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Stability and degradation of (oxy)nitride photocatalysts for solar water splitting

Sophia Haussener, Franky Esteban Bedoya Lora

Advancing towards alternative technologies for the sustainable production of hydrogen is a necessity for the successful integration of this potentially green fuel in the future. Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting are promising concepts ...

2024

New Insights for Parasitic Effects of Label-Free Biosensors Based on Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Sandro Carrara, Zhengwen Jiang, Yihe Zhao, Jie Li

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) are regarded as an attractive candidate in bio-applications such as imaging and molecule monitoring. However, the previous researches on biochemical sensing are mostly air-coupled application based on ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Exploring chemical space in the search for improved azoheteroarene-based photoswitches

Sergio Vela Llausi

In quest of improved photo switches, azoheteroarenes have emerged as a potential alternative to azobenzenes. However, to date the number and types of these species that have been subjected to study are insufficient to provide an in-depth understanding of t ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Food Talks: visual and interaction principles for representing environmental and nutritional food information in augmented reality

Delphine Ribes Lemay, Nicolas Henchoz, Emily Clare Groves, Andreas Sonderegger

This user-centered design research project aimed to investigate visual and interaction principles for augmented reality (AR) in the context of environmental and nutritional food labelling. Nutritional information on existing food labels is often misunderst ...

2019

The Effect of Limestone on the Performance of Ternary Blended Cement LC3: Limestone, Calcined Clays and Cement

Karen Scrivener, Franco Alberto Zunino Sommariva, Aurélie Rosine Favier, Ioannis Katrantzis

This project explores the influence of different particle size distributions of limestone on the workability and early-age strength development of LC3 materials. To quantify, and subsequently optimize, the packing, the modified Andreasen and Andersen model ...

Springer2018

Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

The Symbiotic Districts research project examines dimensions influencing energy self-sufficiency at neighborhood scale by integrating parameters related to buildings, infrastructure, mobility, food, goods and services. Transposing industrial ecology tools ...

2016

Strategies for Symbiotic Urban Neighborhoods. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Sophie Lufkin, Suren Erkman

2016

A framework for characterizing RAP clustering in asphalt concrete mixtures

André-Gilles Dumont, Michel Pittet, Sara Bressi, Manfred Partl

Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) is commonly used in asphalt for road rehabilitation or new constructions. Nevertheless, some physical and chemical phenomena that occur during production, laying and compaction of mixtures containing RAP are not yet complete ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Advanced methodology for optimization of mixture design of asphalt concrete containing reclaimed asphalt pavement material

Sara Bressi

Despite the massive use of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement (RAP) in Hot Mix Asphalt (HMA) production, the chemo-physical phenomena that characterise the fabrication of these mixtures have not yet been completely explored. The detection and understanding of thes ...

EPFL2016

Comparison of strategies improving local energy self-sufficiency at neighborhood Scale. Case study in Yverdon-les-Bains (Switzerland)

Sophie Lufkin

Within a context of growing efforts to develop sustainability strategies, one of the main challenges is promoting value creation while using fewer resources. In this perspective, how can we design attractive urban neighborhoods generating endogenous econom ...

2014

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