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Biotechnology Congress 2018 & Emerging Materials 2018
Biomedical Research
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Volume 29
S e p t e m b e r 0 6 - 0 7 , 2 0 1 8 | B a n g k o k , T h a i l a n d
allied
academies
Joint Event on
EMERGING MATERIALS AND NANOTECHNOLOGY
BIOTECHNOLOGY
&
Annual Congress on
Global Congress on
Biomed Res 2018, Volume 29 | DOI: 10.4066/biomedicalresearch-C4-011
BIOPLASTICS FROM BIOMASS;
THE FUTURE CRUDE OIL
Yash P Khanna
Innoplast Solutions Inc., USA
W
hile most major corporations around the world have
escalated their efforts in recent years on improving the
Environmental Impact and Sustainability via several routes,
some breakthrough concepts enabled via biotechnology, have
only lately emerged. For example, converting land and forest
wastes, i.e., non-fossil raw-materials that are bio-sourced/
sustainable into chemicals; the latter besides numerous
uses serve as building-blocks for traditional as well as
new polymers. These initiatives leading to preservation of
petroleum resources, reduction of air-land-ocean pollution,
and utilization of free/undesirable raw materials are taking
the environmental and sustainability efforts to all-time new
heights. In this workshop, historic emergence of the bio-based
plastics industry will be discussed starting with an era of
waste management via biodegradation followed by a period
of very high petroleum prices and proliferation of technology
pipeline to develop traditional and new durable plastics, and
now again through times of lower petroleum pricing/shale gas
revolution. Despite turbulent events, reasons for steady-growth
of this industry forecasted to be 34Blbs/year by 2020, will be
highlighted. An overview will be presented on the state-of-the-
bioplastics industry today covering the breadth of polymers
such as polyolefins, polyamides, polyesters, polycarbonates
and more. Join us to witness how the field of polymers and
plastics is being re-invented by converting bio-sourced raw-
materials from agricultural-waste into high-quality products
that otherwise have been traditionally derived from fossil
fuels; an adventure we have not seen in the chemical industry
since the 1960’s.
GREEN SYNTHESIS OF GREEN TEA
CONJUGATED NANOPARTICLES
FOR DRUG DELIVERY
Lei Nie, Fang Zhang, Meng Sun, Jilai Cui
and
Hongyu Yuan
Xinyang Normal University, China
I
n recent years, functional nanoparticles, have attracted
attention due to their unique surface-ratio effects, small
size and quantum size effects, and drug loading properties,
etc. The phytochemicals present in tea have dual functions
as effective reducing agents and can be used as stabilizers
to provide strong coatings. The single step facile approach
for using tea to synthesize metal nanoparticles in our lab. The
drug-loading efficiency (such as doxorubicin hydrochloride,
DOX) of metal nanoparticles were investigated, and the
drug release profiles could be regulated by chemicals
functionalized on the surface of nanoparticles. The toxicity of
prepared nanoparticles on cells were evaluated. The results
showed that the cells (HaCat, 293T, Hela) had a good viability
while culturing with nanoparticles for three days. The metal
nanoparticles prepared by using green tea have a good drug-
loading efficiency, and the cells could be killed at day three,
shows that such drug-conjugated nanoparticles releasing
system could be used in tumor cells applications.