Zinc oxide (ZnO) is biodegradable, non-toxic, and composed of elements abundant in the Earth’s crust (Zn – 132 ppm in the Earth’s crust, O – 49,4%), making it important for large-scale applications.

1 Department of Physics, Laboratory of Materials Sciences of Modeling (LaSMMo), Faculty of Sciences and Technology, University of Abomey-Calavi, Abomey-Calavi, Benin. 2 Department of Chemistry, ...

A dusty envelope misplaced in a government archive has rewritten a chapter of mineral history. That 1949 letter, discovered during a 2023 digitization project in Bavaria, pointed curators toward a ...

ABSTRACT: Biomedical application represents great interest, in order to develop materials that must be biocompatible and suitable for use in the living tissue recovery or replacement when individual ...

Introduction: The metabolic balance of amines is closely related to human health. It remains a great challenge to analyze amines with high-throughput and high-coverage. Methods: ...

The study aimed to investigate the effect of three kinds of natural antioxidants (NAs), such as curcumin, tea polyphenols (TP), and lycopene, on sweet potato starch's structure and physicochemical ...

Dynamically understanding the microscopic processes governing ordering transformations has rarely been attained. The situation becomes even more challenging for nanoscale alloys, where the ...

Multilayer coatings of refractory materials are of significant interest for extreme environment applications. Yet, the strong covalent bonding of refractory materials and the complexity of ...

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering and Center for the Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT), Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, ...