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Acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) plastics from computer equipment housings have been reprocessed, some under various conditions of temperatures and shearing rates and others for multiple numbers of cycles. Structural changes in these reprocessed materials were investigated by infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), gel permeation chromatography, and dynamic mechanical thermal analysis. Gas chromatography/mass spectrometry was used to analyze extracts from the ABS plastics. These studies were related to measurements of the mechanical properties of the reprocessed materials, and the fracture surfaces were examined using scanning electron microscopy. It was found that impact strength was much more significantly affected than tensile properties by reprocessing. Within the range of reprocessing parameters studied, temperature had a more significant effect than shear rate on mechanical properties. Significant reductions in impact strength and slight increases in stiffness and strength, particularly following reprocessing at the highest temperature of 2708C and multiple reprocessing, were linked to loss of small molecules (including lubricants), degradation (crosslinking and scission) of the rubber phase, and changes in the morphology seen in the fracture surfaces. POLYM. ENG. SCI.,

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The objective of this research was twofold: first, to optimize the extraction process of Lonicera japonica polyphenols using a response surface methodology, and second, to study the antioxidant activity and tyrosinase inhibitory capacity of the polyphenols of different purities. High‐speed shearing homogenization extraction was used to extract the polyphenols from L. japonica . The antioxidant activity and the effect of polyphenols on tyrosinase activity were studied using free radical scavenging assay and the tyrosinase method, respectively. The optimal extraction conditions with an extraction yield of 6.96% for polyphenols were determined as follows: ethanol volume fraction 57%, shearing time 3.30 min, and solid–liquid ratio 1:58. Lonicera japonica polyphenols exhibited potent scavenging activity on 1,1‐diphenyl‐2‐picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) and 2, 2'‐azino‐bis(3‐ethylbenzothiazoline‐6‐sulfonic acid) (ABTS), and inhibitory capacity on tyrosinase. The results suggested that L. japonica polyphenols could be explored as a natural antioxidant and tyrosinase inhibitor.

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In this work, monoamine oxidase B was immobilised onto magnetic nanoparticles to prepare a new type of affinity solid‐phase extraction adsorbent, which was used to extract the possible anti‐neurodegenerative components from the Lonicera japonica flower extracts. Coupled with high‐performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry, two monoamine oxidase B ligands were fished‐out and identified as isochlorogenic acid A and isochlorogenic acid C, which were found to be inhibitors of the enzyme for the first time, with similar half maximal inhibitory concentration values of 29.05 ± 0.49 and 29.77 ± 1.03 μM, respectively. Furthermore, equilibrium‐dialysis dissociation assay of enzyme‐inhibitor complex showed that both compounds have reversible binding patterns to monoamine oxidase B, and kinetic analysis demonstrated that they were mixed‐type inhibitors for monoamine oxidase B, with Ki and Kis values of 9.55 and 37.24 μM for isochlorogenic acid A, 9.53 and 35.50 μM for isochlorogenic acid C, respectively. The results indicated that isochlorogenic acid A and isochlorogenic acid C were the major active components responsible for the anti‐degenerative activity of the flowers of L. japonica, while magnetic nanoparticles immobilised monoamine oxidase B could serve as an efficient solid‐phase extraction adsorbent to specifically extract monoamine oxidase B inhibitors from complex herbal extracts.