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    Extraction of Bioactive and Nutraceuticals from Plants and Their Application

    Natural bioactive compounds are a useful source of molecules for the development of nutraceuticals, food additives, and functional foods because they contain a wide variety of diverse structural and functional...

    Hadia Hemmami, Bachir Ben Seghir in Bioactive Extraction and Application in Fo… (2024)

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    Comprehensive Methods for the Analysis of Organic Micro pollutants

    An issue that civilizations have just recently had to deal with is the fate and incidence of organic micro-pollutants (OMPs) and their ecotoxicological significance. Even at relatively modest quantities, the c...

    Soumeia Zeghoud, Hadia Hemmami in Organic Micropollutants in Aquatic and Ter… (2024)

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    Methods for the Preparation of Silica and Its Nanoparticles from Different Natural Sources

    Silica (SiO2), a component of the earth’s crust, has been in use for many nanotechnological applications. This review presents one of the newest methods for safer, more affordable, and more ecologically friendly ...

    Bachir Ben Seghir, Hadia Hemmami in Biological Trace Element Research (2023)

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    Characterization, biological, and antimicrobial properties of nanocellulose isolated from peanut shells (Arachis hypogaea L.)

    Due to its promising features, cellulose, the most plentiful renewable material in nature, is used in a variety of industrial processes. In this work, we used peanut shells (Arachis hypogaea L.) for the purpose o...

    Hafidha Terea, Djamel Selloum, Abdelkrim Rebiai in Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2023)

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    A novel eco-friendly source of cellulose acetate extracted from Astragalus gombo seeds: thermal, structural, and morphological characterization

    In this research, cellulose derivatives were extracted from the plant Astragalus gombo. This research sought to create a new cellulose acetate source derived from Astragalus gombo. Preliminary treatment, acetylat...

    Imane Kouadri, Abdelheq Layachi, Khaled Boubendira in Biomass Conversion and Biorefinery (2023)

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    Food Chain Contamination and Impact of Xenobiotics on Human Health

    Environmental pollution affects several fields such as soil, sediments, air, and water systems. These are due to the rapid and uncontrollable growth of means of transport (ships, automobiles, trucks, trains, p...

    Bachir Ben Seghir, Imane Kouadri, Mohammad Messaoudi in Xenobiotics in Urban Ecosystems (2023)

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    Phytoremediation of Xenobiotics: Principles and Applications in Environmental Pollution Removal

    Pollution of the environment in urban ecosystems such as land and water with pesticides, organic pollutants, heavy metals, fertilizers, and radionuclides has become a major concern due to present intensive agr...

    Hadia Hemmami, Ilham Ben Amor, Soumeia Zeghoud in Xenobiotics in Urban Ecosystems (2023)

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    Thermal, Structural and Morphological Studies of Cellulose and Cellulose Nanofibers Extracted from Bitter Watermelon of the Cucurbitaceae Family

    This work presents a new way to prepare and isolate nanometric cellulose fibrils as extracted from Citrullus Colocynthis (Cc) seeds. The nanofibrils were then characterized using spectroscopic, thermal and morpho...

    Hamid Satha, Imane Kouadri, Djafer Benachour in Journal of Polymers and the Environment (2020)