Uranium extraction from seawater: material design, emerging technologies and marine engineering

Y Xie, Z Liu, Y Geng, H Li, N Wang, Y Song… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Uranium extraction from seawater (UES), a potential approach to securing the long-term
uranium supply and sustainability of nuclear energy, has experienced significant progress in …

[HTML][HTML] Prevention strategies of postoperative adhesion in soft tissues by applying biomaterials: Based on the mechanisms of occurrence and development of …

J Liao, X Li, Y Fan - Bioactive Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Postoperative adhesion (POA) widely occurs in soft tissues and usually leads to chronic
pain, dysfunction of adjacent organs and some acute complications, seriously reducing …

[HTML][HTML] Surface hydration: Principles and applications toward low-fouling/nonfouling biomaterials

S Chen, L Li, C Zhao, J Zheng - Polymer, 2010 - Elsevier
Surface resistance to nonspecific protein adsorption, cell/bacterial adhesion, and biofilm
formation is critical for the development and performance of biomedical and analytical …

Dense and dynamic polyethylene glycol shells cloak nanoparticles from uptake by liver endothelial cells for long blood circulation

H Zhou, Z Fan, PY Li, J Deng, DC Arhontoulis, CY Li… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Research into long-circulating nanoparticles has in the past focused on reducing their
clearance by macrophages. By engineering a hierarchical polyethylene glycol (PEG) …

The Langmuir isotherm: a commonly applied but misleading approach for the analysis of protein adsorption behavior

RA Latour - Journal of biomedical materials research part A, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The Langmuir adsorption isotherm provides one of the simplest and most direct methods to
quantify an adsorption process. Because isotherm data from protein adsorption studies often …

Gold nanoparticles can induce the formation of protein-based aggregates at physiological pH

D Zhang, O Neumann, H Wang, VM Yuwono… - Nano …, 2009 - ACS Publications
Protein-nanoparticle interactions are of central importance in the biomedical applications of
nanoparticles, as well as in the growing biosafety concerns of nanomaterials. We observe …

Strong repulsive forces between protein and oligo (ethylene glycol) self-assembled monolayers: A molecular simulation study

J Zheng, L Li, HK Tsao, YJ Sheng, S Chen, S Jiang - Biophysical journal, 2005 - cell.com
Restrained molecular dynamics simulations were performed to study the interaction forces of
a protein with the self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) of S (CH 2) 4 (EG) 4 OH, S (CH 2) 11 …

Novel mussel-inspired zwitterionic hydrophilic polymer to boost membrane water-treatment performance

H Sun, Y Zhang, H Sadam, J Ma, Y Bai, X Shen… - Journal of Membrane …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although the polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membranes have been widely used for
commercial water treatment, the fouling problem adversely affects the membrane deploying …

Ru@ CeO2 yolk shell nanozymes: Oxygen supply in situ enhanced dual chemotherapy combined with photothermal therapy for orthotopic/subcutaneous colorectal …

X Zhu, Y Gong, Y Liu, C Yang, S Wu, G Yuan, X Guo… - Biomaterials, 2020 - Elsevier
Hypoxia is an important factor in forming multidrug resistance, recurrence and metastasis in
solid tumors. Nanozymes respond to tumor microenvironment for tumor-specific treatment is …

Protein resistance of surfaces prepared by sorption of end-thiolated poly (ethylene glycol) to gold: effect of surface chain density

LD Unsworth, H Sheardown, JL Brash - Langmuir, 2005 - ACS Publications
Nonspecific protein adsorption generally occurs at the biomaterial− tissue interface and
usually has adverse consequences. Thus, surfaces that are protein-resistant are eagerly …