Natural Antioxidant-Based Nanodrug for Atherosclerosis Treatment.

Natural antioxidants are always considered as candidates for the antioxidative therapy of atherosclerosis (AS) due to their good safety profile. However, restricted to their limited reactive oxygen species (ROS) elimination and rapid metabolism, the natural antioxidants' treatment suffers from the undesirable clinical outcomes. Herein, a new natural antioxidant-based nanodrug (VC@cLAVs) that can overcome above issues is developed to treat AS by loading natural antioxidant vitamin C (VC) into the natural antioxidant lipoic acid (LA)-constructed cross-linked vesicles.

Catalytic co-pyrolysis of microwave pretreated chili straw and polypropylene to produce hydrocarbons-rich bio-oil.

In this work, the kinetic behavior and products of the co-pyrolysis of chili straw (CS) and polypropylene (PP) of distinguishing conditions (blending ratios, addition of catalysts, and microwave pretreatment at different power) had been investigated. Co-pyrolysis effectively reduced the proportion of oxygenated composition in CS, and the Oxygenated composition of 5CS5PP decreased by 76.69% compared to CS.

Hydrothermal liquefaction of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and effect of emulsification on upgrading the bio-oil.

This work studied the hydrothermal liquefaction of Chlorella pyrenoidosa and effect of emulsification on upgrading the bio-oil. The fuel properties and storage stability characteristics of emulsion fuels were explored. The combustion characteristic analysis showed that the ignition temperatures of emulsion fuels (139.

Co-hydrothermal carbonization of polyvinyl chloride and corncob for clean solid fuel production.

The improvement of dechlorination efficiency remains an important challenge during co-hydrothermal carbonization (co-HTC) of polyvinyl chloride (PVC). In this work, co-HTC of biomass and PVC at different mixing ratios (30%-70%) and feed-water pH (3-11) was proposed to further improve the dechlorination efficiency. In terms of water solvent, the dechlorination efficiency of co-HTC process (87.