Sorption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products on soil and soil components: Influencing factors and mechanisms

Y Xu, X Yu, B Xu, D Peng, X Guo - Science of the Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The sorption of pharmaceuticals and personal care products (PPCPs) on soil and soil
components makes an important contribution to the fate, migration and bioavailability of …

Microneedles for transdermal drug delivery using clay-based composites

F Sabbagh, BS Kim - Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Clays provide a powerful drug delivery system due to their specific structure,
which can interact with drugs and control their release. Transdermal delivery avoids the …

pH-sensitive biosystem based on laponite RD/chitosan/polyvinyl alcohol hydrogels for controlled delivery of curcumin to breast cancer cells

H Jafari, H Namazi - Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a pH-responsive hydrogels based on laponite rapid dispersion (Lap®)/chitosan
(CS)/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) designed and was used for controlled delivery of the anticancer …

Carboxymethyl chitosan/sodium carboxymethyl cellulose/agarose hydrogel dressings containing silk fibroin/polydopamine nanoparticles for antibiotic delivery

T Karimi, F Mottaghitalab, H Keshvari… - Journal of Drug Delivery …, 2023 - Elsevier
Herein, biocompatible and biodegradable hydrogel wound dressings were fabricated based
on carboxymethyl chitosan/sodium carboxymethyl cellulose/agarose (CMC/SCMC/agarose) …

Adsorption behaviour of boron nitride nanosheets towards the positive, negative and the neutral antibiotics: insights from first principle studies

A Yadav, SS Dindorkar, SB Ramisetti - Journal of Water Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, the adsorption of ampicillin (APC, positive), ciprofloxacin (CFX, neutral) and
cephalosporin (CLS, negative) antibiotics on boron nitride nanosheets (BNNS) were …

Sustainable adsorptive removal of antibiotics from aqueous streams using Fe3O4-functionalized MIL101(Fe) chitosan composite beads

P Yadav, A Yadav, PK Labhasetwar - Environmental Science and …, 2022 - Springer
In this study, we synthesized recyclable Fe3O4-functionalized MIL101 (Fe) chitosan
composite beads for the removal of tetracycline (TC), doxycycline (DC) and ciprofloxacin …

pH-responsive magnetic biocompatible chitosan-based nanocomposite carrier for ciprofloxacin release

P Jabbari, GR Mahdavinia, PF Rezaei… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pH-sensitive and magnetic-triggered release ensures the effective delivery of drugs.
Chitosan carries amine pendants that encourage the fabrication of pH-responsive carriers …

Bright, noniridescent structural coloration from clay mineral nanosheet suspensions

PH Michels-Brito, V Dudko, D Wagner, P Markus… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Structural colors originate by constructive interference following reflection and scattering of
light from nanostructures with periodicity comparable to visible light wavelengths. Bright and …

Preparation of a three-dimensional porous graphene oxide–kaolinite–poly (vinyl alcohol) composite for efficient adsorption and removal of ciprofloxacin

X Huang, J Tian, Y Li, X Yin, W Wu - Langmuir, 2020 - ACS Publications
Because of the widespread presence of antibiotics in water, soil, and other environments,
they pose great potential risks to the environment, threatening human and animal health. In …

[HTML][HTML] Global qualitative and quantitative distribution of micropollutants in the deep sea

CLS Vilela, TL Damasceno, T Thomas… - Environmental Pollution, 2022 - Elsevier
Micropollutants (MPs) include a wide range of biological disruptors that can be toxic to
wildlife and humans at very low concentrations (< 1 μg/L). These mainly anthropogenic …