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Protein folding stands as one of the major interdisciplinary challenges of the last ten years, involving biology, chemistry, medicine and physics. In this PhD thesis, we investigate the solvent effects and the resulting hydrophobic effect on proteins. In p ...
This thesis is committed to the study of nanometer scale surface processes involved in the formation and evolution of self-organized semiconductor quantum dots. The aim is to contribute to a better understanding of the mechanisms influencing the final shap ...
A rigorous mathematical model is developed for the complex impedance of a solid-state electrochemical cell, which is commonly used for the measurement of oxygen transport, oxygen exchange kinetics and thermodynamic properties of nonstoichiometric mixed con ...
In thermodynamic equilibrium with sea water the Sr/Ca ratio of aragonite varies predictably with temperature and the Sr/Ca ratio in coral have thus become a frequently used proxy for past Sea Surface Temperature (SST). However, biological effects can offse ...
This work is devoted to the study of the analyticity properties of thermodynamic potentials (free energy, pressure) for classical lattice systems at low temperature. The central topic of our analysis, in this framework, is to show rigorously the absence of ...
New temperature-dependent angle resolved photoemission (ARPES) data on the quasi-one-dimensional Peierls compound (TaSe4)(2)I suggest a new interpretation of the spectral lineshapes, which removes discrepancies with the transport and thermodynamic results. ...
A thermodynamic model, the Gibbs Free-Energy Minimization model (GFEMN), was used to simulate the partitioning of PM2.5 nitrate aerosol and nitric acid using highly time-resolved inorganic measurements collected at the Pittsburgh Air Quality Study during J ...
We study thermodynamic and dynamic properties of model colloidal systems interacting with a hard core repulsion and a short-range attraction, and provide an overall picture of their phase diagrams which shows a very rich phenomenology. We focus on the slow ...
The stability and water exchange dynamics of gadolinium (GdIII) complexes are critical characteristics that determine their effectiveness as contrast agents for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). A new heteropodal GdIII chelate, [Gd-TREN-bis(6-Me-HOPO)-(TAM ...
We have improved the model presently used in the thermo-hydraulic code Gandalf, adapting it to cable-in-conduit conductors with central cooling channel such as those developed for the model coils of ITER, In particular the helium flow in an arbitrary numbe ...
