The molecular weight (MW) of regenerated silk fibroin (RSF) decreases during degumming and dissolving processes. Although MW and the MW distribution generally affect polymer material processability and properties, few reports have described studies e...
Conventional quality parameters such as Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD) or Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) give information about the quantity of organic matter present in wastewater, but do not give a clear indication of the biodegradability of the pol...
The recent progress in the acoustic fractionation of particulate suspensions within microfluidic devices emphasizes the utility of the acoustic fractionation process also for gas-suspended particles as a significant advancement in the field of mechan...
Background: Microbeam radiation therapy (MRT) is an advanced preclinical approach in radiotherapy that utilizes spatially fractionated dose distributions by collimating x-rays into micrometer-wide, planar beams. While the benefits of temporal fractio...
Clinical indications for adipose tissue therapy are expanding towards a regenerative-based approach. Adipose-derived stromal vascular fraction consists of extracellular matrix and all nonadipocyte cells such as connective tissue cells including fibro...
Fractionation plays a key role in the manufacture of specialty fats, particularly when applied to tropical oils characterized by a high content of saturated fatty acids, such as palm and coconut oils. This technique is based on the selective crystall...
The present study aims to test and evaluate the efficiency of a new modified method of organic matter evaluation. It allows the assessment of the quality and quantity of the primary soil organic matter and the stable organic fractions separately. The...
The heterogeneous and recalcitrant structure of lignin hinders its practical application. Here, we describe how new approaches to lignin characterization can reveal structural details that could ultimately lead to its more efficient utilization. A su...
Asphaltenes, as the heaviest and most polar fraction of petroleum, have been characterized by various analytical techniques. A variety of fractionation methods have been carried out to separate asphaltenes into multiple subfractions for further inves...
Over the years, pulses and cereals have been identified as promising sources of plant proteins. The intensive production of these crops and concerns about food security and malnutrition worldwide have intensified research into their separation. While...
The fundamental advances in silicon isotope geochemistry have been systematically demonstrated in this work. Firstly, the continuous modifications in analytical approaches and the silicon isotope variations in major reservoirs and geological processe...
The seed oil of Carapa guianensis, known as crabwood oil (CWO), is distinguished for its medicinal and cosmetics applications, attributed to its bioactive components and lipid profile. CWO and its dry and solvent fractionation were studied, with a fo...
The 2 Gy per fraction equivalent dose (EQD2) is an important quantity used in determining equivalent prescription doses for different fractionation regimens and evaluating different fractionation regimens, but it does not match its definition when it...
Lignin is an underutilized high-potential biopolymer that has been extensively studied over the past few decades. However, lignin still has drawbacks when compared with well-known petroleum-based equivalents, and the production of tailored lignin fra...
Olive pomace management represents a great concern to the olive oil industry. This work focused on the development of a “zero waste” strategy for olive pomace based on a fractionation approach resulting in the obtention of different value...
The fractionation of airborne particles based on multiple characteristics is becoming increasingly significant in various industrial and research sectors, including mining and recycling. Recent developments aim to characterize and fractionate particl...
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) has become a widely used modality for treating actinic keratosis (AK) and non-melanoma skin cancers (NMSC), as well as other inflammatory or infectious diseases. Despite its efficacy, limitations such as incomplete response...
Galacto-oligosaccharides (GOS) are prebiotic sugars obtained enzymatically from lactose and used in food industry due to their nutritional advantages or technological properties. Selective mass transport and enzymatic synthesis were integrated and fo...
Lignocellulose represents an abundant and renewable biomass feedstock; however, its intrinsically recalcitrant cross-linked network of cellulose, hemicellulose, and lignin poses a significant barrier to the efficient fractionation and high-value util...
Rapeseed meal is a major by-product of rapeseed oil production and contains proteins, structural carbohydrates, and bioactive compounds with potential uses in feed, food ingredients, functional materials, and thermochemical products. However, broader...
Subcellular fractionation approaches remain an indispensable tool among a large number of biochemical methods to facilitate the study of specific intracellular events and characterization of protein functions. During apoptosis, the best-known form of...
Softwoods represent a significant fraction of the available lignocellulosic biomass for conversion into a variety of bio-based products. Its inherent recalcitrance, however, makes its successful utilization an ongoing challenge. In the current work t...
In this study, a numerical investigation of the Marangoni flow in foam fractionation was conducted, with a specific focus on the film of micro-foams in both the interior and exterior regions. A three-dimensional node–film–plateau border s...
Use of corn fractionation techniques in dry grind process increases the number of coproducts, enhances their quality and value, generates feedstock for cellulosic ethanol production and potentially increases profitability of the dry grind process. Th...
We propose the treatment of barley straw with 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate [EMIMAcO] ionic liquids (ILs) and subsequent precipitation with antisolvent mixtures, thus allowing the separation of the sugar-rich fractions (cellulose and hemicellul...
