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    • Screening of PHB and bacterial cellulose blends and its mechanical properties impact 

      Da Silva Pereira, Everton Henrique; Lanzagorta Garcia, Eduardo; Brennan-Fournet, Margaret; Mojicevic, Marija (Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)
      Biopolymers are polymers that are produced by or derived from living organisms, such as plants and microbes, rather than from petroleum, the traditional source of polymers. Bacterial cellulose (BC) is a natural biomaterial ...

    • Smart hydrogels: therapeutic advancements in hydrogel technology for smart drug delivery applications. 

      de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Kanwar, Diwakar; Macken, Derek; Geever, Luke; Devine, Declan M.; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Wiley, 2015-12)
      Hydrogels are a fusion of solid and liquid phases which closely mimic biological tissue. As such they have enormous potential for drug delivery systems as they are biocompatible and may be tailored to specific applications. ...

    • Structure response for cellulose-based hydrogels via characterization techniques. 

      de Sá, Marcelo Jorge Cavalcanti; de Lima, Gabriel Goetten; Segundo, Francisco Alipio de Sousa; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Springer, 2019)
      Hydrogels are three-dimensional crosslinked polymeric networks capable of imbibing substantial amounts of water or biological fluids and are widely used in biomedical applications, especially in pharmaceutical industry as ...

    • Sustainable antimicrobial polymeric food packaging and anti-infection medical catheter preparation using antimicrobial peptide and Ag+ nanoreservoir formulations 

      Lanzagorta Garcia, Eduardo; Pezzoli, Romina; Rodriguez Barroso, Laura G.; Venkatesh, Chaitra; Devine, Declan M.; Brennan Fournet, Margaret E. (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2020-06)
      New antimicrobial interventions are urgently required to combat rising global health and medical infection challenges. Here, an innovative antimicrobial technology, providing price competitive alternatives to antibiotics ...

    • Tailoring surface properties from nanotubes and anodic layers of titanium for biomedical applications. 

      de Lima, G.G.; da Luz, Aline Rossetto; Pereira, Bruno Leandro; Szez, Eduardo Mioduski; de Souza, Gelson Biscaia; Lepienski, Carlos Mauricio; Kuromoto, Neide Kazue; Nugent, Michael J.D. (Woodhead Publishing, 2019)
      The following chapter gives an overview of the anodic layers and nanotubes produced with plasma electrolytic oxidation. An introduction into the mechanisms involved in producing these nanofilms, such as the required ...

    • Titanium-niobium alloys covered by electrospinning technique to applications in bone implants 

      Pereira, Bruno Leandro; Chee, Bor Shin; Nugent, Michael J.D.; cao, Zhi (Athlone Institute of Technology, 2019)
      Recently, to avoid toxic metals in the human environment, there are many efforts to produce alloys containing titanium Ti and niobium Nb. Nb is a powerful stabilizer of beta-titanium phase[1]. Depending on the composition ...

    • Turning agricultural waste into wealth: production of sustainable cellulose for hydroponic farming 

      Araujo, Jeovan; Brennan Fournet, Margaret; Chen, Yuanyuan (Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022)
      Globally, it is estimated that approximately 998 million of agricultural wasteis produced yearly. This enormous amount of waste has become a matter of great public concern. However, agricultural waste is a natural resource ...

    • We have a solution for plastic pollution! 

      Azeem, Mohammad; Adly, Olivia; Devine, Declan; Brennan Fournet, Margaret (Technological University of the Shannon Midlands Midwest, 2022-01)
      Most plastics degradation methods are currently inefficient and are limited by processing difficulties, quality loss and diminished value. This research focuses on the development of novel ultra-green chemical recycling ...