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Liquid foam templating – A route to tailor-made polymer foams
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.010 2018-04-03 Solid foams with pore sizes between a few micrometres and a few millimetres are heavily exploited in a wide range of established and emerging applications. While the optimisation of foam applications requires a fine control over their structural properties (p... |
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A Review on Wetting and Water Condensation - Perspectives for CO2 Condensation
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.008 2018-03-29 Liquefaction of vapor is a necessary, but energy intensive step in several important process industries. This review identifies possible materials and surface structures for promoting dropwise condensation, known to increase efficiency of condensation heat tr... |
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Hydrophobic and superhydrophobic surfaces fabricated using atmospheric pressure cold plasma technology: A review
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.009 2018-03-29 Hydrophobic surfaces are often used to reduce wetting of surfaces by water. In particular, superhydrophobic surfaces are highly desired for several applications due to their exceptional properties such as self-cleaning, anti-icing, anti-friction and others. S... |
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Bromelain-loaded nanoparticles: A comprehensive review of the state of the art
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.006 2018-03-27 Stem bromelain is a common available cysteine protease derived from pineapple (Ananas comosus L.). Bromelain finds widespread applications in several areas, such as medicine, health, food, and cosmetics, and its strong proteolytic activity supports its future... |
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A review of the surface features and properties, surfactant adsorption and floatability of four key minerals of diasporic bauxite resources
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.005 2018-03-27 Diasporic bauxite represents one of the major aluminum resources. Its upgrading for further processing involves a separation of diaspore (the valuable mineral) from aluminosilicates (the gangue minerals) such as kaolinite, illite, and pyrophyllite. Flotation ... |
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Mechanisms of pattern formation from dried sessile drops
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.007 2018-03-24 The formation of patterns after the evaporation of colloidal droplets deposited on a solid surface is an everyday natural phenomenon. During the past two decades, this topic has gained broader audience due to its numerous applications in biomedicine, nanotech... |
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BiOX (X = Cl, Br, I) photocatalytic nanomaterials: Applications for fuels and environmental management
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.004 2018-03-20 Energy and environmental issues are the major concerns in our contemporary “risk society”. As a green technique, photocatalysis has been identified as a promising solution for above-mentioned problems. In recent decade, BiOX (X = Cl, Br, I) photocatalytic nan... |
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Analysis of an old controversy: The compensation temperature for micellization of surfactants
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.003 2018-03-17 The actual significance of the so-called compensation temperature Tc for micellization of surfactants is reviewed. It is demonstrated that it is possible to obtain as many Tc values as the number of temperature intervals in which the dependencies of enthalpy ... |
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Emulsions in porous media: From single droplet behavior to applications for oil recovery
10.1016/j.cis.2018.03.002 2018-03-14 Emulsions are suspensions of droplets ubiquitous in oil recovery from underground reservoirs. Oil is typically trapped in geological porous media where emulsions are either formed in situ or injected to elicit oil mobilization and thus enhance the amount of o... |
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Characterization of van der Waals type bimodal,- lambda,- meta- and spinodal phase transitions in liquid mixtures, solid suspensions and thin films ☆
10.1016/j.cis.2018.01.002 2018-03-12 The perfect gas law is used as a reference when selecting state variables (P, V, T, n) needed to characterize ideal gases (vapors), liquids and solids. Van der Waals equation of state is used as a reference for models characterizing interactions in liquids, s... |