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Recovery of High Quality Aggregate from Concrete Waste using Pulsed Power Technology

I’izasa S., Shigeishi M., Namihira T., Kumamoto University, JP

In Japan, the most of waste concrete scraps have been eused as roadbed materials and the recycling ratio of waste concrete scraps has been kept over 95 % from 2000. However, it is expected that [...]

The Mechanism of Mediated Electrochemical Dissolution of Semiconducting Metal Oxide Particle

Inoue A., Japan Atomic Energy Agency,Tokai, JP

The dissolution of plutonium dioxide (PuO2) is of a fundamental importance from the point of view of energy as well as environment. In this work the mechanism of the mediated electrochemical dissolution of semiconducting plutonium [...]

Development of new thermo-ablation therapy using magnetic nanoparticles and device for alternating magnetic field

Hashimoto S., Oda T., Yamada K., Ohara Y., Ohkohchi N., Kanamori T., Ikehata Y., Nagano I., Yanagihara H., Kishimoto M., Kita E., University of Tsukuba, JP

Although induction heating cancer therapy (IHCT) using magnetic nanoparticles can be a promising approach to treatment-less multi-nodular cancers, combination of conventional super paramagnetic particle (SPIO) and standard alternating magnetic field (AMF) generator confer insufficient heat [...]

Mutations of cypovirus polyhedrin and applications of polyhedra to protein nanocontainers

Ohtsuka Y., Nakai D., Coulibaly F., Chiu E., Metcalf P., Mori H., Kyoto Institute of Technology, JP

Cypoviruses, a member of the family Reoviridae, are one group of insect virus that produce micrometer-sized protein crystals called cytoplasmic polyhedra. Many virus particles are occluded in polyhedra to protect them against extracellular environment. Recently [...]

Hybrid Poly(L-Lactide) (PLA) Nanofibers Incorporating POSS-Modified Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Prepared by Electrospinning

Kim B.S., Kim I.S., Kim K-O, Kim Y-A, Jeong I., Kim B.S., Kim I.S., Kim K-O, Kim Y-A, Kim B.S., Kim I.S., Kim K-O, Kim Y-A, Kim B.S., Kim I.S., Kim K-O, Kim Y-A, Shinshu University, JP

Organic–inorganic hybrid composites have attracted considerable attention because of their distinctive physical and chemical properties. Specifically, the multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWNT)-polymer composites among them has expected when uniform dispersion of the MWNTs in the polymer [...]

Application of insect virus polyhedra to protein nanocontainers

Mori H., Ijiri H., Kotani E., Kyoto Institute of Technology, JP

Certain insect viruses encode a protein called polyhedrin that forms polyhedric crystals, or polyhedra, within an infected cell. The virus particles, or virions, are protected within these polyhedra and can remain infectious for years outside [...]

Immobilization of bioactive growth factors into cubic proteinous microcrystals (cypovirus polyhedra) and control of cell proliferation and differentiation

Mori H., Kyoto Institute of Technology, JP

Certain insect viruses produce stable infectious microcrystals called polyhedra which function to protect the virus after the death of infected larvae. Polyhedra form within infected cells and contain numerous virus particles embedded in a crystalline [...]

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