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Multidimensional Electron Imaging of Catalyst Layer Materials

The proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is an important technology for clean power generation in a decarbonized hydrogen system and is notably envisioned for applications in heavy-duty transportation. However, for cost and performance competitivenes ...

EPFL2023

Neuromechanical Simulations of Animats with Decentralised Control

Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill

The transition from aquatic to terrestrial environments represents a significant event in the history of evolution. For this transition to occur, animals had to adapt their morphology, physiology and locomotory skills to handle the challenges and interacti ...

EPFL2023

Polysaccharide Layer-by-Layer Coating for Polyimide-Based Neural Interfaces

Silvestro Micera

Implantable flexible neural interfaces (IfNIs) are capable of directly modulating signals of the central and peripheral nervous system by stimulating or recording the action potential. Despite outstanding results in acute experiments on animals and humans, ...

MDPI2022

Single-neuron models linking electrophysiology, morphology, and transcriptomics across cortical cell types

Werner Alfons Hilda Van Geit

Which cell types constitute brain circuits is a fundamental question, but establishing the correspondence across cellular data modalities is challenging. Bio-realistic models allow probing cause-and-effect and linking seemingly disparate modalities. Here, ...

2022

Advances In Morphological Neural Networks: Training, Pruning And Enforcing Shape Constraints

Nikolaos Dimitriadis

In this paper, we study an emerging class of neural networks, the Morphological Neural networks, from some modern perspectives. Our approach utilizes ideas from tropical geometry and mathematical morphology. First, we state the training of a binary morphol ...

IEEE2021

Emergence of Potential-Controlled Cu-Nanocuboids and Graphene-Covered Cu-Nanocuboids under Operando CO2 Electroreduction

Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Fernando Pablo Cometto, Karla Banjac, Thanh Hai Phan

The electroreduction of CO2 (CO2RR) is a promising strategy toward sustainable fuels. Cu is the only Earth-abundant and pure metal capable of catalyzing CO2-to-hydrocarbons conversion with significant Faradaic efficiencies; yet, its dynamic structure under ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Pulchelloid A, a sesquiterpene lactone from the Canadian prairie plant Gaillardia aristata inhibits mitosis in human cells

Pierre Gönczy, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Tatiana Favez

Background The Canadian prairie ecosystem presents a rich source of natural products from plants that are subjected to herbivory by grazing mammals. This type of ecological competition may contribute to the production of natural products of interest in cel ...

SPRINGER2021

Shear measurement bias: I. Dependencies on methods, simulation parameters, and measured parameters

Frédéric Courbin, Marc Gentile

We present a study of the dependencies of shear bias on simulation (input) and measured (output) parameters, noise, point-spread function anisotropy, pixel size, and the model bias coming from two different and independent galaxy shape estimators. We used ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2020

Grayscale e-beam lithography: Effects of a delayed development for well-controlled 3D patterning

Henning Paul-Julius Stahlberg

Grayscale electron beam lithography (g-EBL) is a fabrication technique that allows for tunable control of resist topography. In most cases, the height of the structures is in the submicron regime. Here, we present an extensive experimental characterization ...

2020

Molecular engineering of functional materials for optoelectronic applications

Nikita Drigo

Organic functional materials are indispensable components for the last generation of light-energy conversion devices. Photo- and electroactive small organic molecules constitute thin active (emitting, transporting, blocking, injecting etc.) layers of organ ...

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

Method of displaying an image on a see-through display

Sabine Süsstrunk, Adrien Birbaumer, Martinus Bosch

The present invention concerns a method of displaying an image on a see-through display. The method comprises: obtaining (101) a first electromagnetic radiation matrix of an object, the first matrix comprising first matrix elements representing radiation i ...

2019

Parallel integro-differential equation solving via multi-channel reciprocal bianisotropic metasurface augmented by normal susceptibilities

Karim Achouri, Ali Momeni

Analog optical signal processing has dramatically transcended the speed and energy limitations accompanied with its digital microelectronic counterparts. Motivated by recent metasurface?s evolution, the angular scattering diversity of a reciprocal passive ...

2019

Magnetic properties of on-surface synthesized single-ion molecular magnets

Harald Brune, Stefano Rusponi, Marina Pivetta, Jan Gui-Hyon Dreiser, Christian Wäckerlin, Aparajita Singha, Katharina Johanna Diller

We perform on-surface synthesis of single-ion molecular magnets on an Ag(111) surface and characterize their morphology, chemistry, and magnetism. The first molecule we synthesize is TbPc2 to enable comparison with chemically synthesized and subsequently s ...

2019

Recent Advances of Malaria Parasites Detection Systems Based on Mathematical Morphology

Michel Kocher

Malaria is an epidemic health disease and a rapid, accurate diagnosis is necessary for proper intervention. Generally, pathologists visually examine blood stained slides for malaria diagnosis. Nevertheless, this kind of visual inspection is subjective, err ...

2018

Transport characteristics of saturated gas diffusion layers treated with hydrophobic coatings

Sophia Haussener, Seyedmohamad Moosavi

Water flooding of cathodic gas diffusion layers (GDLs) in proton-exchange membrane fuel cells at high current densities or low temperatures limits efficient operation due to disturbed transport of reactants to the catalytic sites or products away into the ...

Elsevier2018

Quantification of stored red blood cell fluctuations by time-lapse holographic cell imaging

Pierre Marquet, Gerardo Turcatti, Benjamin Rappaz, Michel Prudent, Manon Sandra Bardyn

We propose methods to quantitatively calculate the fluctuation rate of red blood cells with nanometric axial and millisecond temporal sensitivity at the single-cell level by using time-lapse holographic cell imaging. For this quantitative analysis, cell me ...

2018

Semi-automatic 3D morphological reconstruction of neurons with densely branching morphology: Application to retinal All amacrine cells imaged with multi -photon excitation microscopy

Bas-Jan Zandt

Background: Accurate reconstruction of the morphology of single neurons is important for morphometric studies and for developing compartmental models. However, manual morphological reconstruction can be extremely time-consuming and error-prone and algorith ...

Elsevier2017

Preserving Perceptual Contrast in Decolorization with Optimized Color Orders

Sabine Süsstrunk, Bin Jin

Converting a color image to a grayscale image, namely decolorization, is an important process for many real-world applications. Previous methods build contrast loss functions to minimize the contrast differences between the color images and the resultant g ...

2017

A Disk Asymmetry in Motion Around the B[e] Star MWC158

Ferréol Arnaud Marie Soulez

Context. MWC158 is a star with the B[e] phenomenon that shows strong spectrophotometric variability (in lines and in UV and visible continuum) attributed to phases of shell ejection. The evolutionary stage of this star was never clearly determined. Previou ...

EDP Sciences2016