With the increasingly serious air pollution and the rampant coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID–19), preparing high–performance air filter to achieve the effective personal …

Research on membrane technologies has grown exponentially to treat wastewater, recycle
polluted water and provide more freshwater. Electrospun nanofibrous membranes (ENMs) …

Encapsulation of bioactive compounds and probiotic bacteria within prebiotic substances to
protect or even enhance their survival whilst passing upper gastro-intestinal tract, is an area …

Background In the past decades, many natural bioactive compounds with antioxidant,
immunoregulatory, antimicrobial, and anticancer activities have been successfully identified …

Electrospinning is a fast emerging technique for producing ultrafine fibers by utilizing
electrostatic repulsive forces. The technique has gathered much attention due to the …

Chitin is the second most important natural polymer in the world. The main sources exploited
are two marine crustaceans, shrimp and crabs. Our objective is to appraise the state of the …

The ability of water to lie on a surface as a flat film rather than in form of droplets is one of the
crucial surface properties which play an important role in many practical applications …

Electrospinning is a highly versatile method to process solutions or melts, mainly of
polymers, into continuous fibers with diameters ranging from a few micrometers to a few …

Since 2006, a rapid development has been achieved in a subject area, so called electro-
spinning/netting (ESN), which comprises the conventional electrospinning process and a …

The research and development of nanofibers has gained much prominence in recent years
due to the heightened awareness of its potential applications in the medical, engineering …