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New Applications of 1,3,2-Diazaphospholenes in Catalysis

Johannes Klett

The constant urge to construct new molecules in an economical and sustainable fashion led to the development of numerous metal-catalyzed transformations. Organocatalysts consisting of abundant and more sustainable elements offer an elegant solution to over ...

EPFL2024

Dissipative Kerr soliton generation at 2μm in a silicon nitride microresonator

Camille Sophie Brès, Marco Clementi, Ozan Yakar, Anton Stroganov, Christian André Clément Lafforgue

Chip -scale optical frequency combs enable the generation of highly -coherent pulsed light at gigahertz-level repetition rates, with potential technological impact ranging from telecommunications to sensing and spectroscopy. In combination with techniques ...

Optica Publishing Group2024

Fashioning the Future: Unlocking the Creative Potential of Deep Generative Models for Design Space Exploration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Richard Lee Davis, Thiemo Wambsganss, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Wei Jiang

This paper investigates the potential impact of deep generative models on the work of creative professionals, specifically focusing on fashion design. We argue that current generative modeling tools lack critical features that would make them useful creati ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Controlling DNA nanodevices with light-switchable buffers

Cristian Pezzato, Cesare Berton

Control over synthetic DNA-based nanodevices can be achieved with a variety of physical and chemical stimuli. Actuation with light, however, is as advantageous as difficult to implement without modifying DNA strands with photo-switchable groups. Herein, we ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Advancing atomic force microscopy through open source instrumentation

Mustafa Kangül

Atomic force microscopy (AFM), a member of the scanning probe microscopy (SPM) family, holds a unique position as a nano-characterization instrument in the fields of physics, chemistry, and biology. Its ability to provide atomic resolution and operate in v ...

EPFL2023

Sustainable polyesters via direct functionalization of lignocellulosic sugars

François Maréchal, Véronique Michaud, Yves Leterrier, Harm-Anton Klok, Jeremy Luterbacher, Adrien Julien Demongeot, Graham Reid Dick, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

The development of sustainable plastics from abundant renewable feedstocks has been limited by the complexity and efficiency of their production, as well as their lack of competitive material properties. Here we demonstrate the direct transformation of the ...

2022

Recycling of Load-Bearing 3D Printable Double Network Granular Hydrogels

Esther Amstad, Matteo Hirsch, Alvaro Lino Boris Charlet

Sustainable materials, such as recyclable polymers, become increasingly important as they are often environmentally friendlier than their one-time-use counterparts. In parallel, the trend toward more customized products demands for fast prototyping methods ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Catalytic enantioselective Pictet-Spengler reaction of carbonyl compounds: Development and application to the asymmetric total synthesis of indole alkaloids

Rémi Julien Sylvain Andres

This thesis consists in an extensive study about the enantioselective Pictet-Spengler reaction (EPSR) and its application to the total synthesis of monoterpene indole alkaloids (MIAs). The general introduction presents the literature background about this ...

EPFL2022

Decoding of error-related potentials in continuous feedback protocols for personalized human computer interaction

Fumiaki Iwane

The ability to notice erroneous behavior is crucial for effective training. Within the framework of neuroprosthetics, numerous studies in electroencephalography (EEG) confirm the existence of neural correlates when humans perceive the erroneous actions of ...

EPFL2021

Time-Varying Components for Enhancing Wireless Transfer of Power and Information

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Mohammad Sajjad Mirmoosa

Temporal modulation of components of electromagnetic systems provides an exceptional opportunity to engineer the response of those systems in a desired fashion, both in the time and frequency domains. For engineering time-modulated systems, one needs to th ...

American Physical Society (APS)2021

A semantic-driven approach toward Industry 4.0

Sangje Cho

The current manufacturing trend is towards sustainability. Due to the degradation of natural resources and the accumulation of waste with an increase in the world population and in the consumption of goods, many countries attempt to switch from a linear to ...

EPFL2020

Amphiphilic gold nanoparticles perturb phase separation in multidomain lipid membranes

Francesco Stellacci

Amphiphilic gold nanoparticles with diameters in the 2-4 nm range are promising as theranostic agents thanks to their spontaneous translocation through cell membranes. This study addresses the effects that these nanoparticles may have on a distinct feature ...

2020

Cycle In Cycle Generative Adversarial Networks for Keypoint-Guided Image Generation

Yan Yan, Wei Wang

In this work, we propose a novel Cycle In Cycle Generative Adversarial Network (C2GAN) for the task of keypoint-guided image generation. The proposed C2GAN is a cross-modal framework exploring a joint exploitation of the keypoint and the image data in an i ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Active contraction of cardiac cells: a reduced model for sarcomere dynamics with cooperative interactions

Alfio Quarteroni, Francesco Regazzoni, Luca Dede'

We propose a reduced ODE model for the mechanical activation of cardiac myofilaments, which is based on explicit spatial representation of nearest-neighbour interactions. Our model is derived from the cooperative Markov Chain model of Washio et al. (Cell M ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2018

Streaming Robust Submodular Maximization: A Partitioned Thresholding Approach

Volkan Cevher, Slobodan Mitrovic, Ilija Bogunovic, Jakub Tarnawski, Ashkan Norouzi Fard

We study the classical problem of maximizing a monotone submodular function subject to a cardinality constraint k, with two additional twists: (i) elements arrive in a streaming fashion and (ii) m items from the algorithm’s memory might be removed after th ...

2017

SMiLE-seq identifies binding motifs of single and dimeric transcription factors

Didier Trono, Bart Deplancke, Philipp Bucher, Giovanna Ambrosini, Riccardo Dainese, Daniel Alpern, Michaël Imbeault, Alina Isakova, Romain Fernand Pietro Groux, Pernille Yde Rainer

Resolving the DNA-binding specificities of transcription factors (TFs) is of critical value for understanding gene regulation. Here, we present a novel, semiautomated protein-DNA interaction characterization technology, selective microfluidics-based ligand ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Polar Hinges as Functionalized Conformational Constraints in (Bi) cyclic Peptides

Christian Heinis, Sangram Shivdas Kale

Two polar hinges for cyclization of peptides have been developed, leading to bicyclic peptides and cyclized peptides with improved solubility and biological activity. Increasingly, we note that a good aqueous solubility of peptides is an absolute prerequis ...

Wiley-Blackwell2017

The Ligand Aspect Ratio as a Decisive Factor for the Self-Assembly of Coordination Cages

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Philip Pattison, Euro Solari, Konstantin Zhurov, Giacomo Cecot, Suzanne Maria Jansze, Matthew David Wise

It is possible to control the geometry and the composition of metallasupramolecular assemblies via the aspect ratio of their ligands. This point is demonstrated for a series of iron- and palladium-based coordination cages. Functionalized clathrochelate com ...

2016

Hermite Snakes with Control of Tangents

Michaël Unser, Julien René Fageot, Virginie Sophie Uhlmann

We introduce a new model of parametric contours defined in a continuous fashion. Our curve model relies on Hermite spline interpolation and can easily generate curves with sharp discontinuities; it also grants direct access to the tangent at each location. ...

IEEE2016

A heterometallic macrocycle as a redox-controlled molecular hinge

Rosario Scopelliti, Kay Severin, Clément Schouwey, Marcus Papmeyer

The ability to modify the structure of nanoscopic assemblies in a controlled fashion is an important prerequisite for the creation of functional supramolecular systems. Here, we describe a heterometallic Pt2Cu2-macrocycle which behaves as a molecular hinge ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2015