Hard, Soft, and Hard-and-Soft Drug Delivery Carriers Based on CaCO3 and Alginate Biomaterials: Synthesis, Properties, Pharmaceutical Applications

Y Huang, L Cao, BV Parakhonskiy, AG Skirtach - Pharmaceutics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Because free therapeutic drug molecules often have adverse effects on normal tissues,
deliver scanty drug concentrations and exhibit a potentially low efficacy at pathological sites …

Advanced CaCO3-derived delivery systems for bioactive compounds

C Tan, C Dima, M Huang, E Assadpour, J Wang… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Calcium carbonate (CaCO 3) has long been used as a delivery system owing to its wide
availability, biocompatibility, and degradability. However, it often suffers from many …

Light-driven nucleation, growth, and patterning of biorelevant crystals using resonant near-infrared laser heating

MH Bistervels, B Antalicz, M Kamp… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Spatiotemporal control over crystal nucleation and growth is of fundamental interest for
understanding how organisms assemble high-performance biominerals, and holds …

Neural network based process coupling and parameter upscaling in reactive transport simulations

NI Prasianakis, R Haller, M Mahrous… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2020 - Elsevier
The multiscale modelling of geochemical processes requires efficient couplings between
scales and physics. The use of machine learning techniques and neural networks has the …

A microfluidic experiment and pore scale modelling diagnostics for assessing mineral precipitation and dissolution in confined spaces

J Poonoosamy, C Westerwalbesloh, G Deissmann… - Chemical geology, 2019 - Elsevier
Dissolution and precipitation processes control fundamental properties of porous media in
the subsurface such as porosity and permeability thus affecting ground water flow and solute …

A novel, low cost, and accessible method for rapid fabrication of the modifiable microfluidic devices

M Annabestani, P Esmaeili-Dokht, M Fardmanesh - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
As microfluidic chips are evolving to become a significant analysis tool toward POCT
devices, it is crucial to make the cost and the time required for the fabrication process of …

Optically Controlled Dissolution Kinetics of Vaterite Microcapsules: Toward Novel Crystal Growth Strategies

A Ushkov, A Machnev, P Ginzburg - Crystal Growth & Design, 2023 - ACS Publications
Controllable continuous release of functional materials from capsules is one of the unmet
functions of theragnosis particles; on this way, understanding cargo–fluid interactions in vitro …

Tailoring CaCO3 microstructure to improve trace phosphate removal from water

A Acevedo-Macias, JR Rangel-Mendez… - Journal of Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
The phosphorus raw material is in crisis, and the demand for P-fertilizer production is
increasing, therefore different sources are sought. The trace concentration of phosphorus in …

Scaling in membrane distillation (MD): Current state of art insight on mechanisms and Membrane design

H Liu, KI Jacob, Y Wang - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) process has witnessed significant advancements in research
and development since the 1990s, emerging as a viable, cost-effective desalination …

Critical step length as an indicator of surface supersaturation during crystal growth from solution

R Darkins, IJ McPherson, IJ Ford, DM Duffy… - Crystal Growth & …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The surface processes that control crystal growth from solution can be probed in real-time by
in situ microscopy. However, when mass transport (partly) limits growth, the interfacial …