Ponkan Peels As A Source For Pectin Extraction
Hydrocolloids are water-soluble polymers extensively used in food and nonfood industries. In food products, they are mainly used as a thickening and gelling agents. However,…
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A Ternary Compact Film For High-Volumetric Performance Flexible Supercapacitors
Recently, lightweight, flexible, and high electrochemical performance energy storage devices are crucially needed, due to the increasing demand for various wearable and portable electronics, such…
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Mass Production Of Paper-Based Electrochemical Biosensors By Screen-Printing
The full fabrication of paper-based electrochemical devices by screen-printing has been recently demonstrated, making their mass production and commercialization more feasible. One decade ago, paper-based…
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Porous Electrodes By Selective Chemical Etching For Boosting Supercapacitor Performance
With the rapid development of society and population growth, the increasing consumption of resources will inevitably result in an energy crisis. Therefore, searching for clean…
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Computational Mass Spectrometry Deepens The Understanding Of Metabolisms
Metabolomics aims at providing information about “metabolome,” the comprehensive small molecules of living organisms, which has been used for elucidating biochemical reactions, finding relationships between…
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The Smartphone – A Productivity Killer?
Over 2 billion people worldwide currently use a smartphone. Since the introduction of the iPhone in 2007, a mere 11 years ago, our society has…
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HPMC, ZnO, And BG In Alveolar Ridge Augmentation
Dental implants are required when there is tooth loss due to injury, decay, or infection. With an estimate of 300,000 implants required annually, it has…
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C1 Microbes And Biotechnological Applications
Specialized guilds of microbes are capable of consuming single carbon (C1) compounds, i.e. compounds containing no carbon-carbon bonds, such as methane, methanol, or CO2. Microbes…
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Accelerating SN2-Type Reactions By Hetero-Aggregation Effect Of Simple Metal-Salt
SN2-type reactions are fundamentally simple and ubiquitous processes which are important in physical organic chemistry and biological systems. The factors affecting the rate of the…
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Hybrid Polysaccharide Membranes For Dehydration Processes
Solvent dehydration processes have a high economic and environmental relevance in the pharmaceutical, fine-chemistry, and chemical industries. In particular, ethanol dehydration is one of the…
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Neglected Compounds: PNO Type Ligands For Asymmetric Transfer Hydrogenation Reactions
Everyone has noticed the difference between a pair of gloves and a pair of socks. A sock, like its partner, can be worn on either…
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