NIMA (never-in-mitosis gene A)-related kinase 1 (Nek1) is shown to impact on different cellular pathways such as DNA repair, checkpoint activation, and apoptosis. Its role as a molecular target for radiation sensitization of malignant cells, however,...
In recent years, biodegradable and alternative biodiesel has attracted increased attention worldwide. Producing biodiesel from biomass involves critical separation and purification technology. Conventional technologies such as gravitational settling,...
Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are an important atmospheric aerosol constituent. However, there still needs to be a standard procedure for their sampling and size fractionation, which is an obstacle to the aggregation and critical analysis of results...
Variability in reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) properties, such as aggregate gradation, asphalt content, and moisture content, poses a significant challenge to producing consistent and reliable recycled asphalt mixtures. This study systematically ev...
Gold nanorods (GNRs) are of particular interest for biomedical applications due to their unique size-dependent longitudinal surface plasmon resonance band in the visible to near-infrared. Purified GNRs are essential for the advancement of technologie...
We report a facile approach to control the shape memory effects and thermomechanical characteristics of a lignin-based multiphase polymer. Solvent fractionation of a syringylpropane-rich technical organosolv lignin resulted in selective lignin struct...
Poly(vinyl acetate-co-vinyl alcohol) (PVA), well-known as emulsion stabilizers, are obtained by partial hydrolysis of poly(vinyl acetate) (PVAc). Their thermal cloud point fractionation was performed in aqueous medium between 40 and 75 °C. This fract...
Polyethylene wax (PEW) often carries a broad carbon-number distribution (CND) that limits its use in grades with controlled melting point, viscosity, and hardness. This study examines how multistage molecular distillation reshapes PEW composition and...
Asymmetric-flow field-flow fractionation (AF4) is a gentle, flexible, and powerful separation technique that is widely utilized for fractionating nanometer-sized analytes, which extend to many emerging nanocarriers for drug delivery, including lipid-...
The increasing interest towards greener antioxidants obtained via natural sources and more sustainable processes encourages the development of new theoretical and experimental methods in the field of those compounds. Two advanced separation methods u...
Membrane chromatography (MC) is an emerging bioseparation technology combining the principles of membrane filtration and chromatography. In this process, one type of molecule is adsorbed in the stationary phase, whereas the other type of molecule is...
For radioactive waste disposal, it is important that local groundwater flow is slow as groundwater flow is the main transport medium for radioactive nuclides in geological formations. When the groundwater flow is very slow, diffusion is the dominant...
Dietary fiber (DF) has wide applications, especially in the food and pharmaceutical industries due to its health-promoting effects and potential techno-functional properties in developing functional food products. There is a growing interest in studi...
The rapid expansion of the lithium industry has generated large quantities of lithium refinery residue (LRR), whose stockpiling and landfilling cause environmental risks and the loss of potentially recoverable resources. This review critically examin...
Lignocellulose-based biorefineries are considered to play a crucial role in reducing fossil-fuel dependency. As of now, the fractionation is still the most difficult step of the whole process. The objective of this study is to investigate the potenti...
Cereal grains and pulses are staple foods worldwide, being the primary supply of energy, protein, and fiber in human diets. The current practice of milling and fractionation yields large quantities of byproducts and waste, which are largely downgrade...
The roller milling of sorghum and quinoa seeds into flour fractions (coarse, middle, and fine) was investigated, chemically analysed, and applied in the baking of gluten-free sourdough bread. The gap settings were adjusted to 0, 5, 8, and 10 for quin...
Proteins in eukaryotic cells reside in different cell compartments. Many studies require the specific localization of proteins and the detection of any dynamic changes in intracellular protein distribution. There are several methods available for thi...
The use of residual biomass for bioconversions makes it possible to decrease the output of fossil-based chemicals and pursue a greener economy. While the use of lignocellulosic material as sustainable feedstock has been tried at pilot scale, industri...
Electrical Field Flow Fractionation (ElFFF) is a sub method in the field flow fractionation (FFF) family that relies on an applied voltage on the channel walls to effect a separation. ElFFF has fallen behind some of the other FFF methods because of t...
Although olive mill by-products and effluents (OMBP) are commonly regarded as potential environmental liabilities, they contain constituents that may offer recovery potential. This study proposes an integrated scheme combining dry (filtration, millin...
The growing number of wheat-related allergies worldwide has resulted in a new trend towards gluten-free alternatives. In this context, alternative cereals such as sorghum and oats are attracting new interest. Given the limited data available, the que...
Lignocellulosic biomass represents the most abundant renewable carbon source on earth and is already used for energy and biofuel production. The pivotal step in the conversion process involving lignocellulosic biomass is pretreatment, which aims to d...
Eurycoma longifolia is a popular folk medicine in South East Asia. This study was focused on saccharide-containing compounds including saponins, mainly because of their medical potentials. Different organic solvents such as ethyl acetate, butanol, an...
The production of biosurfactants is often hampered by excessive foaming in the bioreactor, impacting system scale-up and downstream processing. Foam fractionation was proposed to tackle this challenge by combining in situ product removal with a pre-p...
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