Using sawdust not treated with tannic acid had a low – less than 10% – removal rate, demonstrating that the polyphenol was key to microplastic capture. “There are microfibers from clothing, microbeads ...

Japanese researchers have harnessed the potential of tannic acid and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene oxide to create robust and intelligent supramolecular gels through an environmentally ...

The micro/nano metal pattern formation is a key step in the assembly of various devices. However, ex situ approaches of metal patterning limited their industrial applications due to the poor stability ...

An inexpensive new porous membrane can quickly remove a broad spectrum of antibiotics from wastewater efficiently and without requiring a lot of energy (Matter 2022, DOI: 10.1016/j.matt.2022.09.021).

A doctoral thesis from the University of Jyväskylä (Finland) investigated the effectiveness of plant-derived compounds against viruses that infect ...

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Amino acids, such as tyrosine and tryptophan, are the fundamental building blocks that make up proteins. These biomolecules have different chemical groups on each end and side chain, and so, have the ...