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Hilal Lashuel, Hatice Altug, Nadine Aït Bouziad, Andreas Tittl, Aurélian Michel John-Herpin, Daniel Rodrigo Lopez, Odeta Limaj, Christopher David Kelly

A multitude of biological processes are enabled by complex interactions between lipid membranes and proteins. To understand such dynamic processes, it is crucial to differentiate the constituent biomolecular species and track their individual time evolutio ...

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Implementing bikesharing systems in small cities: Evidence from the Swiss experience

Vincent Kaufmann, Emmanuel Pierre Jean Ravalet, Ander Audikana Arriola, Virginie Andréa Baranger

Research on bikesharing has largely focused on systems operating in large cities. Based on the Swiss experience, this paper explores the challenges that small cities (

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Upscaling the evolution of snow microstructure

Quirien Eibhilín Krol

Snow microstructure and its evolution play an important role for various applications of snow physics in cryospheric sciences. The main modes of microstructure evolution in snow are referred to as isothermal and temperature gradient metamorphism. The forme ...

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On the dynamic smoothing of mountains

Sara Bonetti

After their formation, mountainous landscapes gradually evolve toward smoother geometries controlled by the interplay of erosion and sedimentation. The statistical mechanical properties of this process and the link between topography and geology have remai ...

2017

Additives, Hole Transporting Materials and Spectroscopic Methods to Characterize the Properties of Perovskite Films

Shaik Mohammed Zakeeruddin, Nikolaos Vlachopoulos, Ulf Anders Hagfeldt, Michael Saliba, Jiyoun Seo, Amita Ummadisingu, Marko Stojanovic

The achievement of high efficiency and high stability in perovskite solar cells (PSCs) requires optimal selection and evaluation of the various components. After a brief introduction to the perovskite materials and their historical evolution, the first par ...

Schweizerische Chemische Gesellschaft2017

Conditional Selection of Genomic Alterations Dictates Cancer Evolution and Oncogenic Dependencies

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Cancer evolves through the emergence and selection of molecular alterations. Cancer genome profiling has revealed that specific events are more or less likely to be co-selected, suggesting that the selection of one event depends on the others. However, the ...

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The role of the roughness spectral breadth in elastic contact of rough surfaces

Jean-François Molinari, Guillaume Anciaux, Vladislav Yastrebov

We study frictionless and non-adhesive contact between elastic half-spaces with self-affine surfaces. Using a recently suggested corrective technique, we ensure an unprecedented accuracy in computation of the true contact area evolution under increasing pr ...

2017

Photoinduced Structural Dynamics of Molecular Systems Mapped by Time-Resolved X-ray Methods

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We review the tremendous advances in ultrafast X-ray science, over the past 15 years, making the best use of new ultrashort X-ray sources including table-top or large-scale facilities. Different complementary X-ray-based techniques, including spectroscopy, ...

American Chemical Society2017

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