Researchers develop a method of fabrication for biodegradable polymer microcapsules
An international team led by a Skoltech researcher has developed a method of fabrication for biodegradable polymer microcapsules, made more efficient by turning to an unusual source of inspiration - traditional Russian dumpling, or pelmeni, making. The two papers were published in
Materials and Design and
ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces.
Micro-sized capsules, which can be tailored to a variety of purposes, have proven very useful in targeted delivery of drugs and other bioactive compounds. To ensure optimal functioning, these have to be designed and manufactured with precision and in particular shapes, as non-spherical capsules turned out to be more efficient and effective than spherical ones.
Gogglebox Pete moans wedding is costing him fortune after announcing happy news
Pete Sandford, who is part of the Gogglebox cast along with his sister Sophie, announced his engagement in recent scenes of the Channel 4 show but he s happy with how much the big day is costing him
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A UNIVERSITY lecturer tried to meet a “12-year-old girl” for sex – and had a mattress decorated with fairy lights in his lounge. Bhusan Chettri has been jailed for more than three years after he was caught out by undercover police officers in Grays. The 36-year-old of Merchant Street, London, is originally from India but was working as a data analytics lecturer at Queen Mary University of London. In November last year, he messaged a profile called “Ella” on the online chat room site “321chat”, who described herself as a 12-year-old girl. Chettri posed as a 15-year-old boy and claimed that he liked younger girls and sent various sexualised messages to the profile, encouraging her to perform sex acts on herself to “practice” for when they met up in person.
In the Indian Ocean, predatory European ships have pushed tuna to the brink
European Union-controlled ships, including those flagged to smaller coastal states like Seychelles, haul in the lion’s share of the fish in the region. 2 hours ago Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna is not only one of the world’s most profitable fisheries, but it is also one of the most threatened. | Sucinimad via Flickr, [CC BY-NC 2.0]
A Spanish tuna fishing vessel, the Playa de Anzoras, named after a beach in Spain, sailed under the Spanish flag until January 9, 2014. On January 10 that year, the 2,200-tonne vessel dropped the Spanish flag in favour of the Seychelles flag. Seychelles is a small archipelagic nation in the Indian Ocean.