Review on chitosan-based antibacterial hydrogels: preparation, mechanisms, and applications

Y Wang, Z Wang, W Lu, Y Hu - International Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
Chitosan (CS) is known for its remarkable properties, such as good biocompatibility,
biodegradability, and renewability, in addition to its antibacterial and biological activities …

Interfacial liquid water on graphite, graphene, and 2D materials

R Garcia - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
The optical, electronic, and mechanical properties of graphite, few-layer, and two-
dimensional (2D) materials have prompted a considerable number of applications …

Chitin Nanofibrils from Fungi for Hierarchical Gel Polymer Electrolytes for Transient Zinc‐Ion Batteries with Stable Zn Electrodeposition

D Ruiz, VF Michel, M Niederberger, E Lizundia - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Rechargeable batteries play an integral role toward carbon neutrality. Environmentally
sustainable batteries should consider the trade‐offs between material renewability …

Molecular insights on the crystalline cellulose-water interfaces via three-dimensional atomic force microscopy

A Yurtsever, PX Wang, F Priante, Y Morais Jaques… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Cellulose, a renewable structural biopolymer, is ubiquitous in nature and is the basic
reinforcement component of the natural hierarchical structures of living plants, bacteria, and …

Molecular Scale Structure and Kinetics of Layer-by-Layer Peptide Self-Organization at Atomically Flat Solid Surfaces

A Yurtsever, L Sun, K Hirata, T Fukuma, S Rath… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Understanding the mechanisms of self-organization of short peptides into two-and three-
dimensional architectures are of great interest in the formation of crystalline biomolecular …

Solution structure and hydration forces between mica and hydrophilic versus hydrophobic surfaces

E Nakouzi, S Kerisit, BA Legg, S Yadav… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Solid–liquid interfaces are central to a range of interesting phenomena including colloidal
aggregation, crystallization by particle attachment, catalysis, heterogeneous nucleation …

Cellulose Nanocrystals Examined by Atomic Force Microscopy: Applications and Fundamentals

A Abbasi Moud - ACS Food Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) are nanoscale particles with huge surface areas, excellent
mechanical properties, and the ability to develop tunable surface chemistry, thus allowing …

Chitin Nanofibers Enable the Colloidal Dispersion of Carbon Nanomaterials in Aqueous Phase and Hybrid Material Coassembly

T Guo, Z Wan, M Panahi-Sarmad, G Banvillet, Y Lu… - ACS …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chitin nanofibrils (ChNF) sourced from discarded marine biomass are shown as effective
stabilizers of carbon nanomaterials in aqueous media. Such stabilization is evaluated for …

High-Speed Three-Dimensional Scanning Force Microscopy Visualization of Subnanoscale Hydration Structures on Dissolving Calcite Step Edges

K Miyata, K Adachi, N Miyashita, K Miyazawa… - Nano Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Hydration at solid–liquid interfaces plays an essential role in a wide range of phenomena in
biology and in materials and Earth sciences. However, the atomic-scale dynamics of …

[HTML][HTML] Food dehydration recent advances and approaches

S Riaz, A Kabir, A Haroon, A Ali… - … Review of the Versatile …, 2022 - intechopen.com
Dehydration of organic material is undoubtedly a controlled attempt to conserve or construct
a novel construct that will satisfy functional devotions. Food dehydration is reviewed in light …