Sentences with phrase «new cyclodextrin»
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.
New cyclodextrins will have «interesting binding and other physical properties», he says.
Not exact matches
Now researchers in the US have discovered how to modify cyclodextrins to take other chemical groups, opening the way to making related compounds with useful new properties.
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 Phase 2/3 trials will be sponsored by Vtesse, a new biotech company that was formed specifically to evaluate the safety and efficacy of cyclodextrin for the treatment of NPC and ultimately obtain FDA labeling if the drug is effective.