João G. Crespo

TL;DR: In this article, surface and bulk chemical changes in a Nafion membrane as a result of room temperature ionic liquids (RTILs) incorporation were determined by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and elemental analysis, respectively.

TL;DR: In this article, a set of alternative membrane and solvent descriptors was defined based on published studies, in order to improve the modelling of this system. But the relationship between the solvent flux and the new selected descriptors is currently not known or poorly known at the mechanistic level, alternative chemometric and hybrid chemometric-mechanistic modelling methodologies were adopted.

TL;DR: Experimental evidence shows that both vapors and liquids permeate not only through the small channels across the cells, as in the permeation of gases, but also through the walls of cork cells by sorption and diffusion as in dense membranes.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors showed that direct photolysis was extremely effective to degrade etoposide and paclitaxel from the secondary effluent as well as from the highly concentrated retentate produced by nanofiltration.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two-step water-based extraction of carob kibbles was proposed to obtain significantly separated carbohydrates and polyphenol-rich streams that can be further processed, e.g., in biorefineries or food industries.