Issue 5, 2013
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Green Chemistry

Unravelling the structure and function of human hair

Ramiz A. Boulos,*ab   Ela Eroglu,ac   Xianjue Chen,a   Adrian Scaffidi,d   Ben R. Edwards,a   Jeremiah Tostera  and  Colin L. Raston*ab  

* Corresponding authors

a Centre for Strategic Nano-Fabrication, School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia
E-mail: colin.raston@uwa.edu.au, ramiz.boulos@uwa.edu.au
Fax: +618 6488 8683
Tel: +618 6488 3045

b School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA 5042, Australia

c ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Energy Biology, The University of Western Australia M313, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia

d School of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia

Abstract

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.

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DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/C3GC37027E
Article type
Paper
Submitted
14 Dec 2012
Accepted
04 Apr 2013
First published
04 Apr 2013

Green Chem., 2013,15, 1268-1273

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Unravelling the structure and function of human hair

R. A. Boulos, E. Eroglu, X. Chen, A. Scaffidi, B. R. Edwards, J. Toster and C. L. Raston, Green Chem., 2013, 15, 1268 DOI: 10.1039/C3GC37027E

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