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Advancements in Nanomechanical Characterization and Biomolecular Imaging with Atomic force Microscopy

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a widely used imaging tool for obtaining a variety of information for a range of samples. Although it was initially intended to serve as a method of observing very flat solid surfaces, its use expanded into several other fi ...

EPFL2024

Controlling DNA nanodevices with light-switchable buffers

Cristian Pezzato, Cesare Berton, Valentin Jean Périllat

Control over synthetic DNA-based nanodevices can be achieved with a variety of physical and chemical stimuli. Actuation with light, however, is as advantageous as difficult to implement without modifying DNA strands with photo-switchable groups. Herein, we ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Fashioning the Future: Unlocking the Creative Potential of Deep Generative Models for Design Space Exploration

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis, Tanja Christina Käser Jacober, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Thiemo Wambsganss, Wei Jiang

This paper investigates the potential impact of deep generative models on the work of creative professionals, specifically focusing on fashion design. We argue that current generative modeling tools lack critical features that would make them useful creati ...

Association for Computing Machinery2023

Nanoscale organization of the endogenous ASC speck

Suliana Manley, Christian Sieben

The NLRP3 inflammasome is a central component of the innate immune system. Its activation leads to for-mation of the ASC speck, a supramolecular assembly of the inflammasome adaptor protein ASC. Different models, based on ASC overexpression, have been prop ...

Cell Press2023

Mechanistic Insight into Supramolecular Polymerization in Water Tunable by Molecular Geometry

Lukas Pfeifer

Supramolecular self-assembly in water based on non-covalent bonding is attracting major attention due to the potential of hydrogels and aqueous polymers in biomedical applications. Although supramolecular polymerization in organic solvents is well establis ...

CHINESE CHEMICAL SOC2022

Scalable fabrication of functional nanostructures on stretchable substrates by capillary-assisted particle assembly and adhesion lithography

Henry Shao-Chi Yu

The fabrication of metallic nanostructures on stretchable substrates enables specific applications that exploit the combination of the nano-scale phenomena and the mechanical tunability of the physical dimensions of the nanostructures. Due to the large dif ...

EPFL2022

Precise Capillary‐Assisted Nanoparticle Assembly in Reusable Templates

Jürgen Brugger, Olivier Martin, Giovanni Boero, Hsiang-Chu Wang, Ana Conde Rubio, Henry Shao-Chi Yu

Capillary-assisted particle assembly (CAPA) in predefined topographical templates is a scalable method for the precise positioning of nanoscale objects on various surfaces. High-resolution CAPA templates are typically fabricated by expensive electron-beam ...

2022

Enhanced Room-Temperature Photoluminescence Quantum Yield in Morphology Controlled J-Aggregates

Frank Nüesch, Jakob Heier, Surendra Babu Anantharaman

Supramolecular assemblies from organic dyes forming J-aggregates are known to exhibit narrowband photoluminescence with full-width at half maximum of approximate to 9 nm (260 cm(-1)). Applications of these high color purity emitters, however, are hampered ...

2021

Luminescent, porous, metal-organic crystals: Design, synthesis, and applications

Fatmah Ebrahim

The work presented in this thesis is focused on the design and discovery of new luminescent, porous, crystalline materials for targeted applications. In particular, we focus on luminescent Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) and Organic Molecules of Intrinsic ...

EPFL2020

The role of xanthophylls in the supramolecular organization of the photosynthetic complex LHCII in lipid membranes studied by high-resolution imaging and nanospectroscopy

Giovanni Dietler, Serguei Sekatski, Jiangtao Zhou

The xanthophyll cycle is a regulatory mechanism operating in the photosynthetic apparatus of plants. It consists of the conversion of the xanthophyll pigment violaxanthin to zeaxanthin, and vice versa, in response to light intensity. According to the curre ...

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