Background There is an emerging perspective that it is not sufficient to just assess skin
exposure to physical and chemical stressors in workplaces, but that it is also important to assess …

Among the available metal oxide nanostructures, tungsten oxide has remained, at times,
troublesome to fabricate, with many synthetic methods often requiring exotic equipment and or …

The acidic nature of the skin surface was recognised more than a century ago and has been
measured since 1928. Several non-invasive methods for measuring skin surface pH have …

Pt/graphene nanosheet/SiC based devices are fabricated and characterized and their
performances toward hydrogen gas are investigated. The graphene nanosheets are synthesized …

Background: Household air pollution (HAP) from solid fuel use for cooking affects 2.5 billion
individuals globally and may contribute substantially to disease burden. However, few …

Background Most studies of long-term exposure to outdoor fine particulate matter (PM 2·5 )
and cardiovascular disease are from high-income countries with relatively low PM 2·5 …

Porous materials are of great interest because of their interesting structural, optical and surface
properties, leading to a wide range of applications.[1, 2] Among the various properties of …

Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) composites with different weight amounts of multi-walled carbon
nanotubes (MWCNT) were synthesised as membranes to evaluate their gas separation …

The structural, optical, and gas-sensing properties of spray pyrolysis deposited Cu doped
ZnO thin films were investigated. Gas response of the undoped and doped films to NO2 (…

… Some recent theoretical calculations have demonstrated that an excess of VN in BNNTs
can introduce spontaneous magnetization (Liu and Cheng 2007, Du et al 2009), which would …