Publications associées à Polymers at the Interface with Biology

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Estimation of Stiffness Maps in Deforming Cells Through Optical Flow With Bounded Curvature

The stiffness of cells and of their nuclei is a biomarker of several pathological conditions. Current measurement methods rely on invasive physical probes that yield one or two stiffness values for the whole cell. However, the internal distribution of cell ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Bioanode engineering for living solar cells

Charlotte Elisabeth Marie Roullier

Whole-cell biophotovoltaic (BPV) devices leverage photoautotrophic microorganisms like cyanobacteria to convert sunlight and water into bioelectricity. They are capable of growing on sequestered carbon dioxide (CO2), eliminating the need to add exogenous o ...

EPFL2025

Tandem catalysis enables chlorine-containing waste as chlorination reagents

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xinbang Wu, Mingyang Liu

Chlorinated compounds are ubiquitous. However, accumulation of chlorine-containing waste has a negative impact on human health and the environment due to the inapplicability of common disposal methods, such as landfill and incineration. Here we report a su ...

Nature Portfolio2024

Ion Transport at Polymer-Argyrodite Interfaces

Nicola Marzari, Sokseiha Muy

Solid-state electrolytes, particularly polymer/ceramic composite electrolytes, are emerging as promising candidates for lithium-ion batteries due to their high ionic conductivity and mechanical flexibility. The interfaces that arise between the inorganic a ...

2024

An application-based taxonomy for brain–computer interfaces

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Mahsa Shoaran, Nicolas Vachicouras

The term 'brain-computer interface' (BCI) is widely used. However, even among experts, its meaning can sometimes be unclear 1-3. Lack of clarity from the term has real-world implications: it can muddle regulatory guidelines, it may confuse investors, it ca ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2024

Optical imaging of the small intestine immune compartment across scales

Aleksandra Radenovic, Olivier Burri, Arielle Louise Planchette, Alessio Mylonas

The limitations of 2D microscopy constrain our ability to observe and understand tissue-wide networks that are, by nature, 3-dimensional. Optical projection tomography (OPT) enables the acquisition of large volumes (ranging from micrometres to centimetres) ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2023

Evaluation of genetic demultiplexing of single-cell sequencing data from model species

Clement Helsens

Single-cell sequencing (sc-seq) provides a species agnostic tool to study cellular processes. However, these technologies are expensive and require sufficient cell quantities and biological replicates to avoid artifactual results. An option to address thes ...

LIFE SCIENCE ALLIANCE LLC2023

Tailor-made Piezoelectric Elastomer Materials

Francis Owusu

Recent advancements in miniature devices with higher computational capabilities and ultralow power consumption have accelerated the development of wearable sensors, actuators, and energy harvesters everywhere. The ultimate aim of such a technological revol ...

EPFL2023

Reinforced Supramolecular Networks of End Functionalized Polymers for Tailored Thermomechanical Property Profiles

Yevhen Hryshunin

Thermoset rubbers give rise to elastomers with tunable stiffness and high resilience but are not recyclable. Thermoplastic elastomers can address this problem but their broad applicability is impeded by either limited operating temperatures or inferior ela ...

EPFL2023

Imaging cell biology

Suliana Manley

Imaging technologies drive discovery in cell biology. Innovations in microscopy hardware, imaging methods and computational analysis of large-scale, complex datasets can increase imaging resolution, definition and allow access to new biology. We asked expe ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

Bacterial nanopores open the future of data storage

Aleksandra Radenovic, Matteo Dal Peraro, Chan Cao, Lucien Fabrice Krapp, Alissa Agerova

In the era of "big data" finding solutions for data storage alternative to those based on silicon or magnetic tapes is an urgent need for our society. The development of polymers that can store information at the molecular level has opened up new opportuni ...

IEEE2022

Photodynamic treatment of multidrug-resistant bacterial infection using indium phosphide quantum dots

Francesco Stellacci

Infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacteria pose an impending threat to humanity, as the evolution of MDR bacteria outpaces the development of effective antibiotics. In this work, we use indium phosphide (InP) quantum dots (QDs) to treat infect ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Nature-Inspired Circular-Economy Recycling for Proteins: Proof of Concept

Francesco Stellacci, Laure Menin, Luc Patiny, Daniel Ortiz Trujillo, Anna Murello, Laura Roset Julia, Shiyu Cheng, Vincenzo Scamarcio, Simone Giaveri

The billion tons of synthetic-polymer-based materials (i.e. plastics) produced yearly are a great challenge for humanity. Nature produces even more natural polymers, yet they are sustainable. Proteins are sequence-defined natural polymers that are constant ...

Wiley2021

Origin and role of the cerebrospinal fluid bidirectional flow in the central canal

François Gallaire, Ludovic Pierre Gustave Keiser

Circulation of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) contributes to body axis formation and brain development. Here, we investigated the unexplained origins of the CSF flow bidirectionality in the central canal of the spinal cord of 30 hpf zebrafish embryos and it ...

2020

Ultrastructural comparison of dendritic spine morphology preserved with cryo and chemical fixation

Graham Knott, Carl Petersen, Jérôme Blanc, Natalya Korogod

Previously, we showed that cryo fixation of adult mouse brain tissue gave a truer representation of brain ultrastructure in comparison with a standard chemical fixation method (Korogod et al., 2015). Extracellular space matched physiological measurements, ...

2020

Extensive and diverse patterns of cell death sculpt neural networks in insects

Pavan P Ramdya, Chin-Lin Chen

Changes to the structure and function of neural networks are thought to underlie the evolutionary adaptation of animal behaviours. Among the many developmental phenomena that generate change programmed cell death (PCD) appears to play a key role. We show t ...

2020

Nanocapillary confinement of imidazolium based ionic liquids

Aleksandra Radenovic, Sanjin Marion, Sebastian James Davis

Room temperature ionic liquids are salts which are molten at or around room temperature without any added solvent or solution. In bulk they exhibit glass like dependence of conductivity with temperature as well as coupling of structural and transport prope ...

2020

Recovering covariance from functional fragments

Victor Panaretos, Marie-Hélène Descary

We consider nonparametric estimation of a covariance function on the unit square, given a sample of discretely observed fragments of functional data. When each sample path is observed only on a subinterval of length , one has no statistical information on ...

2019

Electrochemically polymerized poly (3, 4-phenylenedioxythiophene) as efficient and transparent counter electrode for dye sensitized solar cells

Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Lin Yang

A new conducting polymer poly (3, 4-phenylenedioxythiophene) is synthesized by the electrochemical polymerization technique with different solvents. We find that solvents used in electrochemical polymerization play important roles for the catalytic activit ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Morphogenetic degeneracies in the actomyosin cortex

Sundar Ram Naganathan

One of the great challenges in biology is to understand the mechanisms by which morphogenetic processes arise from molecular activities. We investigated this problem in the context of actomyosin-based cortical flow in C. elegans zygotes, where large-scale ...

ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD2018