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Tumor location and relationship to the pancreatic duct guide surgical decision-making. These findings highlight tumor-specific criteria that would benefit from a minimally invasive approach.

Laparoscopic enucleation does not increase the CR-POPF risk and provides an advantage with a shorter hospital LOS in select patients. Tumor location and relationship to the pancreatic duct guide surgical decision-making. These findings highlight tumor-specific criteria that would benefit from a minimally invasive approach.Chromium pollution is a serious environmental problem given that like most heavy metals, Cr tends to persist and accumulate in the environment. In this study, diethylenetriaminepentaacetic acid-thiourea-modified magnetic chitosan (DTCS-Fe3O4) was synthesized for use as an adsorbent for Cr(VI) removal from aqueous solutions. Selleckchem Climbazole The effects of various treatment conditions on the Cr(VI) adsorption performance of DTCS-Fe3O4 composite as well as the kinetics were elucidated. Moreover, by observing the structure and morphology of DTCS-Fe3O4, the possible Cr(VI) adsorption mechanism was proposed. DTCS-Fe3O4 exhibited a maximum adsorption capacity of 321.3 ± 6.0 mg g-1. Further, the adsorption process, which followed the Langmuir model for monolayer adsorption, was predominantly governed by chemical adsorption, and could be fitted using the pseudo-second-order kinetics model. Furthermore, given its ease of preparation, low cost, and remarkable performance, it is expected that the DTCS-Fe3O4 composite would find wide practical application in the removal of toxic Cr(VI) from wastewater.The tremendous development in the industrial sector leads to discharging of the several types of effluents containing detrimental contaminants into water sources. Lately, the proliferation of toxic anions particularly phosphates and nitrates onto aquatic systems certainly depreciates the ecological system and causes a deadly serious problem. Chitosan (Cs) is one of the most auspicious biopolymer adsorbents that are being daily developed for removing of various contaminants from polluted water. This is due to its unparalleled benefits involving biocompatibility, non-toxicity, facile modifications and low-cost production. Nevertheless, chitosan displays considerable drawbacks including low adsorption capacity, low surface area and lack of reusability. Therefore, few findings have been established regarding the aptitude of modified chitosan-based adsorbents towards phosphate and nitrate anions. This review elaborates an overview for the current advances of modified chitosan based-adsorbent for phosphate and nitrate removal, in specific multivalent metals-modified chitosan, clays and zeolite-modified chitosan, magnetic chitosan and carbon materials-modified chitosan. The efforts that have been executed for enriching their adsorption characteristics as well as their possible adsorption mechanisms and reusability were well addressed. Besides, the research conclusions for the optimum adsorption conditions were also discussed, along with emphasizing the foremost research gaps and future potential trends that could motivate further research and innovation to find best solutions for water treatment problems facing the world.Non-covalent interactions between polysaccharides and phenolics affect the physical properties of polysaccharide solutions. These interactions may in turn be influenced by polysaccharide-polysaccharide interactions. To test this hypothesis, we studied the influence of polysaccharide concentration (with guar, β-glucans, and xanthan) on the variations of rheological and water-binding properties upon addition of phenolics compounds (vanillin, caffeic acid, gallic acid, and epigallocatechin gallate). Addition of phenolics led to increased flow behavior index and decreased flow consistency index, with maximum effects at polysaccharide concentrations ranging between 0.6 × C* and 1.4 × C*, where C* is the critical overlap concentration of each polysaccharide. Water mobility was generally not significantly influenced by the addition of phenolics. The results showed that the ability of phenolic compounds to induce aggregation of polysaccharides in solution was strongly influenced by polysaccharide concentration around C* and therefore by polysaccharide-polysaccharide interactions.A self-charging power system composed of cellulose organohydrogel based supercapacitor and triboelectric nanogenerator is constructed in the present work. Cellulose organohydrogels with flexibility, optical transparency, conductivity and excellent low temperature tolerance are fabricated via a dissolution and regeneration process. The optical transmittance, elongation at break, and conductivity of the cellulose organohydrogel reach 93%, 242%, and 1.92 S/m, as well as excellent anti-freezing property down to -54.3 °C, potential as flexible conductive device in harsh conditions. When demonstrated as energy storage device, the cellulose organohydrogel based supercapacitor demonstrates excellent supercapacitor performances, durability against deformation and resistance to low temperature. When demonstrated as energy harvesting device, the cellulose organohydrogel based triboelectric nanogenerator displays stability, and resistance to both low temperature and a large number of operation cycles. As the cellulose based triboelectric nanogenerator is integrated with cellulose based supercapacitor, a flexible and anti-freezing self-charging power system is built, capable of driving miniaturized electronics, demonstrating great potential as wearable power system in harsh