Nanocomposite film of poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) incorporated with bacterial cellulose nanocrystals (BCNCs) and magnetite nanoparticles (Fe3O4) is reported in this study. The BCNC-Fe3O4 nanoparticles and PVA film was prepared by in situ synthesis technique using chemical co-precipitation. Different concentrations of BCNC-Fe3O4 (20%, 40% and 60% w/w) were mechanically dispersed in PVA solution to form the nanocomposite film. Transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis of BCNC-Fe3O4 nanoparticles showed irregular particle sizes ranging from 4.93 to 30.44 nm with an average size distribution of 22.94 nm. The presence of characteristic functional groups of PVA, BCNC and Fe3O4 were confirmed by Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) attached energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM) analysis revealed that, the iron content and magnetic property increased with increasing BCNC-Fe3O4 content. The saturation magnetizations (MS) value increased from 5.14 to 11.56 emu/g. The PVA/ BCNC-Fe3O4 at 60% showed the highest Young’s modulus value of 2.35 ± 0.16 GPa. The prepared film could be a promising polymeric nanomaterial for various magnetic-based applications and for the design of smart electronic devices.
Textile waste usually ends up in landfills and causes environmental pollution. In this study, pretreatment methods for textile recycling, including autoclaving, freezing alkali/urea soaking, and alkaline pretreatment, were applied to textile waste with various cotton/polyester blending ratios. The best condition for enzymatic hydrolysis was a 60/40 textile waste blend of cotton/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) with a reusable chemical pretreatment (15% NaOH) at 121 °C for 15 min. The hydrolysis of pretreated textile waste by cellulase was optimized using response surface methodology (RSM) based on central composite design (CCD). The optimized conditions were 30 FPU/g of enzyme loading and 7% of substrate loading, which resulted in a maximum observed value of hydrolysis yield at 89.7%, corresponding to the predicted value of 87.8% after 96 h of incubation. The findings of this study suggest an optimistic solution for textile waste recycling.
COVID-19 has spread around the world since 2019. Approximately 6.5% of COVID-19 a risk of developing severe disease with high mortality rate. To reduce the mortality rate and provide appropriate treatment, this research established an integrated models with to predict the clinical outcome of COVID-19 patients with clinical, deep learning and radiomics features. To obtain the optimal feature combination for prediction, 9 clinical features combination was selected from all available clinical factors after using LASSO, 18 deep learning features from U-Net architecture, and 9 radiomics features from segmentation result. A total of 213 COVID-19 patients and 335 non-COVID-19 patients from 5 hospitals were enrolled and used as training and test sample in this research. The proposed model obtained an accuracy, precision, recall, specificity, F1-score and ROC curve of 0.971, 0.943, 0.937, 0.974, 0.941 and 0.979, respectively, which exceeds the related work using only clinical, deep learning or radiomics factors.
Agroindustrial wastes
are renewable sources and the most
promising
sustainable alternative to lignocellulosic biomass for cellulose production.
This study assessed the electrothermal pretreatment of rambutan peel
(RP) for producing cellulose fibers. The pretreatment was carried
out by Ohmic heating at a solid-to-liquid ratio of 1:10 (w/v) in a
water/ethanol (1:1, v/v) mixture as the electrical transmission medium
at 60 ± 1 °C for different holding times (15, 30, and 60
min). Ohmic heating did not significantly influence the total fiber
yield for the various holding times. However, the compositions of
the samples in terms of extractives, lignin, hemicellulose, and α-cellulose
content were significantly influenced. In addition, the electrothermal
pretreatment method reduced the bleaching time of RP by 25%. The pretreated
fibers were thermally stable up to 240 °C. Ohmic heating pretreatment
times of 15 and 30 min were found most promising, reducing the required
bleaching chemicals and increasing the α-cellulose yield. The
pretreated bleached cellulose fibers had similar properties to nontreated
bleached fibers and could be efficiently processed into stable gels
of strong shear-thinning behavior with potential application as rheology
modifiers in food products. Our results demonstrate that rambutan
peel could serve as a promising sustainable alternative to woody biomass
for cellulose production. Ohmic heating meets the requirements for
industrial applications as it is eco-friendly, improves the efficiency
and energy consumption in fiber processing, and could as well be included
in the processing of similar food wastes.
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