Materials Highlights

Volume 2, Issue 1-2, March 2021
Research Article

1. Inkjet Printed Melatonin on Poly(vinyl alcohol) Oral Films: Uptake in an Ex Vivo Oral Mucosal Pellicle Model

Yin Ming Khor, Simon Gaisford, Guy Howard Carpenter, Bahijja Tolulope Raimi-Abraham
Pages: 1 - 6
There is a growing interest in the use of melatonin in preventing radiation-induced mucositis with potential beneficial effects including prevention of mucosal damage, the emergence of ulcers and the loss of proliferative progenitor stem cells caused by radiation. Local drug delivery to the oral cavity...
Review Article

2. Review on Tympanic Membrane and Auditory Canal Regeneration by Biomaterial Intervention

Deepak Ranglani, Shubham Agiwal, Namdev More, Rohit Parkale, Vaibhav Shitole, Aishwarya Rajaram Hiray, Govinda Kapusetti
Pages: 7 - 17
The impairment in the Tympanic Membrane (TM) and the External Auditory Canal (EAC) results in otitis media, tympanos-clerosis, and perforations. The resulting reverberation of these pathologies is the loss of hearing, which eventually requires surgical treatment. The gold standard for the surgical procedures,...
Research Article

3. Nanofabrication of Janus Fibers through Side-by-Side Electrospinning - A Mini Review

He Lv, Deng-Guang Yu, Menglong Wang, Tingbao Ning
Pages: 18 - 22
Janus and core–shell nanostructures are the most fundamental structural characteristics for comprising all types of multiple-chamber structures. The facile preparation of Janus structure is one of the most difficult challenges in the field of nanofabrication, whose production can pave a broad way for...
Research Article

4. Structural and Optical Properties of BaO Nanoparticles Synthesized by Facile Co-precipitation Method

Manauwar Ali Ansari, Nusrat Jahan
Pages: 23 - 28
This paper presents the synthesis of Barium Oxide Nanoparticles (BaO-NPs) on a large-scale by a simple and cost-effective co-precipitation method. The as-synthesized BaO-NPs were characterized in aspects of their structural, morphological, compositional, and optical properties. X-ray diffraction was...