Being a natural active substance with a wide variety of sources, easy access, significant
curative effect, and high safety, active peptides have gradually become one of the new …

Nowadays, the increasing demands from consumer challenges the traditional leather
products. Traditional polymer leather finishes gradually lose their dominant position in the …

Leather products have been widely used in our daily life since ancient times. However, they
are easily attacked by microbes, thus resulting in many adverse and undesirable problems …

Flexible hybrid caprolactam-casein/ZnO nanocomposite (CCZ) was prepared by in-situ
polymerization method. The micro morphology and structure were characterized using DLS …

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized in a chitosan matrix with varying AgNO 3 (1,
3, 5 mM) and chitosan (1, 3%) concentrations via the one-step solution plasma process …

While aerogel is a new classification of materials and considered most promising candidate
for the advanced thermal insulation, clay aerogel shows significant potentials as it is natural …

Mangrove derived microorganisms constitute a rich bioresource for bioprospecting of
bioactive natural products. This study explored the antioxidant potentials of Streptomyces …

Hydrogels are polymeric networks with tridimensional structure, which are able to load water
and other substances. Such property makes hydrogels suitable for innumerous applications …

It is known that multiple cationic charges are required to produce broad-spectrum
antimicrobial photo-sensitizers (PS) for photodynamic inactivation (aPDI) or photodynamic …

Growing environmental regulations are enforcing the synthesis of sustainable and
ecofriendly materials. While waterborne processes, as emulsion polymerization, allow …