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Vegetable tannins are environmentally friendly tanning agents. However, they generally impart a dark colour to the tanned leather and highly contribute to the organic load in wastewaters. In this study, we emp...
Extrusion-based three-dimensional (3D) printing of gelatin (Gel) is crucial for fabricating bone tissue engineering scaffolds via additive manufacturing. However, the thermal instability of Gel remains a persi...
The global scenario on PVC plasticizer is experiencing a drastic change from petroleum-based, toxic di-(2-ethylhexyl) phthalate (DEHP) toward renewable, non-toxic bio-alternatives. However, replacing diisodecy...
The reconstruction of critical-size calvarial defects remains a fundamental challenge. Recombinant collagen has gained significant attention in bone tissue engineering owing to its remarkable bioactivity and n...
Superwetting aerogel is a promising alternative for the remediation of emulsified oily wastewater for its high porosity combined with extreme wettability enabled high separation performances to emulsion wastew...
Hydrophobicity enhancement of metal-free leather, which is crucial for improving its comprehensive performance, can be achieved by using amphiphilic copolymer retanning agents. However, the relationship betwee...
Silicate bioceramics have demonstrated great potential in hydrogel dressings for wound healing due to their special origins of promoting endothelial cell angiogenesis and inhibiting apoptosis of cardiomyocyte....
Acellular dermal matrix (ADM) is one of the most promising scaffold materials due to its ability to retain natural extracellular matrix structure. Micronized acellular dermal matrix (mADM) was prepared with no...
The study investigates the potential of anaerobic co-digestion (AcoD) as a sustainable solution for managing putrescible organic waste generated by leather processing. Three experiments were conducted to asses...
The objective of regenerative wound healing dressings is to accelerate skin tissue regeneration and restore normal physiological function at wound sites. Achieving this goal requires biomaterials capable of re...
Collagen, known for its excellent biocompatibility and biological properties, has limited in vivo maintenance duration after implantation, while hyaluronic acid faces challenges such as various complications a...
The interior environment of articular cartilage in osteoarthritis (OA) presents substantial hurdles, leading to the malfunction of chondrocytes and the breakdown of collagen II-enriched hyaline cartilage matri...
Collagen possesses high biocompatibility with all tissue and cell types in the body, enabling the creation of multifunctional composite materials for medical applications. In biomedical engineering, naturally-...
The increasing global aging population has led to a continual rise in the prevalence of bone and joint diseases, posing challenges to both the quality of life for patients and healthcare resources. Type II col...
Extensive studies demonstrate that macrophage response plays an important role in regulating angiogenesis via a paracrine way, which is crucial for skin wound repair. This study isolated and characterized nano...
Melamine resin (MR), traditionally synthesized using melamine and formaldehyde, is widely used in the leather industry. However, the emission of free formaldehyde poses a significant challenge for conventional...
Proteases, such as trypsin, are essential for extracting collagen in various industrial applications. The potential applications of rare earth nanomaterials, specifically yttrium nanoparticles, have attracted ...
Leather dyeing is a critical step in leather manufacturing, as it is responsible for providing leather products with an eye-catching visual aspect and adequate quality properties to meet customers' expectation...
Biodegradability is a crucial indicator to evaluate the sustainability of leather. Herein, a rapid method for biodegradation test in an aqueous medium by measuring biochemical oxygen demand was used to determi...
The growing interest in valorizing industrial by-products has led researchers to focus on exploring different sources and optimizing collagen extraction conditions over the past decade. While bovine hide, catt...
Reduced graphene oxide (rGO) films suffer from low capacitance for inner unreduced oxygen functional groups, restacking of sheets and high contact resistance. Herein, carbon spheres derived from renewable xyla...
Fish scales, considered as low-value by-products, contain peptides and hydroxyapatite that can be applied to produce peptide chelated calcium directly. This study developed a sustainable and one-pot fabricatio...
Footwear industries generate leather waste during the operation. Some of these wastes contain chromium, which may bring environmental concerns. This study aimed to reuse finished leather waste, the major part ...
The limitations of native collagen, such as thermal stability and solubility in physiological environments, can be improved by applying bioconjugation and synthetic chemistry techniques. However, the exquisite...
An environmentally friendly method using real or artificial bovine milk permeate to both depilate and preserve sheepskins has been reported which completely and cleanly removed the wool from the hair follicle ...
