Perovskite solar cells with record efficiencies already above 24% are a highly promising clean energy technology. However, the reproducibility in their fabrication has proven to be challenging and needs more attention. Here we demonstrate that surface activation of the mesoscopic titanium dioxid...

The objective of this study was to examine behavior and function of osteoblasts on saliva-contaminated titanium and its potential improvement after UV light treatment. Acid-etched titanium disks were contaminated with human saliva. Osteoblasts derived from rat femur were cultured on contaminated...

Solution process is the most widely used method to prepare perovskite films for efficient solar cells due to its facile fabrication and low-cost. However, the aged perovskite precursor solutions usually suffer from degradation, which impedes the reproducibility of the solution. In this paper, we...

A new processing technique is proposed for composites based on the hybrid organic–inorganic perovskite MeNH3PbI3 and anodic titania nanotube arrays, which includes a direct gasphase conversion of metal lead nanorods electrodeposited inside the pores of anodic titanium dioxide. This technique ma...

The first titanium selenoiodide Ti4Se9I6 was synthesized as black crystals by heating of Ti, Se, and I2 at 250 °C in 5:9:5 M ratio. The crystal structure of the compound was solved by X-ray single-crystal diffractometry (sp. gr. P-1, a = 7.9652(10), b = 10.3390(15), c = 15.692(2) Å; α = 79.116...

When appraising the performance of titanium alloys for corrosion resistance in halide environments researchers have well understood pitting and growth mechanisms through electrochemical corrosion. This knowledge is yet to be exploited for the purpose of electrochemical jet processing, a versatil...

Efforts for the development of sodium ion batteries (NIB) are focusing on insertion electrode materials rather than on novel electrolytes. In a radically new approach, sodium insertion into amorphous TiO2 nanotubes, chosen as a typical electrode material for NIBs, is studied for the NaI liquid a...

High purity titanium was prepared by thermal decomposition of titanium iodide. The feasible synthetic route and optimum decompositon temperaure were obtained by thermodynamic analysis in the process of thermal decomposition of titanium iodide and nucleation growth theory. The temperature for the...

Albumin is thought as an drug carrier for doxorubicin (DOX). The binding of doxorubicin to albumin was studied on the surface of sporopolleninin (SP) to produce a new drug system based natural materials. Human serum albumin (HSA) was immobilized on SPIONs in 20 mM Tris buffer, 7.4 of pH. Data sh...

Reconstructing the original biogeochemistry of organic microfossils requires quantifying the extent of the chemical transformations they experienced during burial and maturation processes. In the present study, fossilization experiments have been performed using modern sporopollenin chosen as an...

Sporopollenin is a promising material for drug encapsulation due to its excellent properties; uniformity in size, non-toxicity, chemically and thermally resilient nature. Herein, morphologically intact sporopollenin microcapsules were extracted from Betula pendula pollens. Cancer therapeutic age...

Hemoglobin was covalently immobilized onto modified sporopollenin surface with different functional groups by chemical reactions to enhance binding ability of protein. In this study, the influence of various silane linker molecules on the capacity of protein binding was studied. For this purpose...

Sporopollenin microcages were produced from the pollens of Platanus orientalis. Paracetamol was loaded into the microcages. Pollen, sporopollenin, paracetamol and paracetamol-loaded sporopollenin microcages were characterized with FT-IR, TGA and SEM. The analytical analyses demonstrated that spo...

Extracted from natural pollen grains, sporopollenin exine capsules (SECs) are robust, chemically inert biopolymer shells that posess highly uniform size and shape characteristics and that can be utilized as hollow microcapsules for drug delivery applications. However, it is challenging to extrac...

Use of natural polymers as biosorbents for heavy metal removal is advantageous. This paper reports a study aiming to design a novel biosorbent from two biomacromolecules; chitosan, a versatile derivative of chitin, and sporopollenin, a biopolymer with excellent mechanical properties and great re...

Sporopollenin, which forms the outer wall of pollen and spores, contains a chemical signature of ultraviolet-B flux via concentrations of UV-B absorbing compounds (UACs), providing a proxy for reconstructing UV irradiance through time. Although Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy prov...

There is an increasing global need for a simple and effective method to remove oil from water. This study details the synthesis of magnetic bio-polymer sporopollenin (MSp) and explores its use as an adsorbent for oil removal from water. The MSp was characterized using FT-IR, SEM, EDX, BET, VSM, ...

Over the years studies on sporopollenin have reported a wide variety of structures. However, the methods and techniques used to elucidate sporopollenin structures are highly diverse so that much is still unclear with respect to the nature and structural diversity of sporopollenins. In order to i...

Anodic oxidation coatings were prepared on Ti6Al4V alloy in Na2SiO3-based electrolyte with sodium polyacrylate (PAAS) as an additive, to develop a route of making thicker films under 200 V. The addition of PAAS as an anion species in the anodic electrolyte increased the conductivity of the solut...

Binary titania–silica metal oxides (TiO2–SiO2) have preferentially been used as photocatalysts for the degradation of organic contaminants under UV irradiation. Herein we synthesized TiO2–SiO2 aerogel powders with different Si-to-Ti ratios suitable for decolorization of organic pollutants usi...