Enabling catalysts for biodiesel production via transesterification

B Wang, B Wang, SK Shukla, R Wang - Catalysts, 2023 - mdpi.com
With the rapid development of industry and the increasing demand for transportation,
traditional sources of energy have been excessively consumed. Biodiesel as an alternative …

Recent advances in functional polymer materials for energy, water, and biomedical applications: a review

Y El-Ghoul, FM Alminderej, FM Alsubaie, R Alrasheed… - Polymers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Academic research regarding polymeric materials has been of great interest. Likewise,
polymer industries are considered as the most familiar petrochemical industries. Despite the …

A tunable porous β-cyclodextrin polymer platform to understand and improve anionic PFAS removal

R Wang, ZW Lin, MJ Klemes, M Ateia, B Trang… - ACS Central …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cross-linked polymers containing β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) are promising adsorbents with
demonstrated removal performances for per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) from …

Development of oral curcumin based on pH-responsive transmembrane peptide-cyclodextrin derivative nanoparticles for hepatoma

T Wei, Y Zhang, M Lei, Y Qin, Z Wang, Z Chen… - Carbohydrate …, 2022 - Elsevier
Herein, a pH-responsive cyclodextrin derivative (R6H4-CMβCD) with cell-penetrating ability
was successfully synthesized, and curcumin-loaded nanoparticles (R6H4-CMβCD@ CUR …

Supramolecular hydrogels based on cyclodextrins: progress and perspectives

M Jain, BP Nowak, BJ Ravoo - ChemNanoMat, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Hydrogels have emerged as one of the best studied, widely applied and most versatile
classes of soft materials. Hydrogels are important biomimetic nanomaterials comparable to …

pH and redox dual-responsive mesoporous silica nanoparticle as nanovehicle for improving fungicidal efficiency

L Wu, H Pan, W Huang, Z Hu, M Wang, F Zhang - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
Prochloraz (Pro) controlled-release nanoparticles (NPs) based on bimodal mesoporous
silica (BMMs) with redox and pH dual responses were successfully prepared in this study …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in encapsulation and controlled release of pesticides based on cyclodextrin derivative carriers

Z Liu, W Xu, EG Kovaleva, J Cheng, H Li - Advanced Agrochem, 2022 - Elsevier
In the context of the continuous increase in global grain production, accompanied by a large
amount of investment in various pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, and other chemical …

Dramatically increased binding constant of water-soluble cyclodextrin hyperbranched polymers: explored with diffusion ordered NMR spectroscopy (DOSY)

ATN Doan, VTH Doan, J Katsuki, S Fujii, H Kono… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
We report that the polymerization of cyclodextrin (CD) with epichlorohydrin (ECH)
dramatically increases the binding constant of CD to vanillin, from 55 to 8.4× 103 M–1, by …

Cyclodextrin usage in textile industry

E El-Sayed, HA Othman… - Journal of Textiles …, 2021 - journals.ekb.eg
Nowadays, there is a great interest in the textile industry for the production of functional
textiles using environmentally friendly materials and processes. Cyclodextrins are cyclic …

Evaluation of polyanionic cyclodextrins as high affinity binding scaffolds for fentanyl

BP Mayer, DJ Kennedy, EY Lau, CA Valdez - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Cyclodextrins (CDs) have been previously shown to display modest equilibrium binding
affinities (K a~ 100–200 M-1) for the synthetic opioid analgesic fentanyl. In this work, we …