https://www.selleckchem.com/pharmacological_epigenetics.html In this study, solvent exchange method was applied as a post-casting solvent treatment to tune the porosity and improve the performance of cellulose acetate/cellulose triacetate forward osmosis (CA/CTA FO) membrane. Ethanol and n-hexane were both used for this treatment as the first and second solvent, respectively. Pristine and treated CA/CTA FO membranes with different thicknesses were characterized using FESEM and adsorption/desorption analysis and also evaluated in terms of the intrinsic transport properties and structural parameter, and performance. The results showed that the treated membranes contained more micropores and mesopores than the pristine membranes. Moreover, the treatment was able to increase reverse salt flux and pure water flux by 65 and 20 %, respectively. These improvements were due to the increase in selectivity (55 %) and the reduction in structural parameter (40 %). Hence, the proposed post-casting solvent treatment has been introduced as a method for improvement of the CA/CTA FO membranes performance.The aim of this study was to obtain cellulose and cellulose nanoparticles (CNP) from garlic and agave wastes, as well as elucidating its structure at different scales using microscopy and spectroscopy techniques. Cellulose is isolated by using a sequential extractive process and monitored by CLSM and SEM, while CNP are produced in a high-energy planetary mill. FTIR and XRD confirmed the presence of cellulose type I and CI and Dhkl was used to evaluate the size of CNP. The corresponding crystalline structure, d-spacing and angles obtained from crystalline regions of CNP were estimated by TEM and computational simulation. It is shown that the triclinic phase is predominant in G, and a monoclinic conformation in CNP for A. The novelty of this contribution is to demonstrate that the crystalline structure of CNP, extracted from different agro-food wastes, depends on its initial microstruc