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Nanostructured Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting Reactions

Lucas-Alexandre Stern

At the dawn of the 21st century, mankind is facing an important energy challenge. Future energy demand can only be met by large scale exploitation of renewable energy resources. Solar energy is abundant, with a sufficient capacity for the growing energy de ...

EPFL2017

Discriminative adsorption of amphiphilic monolayer protected gold nanoparticles on amyloid fibers

Paulo Henrique Jacob Silva

This thesis presents a systematic study of how different types monolayer-protected AuNPs interact with amyloid fibers. We report a class of amphiphilic gold nanoparticles capable of adsorbing onto specific surface features on these types of protein fibers. ...

EPFL2016

A hyphenated SMPS-ICPMS coupling setup: Size-resolved element specific analysis of airborne nanoparticles

Christian Ludwig, Mohamed Tarik, Adrian Hess

Physical and chemical characterization of gas borne particles in the nanometer to sub micrometer size range includes knowledge about particle size distribution and chemical composition, possibly with a high time resolution. However, most of the available t ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

Challenges and Rewards of the Electrosynthesis of Macroscopic Aligned Carbon Nanotube Array/Conducting Polymer Hybrid Assemblies

László Forró, Endre Horvath, Andrea Pisoni, Péter Krisztián Matus, Klara Hernadi

Hybrid assemblies based on conducting polymers and carbon nanomaterials with organized nanoscale structure are excellent candidates for various application schemes ranging from thermal management to electrochemical energy conversion and storage. In the cas ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Future Perspectives Towards the Use of Nanomaterials for Smart Food Packaging and Quality Control

Francesco Stellacci

In this Progress Report some recent trends and future perspectives towards the use of nanomaterials for smart food packaging and quality control of food are given. The examples and discussion are meant to illustrate the potential use of nanotechnology for ...

Wiley-Blackwell2015

Bidirectional Transfer Study of Polystyrene Nanoparticles across the Placental Barrier in an ex Vivo Human Placental Perfusion Model

Lionel André Maurizi

BACKGROUND: Nanoparticle exposure in utero might not be a major concern yet, but it could become more important with the increasing application of nanomaterials in consumer and medical products. Several epidemiologic and invitro studies have shown that nan ...

2015

On-Chip Fabrication of Paclitaxel-Loaded Chitosan Nanoparticles for Cancer Therapeutics

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, Mohammad Mahdi Hasani-Sadrabadi, Jules John Vandersarl, Shahin Bonakdar, Fatemeh Sadat Majedi

The use of solvent-free microfluidics to fine-tune the physical and chemical properties of chitosan nanoparticles for drug delivery is demonstrated. Nanoparticle self-assembly is driven by pH changes in a water environment, which increases biocompatibility ...

Wiley-Blackwell2014

Linking toxicity and adaptive responses across the transcriptome, proteome, and phenotype of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii exposed to silver

Kristin Schirmer, Laura Sigg, Renata Behra

Understanding mechanistic and cellular events underlying a toxicological outcome allows the prediction of impact of environmental stressors to organisms living in different habitats. A systems-based approach aids in characterizing molecular events, and the ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Aqueous stabilisation of carbon-encapsulated superparamagnetic alpha-iron nanoparticles for biomedical applications

Heinrich Hofmann, Sandra Caroline Galmarini, Marie-Gabrielle Chantal Brigitte Ollivier Beuzelin, Lionel André Maurizi, Géraldine Sylvie Coullerez

Carbon-based nanomaterials, such as carbon-encapsulated magnetic nanoparticles (CEMNP, core@shell), show a wide range of desirable properties for applications in the biomedical field (clinical MRI, hyperthermia), for energy production and storage (hydrogen ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2014

Nanoparticles and Microorganisms : from Synthesis to Toxicity

Jan Dobias

Nanoscience is a young and growing field of science. It encompasses a diversity of sub-fields such as nanotechnology and nano-medicine, all of them seeking to realize the promises of nanoscale physics. Nano means: “billionth” and conceptually all nano-like ...

EPFL2013

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