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Royal Soc Chemistry2013

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The electrostatic and steric repulsion induced by different superplasticizers on ground granulated blast furnace slag in alkaline media have been studied. The superplasticizers were sulfonated naphthalene, sulfonated melamine, vinyl copolymer, and polycarb ...

Castineira Libreria Tecnica / Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas - Instituto de Ciencias de la Construccion Eduardo Torroja2012

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Nicolas Dorsaz, Francesco Varrato, Giuseppe Foffi, Maxim Belushkin

Understanding and, ultimately, controlling the properties of amorphous materials is one of the key goals of material science. Among the different amorphous structures, a very important role is played by colloidal gels. It has been only recently understood ...

Natl Acad Sciences2012

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Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Holger Frauenrath, Vincent Laporte, Davide Demurtas, Bernt Ketterer, Tobias Hoheisel, Ruth Szilluweit, Martin Fritzsche, Raffaele Mezzenga

The development of low-temperature carbonization procedures promises to provide novel nanostructured carbon materials that are of high current interest in materials science and technology. Here, we report a "wet-chemical" carbonization method that utilizes ...

American Chemical Society2012

Long-term colloidal stability of 10 carbon nanotube types in the absence/presence of humic acid and calcium

Arnaud Magrez, Rita Smajda, Laura Sigg

The colloidal stabilities of ten carbon nanotubes (CNTs) having varying physico-chemical properties were compared in long-term experiments. The presence of Suwannee River Humic Acid (SRHA) increased the fraction of CNTs in the supernatants (4-88% for the v ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2012

Routes to Novel Colloidal Gels

Francesco Varrato

The thesis describes how demixing of binary colloidal mixtures could be used to design new kinds of amorphous structures. We show that a rich phase behavior emerges, dependent on density (colloidal concentration) and composition (species relative populatio ...

EPFL2012

Yielding of weakly attractive nanoparticle networks

Esther Amstad

We propose a scaling law that explicitly correlates the macroscopic yield stress of weakly attractive nanoparticle networks with features of the microscopic aggregates that form the percolating gel. The proposed law correctly predicts experimental data obt ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2011

Influence of the initial state of carbon nanotubes on their colloidal stability under natural conditions

Arnaud Magrez, Laura Sigg

The colloidal stability of dry and suspended carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the presence of amphiphilic compounds (i.e. natural organic matter or surfactants) at environmentally realistic concentrations was investigated over several days. The suspensions were ...

2011

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The photocurrent-voltage characteristic of a photoelectrochemical cell for solar hydrogen production via water splitting, using undoped-hematite as photoanode, was obtained. Photoelectrochemical characteristics of the cell were also investigated by electro ...

Elsevier2010

Force spectroscopy of barnase-barstar single molecule interaction

Giovanni Dietler, Mélanie Favre, Dmitry Klinov

Results of the single molecule force spectroscopy study of specific interactions between ribonuclease barnase and its inhibitor barstar are presented. Experimental data obtained for the force loading rate ranging 2-70 nN/s are well approximated by a single ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

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