Electrocoagulation Process: Achievements and Green Perspectives
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2018
Pages:
1-5
Received:
25 January 2018
Accepted:
5 February 2018
Published:
2 March 2018
Abstract: This short communication concerns the author’s proper brief story about performing research on electrocoagulation (EC) process. The main personal works performed on EC process are shortly introduced. For more than twenty years, working on EC technique still attract my interests due to the several advantages well-known of this electrochemical manner in treating water/wastewater in terms of killing microorganisms and organic matter removal. In spite of the great progress achieved in EC process application, more research remains required to reach a high level of industrial satisfaction. Humankind future quality is highly dependent on preserving nature from more polluting disasters and treating wastewater for drinking water direct use objectives.
Abstract: This short communication concerns the author’s proper brief story about performing research on electrocoagulation (EC) process. The main personal works performed on EC process are shortly introduced. For more than twenty years, working on EC technique still attract my interests due to the several advantages well-known of this electrochemical manner...
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Morphology Transformation of Giant Vesicles by a Polyelectrolyte for an Artificial Model of a Membrane Protein for Endocytosis
Issue:
Volume 3, Issue 1, March 2018
Pages:
6-11
Received:
20 February 2018
Accepted:
6 March 2018
Published:
23 March 2018
Abstract: The morphology transformation of giant vesicles consisting of amphiphilic poly(methacrylic acid)- block-poly(methyl methacrylate-random-methacrylic acid-random-3-sulfopropyl methacrylate potassium salt), PMAA-b-P(MMA-r-MAA-r-SpMA), was investigated using poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) as an artificial model of a membrane protein for endocytosis. The polymerization-induced self-assembly of the PMAA-b-P(MMA-r-MAA-r-SpMA) using the nitroxide-mediated photo-controlled/living radical polymerization technique produced spherical vesicles in the absence of PAH, while it provided a fused sheet in its presence at a 1.0 molar ratio of the allylamine hydrochloride unit (AH) to the SpMA unit. It was suggested that the PAH connected the SpMA units by an electrostatic interaction. The fused sheet changed into combined vesicles as the AH/SpMA ratio increased, and at AH/SpMA = 10.0, the morphology was transformed into spherical vesicles much smaller than the original vesicles. The morphology transformation by soaking the original spherical vesicles in a PAH solution demonstrated that the PAH caused the division of the vesicles into much smaller spherical vesicles.
Abstract: The morphology transformation of giant vesicles consisting of amphiphilic poly(methacrylic acid)- block-poly(methyl methacrylate-random-methacrylic acid-random-3-sulfopropyl methacrylate potassium salt), PMAA-b-P(MMA-r-MAA-r-SpMA), was investigated using poly(allylamine hydrochloride) (PAH) as an artificial model of a membrane protein for endocytos...
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