Unravelling the structure and function of human hair

Ramiz Boulos; Ela Eroglu; Xianjue Chen; Adrian Scaffidi; Ben Edwards; Jeremiah Toster; Colin Raston

doi:10.1039/c3gc37027e

Unravelling the structure and function of human hair

Ramiz Boulos, Ela Eroglu, Xianjue Chen, Adrian Scaffidi, Ben Edwards, Jeremiah Toster, Colin Raston

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Human hair is transformed into functional nano-dimensional material using a benign choline chloride-urea ionic liquid composite as a deep eutectic melt. The hair and isolated central fibres after treatment with the ionic liquid composite have the ability to immobilise microalgal cells for wastewater treatment and the cuticle cells are effective as templates in coating a sparingly soluble drug molecule which is slowly released at physiological pH. Thus, instead of human hair being a waste, it can be converted to end products with potentially high-end value, with reduced negative impact on the environmental.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1268-1273
Number of pages	6
Journal	Green Chemistry
Volume	15
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1039/c3gc37027e
Publication status	Published - May 2013

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