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Impact of chlorination and ozonation of dissolved organic matter on its photo-induced production of long-lived photooxidants and excited triplet states

Urs von Gunten, Joanna Maria Houska, Silvio Canonica, Stephanie Christa Remke

Recent studies suggested that long-lived photooxidants (LLPO), which are reactive intermediates formed during irradiation of dissolved organic matter (DOM), may consist of phenoxyl radicals derived from phenolic moieties of the DOM. Besides the well-studie ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Shape Engineering of Metal-Organic Frameworks via MOF@Polymer Composite Fabrication

Bardiya Valizadeh

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are a fascinating class of porous materials that have become the subject of research owing to their unique characteristics such as high surface areas, low densities, and structural tunability. Recently, the research has been ...

EPFL2020

Mechanical and Morphological Properties of Lignin-Based Thermosets

Cédric Terrier

The need for renewable alternatives for fossil-based aromatic material constituents is evident for a more sustainable society. Lignin is the largest source of naturally occurring aromatic compounds but has mainly been considered as waste material or energy ...

2020

Biogeography and biochemistry of bile acid 7-dehydroxylation in the mammalian gut

Solenne Anne Marie Marion

Bile acids (BAs) are small molecules synthesized by the host and chemically modified by the microorganisms inhabiting the intestinal tract. The microbial transformation of BAs in the gut is critical to BA-mediated signaling as it modifies their amount and ...

EPFL2020

Potential erosion capacity of gravity currents created by changing initial conditions

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Jessica Zordan

We investigate to what extent the initial conditions (in terms of buoyancy and geometry) of saline gravity currents flowing over a horizontal bottom influence their runout and entrainment capacity. In particular, to what extent the effect of the introducti ...

2019

Broadband electronically tunable reflection-based phase shifter for active-steering microwave reflectarray systems in Ku-band

This document provides the design of an electronically reconfigurable microwave phase shifter for reflectarray systems. The phase shifter is based on a hybrid coupler with reflective circuits in three ports. Each reflective circuit introduces a phase varia ...

Taylor & Francis Ltd2016

Monitoring strain gradients in adhesive composite joints by embedded fiber Bragg grating sensors

John Botsis, Véronique Michaud, Hans Georg Limberger, Roohollah Sarfaraz Khabbaz, Georgios Violakis, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

The adhesive bonding of composite materials can be applied to assemble light-weight structures for aeronautical applications. However, the application of adhesive bonds in primary load-bearing structures is limited by the lack of adequate techniques to mon ...

Elsevier2014

Phage Selection of Bicyclic Peptide Ligands and Development of a New Peptide Cyclisation Method

Jeremy Touati

Bicyclic peptides binding to targets of interest can be isolated from combinatorial libraries using a phage display-based approach. In a first project of this thesis, we aimed at generating bicyclic peptide inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), a ...

EPFL2012

TransFLP - A Method to Genetically Modify Vibrio cholerae Based on Natural Transformation and FLP-recombination

Melanie Blokesch

Several methods are available to manipulate bacterial chromosomes(1-3). Most of these protocols rely on the insertion of conditionally replicative plasmids (e.g. harboring pir-dependent or temperature-sensitive replicons(1,2)). These plasmids are integrate ...

2012

Long Term Real Trajectory Reuse Through Region Goal Satisfaction

Daniel Thalmann, Pascal Fua, Ronan Boulic, Junghyun Ahn, Stéphane Gobron, Horesh Beny Ben Shitrit, Mirko Raca, Quentin Silvestre

This paper is motivated by the objective of improving the realism of real-time simulated crowds by reducing short term collision avoidance through long term anticipation of pedestrian trajectories. For this aim, we choose to reuse outdoor pedestrian trajec ...

Springer Berlin Heidelberg2011

Electronic and Optical Properties of the Spiro-MeOTAD Hole Conductor in Its Neutral and Oxidized Forms: A DFT/TDDFT Investigation

Michael Graetzel, Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Filippo de Angelis

The molecular structures and electronic and optical properties of 2,2'7,7'-tetrakis-(N,N-di-p-methoxyphenyl amine)-9,9'-spirobifluorene (spiro-MeOTAD) in different oxidation states have been investigated by means of DFT/TDDFT methods. Spiro-MeOTAD has been ...

American Chemical Society2011

Three-dimensional morphometry of strained bovine periodontal ligament using synchrotron radiation-based tomography

John Botsis, Joël Cugnoni, Marzio Bergomi, Marco Stampanoni, Philipp Schneider

The periodontal ligament (PDL) is a highly vascularized soft connective tissue. Previous studies suggest that the viscous component of the mechanical response may be explained by the deformation-induced collapse and expansion of internal voids (i.e. chiefl ...

2010

Composite Hydrogels for the Replacement of the Nucleus Pulposus

Ana Borges de Couraça

The intervertebral disc (IVD), which provides flexibility to the spine and facilitates damping and motion, is composed of two distinct structures: the annulus fibrosus (AF) and the nucleus pulposus (NP). The AF, which is fibrous and elastic, confines the N ...

EPFL2010

All-Optical Polarization Control through Brillouin Amplification

Luc Thévenaz

Amplification through stimulated Brillouin scattering in optical fibers can totally modify the polarization properties of the light, enabling an all-optical polarization control and a direct estimate on the fiber birefringence. ...

Optical Society of America2008

Inkjet printing and high aspect ratio structuring for polymer-based micro and nano systems

Vahid Fakhfouri

Inkjet printing of functional materials, photolithography and micromolding are 3 different techniques largely used in the field of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) with increasing interest for the fabrication of new devices and the development of new ...

EPFL2008

Modified short interfering RNA

Luc Reymond, Evelyne Muller

The present invention refers to a double-stranded siRNA molecule comprising a sense Strand and an antisense Strand which is essentially complementary to the sense Strand, each of the sense and the antisense Strands comprising at least 17 nucleotides (nt), ...

2006

Catalytic hydrogenation of alkenes under biphasic conditions : understanding solvent effects

Corinne Daguenet

Ruthenium(II)-arene diphosphine complexes are shown to be effective precursors for the catalytic hydrogenation of the C=C bond in an aqueous biphase using molecular hydrogen as the hydrogen source. A mechanistic study performed in water, utilizing high gas ...

EPFL2006