearings for tissue regeneration in orthopaedic applications. Degradable materials are less stiff than permanent materials and suffer further stiffness reduction through time when consi...

Supramolecular polymers are the most used materials for 3D printing applications because of their ability to improve flow behavior inks, and consequently enhance mechanical strength printed architectures. However, interactions assessed without considering fact that formed structures affected by process. Here, effects printer temperature an extrusion-based system, or surface a laser powder bed f...