Oropharyngeal candidiasis is the most prevalent fungal disease in the world. The formulations of the drug of choice for its treatment have a low residence time and bioavailability at the site of infection. The aim of this study was to prepare and characterize mucoadhesive films of chitosan and polygalacturonic acid by the “Solvent-Casting” techniqu...
This essay is a case study over the film “Chef” (2014) by Jon Favreu. The film was chosen in order to analyze the intersections between identity and culture. At first glance, the essay centers its look into the film narrative, in order to show How the film has built up and managed the notion around what is the “Latino”. Then, a theoretical analysis...
Published in Carbohydrate polymers
Fluorescently labeled cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) were used to evaluate CNF leaching from paper according to standard safety assays for food contact materials. Enzymatically pretreated pulp was first labeled with 5-([4,6-Dichlorotriazin-2-yl]amino)fluorescein hydrochloride (DTAF), followed by homogenization to produce fluorescent CNFs of varying d...
In this study, the influence of the degree of crystallization and thickness of films was correlated with the photoelectrochemical performance of SrTaO2N semiconductor films for O2 evolution reaction under visible light irradiation. Oxynitride films were deposited on various substrates using the sputtering in Ar + N2 reactive atmosphere from a home-...
Published in Heliyon
Chemical engineering; Membrane; Transport process; Computer-aided engineering; Films; Thin film; Nanomaterials; Composite film; Hydrophilic enhancement; ANOVA; Optimization
Electrophoretic deposition (EPD) has been used for the deposition of insoluble collagen type I in aqueous suspensions. In this process, two electrodes are immersed in an aqueous collagen suspension and a voltage is applied. The charged particles in the suspension move towards the oppositely-charged electrode resulting in the deposition of a coating...
In Norowzian v Arks Ltd. (No.2) the Court of Appeal determined that the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 protects films as dramatic works. What, conceptually and in practice, this means is not clear. This article examines and compares the history of film with the definitions of film in the Berne Convention and UK copyright laws to argue that...
Published in MethodsX
Copolymerization methods are used to impart specific, desired functional properties (e.g. mechanical or bioactive) to a material for targeted applications in biomedicine, food and agriculture, consumer products, advanced manufacturing, and more. Many polymerization methods exist to achieve tailored copolymer architectures. Of them, emulsion polymer...
Published in Biochimica et biophysica acta. Bioenergetics
The photoinduced charge separation in QB-depleted reaction centers (RCs) from Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 in solid air-dried and vacuum-dried (~10-2 Torr) films, obtained in the presence of detergent n-dodecyl-β-D-maltoside (DM), is characterized using ultrafast transient absorption spectroscopy. It is shown that drying of RC-DM complexes is accom...
Published in Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
The cathodic cage plasma deposition (CCPD) is an advanced technique recently developed from an active screen plasma nitriding system, which has been used for thin film deposition such as titanium nitride and titanium dioxide (TiO2). These coatings can improve the physical, mechanical, and optical properties of numerous materials, and such coatings ...
