Microbial food spoilage: impact, causative agents and control strategies

AB Snyder, N Martin, M Wiedmann - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2024 - nature.com
Microbial food spoilage is a major contributor to food waste and, hence, to the negative
environmental sustainability impacts of food production and processing. Globally, it is …

Optimizing Eco-Friendly Degradation of Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Plastic Using Environmental Strains of Malassezia Species and Aspergillus fumigatus

HA El-Dash, NE Yousef, AA Aboelazm… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Worldwide, huge amounts of plastics are being introduced into the ecosystem, causing
environmental pollution. Generally, plastic biodegradation in the ecosystem takes hundreds …

Additive manufactured graphene-based electrodes exhibit beneficial performances in Pseudomonas aeruginosa microbial fuel cells

AJ Slate, NA Hickey, JA Butler, D Wilson… - Journal of Power …, 2021 - Elsevier
A commercial polylactic acid/graphene (8 wt%) composite filament was used to additive
manufacture (AM) graphene macroelectrodes (AM-G M s). The electrode surfaces were …

A potential alternative to fungicides using actives-free (meth) acrylate polymers for protection of wheat crops from fungal attachment and infection

LA Crawford, VC Crucitti, A Stimpson, C Morgan… - Green …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Fungicidal compounds are actives widely used for crop protection from fungal infection, but
they can also kill beneficial organisms, enter the food chain and promote resistant pathogen …

Fragmentation of Aspergillus niger pellets in stirred tank bioreactors due to hydrodynamic stress

P Waldherr, C Bliatsiou, L Böhm, M Kraume - … Engineering Research and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Filamentous fungi are widely exploited as cell-factories in industry due to their metabolic
diversity, high production capacity and secretion efficiency. In stirred tank bioreactors, the …

[HTML][HTML] A comparison of vegetable leaves and replicated biomimetic surfaces on the binding of Escherichia coli and Listeria monocytogenes

LC Gomes, F Saubade, M Amin, J Spall… - Food and Bioproducts …, 2023 - Elsevier
Biofouling in the food industry is a huge issue, and one possible way to reduce surface
fouling is to understand how naturally cleaning surfaces based on biomimetic designs …

Enhanced exopolysaccharide production of Cordyceps militaris via mycelial cell immobilization on plastic composite support in repeated-batch fermentation

SP Lin, TH Sung, AE Angkawijaya, AW Go… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Repeated-batch fermentation with fungal mycelia immobilized in plastic composite support
(PCS) eliminates the lag phase during fermentation and improves metabolite productivity …

Assessing the bioreceptivity of biobased cladding materials

K Butina Ogorelec, A Gubenšek, F Poohphajai… - Coatings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Materials exposed to the outdoors are prone to various deterioration processes.
Architectural coatings are designed to protect surfaces against environmental and biotic …

Mechanical and thermal properties of polyvinyl acetate foams reinforced with biopolymers

ME Ergun, E Ozen, N Yildirim, B Dalkilic… - Cellular …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
The study developed and designed polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) foams using advanced freeze-
drying technology, which exhibited good heat-insulating ability, flame retardancy, and …

Antioxidant coatings from elastomeric vinyl acetate-vinyl laurate copolymers with reduced bacterial adhesion

M Fadda, M Contardi, S Dante, M Di Carlo… - Progress in Organic …, 2022 - Elsevier
A vinyl laurate-based elastomeric copolymer, developed as chewing gum base, was used to
produce functional coatings with the antioxidant curcumin. Both the polymer and curcumin …