The increasing accumulation of persistent nondegradable microplastics in the marine
environment represents a global environmental problem. Among emerging approaches to …

Modifying surfaces using free radical polymerization (FRP) offers a means to incorporate the
diverse physicochemical properties of vinyl polymers onto new materials. Here, we harness …

The long-term prevention of biofilm formation on the surface of indwelling medical devices
remains a challenge. Silver has been reutilized in recent years for combating biofilm …

Polylactic acid (PLA) has been widely used as filaments for material extrusion additive
manufacturing (AM) to develop patient-specific scaffolds in bone tissue engineering …

Microplastics ubiquitously in the environment endanger both marine organisms and human
beings. Currently, the smaller sizes of microplastics in size ranging from 1 μm to 10 μm are …

Studies of the fundamental origins of friction have undergone rapid acceleration in recent
years by providing valuable information on the nanoscale mechanisms responsible for …

Copper-clad laminate (CCL) comprised of copper foil and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)
faces severe thermal expansion mismatch due to the discrepancy in coefficient of thermal …

In national defense, aluminum nanoparticles (Al NPs) have better combustion performance
than Al microparticles but are easily oxidized during processing, especially in oxidative …

In this study, poly (vinylidene fluoride)(PVDF) nanoparticles (NPs) are fabricated with the
preferred electroactive δ‐phase due to the interfacial crystallization at the ternary phase …

The use of micro-and nanoparticles in biological applications has dramatically grown during
the last few decades due to the ease of protocols development and compatibility with …