conditions.Heat-moisture treatment (HMT) and annealing are hydrothermal starch modifications. HMT is performed using high temperature and low moisture content range, whereas annealing uses excess of water, a long period of time, and temperature above the glass transition and below the gelatinization temperature. This review focuses on research advances; the effect of HMT and annealing on starch structure and most important properties; combined modifications; and HMT-starch and annealed-starch applications. Annealing and HMT can be performed together or combined with other modifications. These combinations contribute to new applications in different areas. The annealed and HMT-starches can be used for pasta, candy, bakery products, films, nanocrystals, and nanoparticles. HMT has been studied on starch digestibility and promising data have been reported, due to increased content of slowly digestible and resistant starches. The starch industry is in constant expansion, and modification processes increase its versatility, adapting it for different purposes in food industries.An adsorptive membrane filtration based on polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) with chitosan (CS) and carboxylated carbon nanotubes (CNTs-COOH) is prepared by method of phase conversion, and the PVDF-CS@CNTs-COOH membranes can effectively separate anionic and cationic dye wastewater. Compared to pure PVDF membranes, PVDF-CS@CNTs-COOH increases pure water flux from 36.39 (L·m-2·h-1) to 85.25 (L·m-2·h-1), an increase of nearly 230%. The membrane exhibits excellent rejection performance in the filtration of six types of dye wastewater. The modified membranes also performed well in terms of rejection of mixed anionic and cationic dyes and also have a high performance in recycling, with a flux of over 94% for both anionic and cationic dyes. In addition, the adsorption curve fitting results showed that the adsorption process was more consistent with the pseudo-second-order adsorption kinetic model and Langmuir mode.Cellulose ionogels have been extensively studied due to the variability of their properties and applications. The capability of trapping an ionic liquid in a biodegradable solid matrix without losing its properties makes this type of material a promising substitute for fossil fuel-derived materials. The possibility to formulate ionogels chemically or physically, to choose between different ionic liquids, cellulose types, and the possibility to add a wide range of additives, make these ionogels an adaptable material that can be modified for each target application in many fields such as medicine, energy storage, electrochemistry, etc. The aim of this review is to show its versatility and to provide a summary picture of the advances in the field of cellulose ionogels formulation (chemical or physical methods), as well as their potential applications, so this review will serve as a stimulus for research on these materials in the future.Polysaccharides are abundant natural polymers, which in nature are at times covalently modified with peptides and proteins. Polysaccharide-protein or polysaccharide-peptide conjugates, natural or otherwise, may have increased solubility, improved emulsion properties, prolonged circulation time, reduced immunogenicity, and enhanced selectivity for targeting specific tissues compared to native peptides and proteins. In this paper, we will review recent advances in synthetic methods for producing polysaccharide-protein conjugates and discuss their advantages with a focus on drug targeting.Aqueous sodium hydroxide solutions are extensively used as solvents for lignin in kraft pulping. These are also appealing systems for cellulose dissolution due to their inexpensiveness, ease to recycle and low toxicity. Cellulose dissolution occurs in a narrow concentration region and at low temperatures. Dissolution is often incomplete but additives, such as zinc oxide or urea, have been found to significantly improve cellulose dissolution. In this work, lignin was explored as a possible beneficial additive for cellulose dissolution. Lignin was found to improve cellulose dissolution in cold alkali, extending the NaOH concentration range to lower values. The regenerated cellulose material from the NaOH-lignin solvents was found to have a lower crystallinity and crystallite size than the samples prepared in the neat NaOH and NaOH-urea solvents. Beneficial lignin-cellulose interactions in solution state appear to be preserved under coagulation and regeneration, reducing the tendency of crystallization of cellulose.In this work, the effects of calcium chloride (CaCl2) concentration on the creep-recovery, linear and nonlinear rheological behavior of nanocellulose gels had been investigated to quantify gel properties. The absolute zeta potential of nanocellulose gels were decreased as the CaCl2 concentration increased, which was related to the electrostatic repulsion that origin from carboxyl group could be effectively screened with increasing CaCl2 concentration. Rheological measurements further confirmed this result for nanocellulose gels, which revealed that the increased modulus and viscoelastic properties were obtained in the presence of CaCl2. The rheological properties of nanocellulose gels were showed to depend on CaCl2 concentration. The enhanced gel network structure was related to the Ca2+ ions that promoted crosslink between nanocellulose by salt bridge. This work highlighted the potential of using electrostatic complexation between nanocellulose and Ca2+ ions to form gels, and demonstrated the tunability of the rheological behavior by adjusting the concentration of CaCl2.