UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE – TechConnect Briefs

Electroflox® Pilot plant for primary wastewater treatment of leachate

Marriaga-Cabrales N., Machuca-Martinez F., Donneys-Victoria D., Alvarez-Pugliese C.E., UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE, CO

Landfill leachates are liquid effluents that contain a high pollutant load and represent a serious environmental challenge for the disposal sites; Even after the useful life of a landfill, leachates continue to be generated for [...]

Evaluation of the citotoxicity of TiO2 modified on Cervical Cancer line-cells- Hela

Basante M.J., Gutierrez O., UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE, CO

Titanium dioxide nanoparticles are increasingly being used in pharmaceuticals, cancer therapies and cosmetics due to the unique photacatalytic properties and their small sizes. The modified TiO2 a substance with potential and future uses in the [...]

Artificial Bacteriophage for Anticancer Drug Delivery

Velasco-Medina J., Espinosa-Duran J.M., Arce-Clavijo J.C., UNIVERSIDAD DEL VALLE, CO

In this work, we present a new nanodevice, called artificial bacteriophage, name inspired in the Bacteriophage T4. The nanodevice is made up of two carbon nanostructures and molecular bioreceptors: 1) the nanocontainer, made of fullerenes [...]