Hydrolats from and Their Potential Activity as an Organic Control for .

is a parasitic mite, which is considered a severe pest for honey bees causing serious losses to beekeeping. Residual hydrolats from steam extraction of hop essential oils, generally considered as a waste product, were tested for their potential use as acaricides on . Four hop varieties, namely Cascade, Spalt, Victoria, and Mapuche, showed an interesting performance as feasible products to be used in the beekeeping industry.

Tuning the three-dimensional architecture of supercritical CO foamed PCL scaffolds by a novel mould patterning approach.

In tissue engineering, the use of supercritical CO foaming is a valuable and widespread choice to design and fabricate porous bioactive scaffolds for cells culture and new tissue formation in three dimensions. Nevertheless, the control of scaffold pores size, shape and spatial distribution with foaming technique remains, to date, a critical limiting step. To mimic the biomimetic structure of tissues like bone, blood vessels and nerve tissues, we developed a novel supercritical CO-foaming approach for the preparation of dual-scale, dual-shape porous polymeric scaffolds with pre-defined arrays of micro-channels within a foamed porosity.

Evaluation of drug delivery characteristics of microspheres of PMMA-PCL-cholesterol obtained by supercritical-CO2 impregnation and by dissolution-evaporation techniques.

Poly(methyl methacrylate), PMMA, and of PMMA/Poly(epsilon-caprolactone), PCL, microspheres were loaded with different amounts of cholesterol by using a supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) impregnation process in order to use a clean technique with the absence of organic solvents, and to provide information for the infusion of additives into nonporous polymeric substrates. A conventional dissolution-evaporation method was also used to obtain PMMA and PMMA-PCL microparticles loaded with cholesterol. The obtained microspheres were characterized by environmental scanning electronic microscope, ESEM, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, NMR, and differential scanning calorimetry, DSC, thermal analysis.