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Game changers in science and technology- now and beyond

Yahya Mohammadzadeh

The recent devastating pandemic has drastically reminded humanity of the importance of constant scientific and technological progress. A strong interdisciplinary dialogue between academic and industrial scientists of various specialties, entrepreneurs, man ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC2023

Let's move forward: Image-computable models and a common model evaluation scheme are prerequisites for a scientific understanding of human vision

Matthias Bethge, Martin Schrimpf

In the target article, Bowers et al. dispute deep artificial neural network (ANN) models as the currently leading models of human vision without producing alternatives. They eschew the use of public benchmarking platforms to compare vision models with the ...

Cambridge Univ Press2023

Activation of aminocyclopropanes via radical intermediates

Jérôme Waser, Mingming Wang

Aminocyclopropanes are versatile building blocks for accessing high value-added nitrogen-containing products. To control ring-opening promoted by ring strain, the Lewis acid activation of donor-acceptor substituted systems is now well established. Over the ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2022

Photocured Nanocellulose Composites: Recent Advances

Yves Leterrier, Aigoul Schreier, Mohammed Arif Poothanari

This perspective gives an overview of recent progress in thefield of photocured polymer composites based on variousforms of nanocelluloses, with a focus on cellulose nanofibrils. The manufacturing processes and performances of these nanocellulosecomposites ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

A perspective on multi-channel technology for the next-generation of GaN power devices

Elison de Nazareth Matioli, Luca Nela

The outstanding properties of Gallium Nitride (GaN) have enabled considerable improvements in the performance of power devices compared to traditional silicon technology, resulting in more efficient and highly compact power converters. GaN power technology ...

AIP Publishing2022

Synchrotron Radiation and Sensors: A History of Synergies

Giorgio Margaritondo

Synchrotron radiation has emerged over more than one-half century as a gigantic worldwide enterprise involving tens of thousands of researchers. Its history has been continuously and strongly linked to the technical progress of sensors. We review here diff ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

PARSINLU: A Suite of Language Understanding Challenges for Persian

Rabeeh Karimi Mahabadi

Despite the progress made in recent years in addressing natural language understanding (NLU) challenges, the majority of this progress remains to be concentrated on resource-rich languages like English. This work focuses on Persian language, one of the wid ...

2021

Visible light photoredox-catalysed remote C-H functionalisation enabled by 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer (1,5-HAT)

Qian Wang, Jieping Zhu, Weisi Guo

The generation of heteroatom-centred radicals (X), followed by intramolecular 1,5-hydrogen atom transfer (1,5-HAT) and the functionalisation of the translocated carbon-centred radicals, is the basic mechanism of the classic Hofmann-Loffler-Freytag (HLF) re ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2021

Glare assessment in a daylit workplace from a physiological perspective

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Sneha Jain

Designing the buildings that facilitate optimum utilization of daylight is desirable for its many benefits [1], [2] yet challenging due to other intrinsic properties of daylight responsible for over-heating and discomfort glare [3]. Discomfort glare has be ...

2021

Electrospun nanofibers for electrochemical reduction of CO2: A mini review

Andreas Züttel, Wen Luo, Jie Zhang

The electrochemical reduction of CO2 (CO2RR) into valuable products represents a step towards alleviating global warming and the energy crisis. However, the sluggish kinetics of the CO2RR and the competitive hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) still limit th ...

Elsevier2021

All-polymeric transient neural probe for prolonged in-vivo electrophysiological recordings

Diego Ghezzi, Laura Ferlauto, Paola Vagni, Adele Fanelli, Elodie Geneviève Zollinger

Transient bioelectronics has grown fast, opening possibilities never thought before. In medicine, transient implantable devices are interesting because they could eliminate the risks related to surgical retrieval and reduce the chronic foreign body reactio ...

2021

Turning negative into positives! Exploiting 'negative' results in Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) research

Ricardo Andres Chavarriaga Lozano, Camille Marie Jeunet

Results that do not confirm expectations are generally referred to as 'negative' results. While essential for scientific progress, they are too rarely reported in the literature - Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) research is no exception. This led us to organ ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2019

The organisation of science: topics, incentives and funding

Omar Ballester Gonzalez

Ever since the links between the development of new technologies and economic growth became evident, researchers have attempted to study how the creation of knowledge fosters progress. If pushing the frontier of knowledge has an impact on progress and well ...

EPFL2020

AiiDA 1.0, a scalable computational infrastructure for automated reproducible workflows and data provenance

Nicola Marzari, Giovanni Pizzi, Christoph Leopold Talirz, Nicolas Frank Mounet, Andrea Cepellotti, Leonid Kahle, Fernando Gargiulo, Martin Uhrin, Sebastiaan Philippe Huber, Aliaksandr Yakutovich, Snehal Pramod Kumbhar, Carl Simon Adorf, Francisco Fernando Ramirez, Casper Welzel Andersen, Conrad Johnston, Spyros Zoupanos, Elsa Passaro

The ever-growing availability of computing power and the sustained development of advanced computational methods have contributed much to recent scientific progress. These developments present new challenges driven by the sheer amount of calculations and d ...

2020

Recent progress in the development of organometallics for the treatment of cancer

Paul Joseph Dyson, Benjamin Samuel Murray

From their early successes in medicine, organometallic compounds continue to attract interest as potential chemotherapeutics to treat a range of diseases. Here, we show from recent literature selected largely from the last two years that organometallics of ...

2019

Small satellites for space science A COSPAR scientific roadmap

Jie Wu, Volker Gass, Maurice Borgeaud

This is a COSPAR roadmap to advance the frontiers of science through innovation and international collaboration using small satellites. The world of small satellites is evolving quickly and an opportunity exists to leverage these developments to make scien ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2019

Proteomics and Beyond: Cell Decision-Making Shaped by Reactive Electrophiles

Yimon Aye, Xuyu Liu

Revolutionary proteomic strategies have enabled rapid profiling of the cellular targets of electrophilic small molecules. However, precise means to directly interrogate how these individual electrophilic modifications at low occupancy functionally reshape ...

2019

Participation-effect pathways in transdisciplinary sustainability research: An empirical analysis of researchers’ and practitioners’ perceptions using a systems approach

Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Livia Bianca Fritz, Thorsten Schilling

In sustainability research, transdisciplinary (TD) approaches that involve practitioners in the research process have emerged as promising tools for enhancing real-world knowledge and engendering societal change. However, empirical insights into how such p ...

2019

Preventing Lignin Condensation to Facilitate Aromatic Monomer Production

Jeremy Luterbacher, Wu Lan

Lignin is the most abundant aromatic polymer in nature and as such is an attractive source of aromatic molecules. Efficient lignin utilization will also likely play a key role in the economic success and sustainability of biomass valorization schemes. Howe ...

2019

Non-contact femtosecond laser-based methods for investigating glass mechanics at small scales

Christos Edouardos Athanasiou

With the progress made in miniaturizing systems over the last decades, understanding materialsâ behavior at small scales has become a necessity. In this context, glass behavior has remained largely unknown, partly for technological reasons and partly due ...

EPFL2018