A cohort study has been carried out of 2876 men and women with potential exposure to ethylene oxide. Subjects were identified from employment records at four companies that have produced or used ethylene oxide since the 1950s and at eight hospitals which have had ethylene oxide sterilising units since the 1960s. The cohort represents a substantial proportion of the British workforce with a hist...

This review presents some examples obtained by molecular techniques in the study of non-ionic reverse micelles of poly(ethylene oxide) type surfactants: tetraethylene glycol mono-ndodecyl ether (C12E4), Triton X-100, and triblok copolymers poly(ethylene oxide)-blockpoly(propylene oxide)-blockpoly(ethylene oxide) (L62 and L64 Pluronics). By using specific spectral parameters of spin, fluorescenc...

Direct dissolution of glycosylated polybutadiene-poly(ethylene oxide) block copolymers can lead to the spontaneous formation of vesicles or membranes, which on the outside are coated with glucose and on the inside with poly(ethylene oxide).

in the past decade, electrospinning as a facile and effective means in producing nanofibers with diameters ranging from microns down to a few nanometers has been developed and considered important. in this work, electrospinning of an interesting natural biopolymer, sodium alginate, has been investigated. the results showed that water solution of sodium alginate cannot be electrospun into nanofi...

Since it was shown (2) that the treatment of casein with ethylene oxide could diminish the biological availability of the histidine and methionine of this protein, it became of interest to determine whether other proteins were affected in the same way and to elucidate the nature of the chemical reactions involved. Particular interest in such reactions derives from the use of ethylene oxide as a...

The design and preparation of new polyester dendrimer, poly(ethylene oxide) hybrid systems for drug delivery and related therapeutic applications, are described. These systems consist of two covalently attached polyester dendrons, where one dendron provides multiple functional handles for the attachment of therapeutically active moieties, while the other is used for attachment of solubilizing p...

The addition of multifunctional additives comprised of singleor double-ring aromatic cores decorated at their periphery with multiple hydrogen-bond-donating groups such as carboxylic acid and phenol is shown to induce microphase segregation of otherwise disordered Pluronic BCP (poly(ethylene oxide-propylene oxide-ethylene oxide)) surfactant melts, resulting in the formation of well-ordered supr...

Physical properties (chemical adsorption rate, viscoelasticity, thickness, and conformation) for self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of mercapto oligo (ethylene oxide) methyl ethers on gold were determined by quartz crystal microbalance (QCM). The values of thickness, shear viscosity and elastic shear modulus of SAMs increase with unit number of oligo (ethylene oxide) segment. However, the chemica...

Three types of ethylene oxide-based and carbonate-containing copolymers were prepared through copolymerization oxide (EO) with CO2 under metal-free conditions in the presence triethylborane (TEB), using onium salts (OS) as initiator. Hydrophobic poly[(ethylene carbonate)x-co-(ethylene oxide)y] (PECEO) samples carbonate contents above 90% (x ? y) first a pressure 10–30 bar ratio [TEB] to [OS] 1–...

We have searched for millimetre-wave line emission from ethylene oxide (c-C2H4O) and its structural isomer acetaldehyde (CH3CHO) in 11 molecular clouds using SEST. Ethylene oxide and acetaldehyde were detected through multiple lines in the hot cores NGC 6334F, G327.3-0.6, G31.41+0.31, and G34.3+0.2. Acetaldehyde was also detected towards G10.47+0.03, G322.2+0.6, and Orion 3'N, and one ethylene ...