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Water Absorption and Performance Degradation of Natural Fiber Reinforced Thermoplastic Composites
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Natural fiber reinforced polyethylene biocomposites are an environmentally friendly alternative to non-biodegradable thermoplastic materials. The addition of natural fibers to polyethylene improves mechanical properties such as tensile modulus and tensile strength. Unlike thermoplastics,...
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Fall 2012
The kidney anion exchanger 1 (kAE1) is crucial in the regulation of physiological pH by facilitating Cl-/HCO3- exchange. Inability to do so results in distal renal tubular acidosis (dRTA), which is more often due to mutations leading to mis-localization of kAE1, rather than complete abolishment...
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Optimization of a two-step desolvation method for preparing gelatin nanoparticles and cell uptake studies in 143B osteosarcoma cancer cells
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Abrams, D., Huang, Y., McQuarrie, S., Roa, W., Chen, H., Löbenberg, R., Azarmi, S., Miller, G. G., Finlay, W. H.
Abstract: PURPOSE: To establish a matrix of parameters to synthesize nanoparticles of different sizes and to investigate the cellular uptake of these nanoparticles by osteosarcoma cancer cells in order to investigate their potential as therapeutic drug-delivery carriers. METHODS: Gelatin A and B...
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Fall 2023
The limitation of global water resources requires a sustainable and advanced technology to acquire clean water. Cold plasma emerges as a green and sustainable technology in wastewater treatment, food processing and agricultural field. Synergy of a myriad of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species...
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Fall 2020
Hernandez-Salgado, Valeria Amellalli
Commodity plastics fate has become one of the most critical environmental concerns. Due to their resistance to degradation, plastics are accumulating into a massive amount of waste on land and in water. These materials are harming the ecosystems. Among the several alternatives studied,...
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Fall 2010
Dematiaceous hyphomycetes are a taxonomically diverse artificial assemblage of conidial fungi that have dark pigments known as melanins in their walls. Select dematiaceous hyphomycetes from the Coniochaetales, Pleosporales, and Helotiales obtained from arctic and alpine bryophytes and vascular...
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2023-05-11
Dolez, Patricia I., Chung, H.-J, Batcheller, J., Cho, C., Yehia, D., Zheng, L., Braun, C.A., Khalkhali, R., Lin, Z., Chhetry, A., Saha, A., Hoque, Md. Saiful, Khemir, M., Samaraweera, N.
The protective clothing industry and workers at risk of exposure to heat and flame can rely on some high performance materials developed over the last fifty years to provide the protection needed while allowing some level of comfort. This includes a series of inherently thermal- and...
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Fall 2017
The present research was conducted with the intent of evaluating the degradation of OCTG (Oil Country Tubular Goods) steel used in SAGD (Steam Assisted Gravity Drainage) applications, and developing a promising surface modification method and a novel composite coating using a technique that will...
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Conditional, temperature-induced proteolytic regulation of cyanobacterial RNA helicase expression
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Owttrim, George W., Tarassova, Oxana S., Chamot, Danuta
Conditional proteolysis is a crucial process regulating the abundance of key regulatory proteins associated with the cell cycle, differentiation pathways, or cellular response to abiotic stress in eukaryotic and prokaryotic organisms. We provide evidence that conditional proteolysis is involved...