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Engineering of Recombinant Spider Silk Proteins Allows Defined Drug Uptake and Release

Scheibel T., Unibersity of BAyreuth, DE

Drug delivery systems allow tissue / cell specific targeting of drugs in order to reduce total drug amounts administered to an organism and potential side effects upon systemic drug delivery. Most drug delivery systems are [...]

Materials for Drug & Gene Delivery

Capturing and Using CO2 as Feedstock for Clean Chemical Processes Technologies

Demirel Y., University of Nebraska Lincoln, US

Chemical-looping technology for capturing CO2 are discussed with critical assessments of the circulating fluidized bed systems and the packed bed reactor with periodic switching of the feed streams of fuel and air. Beside, some industrial [...]

Pelletized silica and polyethyleneimine composites for CO2 capture via adsorption

Knowles G.P., Chaffee A.L., Monash University, AU

Amine adsorbent powders are of broad interest to facilitate CO2 capture towards reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas. It is recognized, however, that industrial adsorption processes require pelletized rather than powdered adsorbents. Mesoporous silica and branched polyethyleneimine [...]

Development of the Novel Functionality of Probiotics Fermented Noni Hydrolysates

Yin L.J., Lee H.-H., Wu J.J., Jiang S.T., National Kaohsiung Marine University, TW

This study aimed to help the release of functional nutrients from noni fruit by enzymatic hydrolysis, and to subsequently shorten the fermentation time during the biotransformation of some compounds. This study firstly investigated the optimal [...]

Commercial pilot for closed-loop wastewater treatment and biofuel production using microalgae

Atwood M., Novoveska L., Sundstrom E., Valdez P., Algae Systems LLC, US

In wastewater treatment, significant energy is used to dilute, discharge, or landfill valuable resources. This situation is untenable due to energy costs and global scarcity of clean water. Algae Systems has developed and patented a [...]

Carbon Nanotube Matrices for implantable Biofuel Cell design

Holzinger M., Le Goff A., Cosnier S., CNRS - University of Grenoble, FR

Glucose biofuel cells are promising candidates to supply implanted electronic devices by converting the chemical energy of glucose, present in body fluids, into electric power. Before such biofuel cells can become realistic alternatives compared to [...]

Energy from Bio Sources & Carbon Capture

Inductive Nano Targeted Electromagnetic Therapy

Meymanat M., Zanjan University of Medical Sciences, Zanjan, Iran, IR

A Biofunctionalized conductor Nano-Particle which can be made of ferromagnetic and conductor materials, capable to attach specifically biologic targets in vivo and in vitro by using molecules for specific attachment (such as monoclonal antibody) is [...]

Cu/TiO2-SiO2 Nanostructured Materials for Brain Cancer Treatment

Ortiz-Islas E., Guevara P., Gómez E., Monroy H., Novaro O., National Institute of Neurology and Neurosurgery, MX

In the present work, we are reporting the toxic effect to brain cancer cells exerted by copper complexes loaded (CC) on a binary oxide. For this purpose, the TiO2-SiO2 oxide was prepared using the sol-gel [...]