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American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)2025

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Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)2025

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Spatial Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation to Evaluate on Public Policies for Energy Transition

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2024

Density effects on nanoparticle transport in the hyporheic zone

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A carbon solution composed of nanoparticles was used in experiments designed to explore nanoparticle transport characteristics within the hyporheic zone of a riverbed. Experiments and numerical simulations demonstrated that nanoparticle transport in the hy ...

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Using SAS functions and high-resolution isotope data to unravel travel time distributions in headwater catchments

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We use high-resolution tracer data from an experimental site to test theoretical approaches that integrate catchment-scale flow and transport processes in a unified framework centered on selective age sampling by streamflow and evapotranspiration fluxes. T ...

American Geophysical Union2017

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Wiley-Blackwell2015

Storage selection functions: A coherent framework for quantifying how catchments store and release water and solutes

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We discuss a recent theoretical approach combining catchment-scale flow and transport processes into a unified framework. The approach is designed to characterize the hydrochemistry of hydrologic systems and to meet the challenges posed by empirical eviden ...

Amer Geophysical Union2015

Theory of percolation and tunneling regimes in nanogranular metal films

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Nanogranular metal composites, consisting of immiscible metallic and insulating phases deposited on a substrate, are characterized by two distinct electronic transport regimes depending on the relative amount of the metallic phase. At sufficiently large me ...

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Effects of Electrode Design on the Melt Electrowriting of Sinusoidal Structures

Biranche Tandon

Melt electrowriting is a microscale manufacturing technique that uses polymer-based melts to create fibrous structures. An electric field is used to stabilize a continuous molten jet, which is then written onto a substrate as a microscale fiber. Herein, it ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

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Amer Geophysical Union2013

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The synthesis of high-performance gas-sieving zeolitic film is challenging because it involves seeded secondary growth which is complex and difficult to reproduce. Additionally, expensive asymmetric inorganic porous supports are often needed for calcinatio ...

ELSEVIER2023

Entropy in the Coil-to-Globule Transition of Macromolecules : Insights from Simple Models

Carlo Maffi

The coil to globule transition is a fundamental phenomenon in the physics of macro-molecules by reason of the multiplicity of arrangements of their conformation. Such conformational freedom is the main source of entropy in the molecule and is the main oppo ...

EPFL2012

Delivery of mRNA for cancer therapy: progress and prospects

Yi Wang

Synthetic messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapeutics have emerged as promising candidates for the prevention and treatment of a wide range of diseases and disorders. mRNA possesses notable advantages, including exceptional safety, the capacity to replace vari ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2023

Thermal and dynamic mechanical properties of blends of bitumen with metallocene catalyzed polyolefins

Jan-Anders Edvin Maansson, John Christopher Plummer, Chiara Spadaro

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Springer US2011

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Most nanoparticles' parameters affect their interactions with cells. To date, all the parameters studied are basically static (e.g., size, shape, ligands, and charge). This is unfortunate, because proteins have struc-tural dynamics that most nanoparticles ...

CELL PRESS2023

DNA Topology : A Biophysical Study of DNA Rings, Knots, and Catenanes by Means of Atomic Force Microscopy and Numerical Simulations

Guillaume Witz

This thesis explores different aspects of DNA topology through experimental and numerical techniques. Topology is a vast mathematical field, that deals with the spatial properties of objects undergoing continuous deformations, but here it is restricted to ...

EPFL2010

Polymer wiring of insulating electrode materials: An approach to improve energy density of lithium-ion batteries

Michael Graetzel, Qian Wang, Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Péter Kalman Péchy

The poor electronic conductivity of LiFePO4 has been one of the major issues impeding it from achieving high power and energy density lithium-ion batteries. In this communication, a novel polymer-wiring concept was proposed to improve the conduction of the ...

2009