Sentences with phrase «cyclodextrin polymers»
Like carbon - based water filters, the new cyclodextrin polymers owe much of their stickiness to a large surface area.
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The new cyclodextrin polymers have an enormous surface area per mass: 250 m2 per gram, meaning that 2 grams of the stuff contains more than enough surface area to completely cover an NBA basketball court.
The scientists ran a sample of BPA - contaminated water through both the new porous cyclodextrins as well as three existing activated carbons and two nonporous cyclodextrin polymers.
The porous cyclodextrin polymers reached 95 % of their adsorption capacity in just 10 seconds.
To top it off, β - cyclodextrin polymers are also cheap to make — a detail that surprised Richardson.
It is a β - cyclodextrin polymer, meaning it is composed of long strands of repeating molecules.
L. Xiao et al. β - cyclodextrin polymer network sequesters perfluorooctanoic acid at environmentally relevant concentrations.
Not exact matches
- cyclodextrin from which polymer chains of poly (acrylicacid)- block - poly (7 - methylacryloyloxy -4-methylcoumarin)(PAA - b - PMAMC) are grown.
The Johns Hopkins team used a microshell made of a sugar - based polymer called cyclodextrin to protect the 3BrPA drug molecules from disintegrating early and to guard healthy tissue from the drug's toxic effects, such as weight loss, hypothermia and lethal hypoglycemic shock.
It's a polymer made of repeated units of two different molecules linked together: a giant ring - shaped molecule called beta - cyclodextrin that's made from cornstarch, and a fluorine - rich molecule called decafluorobiphenyl, or DFB.