The regeneration of articular cartilage posed a formidable challenge due to the restricted treatment efficacy of existing therapies. Scaffold-based tissue engineering emerges as a promising avenue for cartilag...
It is urgent to develop low-reflection electromagnetic interference shielding material to shield electromagnetic waves (EMW) and reduce their secondary radiation pollution. Herein, an electromagnetic interfere...
Leather, a by-product of the meat industry, has unique strength, elasticity, water vapor permeability, resistance to abrasion, durability, and longevity. In the background of ISO 15115:2019, the authenticity o...
Bone regeneration for large, critical-sized bone defects remains a clinical challenge nowadays. Guided bone regeneration (GBR) is a promising technique for the repair of multiple bone defects, which is widely ...
Collagen-based biomaterials (CBB) are highly esteemed by researchers in materials science and biomedicine due to their extensive applications across various biomedical disciplines. In recent years, owing to ad...
The development of advanced sustainable biomedical materials with superior biosafety and bioactivity for clinical applications is highly desirable. In the present investigation, biomass-based nanoparticles (NP...
Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) with their large surface area and numerous active sites have attracted significant research attention. Recently, the application of MOFs for the catalytic degradation of organic...
Safe and efficient capturing of volatile radioiodine is of extremely important significance in the treatment of spent fuel. Herein, the flake channels in gelatin-hydroxyapatite (HAP@Ge) cryogel with excellent ...
The skin plays a fundamental role in regulating the body’s internal balance and protecting against external traumas. A broad variety of environmental risk factors frequently result in acute skin wounds, whose ...
Compared with flavonoid glycosides, flavonoid aglycones are difficult to be separated since they have less hydroxyls. Collagen fiber (CF), a natural polymer, was once used as packing material for separation of...
With the efficient cross-linking abilities and the flexible regulation abilities to the performances of cross-linked products, the multi-functional aliphatic epoxides were once widely used to cross-link the co...
Biomass-based membranes have attracted increasing attentions due to their cheap and sustainable advantages. In this work, a novel thin-film composite (TFC) nanofiltration (NF) membrane was fabricated through a...
Protease-assisted soaking has received increasing attention in recent years. However, few reports have elaborated on the effect of bactericides, which are used to protect raw hides from microbial damage in the...
Antioxidant collagen hydrolysates refers to the peptides mixture with antioxidant properties identified from hydrolyzed collagen. Due to its specific structural, biological and physicochemical properties, coll...
Flexible strain sensors are capable to detect external force induced strain change owing to their unique ability to convert deformation into electrical signals. Generally, micro/nano patterning of conductive l...
As a highly complex aqueous effluent, tannery wastewater from leather industry should be treated appropriately before discharging into the environment. Membrane technology has been shown to be a promising appr...
Oral diseases have emerged as one of the leading public health challenges globally. Although the existing clinical modalities for restoration of dental tissue loss and craniomaxillofacial injuries can achieve ...
The utilization of chelation reaction between metals and tannins is a common tanning method in leather chemistry. Herein, a novel combination tanning mechanism inspired environmentally benign catalyst (CMBT-Fe0) ...
This study aimed to identify and classify the type of plants used for tanning historical leathers using cost-effective Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. The investigation was carried out on five ...
Collagen with a multi-hierarchical architecture exhibits powerful biological performance, thus being developed in biomedical applications as a processing building block. The isolated collagen after extraction ...
Hide and skin are complex tissue where the most abundant component is collagen. Matrix metalloproteinases and bacterial collagenases are two kinds of collagenases that can cleave the triple-helical domain of n...
In the present work, a comparative study of analytical methods for the simultaneous and quantitative determination of trivalent and hexavalent chromium is presented. For the analysis by ion chromatography-indu...
The construction of biomass-based conductive hydrogel e-skins with high mechanical properties is the research hotspot and difficulty in the field of biomass materials. Traditional collagen-based conductive hyd...
The deodorizer distillate (DD) is a byproduct of vegetable oil processing industry and is rich in functional bioactive components. This study aimed to employ phosphorylation modification for DD to produce a ne...
Renewable and low-cost biomass is an ideal sustainable alternative to petroleum-based resources, but producing biomass-based carbon electrode with high performances remains a challenge. Herein, we propose a fa...
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