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Biomimetic nanostructures for the silicone-biosystem interface: tuning oxygen-plasma treatments of polydimethylsiloxane

Osmani, Bekim ; Gerganova, Gabriela ; Müller, Bert

In: European Journal of Nanomedicine, 2017, vol. 9, no. 2, p. 69-77

Contact damage of hard and brittle thin films on ductile metallic substrates: an analysis of diamond-like carbon on titanium substrates

Bernoulli, D. ; Wyss, A. ; Raghavan, R. ; Thorwarth, K. ; Hauert, R. ; Spolenak, R.

In: Journal of Materials Science, 2015, vol. 50, no. 7, p. 2779-2787

Field-effect passivation on silicon nanowire solar cells

Mallorquí, Anna ; Alarcón-Lladó, Esther ; Mundet, Ignasi ; Kiani, Amirreza ; Demaurex, Bénédicte ; De Wolf, Stefaan ; Menzel, Andreas ; Zacharias, Margrit ; Fontcuberta i Morral, Anna

In: Nano Research, 2015, vol. 8, no. 2, p. 673-681

Phase separation in the vicinity of Fermi surface hot spots

Jaouen, Thomas ; Hildebrand, Baptiste ; Mottas, Marie-Laure ; Giovannantonio, M. Di ; Ruffieux, Pascal ; Rumo, Maxime ; Nicholson, Christopher W. ; Razzoli, E. ; Barreteau, C. ; Ubaldini, A. ; Giannini, E. ; Vanini, Fabiano ; Beck, Hans ; Monney, Claude ; Aebi, Philipp

In: Physical Review B, 2019, vol. 100, no. 7, p. 075152

Spatially inhomogeneous electronic states are expected to be key ingredients for the emergence of superconducting phases in quantum materials hosting charge-density waves (CDWs). Prototypical materials are transitionmetal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and among them, 1T-TiSe2 exhibiting intertwined CDW and superconducting states under Cu intercalation, pressure, or electrical gating. Although it...

A selective culture medium for screening linezolid-resistant gram-positive bacteria

Nordmann, Patrice ; Rodríguez-Villodres, Angel ; Poirel, Laurent

In: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 2019, vol. 95, no. 1, p. 1–4

The SuperLinezolid medium was developed for screening resistance to linezolid (LZD) in Gram-positive bacteria (Staphylococcus spp., Enterococcus spp.). It was evaluated using LZD-susceptible (n = 20) and LZD-resistant (n = 17) Gram-positive isolates. The sensitivity was found to be 82% at 24 h (3 out of 17 isolates being missed), and reached 100% at 48 h. At 48 h, a single...

Thin-film structural coloration from simple fused scales in moths

Kilchoer, Cédric ; Steiner, Ullrich ; Wilts, Bodo D.

In: Interface Focus, 2019, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 20180044

The metallic colouration of insects often originates from diverse nanostructures ranging from simple thin films to complex three-dimensional photonic crystals. In Lepidoptera, structural colouration is widely present and seems to be abundant in extant species. However, even some basal moths exhibit metallic colouration. Here, we have investigated the origin of the vivid metallic colours of...

A hydrofluoric acid-free method to dissolve and quantify silica nanoparticles in aqueous and solid matrices

Bossert, David ; Urban, Dominic A. ; Maceroni, Mattia ; Ackermann-Hirschi, Liliane ; Haeni, Laetitia ; Yajan, Phattadon ; Spuch-Calvar, Miguel ; Rothen-Rutishauser, Barbara ; Rodriguez-Lorenzo, Laura ; Petri-Fink, Alke ; Schwab, Fabienne

In: Scientific Reports, 2019, vol. 9, no. 1, p. 7938

As the commercial use of synthetic amorphous silica nanomaterials (SiO2-NPs) increases, their effects on the environment and human health have still not been explored in detail. An often-insurmountable obstacle for SiO2-NP fate and hazard research is the challenging analytics of solid particulate silica species, which involves toxic and corrosive hydrofluoric acid (HF). We therefore developed...

Hydrophobic cellulose nanopaper through a mild esterification procedure

Sehaqui, Houssine ; Zimmermann, Tanja ; Tingaut, Philippe

In: Cellulose, 2014, vol. 21, no. 1, p. 367-382

Integrated sensor system for DNA amplification and separation based on thin film technology

Costantini, Francesca ; Petrucci, Giulia ; Lovecchio, Nicola ; Nardecchia, Marco ; Nascetti, Augusto ; Cesare, Giampiero de ; Tedeschi, Lorena ; Domenici, Claudio ; Ruggi, Albert ; Placidi, Pisana ; Scorzoni, Andrea ; Caputo, Domenico

In: IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, 2018, vol. 8, no. 7, p. 1141–1148

A simple approach for describing metal-supported cyclohexaphenylene dehydrogenation : Hybrid classical/DFT metadynamics simulations

Pignedoli, C. A. ; Laino, T. ; Treier, M. ; Fasel, R. ; Passerone, D.

In: The European Physical Journal B, 2010, vol. 75, no. 1, p. 65-70