The increase in dietary-intake-related illnesses, such as obesity, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes and cancer, have made in recent years the development of health-and-wellness promoting foods a priority of ...

Controlled release systems for therapeutic drugs have received extensive attention in recent years, due to their great clinical potential. Biodegradable microspheres are well-recognized systems to control the release rate ...

Changes of cohesive flow properties of powders at high temperature are observed in many industrial process units, such as fluidized bed reactors, granulators and dryers. Many authors investigated the behaviour of powders ...

In the last years, scientists and engineers have designed a wide range of polymeric systems capable responding to internal or external stimuli. There is a great range of responsive polymers that are sensitive to different ...

Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) is an additive manufacturing process by means of which three-dimensional objects can be manufactured using a laser beam to selectively sinter powder particles. Many are the advantages of ...

Liposomes are spherical vesicles made of a double lipidic layer that surrounds an inner aqueous core. Several methods for the preparation of liposomes have been developed in the last decades. However, these methods present ...

In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the development of sustainable alternative materials due to the environmental impacts related to the high disposal of fossil oil-based products. In this regard, ...

Climate change is pushing to rethink the paradigm of anthropic activities. From a society strongly based on fossil fuels and their exploitation, there are many initiatives that aim at a transition towards sustainable energy ...

The interest in the production of novel polymer/active compound composites has increased over time as a response to the main issues encountered in the pharmaceutical field. Nowadays, polymeric carriers are employed to ...

L'industria alimentare sta attraversando un processo di costante evoluzione per soddisfare le esigenze dinamiche di una popolazione in crescita, sempre più preoccupata per le malattie legate alla dieta. Tuttavia, le strategie ...