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Mechanistic Insight into Supramolecular Polymerization in Water Tunable by Molecular Geometry

Supramolecular self-assembly in water based on non-covalent bonding is attracting major attention due to the potential of hydrogels and aqueous polymers in biomedical applications. Although supramolecular polymerization in organic solvents is well establis ...

CHINESE CHEMICAL SOC2022

Self-assembly of protein-polymer conjugates for drug delivery

Harm-Anton Klok, Corey Alfred Stevens, Kuljeet Kaur

Protein-polymer conjugates are a class of molecules that combine the stability of polymers with the diversity, specificity, and functionality of biomolecules. These bioconjugates can result in hybrid materials that display properties not found in their ind ...

2021

More than a border effect. Ordinary politicization and struggles of belonging in a Swiss border municipality

Garance Clément, Alexis Gumy

Can living near a national border have an effect on the politicization of individuals? To answer this question, this article challenges the results put forward by some European Border Studies scholars granting the border a major role in the construction of ...

DE BOECK UNIV2021

Producing highly complicated materials. Nature does it better

Gervais Chapuis

Through the years, mineralogical studies have produced a tremendous amount of data on the atomic arrangement and mineral properties. Quite often, structural analysis has led to elucidate the role played by minor components, giving interesting insights into ...

2020

Classification of Metal-Based Drugs according to Their Mechanisms of Action

Paul Joseph Dyson

Metal-based drugs and imaging agents are extensively used in the clinic for the treatment and diagnosis of cancers and a wide range of other diseases. The current clinical arsenal of compounds operate via a limited number of mechanisms, whereas new putativ ...

CELL PRESS2020

Modifier Adaptation as a Feedback Control Scheme

Dominique Bonvin, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Sean Costello, Tafarel de Avila Ferreira

As a real-time optimization technique, modifier adaptation (MA) has gained much significance in recent years. This is mainly due to the fact that MA can deal explicitly with structural plant-model mismatch and unknown disturbances. MA is an iterative techn ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Large‐Range HS‐AFM Imaging of DNA Self‐Assembly through In Situ Data‐Driven Control

Alireza Karimi, Georg Fantner, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt, Christoph Manuel Kammer, Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Charlène Cécile Geneviève Brillard, Eva Eugene Kurisinkal

Understanding hierarchical self-assembly of biological structures requires real time measurement of the self-assembly process over a broad range of length- and timescales. The success of high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM) in imaging small scale mo ...

2019

Synthesis and Characterization of Coordination Cages Based on Clathrochelate Metalloligands

Giacomo Cecot

The work presented in this thesis focused on the synthesis and characterization of new metalloligands based on iron(II) clathrochelate complexes. Clathrochelates can be functionalized peripherally with donor groups capable of coordinating metal ions. The s ...

EPFL2019

A Rule Synthesis Algorithm for Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly of Robotic Modules

Alcherio Martinoli, Bahar Haghighat

Programmable self-assembly of modular robots offers promising means for structure formation at different scales. Rule-based approaches have been previously employed for distributed control of stochastic self-assembly processes. The assembly rate in the pro ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

BookTubing Across Regions: Examining Differences based on Nonverbal and Verbal Cues

Daniel Gatica-Perez, Dinesh Babu Jayagopi

BookTubers are a rapidly growing community in YouTube who shares content related to books. Previous literature has addressed problems related to automatically analyzing opinions and mood of video logs (vlogs) as a generic category in YouTube. Unfortunately ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2019

Molecular nanostructures based on polyfunctional clathrochelate complexes

Suzanne Maria Jansze

This thesis describes the design and synthesis of clathrochelate metalloligands for the construction of molecular nanostructures. The low synthetic effort, versatility and stability of the clathrochelate metalloligands makes them particularly suited to the ...

EPFL2019

Design, Modeling, and Control Methods for Fluid-Mediated Programmable Self-Assembly of Resource-Constrained Robotic Modules

Bahar Haghighat

The newly emerged and quickly growing science of nanotechnology has been recognized as one of ``the twenty-first century's great leaps forward in scientific knowledge''. Self-assembly provides a powerful enabling technique for nanotechnology by providing a ...

EPFL2018

How Computer Science Risks to Lose its Innocence, and Should Attempt to Take Responsibility

Karl Aberer

Computer science is playing a driving role in transforming today's society through information technology. In this transformation we observe power shifts increasingly strengthening centralised organisations, which are negatively perceived by many people. W ...

Ieee Computer Soc2017

Assemblies of gold nanoparticles at liquid-liquid interfaces : from liquid optics to electrocatalysis

Evgeny Smirnov

The interface between two immiscible liquids, i.e. oil and water, is an extremely attractive scaffold to self-assemble nanoparticles (NP) in arranged films. The liquid-liquid interfaces (LLIs) are defect-free and pristine by the nature, they are transparen ...

EPFL2017

Columnar self-assembly of N,N ',N ''-trihexylbenzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamides investigated by means of NMR spectroscopy and computational methods in solution and the solid state

Diego Carnevale, Mathieu Baudin

The columnar self-assembly resulting from units of N, N', N"-trihexylbenzene-1,3,5-tricarboxamide is investigated in solution and the solid state by means of NMR spectroscopy. A parallel computational study utilizing both semiempirical and DFT methods allo ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2017

Characterization and Validation of a Novel Robotic System for Fluid-Mediated Programmable Stochastic Self-Assembly

Alcherio Martinoli, Bahar Haghighat

Several self-assembly systems have been developed in recent years, where depending on the capabilities of the building blocks and the controlability of the environment, the assembly process is guided typically through either a fully centralized or a fully ...

Ieee2016

Fluid-Mediated Stochastic Self-Assembly at Centimetric and Sub-Millimetric Scales: Design, Modeling, and Control

Alcherio Martinoli, Grégory Mermoud, Massimo Mastrangeli, Felix Stephan Schill, Bahar Haghighat

Stochastic self-assembly provides promising means for building micro-/nano-structures with a variety of properties and functionalities. Numerous studies have been conducted on the control and modeling of the process in engineered self-assembling systems co ...

2016

Two-dimensional honeycomb network through sequence-controlled self-assembly of oligopeptides

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb

The sequence of a peptide programs its self-assembly and hence the expression of specific properties through non-covalent interactions. A large variety of peptide nanostructures has been designed employing different aspects of these non-covalent interactio ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

The Ligand Aspect Ratio as a Decisive Factor for the Self-Assembly of Coordination Cages

Kay Severin, Rosario Scopelliti, Euro Solari, Philip Pattison, Konstantin Zhurov, Matthew David Wise, Alba Finelli, Giacomo Cecot, Suzanne Maria Jansze

It is possible to control the geometry and the composition of metallasupramolecular assemblies via the aspect ratio of their ligands. This point is demonstrated for a series of iron- and palladium-based coordination cages. Functionalized clathrochelate com ...

2016

Training on the Job: Behavioral Analysis of Job Interviews in Hospitality

Laurent Son Nguyen, Jean-Marc Odobez, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Skanda Muralidhar, Denise Frauendorfer

First impressions play a critical role in the hospitality industry and have been shown to be closely linked to the behavior of the person being judged. In this work, we implemented a behavioral training framework for hospitality students with the goal of i ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016