The majority of Sri Lankan population rely on herbal medicine. Hence, standardization of raw materials is required in Ayurveda preparations. Plectranthus amboinicus (Lour.) Spreng (Kapparawalliya) is a herb having morphological ...

Aqua feed industry focuses on using less expensive ingredients with comparable nutritional value to replace fish meal due to its high cost as well as restricted supply of fish meal. Fisheries discards, namely, fish offal ...

A new tetra-dentate N,N’-bis(2-pyrazolyl-4-methylphenyl)formamidine ligand (H(NNNN)) was synthesized by introducing two flanking pyrazole groups to an ortho position of each aryl group of known N,N’-bis(4-methylphenyl)fo ...

Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are persistent pollutants which are toxic to all living beings. Biodegradation of PAHs is an efficient way to remediate numerous pollutants. The discharge of such air pollutants gets settled ...

Eventhough the natural plant therapy has been used for ages in Sri Lanka, most of those plants have not been scientifically validated. This study is focused on antioxidant properties of selected four medicinal plant crude ...

Aloe vera is a medicinal plant grown in households vastly due to home-remedial and cosmeceutical applications. The plant is used in several industries such as the food, pharmaceutical, and cosmetic industry. In this study, ...

The ayurvedic formulation “Nishadi churnaya’’ is a mixture of four plant constituents that are Curcuma longa, Strychnos potatorum, Coscinium fenestratum and Salaciareticulate, and has been used in ayurvedic medicine of Sri ...

Color removal in wastewater using adsorbents prepared from waste materials is a major treatment option. In this study, we attempted to develop adsorbents for color removal using residues from the palm oil industry. The ...

There is considerable interest in nonlinear optical (NLO) materials based on transition metal complexes due to their potential in a broad range of technological applications such as photonics, optical computing, and signal ...

Microorganisms that inhabit mangrove ecosystems have very characteristic functions as mangrove ecosystems bear harsh environmental settings. Thus, they can perform important functions, such as solubilization of phosphate ...