In an earlier contribution to these Transactions (Lloyd & Williams, 1984) the characteristics of non-specific adsorptive pinocytosis were discussed. Evidence was presented that many macromolecules captured by adsorptive pinocytosis display either cationic or hydrophobic determinants, and that many types of cell possess surface features that interact positively with such ligands. Internalization...

premature rupture of membranes (prom) is one of the most common complications of pregnancy that has a major impact on neonatal outcomes. with respect to racial, nutritional and cultural differences between developed and developing countries, this study was conducted to detect the prevalence of neonatal complications following prom and the role of the duration of rupture of membranes in producin...

Activated carbons were investigated for their heat catalytic effects to improve saccharification of starch by autohydrolysis in water under microwave electromagnetic field, and the results were compared with graphite and carbon nanotubes. The activated carbons with low adsorptive capacity of maltose showed high saccharification rate, while those with high adsorptive capacity exhibited low sacch...

the gas separation performance of commercial ceramic titania and hybrid silica (hybsi®) membranes was assessed using the gas permeation and permporometry methods. results indicated that the hybsi® membranes have a hybrid surface containing regions covered by a polymeric matrix and others with inorganic pores. these membranes have high h2 selectivity, which increases significantly with temperatu...

Square-wave cathodic adsorptive stripping voltammetry based on adsorptive accumulation is a very sensitive technique for the trace determination of xanthosine 50-monophosphate (50-XMP) and xanthosine 50-diphosphate (50-XDP). The determination is based on the strong interaction of the adsorption of xanthosine phosphate compounds on a mercury electrode surface, forming Hg(II)-xanthate. The cathod...

The surface activity of xanthine (Xan) and xanthosine (Xano) at a hanging mercury drop electrode (HMDE) was studied using out-of-phase ac and cyclic dc voltammetry. The results show that Xan and Xano were strongly adsorbed and chemically interacted with the charged mercury surface, which is the prerequisite step for applying the cathodic adsorptive stripping voltammetric determination of such b...

In the present work, thermal regeneration of activated carbons (AC) was carried out at 1123 K and under N2 atmosphere. Experiments have been carried out using a single mode microwave device operating at 2450 MHz and a conventional electric furnace (EF) so as to compare the effect of the different heating mechanisms on the adsorptive capacities of the regenerated AC. The adsorbents were saturate...

Despite of their low concentration, the impact of steroid estrogens such as estrone, 17a-estradiol, and ethinylestradiol are often more serious than other synthetic endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) because their endocrine-disrupting potency is much higher. Although their existence in waterways is of increasing concern, nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) are likely to play an impo...