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Design and Development of Injectable, Tough and Intrinsically-Adhesive Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

Despite the development of hydrogels with a wide range of mechanical properties, insufficient adhesion between these materials and biological surfaces limits their use in the biomedical applications. Most recent advancements in highly adhesive hydrogel sys ...

EPFL2021

Assessing the impact of non-pharmaceutical interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission in Switzerland

Andrea Rinaldo, Jacques Fellay, Francisco Javier Perez Saez, Joseph Chadi Benoit Lemaitre

Following the rapid dissemination of COVID-19 cases in Switzerland, large-scale non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) were implemented by the cantons and the federal government between 28 February and 20 March 2020. Estimates of the impact of these inter ...

2020

Innovative Tools and in vivo Methods for Tuberculosis Drug Discovery and Development

Raphael Christopher Sommer

Worldwide, tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death due to a single infectious agent, claiming 1.6 million human lives and causing >10 million new cases in 2017 alone, mostly in low-income regions. The intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculos ...

EPFL2019

Subsurface ablation of tissue by ultrafast laser

Thomas Jean Victor Marie Lanvin

Laser-induced optical breakdown (LIOB) is a multiphoton process which can be used for selective removal of material. It revolves around the creation of a plasma in the focal volume of a beam, and requires very high peak intensities in the order of the GW.c ...

EPFL2017

Trustworthy Biometric Verification under Spoofing Attacks : Application to the Face Mode

Ivana Chingovska

The need for automation of the identity recognition process for a vast number of applications resulted in great advancement of biometric systems in the recent years. Yet, many studies indicate that these systems suffer from vulnerabilities to spoofing (pre ...

EPFL2016

On Noise Insertion Strategies for Wireless Network Secrecy

Emre Telatar, Suhas Diggavi, Etienne Perron

We provide lower and upper bounds on the optimal rate for reliable and secret transmission of a message from one node to another in an arbitrary wireless network with deterministic signal interaction. Certain relay nodes are allowed to insert noise into th ...

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Near-field optical images of subwavelength annular aperture arrays exhibiting an extraordinary transmission

Patrik Willi Hoffmann, Christian Santschi

In this paper, we present near-field optical images of nanostructures exhibiting an extraordinary transmission. These structures consist of annular aperture arrays engraved in a metallic film: they are quite promising structures for nanophotonics because o ...

2008

Design of a time-efficient video-goniophotometer combining bidirectional functions assessment for transmission and reflection

Marilyne Andersen, Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Christian Roecker

A detailed knowledge of the light distribution characteristics through advanced window systems is required to improve the visual comfort of the building's occupants while controlling the propagation of daylight in rooms and the solar gains. An innovative b ...

Elsevier2005

Polyelectrolyte-based immunprotection systems : polymer purification and surface analysis

Dianelys Sainz Vidal

The research of this doctoral thesis was dedicated to polyelectrolytes, specifically to hydrogel materials, which result from coacervation and polyelectrolyte complex formation and have a potential as immunoprotection systems. In particular, microspheres o ...

EPFL2004