Impact of commercial freezing on transmission of Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei.

Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) is an emerging pathogen threatening the prawn aquaculture industry globally, due to losses resulting from retarded growth. Since the first detection of EHP in Thailand, EHP has been reported from other countries in Asia and South America. However, the mechanism of EHP spread into new countries and/or areas has not been established.

Continuous-flow hydrothermal synthesis for the production of inorganic nanomaterials.

As nanotechnology becomes increasingly important and ubiquitous, new and scalable synthetic approaches are needed to meet the growing demand for industrially viable routes to nanomaterial production. Continuous-flow hydrothermal synthesis or supercritical water hydrothermal synthesis (scWHS) is emerging as a versatile solution to this problem. The process was initially developed to take advantage of the tunable chemical and physical properties of superheated water to produce metal oxide nanoparticles by rapid nucleation and precipitation.

The sequential continuous-flow hydrothermal synthesis of molybdenum disulphide.

Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) has been widely used as a catalyst and high temperature lubricant. It has been heavily researched recently as a graphene analogue and member of the so-called inorganic fullerenes. Here we report the first continuous flow hydrothermal synthesis of MoS2.

The rapid size- and shape-controlled continuous hydrothermal synthesis of metal sulphide nanomaterials.

Continuous flow hydrothermal synthesis offers a cheap, green and highly scalable route for the preparation of inorganic nanomaterials which has predominantly been applied to metal oxide based materials. In this work we report the first continuous flow hydrothermal synthesis of metal sulphide nanomaterials. A wide range of binary metal sulphides, ZnS, CdS, PbS, CuS, Fe(1-x)S and Bi2S3, have been synthesised.