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Revealing the Structure of Tryptophan in Microhydrated Complexes by Cold Ion Spectroscopy

Natalia Nagornova, Oleg Boyarkine, Andrei Zviagin, Ruslan Yamaletdinov, Manuel Dömer

The geometry of biomolecules isolated in the gas phaseusuallydiffers substantially from their native structures in aqueous solution,which are the only ones truly relevant to life science. To connectthe high resolution of cold ion spectroscopy that can be a ...

2023

Hemoglobin-stabilized gold nanoclusters displaying oxygen transport ability, self-antioxidation, auto-fluorescence properties and long-term storage potential

Victor Carle Adrien Boureau

The development of hemoglobin (Hb)-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) holds a lot of potential to overcome important drawbacks of donor blood such as a short shelf life or the potential risk of infection. However, a crucial limitation of current HBOCs is the au ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2023

Device and process for tissue-engineering and regenerative medicine

Olaia Maria Naveiras Torres-Quiroga, Thomas Michael Braschler, Amélie Barbara Hildegarde Béduer, Josefine Catharina Pedersen Tratwal, Daniel Naveed Tavakol, Martina Genta

A process and device for direct in-vitro to in-vivo transfer of a living microcarrier culture by controlled dehydration into a viscoelastic material capable of cell-protection during delivery. One particular purpose of the present invention is that of prov ...

2021

Production of Additive‐Free Amorphous Nanoparticles with a SAW‐Based Microfluidic Spray‐Dryer

Esther Amstad, Huachuan Du, Mathias Steinacher, Duncan Christophe Emmanuel Gilbert

Spray‐drying is a widely employed, cost‐effective process to formulate solutions into solid particles of controlled sizes and compositions. In addition, this process can also offer control over the structure of spray‐dried particles: if the solvent is evap ...

Wiley2019

3-D micro-architecture and mechanical response of soil cemented via microbial-induced calcite precipitation

Lyesse Laloui, Dimitrios Terzis

We introduce the application of microbial-induced calcite precipitation via the ureolytic soil bacterium Sporosarcina Pasteurii in freeze-dried form, as a means of enhancing overall MICP efficiency and reproducibility for geotechnical engineering applicati ...

Nature Research2018

The microfluidic nebulator: production of submicrometer sized airborne drops

Esther Amstad

Many powders employed in the food and pharmaceutical industries are produced through spray drying because it is a cost efficient process that offers control over the particle size. However, most commercially available spray-driers cannot produce drops with ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Kinetics, Mechanics and Micro-structure of Bio-cemented Soils

Dimitrios Terzis

The quest for novel, performant materials and methods in the engineering practice is driven nowadays by the need to offer solutions to complex problems by coupling technical innovation with environmental responsibility. Such problems emerge in the geo-tech ...

EPFL2017

Multiple scanning electrochemical microscopy mapping of tyrosinase in micro-contact printed fruit samples on polyvinylidene fluoride membrane

Hubert Girault, Andreas Stephan Lesch, Liang Qiao, Fernando Cortes Salazar, Tzu-En Lin, Alexandra Bondarenko

Herein, we introduce three orthogonal and compatible methods for detecting tyrosinase, a key factor in fruit browning and skin disorders, with high spatial resolution by means of scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). All methods are performed subsequ ...

Elsevier2015

Surface 3D Micro Free Forms: Multifunctional Microstructured Mesoporous alpha-Alumina by in Situ Slip Casting Using Excimer Laser Ablated Polycarbonate Molds

Paul Bowen, Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Sriharitha Rowthu

Ceramic surface microstructuring is a rapidly growing field with a variety of applications in tribology, wetting, biology, and so on. However, there are limitations to large-area microstructuring and fabrication of three-dimensional (3D) micro free forms. ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Long term stabilization of reaction center protein photochemistry by carbon nanotubes

László Forró, Arnaud Magrez, Endre Horvath, Klara Hernadi

The long term stability and the redox interaction between single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) and photosynthetic reaction center proteins (RCs) purified from purple bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides R-26 in the SWNT/RC complex has been investigated. The ...

2011

Drying shrinkage and cracking initiation in clays: Main modeling concepts and application to the ventilation of a tunnel

Lyesse Laloui, John Eichenberger, Hervé Péron

Damage induced by desiccation in clays (i.e. drying shrinkage and cracking) is an issue to be investigated in geo-environmental engineering, especially when the clay is used as a confining barrier for industrial and nuclear waste storage. Dramatic increase ...

Taylor & Francis Group2010

Pore scale analyses of evaporation from porous media

Nima Shokri

Evaporation from porous media is a key process in the hydrologic cycles, waste isolation, biological and food processes and other engineering application. Drying rate and patterns in porous media are strongly influenced by transport properties of the mediu ...

EPFL2009

Drying front and water content dynamics during evaporation from sand delineated by neutron radiography

Dani Or, Nima Shokri

Evaporative drying of porous media is jointly controlled by external ( atmospheric) conditions and by media internal transport properties. Effects of different atmospheric potential evaporative demand on observed drying rates were studied in a series of la ...

2008

Quantifying evaporation drying front dynamics using neutron radiography

Dani Or, Nima Shokri

Soil evaporation plays an important role in the hydrologic cycle and affects near surface energy balance. Changes in evaporative drying rates reflect complex interplay between soil pore space and transport properties and atmospheric conditions. Typically, ...

2006