Albumin grafted coaxial electrosparyed polycaprolactone-zinc oxide nanoparticle for sustained release and activity enhanced antibacterial drug delivery.

One of the most serious issues faced by the healthcare sector is the development of multidrug resistance among various pathogens. It is such that developing new and more capable drugs takes far too long to counter such resistance. In order to overcome these concerns, this study focused on improving upon the coaxial electrospraying process by producing cloxacillin loaded albumin polycaprolactone (PCL) with a ZnO coating for sustained and activity enhanced drug delivery.

Understanding the role of gold nanoparticles in enhancing the catalytic activity of manganese oxides in water oxidation reactions.

The Earth-abundant and inexpensive manganese oxides (MnOx) have emerged as an intriguing type of catalysts for the water oxidation reaction. However, the overall turnover frequencies of MnOx catalysts are still much lower than that of nanostructured IrO2 and RuO2 catalysts. Herein, we demonstrate that doping MnOx polymorphs with gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) can result in a strong enhancement of catalytic activity for the water oxidation reaction.

Ordered mesoporous mixed metal oxides: remarkable effect of pore size on catalytic activity.

We report the synthesis of ordered mesoporous NiAl mixed metal oxides (MMOs) from NiAl-layered double hydroxides (LDHs) through a soft template method using pluronic-F127 as the structure-directing agent. Ordered mesopores were obtained by the thermal decomposition of as-synthesized LDHs at different temperatures. The effects of the pluronic-F127 amount and the calcination temperature on the pore size distribution of the MMO were investigated.