Posted: Apr 1, 2020
Description Encapsulating materials obtained from natural sources are increasingly being used in food and non-food sectors. Biopolymers such as pectin from citrus fruits has been widely incorporated to various food......
Posted: Mar 30, 2020
Description Researchers have long been trying to develop a solid pill that can deliver biopharmaceuticals and vaccines in a target specific and time controlled way. However, due to the acidic......
Posted: Feb 18, 2020
Description With a global aim to sustainability, using agricultural waste material as sources for otherwise newly manufactured material is at the forefront of emerging technologies. When transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (TSEs)......
Posted: Feb 4, 2020
Description Perovskites are composite materials typically having a cubic or tetragonal crystal structure with the stoichiometry of AMX3, where A and M are metal cations and X is an anion.......
Posted: Jan 21, 2020
Description With a global aim to sustainability, using waste material as sources for alternative energy systems is at the forefront of emerging technologies. University of Alberta inventors have developed a......
Posted: Jan 6, 2020
Description Photo: Resonator images of a capillary with embedded Si-NCs: (a) transmission image, (b) fluorescence image with 405 nm laser, (c) fluorescence image with laser light filtered out In the......
Posted: Nov 20, 2019
Description Nitrogen – rich carbon materials are useful for applications such as supercapacitors, battery electrodes, oxygen reduction reaction supports for polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells and directed methanol fuel......
Posted: Nov 19, 2019
Description Researchers at the University of Alberta Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences have developed a virtual reality (VR) game that allows players to experience the challenges of coping with......
Posted: Nov 8, 2019
Description Researchers at the University of Alberta have designed a number of analogues of ßphenylethylidenehydrazine (PEH), two of which cause considerable increase of glycine in the brain in ex vivo......
Posted: Oct 18, 2019
Description The main purpose of any enhanced oil recovery (EOR) scheme is to increase the amount of oil recovered from the reservoir typically following a secondary recovery scheme such as......
Posted: Oct 3, 2019
Description Researchers at the University of Alberta have developed a novel gene expression signature to predict how a postmenopausal breast cancer patient with an estrogen receptor positive tumour will respond......
Posted: Sep 9, 2019
Description Dr. Afsaneh Lavasanifar and collaborators have developed a PCBCL–b-PEG-b-PCBCL (PolyGelTM) hydrogel formulation of silibinin which provides enhanced skin permeabiity and delayed release of silibinin under physiological conditions. In vitro......