in order to know the environmental behaviour of toxic pollutants it is fundamental to understandthe role of chemical components of a material on sorption of such pollutants.in this study, the sorption of amix of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (pahs) by cork fractions (i.e. raw cork (cf), free extractive cork(fef) and nonsaponifiable (desf)) has been investigated to better understand the role ...

1 School of Microbiology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, Department of Microbiology, School of Life Sciences, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India, Department of Food Science and Technology, Pondicherry University, Pondicherry, India, 4 Biomerit Research Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland, 5 School of Biomedical Sciences, Curtin Health Innovation Research Institute, C...

1 Laboratory of Neurogastroenterology, Alimentary Pharmabiotic Centre, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 2 Department of Industrial Biotechnology, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute, Sadat City University, Sadat City, Egypt 3 Department of Psychiatry, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 4 Department of Anatomy and Neuroscience, University College Cork, Cork, Irelan...

Cork is a material which has been used for mankind for the last 5,000 years and it is a strategic material used for multiple applications, from wine bottles to aeronautics. Many of current cork materials are composites, in particular cork materials for floor and wall coverings and several other building and industrial applications. Recent developments in cork research have shifted from the clas...

This review work is an update of a previous work reporting the new cork based materials and new applications of cork based materials. Cork is a material which has been used for multiple applications. The most known uses of cork are in stoppers (natural and agglomerated cork) for alcoholic beverages, classic floor covering with composite cork tiles (made by the binding of cork particles with dif...

Cork (phellem) is a multilayered dead tissue protecting plant mature stems and roots and plant healing tissues from water loss and injuries. Cork cells are made impervious by the deposition of suberin onto cell walls. Although suberin deposition and cork formation are essential for survival of land plants, molecular studies have rarely been conducted on this tissue. Here, we address this questi...

S. Bistarelli1, S.N. Foley2, B. O’Sullivan3, F. Santini4∗ 1Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Perugia and Istituto di Informatica e Telematica (CNR) and Dipartimento di Scienze, Università “G. d’Annunzio” Chieti Pescara, Italy 2Department of Computer Science University College Cork, Cork, Ireland 3Department of Computer Science University College Cork and Cork Constraint Co...

AIMS The main aims of this work were the study of cork slabs moulds colonization and the evaluation of the moulds diversity during cork processing steps, in different cork stoppers factories. Simultaneously, it was envisaged to perform an evaluation of the air quality. METHODS AND RESULTS Moulds were isolated and identified from cork slabs and cork samples in four cork stoppers factories. The...

C. Power1,2, Riona Sayers3, B. O’Brien3, A. Furey2, M. Danaher4 and K. Jordan1† 1Food Safety Department, Teagasc Food Research Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland 2Team Elucidate, Department of Chemistry, Cork Institute of Technology, Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland 3Teagasc Animal & Grassland Research and Innovation Centre, Moorepark, Fermoy, Co. Cork, Ireland 4Food Safety Department, Teag...

DNA methylation is thought to influence Quercus suber cork quality, which is the main constraint for its economic valorisation. However, a deep knowledge of the cytosine methylation patterns disclosing the epigenetic variability of trees with different cork quality types is totally missing. This study investigates the hypothesis that variations in DNA methylation contribute to differences in co...