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EPFL2025

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American Chemical Society (ACS)2024

Disentangling Multiple System Atrophy - Structural insights from alpha-synuclein fibrils and tissue pathology

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EPFL2024

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This work aims to study the structural, optical, and photocatalytic properties of ZrO2 nanotubes (NTs) that have been synthesized using the electrochemical anodization method. The structural and morphological characteristics of unannealed and annealed (400 ...

MDPI2023

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TiO2 quantum dot (QD) size nanoparticle colloids have shown tremendous photochromic response. Here we show that the of the photochromic response of TiO2 QDs can be further enhanced by doping. Our synthesis approach allows to reach high nominal doping level ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

espm: A Python library for the simulation of STEM-EDXS datasets

Adrien Maxime Louis Teurtrie, Cécile Hébert, Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Nathanaël Perraudin, Hui Chen, Guillaume Romain Obozinski, Hui Chen

We present two open-source Python packages: "electron spectro-microscopy"(espm) and "electron microscopy tables"(emtables). The espm software enables the simulation of scanning transmission electron microscopy energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy datacubes ...

ELSEVIER2023

Optical manipulation of plasmonic nanoparticles: Applications in surface chemistry and nano-optics

Jeonghyeon Kim

Optical tweezers are devices that can manipulate nano- and microparticles using a laser. The principle of optical tweezers is to apply a force to an object using the momentum of light. This force is very small, but it is sufficient to move things in the mi ...

EPFL2023

BigNeuron: a resource to benchmark and predict performance of algorithms for automated tracing of neurons in light microscopy datasets

Pascal Fua, Sean Lewis Hill, Jiancheng Yang, Amos Sironi, Jian Yang

BigNeuron is an open community bench-testing platform with the goal of setting open standards for accurate and fast automatic neuron tracing. We gathered a diverse set of image volumes across several species that is representative of the data obtained in m ...

Nature Publishing Group2023

Time-Resolved Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy and Single-Molecule Spectroscopy

Samuel Mendes Leitão

The evolution of the 3D morphology is at the center of many relevant biological processes ranging from cellular differentiation to cancer invasion and metastasis. Microscopy techniques, such as electron microscopy (EM), super-resolution (SR) optical micros ...

EPFL2023

Effectiveness of X-ray micro-CT applications upon mafic and ultramafic ophiolitic rocks

Pascal Turberg

X-ray micro-computed tomography (mu CT) was applied upon selected ophiolitic rock samples from various localities of the Vardar ophiolite outcrops in North Greece. Effectiveness of the mu CT application was evaluated through this case study by comparing re ...

2022

Modified BiFeO3/rGO nanocomposite by controlled synthesis to enhance adsorption and visible-light photocatalytic activity

Mohammadreza Golobostanfard

In this study, a sol-gel process is used to synthesize a bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3, or BFO for short)/ reduced graphene oxide (rGO) nanocomposite (BGO). The structural, morphological, and op-tical characteristics of the BiFeO3 nanopowder are modified by cont ...

2022

Structural Order of the Molecular Adlayer Impacts the Stability of Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Plasmonic Cavities

Christophe Marcel Georges Galland, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Sachin Suresh Verlekar, Karla Banjac, Aqeel Ahmed, Fernando Pablo Cometto

Immense field enhancement and nanoscale confinement of light are possible within nanoparticle-on-mirror (NPoM) plasmonic resonators, which enable novel optically activated physical and chemical phenomena and render these nanocavities greatly sensitive to m ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Atomistic simulation and electron microscopy to characterize grain boundaries in doped beta-tricalcium phosphate ceramics

Gabrielle Anne Laguisma Sblendorio

The limitations and potential complications correlated with autogenous bone grafts have raised interest in the development of synthetic bone graft substitutes. ß-tricalcium phosphate (ß-TCP) is one of the most promising materials for synthetic bone graft s ...

EPFL2021

Ultrafast Photon-Induced Tunneling Microscopy

Klaus Kern

Unification of the techniques of ultrafast science and scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) has the potential of tracking electronic motion in molecules simultaneously in real space and real time. Laser pulses can couple to an STM junction either in the wea ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

CO2 Hydrogenation over Unsupported Fe-Co Nanoalloy Catalysts

Andreas Züttel, Kun Zhao, Robin Tobias Andreas Mutschler, Marco Calizzi

The thermo-catalytic synthesis of hydrocarbons from CO2 and H2 is of great interest for the conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals and fuels. In this work, we aim to contribute to the fundamental understanding of the effect of alloying on the reaction y ...

2020

Self-induced thermo-optical effects in silicon and germanium dielectric nanoresonators

Giulia Tagliabue, Theodoros Tsoulos

Dielectric nanoresona tors uniquely support both magnetic and electric resonances across a wide wavelength range. They are thus being exploited in a growing number of groundbreaking applications. In particular, they have been recently suggested as promisin ...

2020

TiO2- based ceramics, from basic science to applications

Lidia Rocoffort de Vinnière

Nanomaterials and nanoparticles are nowadays used in a wide range of applications; from sunscreens, paint and food industry to catalytic processes, lighting, TV's and displays, their presence is percolating in our daily life. New applications rise every da ...

EPFL2020

CO2 chemical transformations using metal-organic frameworks

Serhii Shyshkanov

During the last decades, intensive efforts have been applied to tackle the enormous emissions of CO2 into atmosphere. These efforts include not only developing efficient carbon capture techniques, but also the introduction of new ways to transform the capt ...

EPFL2020

Absolute Structure from Scanning Electron Microscopy

Philip Johannes Walter Moll

The absence of centrosymmetry in chiral and polar crystal structures is the reason for many technical relevant physical properties like optical birefringence or ferroelectricity. Other chirality related properties that are actually intensively investigated ...

Nature Research2020