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Insights into the microbial reduction of pentavalent and hexavalent uranium species by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
Margaux Camille Andréa Molinas
Decades of uranium-related activities such as ore mining, nuclear power generation, weapon manufacture, storage of nuclear wastes, have contributed to the release of U in the environment. U occurrence is concerning, since in surface environments, U is typi ...
EPFL2021Quantification of Strand Accessibility in Biostable DNA Origami with Single-Staple Resolution
Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Alice Comberlato
DNA-based nanostructures are actively gaining interest as tools for biomedical and therapeutic applications following the recent development of protective coating strategies prolonging structural integrity in physiological conditions. For tailored biologic ...
AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021NMR microsystem for label-free characterization of 3D nanoliter microtissues
Jürgen Brugger, Giovanni Boero, Marco Grisi, Gaurasundar Marc Conley, Kyle Joel Rodriguez, Lukas Egli, Erika Riva
Performing chemical analysis at the nanoliter (nL) scale is of paramount importance for medicine, drug development, toxicology, and research. Despite the numerous methodologies available, a tool for obtaining chemical information non-invasively is still mi ...
2020Intercomparison of neutron noise measurement systems in the CROCUS reactor
Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Oskari Ville Pakari
In the framework of an international collaboration, the critical decay constant (α0 = β/Λ), and delayed neutron fraction (β) of the CROCUS reactor were measured by teams of EPFL/PSI, CEA and SCK•CEN research institutes using the Rossi-α and Power Spectral ...
American Nuclear Society2018Design of Separated Element Reflector Experiments in CROCUS: PETALE
Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Pavel Frajtag, Daniel Jerôme Siefman
The present article describes the preliminary design studies for PETALE (Programme d'Etude en Transmission de l'Acier Lourd et ses Elements), an oncoming experimental program in the CROCUS reactor. Within the framework of the Venus-Eole-Proteus collaborati ...
ASTM INTERNATIONAL2018Design of Separated Element Reflector Experiments in CROCUS: PETALE
Andreas Pautz, Vincent Pierre Lamirand, Mathieu Hursin, Pavel Frajtag, Daniel Jerôme Siefman, Stefan Radman
The present article describes the preliminary design studies for an oncoming experimental programme at the CROCUS facility. CROCUS is a teaching and research zero-power reactor operated by the Laboratory for Reactor Physics and Systems Behaviour (LRS) at t ...
2017Infrastructured Landscape
Infrastructure can be wielded as a means of promoting the common good or as an institutional weapon of exploitation. While the highways, bridges and dams funded by international economic interests and built in outlying regions like the Amazon play a role t ...
2015Pseudomonas entomophila: A Versatile Bacterium with Entomopathogenic Properties
Bruno Lemaitre, Onya Opota, Guennaëlle Dieppois
Pseudomonas entomophila is unique among Pseudomonas species in being able to activate a systemic immune response in both Drosophila larvae and adults. It has been subsequently shown that oral infections with high doses of this bacterium are highly pathogen ...
Springer2014The EDIPO Project: Status and Outlook
Pierluigi Bruzzone, Boris Stepanov, Rainer Wesche, Martin Vogel, Stephen Alfred March, Giancarlo Croari
The aim of this paper is to present an up to date review of the status of the European DIPOle (EDIPO) project-whose objective is to build a new facility to perform both DC and AC tests of large force flow superconductor samples in high magnetic background ...
IEEE-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2012Fabrication of polymer micro-devices based on organic sacrificial pastes
Peter Ryser, Thomas Maeder, Nathalie Sophie Adeline Serra, Olivier Gentsch
We investigate in this work the fabrication of polymer micro-fluidic and micro-mechanical devices based on sublimable compounds as sacrificial layers, using a thick-film screen-printing deposition process. Fabrication of printed polymer microstructures fea ...
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