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Even though ultrasonication is considered to be an effective method to disperse carbon nanotubes (CNTs), its devastating effects on the nanotubes are often neglected. Here, even mild ultrasonication is found to rapidly extract the inner single-wall CNTs (SWCNTs) from the outer shells of the double-wall CNTs (DWCNTs). As-synthesized DWCNTs are gently solubilized in a surfactant solution, strictly avoiding any ultrasonication, followed by two ...

Due to the exceptional properties and many potential applications of hydrophobins, special fungal proteins, it becomes necessary to develop a real scale procedure for their production and purification. In our previous study (Deckers et al., 2010) [CO2–hydrophobin structures acting as nanobombs in beer, Brew. Sci. 63:54–61], the strong interaction of CO2–hydrophobin was demonstrated. For the first time, in an approach to isolate hydrophobin HFBII ...

A finite-volume method has been developed that can deal accurately with complicated, curved boundaries for both two-dimensional and three-dimensional axisymmetric advection-diffusion systems. The motivation behind this is threefold. Firstly, the ability to model the correct geometry of a situation yields more accurate results. Secondly, smooth geometries eliminate corner singularities in the calculation of, for example, mechanical variables and ...