Background The wide application of carotenoids in food, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical
products due to their bioactive and color properties has emphasized a need for improved …

Ionic liquid (IL) surfactants have attracted great interest as promising substitutes for
conventional surfactants owing to their exceptional and favorable physico-chemical …

Water represents a common denominator for liquid-liquid phase transitions leading to the
formation of the polymer-based aqueous two-phase systems (ATPSs) and a set of the …

The intensive use of water containing dyes by the textile industry, and consequently the
contamination of soils and water, represents serious environmental concerns. Amongst the …

Cloud-point extraction (CPE) is a pre-treatment technique for the extraction and
preconcentration of different chemical compounds, such as metal ions, pesticides, drugs …

In this work, a process for the extraction and purification of carotenoids from the fruit Bactris
gasipaes was developed. Ethanolic and aqueous solutions of ionic liquids (ILs) and …

We report for the first time a comprehensive study on the synthesis (supported by green
chemistry metrics), aggregation properties, bacterial/fungal toxicities and preliminary data on …

Despite the common practice of presenting structures of biological molecules on an empty
background and the assumption that interactions between biological macromolecules take …

Spirulina sp. is a cyanobacterium rich in essential amino acids and pigments such as
chlorophyll a, xanthophylls, and phycocyanin. Besides many other applications, chlorophyll …

In this paper, we develop a new coarse-grained model, under the MARTINI framework, for
Pluronic block copolymers that is able to describe the self-assembly mechanism and …