The main environmental impact of olive oil production is the disposal residues such as pomace and water vegetation. During extraction process, stone milled discharged within pomace. However, flour can be valorized filler for polymeric composites. A life cycle assessment valorization was carried out by focusing on manufacturing process a biocomposite made two different thermoplastic matrices, i....

Microorganisms have developed a resistance against some of the most conventional antibiotics. These microorganisms can be self-assembled, forming microbial biofilm. A biofilm formation is an inherent event on almost any surface, causing countless side effects human health and environment. Therefore, multiple scientific proposals been based renewable sources such as natural polymers. Natural pol...

The increased environmental consciousness has raised a discussion about saving natural resources, which has led to an emerging interest in the development of sustainable materials with high performance. Polysaccharide biopolymers from renewable resources, for instance, are a great alternative to replace oil-based polymers since they have a lower cradle to grave energy use and greenhouse gas emi...

Two-step sintering has been used to investigate the structure evolution and properties of the biogenic HA/glass composite containing 50 wt.% Na2O-B2O3-SiO2-based glass. The borosilicate glass facilitated the sintering process due to the viscous glass flow and stabilized the HA phase against thermal decomposition. It has been established that the structure significantly changes, becoming more ho...

Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) is one of the most attracting biopolymers, nevertheless, its expensiveness has hampered uses in daily applications. In this framework, Coffee Silverskin (CS), an agricultural residue, been embedded variable amounts into a PHBV matrix plasticized by acetyl tributyl citrate (ATBC) to achieve biocomposite system through melt extrusion technique. ...

The low density polyethylene-chitosan nanoparticles (LDPE/CHNP) biocomposite was applied as a biosorbent for the adsorption of Congo red (CR) anionic dye and methyl (MR) cationic an in single binary system. effect parameter pH, contact time, initial concentration, adsorbent dosage temperature were studied on two dyes component Kinetic studies showed that LDPE/CHNP binary-component system follow...

A treatment target for progressive left ventricular (LV) remodeling prevention following myocardial infarction (MI) is to affect structural changes directly within the MI region. One approach is through targeted injection of biocomposite materials, such as calcium hydroxyapatite microspheres (CHAM), into the MI region. In this study, the effects of CHAM injections upon key cell types responsibl...

Miscibility is an important issue in biopolymer blends for analysis of the behavior of polymer pairs through the detection of phase separation and improvement of the mechanical and physical properties of the blend. This study presents the formulation of a stable and one-phase mixture of collagen and regenerated silk fibroin (RSF), with the highest miscibility ratio between these two macromolecu...