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Encrassement biologique

Publications associées (12)

Inputs of disinfection by-products to the marine environment from various industrial activities: Comparison to natural production

Urs von Gunten, Jin Jiang

Oxidative treatment of seawater in coastal and shipboard installations is applied to control biofouling and/or minimize the input of noxious or invasive species into the marine environment. This treatment allows a safe and efficient operation of industrial ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Tribological properties of gold matrix composite coatings with carbon nanocapsules containing ionic liquid lubricants

Stefano Mischler, Anna Neus Igual Muñoz

Self-lubricating, gold matrix composite coatings were produced by electrochemical codeposition of carbon nanocapsules filled with ionic liquid (IL) from a colloidal galvanic bath on a nickel electrode. The tribological response of the composite coatings wa ...

ELSEVIER2020

Microengineered Electrochemical Tools for in-situ Monitoring of Marine Environment

Marianna Fighera

Measuring the concentration of different compounds in aquatic ecosystem and understanding their impact on the environment are some of the main objectives in the environmental monitoring field. Trace metals, nutrients, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), bio ...

EPFL2017

Modelling city-scale facade leaching of biocide by rainfall

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Sylvain Coutu

A methodology is presented for estimating, at the city scale, the amount of biocide released from facades during rain events. The methodology consists of two elements. First, leaching of a single facade is simulated using a two-region model, one region for ...

Elsevier2012

Modeling of facade leaching in urban catchments

David Andrew Barry, Luca Rossi, Sylvain Coutu, Dario Del Giudice

Building facades are protected from microbial attack by incorporation of biocides within them. Flow over facades leaches these biocides and transports them to the urban environment. A parsimonious water quantity/quality model applicable for engineered urba ...

American Geophysical Union2012

The Present and Future of Biologically Inspired Adhesive Interfaces and Materials

The natural world provides many examples of robust, permanent adhesive platforms. Synthetic adhesive interfaces and materials inspired by mussels of genus Mytulis have been extensively applied, and it is expected that characterization and adaptation of sev ...

2012

A facile strategy for the modification of polyethylene substrates with non-fouling, bioactive poly(poly(ethylene glycol) methacrylate) brushes

Jeffrey Alan Hubbell, Harm-Anton Klok

This manuscript reports a facile strategy for the modification of polyethylene, a widely used biomaterial, with a thin non-biofouling coating that can act as a platform to introduce biochemical cues to control and direct, e.g., cell adhesion and proliferat ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

New lives for old reverse osmosis (RO) membranes

The overall objective of the present work was to estimate by membrane autopsy the level of performances degradation of old reverse osmosis (RO) membranes/modules in order to envisage their reuse A mechanistic approach using the Spiegler-Kedem-Karchalsky mo ...

2010

Design of a high-throughput device for screening surface modification protocols

Karl Gademann

The development of new high performance, ultra-thin organic coatings requires a strategy that has to consider a large number of surface treatment variables such as binding moieties, substrate, and adsorption conditions (e.g. temperature, solvent, concentra ...

2010

Cyanobacterial Natural Products for the Inhibition of Biofilm Formation and Biofouling

Karl Gademann

Biofouling is defined by the non-specific attachment of biological material (proteins, carbohydrates, prokaryotic cells and higher organisms) to surfaces upon their exposure to any biological fluid. Biofouling is a serious problem in many areas ranging fro ...

2007

Characterization of the mechanism of action of spin-filters for animal cell perfusion cultures

Florentina Vallez

The growing demand for high levels of recombinant proteins of medical and pharmaceutical interest stimulates the development of cell bioprocess technology. Spin-filter technology is employed in order to reach high levels of such compounds. The aim of this ...

EPFL2006

Heterocyclic compounds and their use as antifouling agents

Karl Gademann

The present invention relates to a nostocarboline compound and its use as biocidal agent. ...

2005