Great attention was paid to develop new eco-friendly “green” materials with growing environmental awareness in recent years. Composites of environmental friendly reinforcements and resins that provide high performance at ...

More than 80% of the worldwide commercial energy supply is based on fossil fuels. The heavy use of fossil fuels has resulted in large amounts of greenhouse gas emissions especially carbon dioxide (CO2) and depletion of the ...

Wound healing using nanomaterials have been increasingly studied due to their remarkable applicability in tissue engineering. Biopolymeric scaffolds have been widely used to fabricate wound dressings and skin substitute. ...

Lung cancer is the deadliest solid tumor, leading to the deaths of more individuals than the combination of the three next most lethal cancers which are colon, prostate and breast cancer. According to the IARC, in 2012 ...

In the current research, the mechanical and tribological behavior, and structural evolution of AA2124-3 and 5-wt.% graphene (G) composites prepared by a combination of ball milling and hot extrusion were investigated. ...

Sensing is an important emerging technology in the current industrial era. It covers a plethora of applications from medical personalized devices to aerospace oxygen level detectors. Of those applications, environmental ...

Peppermint oil (PO) and Green Tea oil (GTO) are two essential oils (EOs) were encapsulated in chitosan nanoparticles (CS NPs) via two-steps method (emulsification followed by ionic gelation). Encapsulation of GTO and PO ...

The rapid development in membrane technologies and their use as a filtration medium have been based on the use and development of new materials to improve system performance. Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) represent a class of ...

The rate of bacterial resistance is increasing at an enormous rate making many antibiotics ineffective and resulting in oxidative stress. Furthermore, synthetic antibiotics have major side effects that can be life-threatening. ...

Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), is an airborne disease that strikes one third of the globe’s population. In addition to infection of 9.6 million patients, TB claimed the lives of 1.5 million ...