Encapsulation of materials in particles dispersed in water has many applications in
nutritional foods, imaging, energy production and therapeutic/diagnostic medicine …

Ultrasound proves to be an effective technique for intensifying a wide range of processes
involving solids and, as such, is often used to improve control over both solids formation and …

Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) were synthesized by a new 'green chemistry'method that uses
sodium alginate (Na-Alg) and ascorbic acid (Vc) as the stabilizing and reducing agents …

Effects of 360-kHz ultrasound on aqueous solutions of chitosan and starch were studied.
This treatment is an efficient procedure for reduction of molecular weight of both …

Terephthalate and Fricke dosimetry have been carried out to determine the sonolytic energy
yields of the OH free radical and of its recombination product H2O2 in aqueous solutions …

Use of ultrasound can yield polymer degradation as reflected by a significant reduction in
the intrinsic viscosity or the molecular weight. The ultrasonic degradation of two water …

FEATURE ARTICLE Page 1 FEATURE ARTICLE Ultrasound in materials chemistry Dietmar
Peters Universitat Rostock, FB Chemie, Buchbinderstr. D-18051 Rostock, Germany Ultrasound …

Carbon nanotubes are commonly dispersed in liquid solvents by means of sonication. This
has the disadvantage, however, that it can induce the scission of the particles that are near …

Pullulanase (P) and ultrasonication (U) were simultaneously applied to debranch pea starch
to enhance slowly digestible starch (SDS) and resistant starch (RS) fractions in the …

Chitosan is a biomaterial that has widespread applications in different fields such as food
industry, agriculture, pharmacy, medicine, cosmetology, textile and paper industries etc …