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Biological reduction of chlorinated solvents: Batch-scale geochemical modeling

Simulation of biodegradation of chlorinated solvents in dense non-aqueous phase liquid (DNAPL) source zones requires a model that accounts for the complexity of processes involved and that is consistent with available laboratory studies. This paper describ ...

Elsevier2010

Comparative evaluation of polymer surface functionalization techniques before iron oxide deposition. Activity of the iron oxide-coated polymer films in the photo-assisted degradation of organic pollutants and inactivation of bacteria

César Pulgarin, Félicien Mazille

The preparation of iron oxide-coated polymer films and their photocatalytic activity in organic pollutants degradation and bacterial inactivation is described. Polyvinyl fluoride (PVF), polyethylene (PE) and polyethylene terephtalate (PET) films were used ...

2010

Bacterial life in a stagnant PCE-contaminated aquifer

Christof Holliger, Pierre Rossi, Noam Shani

Chlorinated ethenes (CEs) represent a major environmental concern in most industrialized countries. These compounds, used as solvents and degreasing agents since the 1940s, have been released accidentally into the environment. Being recalcitrant to aerobic ...

2010

Preparation and characterization of Poly(Ethylene Glycol)/gamma-CD Polyrotaxanes using beta-CD derivatives as a capping reagent

Blaise Tardy

As living systems understanding got better, as life could be modeled in a batch, using immortalized cells, researches in fundamental sciences found startling applications of advanced techniques on living systems. As the biomaterial field developed various ...

2009

Palladium-catalyzed desulfinylative C–C allylation of Grignard reagents and enolates using allylsulfonyl chlorides and esters

Pierre Vogel, Chandra Mouleeswara Rao Volla

2-Methylprop-2-ene-, prop-2-ene-, 1-methylprop-2-ene-, and (E)-but-2-enesulfonyl chlorides have been used as electrophilic partners in desulfinylative palladium- catalyzed C–C coupling with Grignard reagents and sodium salts of dimethyl malonate and methyl ...

2009

Stable freestanding thin films of pure water

Giorgio Margaritondo

Obtaining water microstructures is very difficult because of low viscosity and high surface tension. We produced stable freestanding thin films of pure water by x-ray bombardment of small liquid volumes in capillary tubes. A detailed characterization with ...

American Institute of Physics2008

Effect of cell media on polymer coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs): Colloidal stability, cytotoxicity, and cellular uptake studies

Heinrich Hofmann, Jatuporn Salaklang, Alke Fink, Benedikt Steitz, Andrija Finka

The influence of the composition of the polymer coated polyvinyl alcohol (PVA), vinyl alcohol/vinyl amine copolymer (A-PVA) and polyethylenimine (PEI) coated superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) on the colloidal stability, cytotoxicity and c ...

2008

Molecular relaxation effects in hydrogen chloride photoacoustic detection

Luc Thévenaz, Jean-Philippe Besson

A photoacoustic (PA) sensor has been developed to monitor hydrogen chloride at sub-ppm level in the 1740-nm region. The system was designed to control the process in the novel low-water-peak optical fiber manufacturing process. Relaxation effects in hydrog ...

Springer Verlag2008

Dynamic properties of sandwich structures with integrated shear-thickening fluids

Véronique Michaud, Pierre-Etienne Bourban, John Christopher Plummer, Christian Fischer, Sylvia Aviva Braun

The integration of shear-thickening fluids (STFs) into composite structures has been investigated with the aim of tuning part stiffness and damping capacity under dynamic deformation. Results from oscillatory rheological measurements for a STF based on con ...

2006

Reaction calorimetry in supercritical fluids

Sophie Fortini

This thesis is devoted to the study of the dispersion polymerization of methyl methacrylate in supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2), using a poly(dimethylsiloxane) macromonomer (PDMS macromonomer) as stabilizer. Supercritical fluids (SCF) and SCF mixtures ...

EPFL2006

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