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Throughout history diverse cultures and societies have appreciated the importance of a clean and healthy indoor environment. In western societies today, most people spend greater than 90% of their time indoors. Reports involving buildings with indoor air-related problems have ap…

An emerging trend towards non-laboratory based biological and microbiological marker analysis is occurring in multiple sectors of science and industry. In the medical sector, these trends have demonstrated that conducting sample analyses away from centralised laboratories not on…

Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) is a well known biodegradable polymer that can be applied for short term packaging in food and cosmetics. However, PLA is brittle, which significantly limit its industrial packaging applications. Blending PLA and other polymers serve as one of the alterna…