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Biomass Pyrolysis Solids as Reducing Agents: Comparison with Commercial Reducing Agents
(MDPI, 2016-01)Biomass is one of the most suitable options to be used as renewable energy source due to its extensive availability and its contribution to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass under ... -
Biomolecule storage on non-modified thermoplastic microfluidic chip by ink-jet printing of ionogels
(American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2015)[EN] This paper reports an innovative technique for reagents storage in microfluidic devices by means of a one-step UV-photoprintable ionogel-based microarray on non-modified polymeric substrates. Although the ionogel and ... -
Detección del movimiento cíclico estacional en edificios históricos por métodos topográficos
(Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), 2011-03)[ES] Al igual que el resto de estructuras de ingeniería, los edificios históricos están sometidos a las variaciones de las condiciones atmosféricas que afectan a sus dimensiones. Estos efectos son de carácter cíclico y no ... -
Dispersion of gamma-Alumina Nano-Sized Spherical Particles in a Calamitic Liquid Crystal. Study and Optimization of the Confinement Effects
(MDPI, 2014-03)We report an experimental study on confined systems formed by butyloxybenzylidene octylaniline liquid crystal (4O.8) + gamma-alumina nanoparticles. The effects of the confinement in the thermal and dielectric properties ... -
Effect of Molecular Flexibility on the Nematic-to-Isotropic Phase Transition for Highly Biaxial Molecular Non-Symmetric Liquid Crystal Dimers
(MDPI, 2011-10)In this work, a study of the nematic (N)-isotropic (I) phase transition has been made in a series of odd non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers, the alpha-(4-cyanobiphenyl-4'-yloxy)-omega-(1-pyrenimine-benzylidene-4'-oxy) ... -
Efficient Synthesis of Single-Chain Polymer Nanoparticles via Amide Formation
(Hindawi Publishing, 2015)Single-chain technology (SCT) allows the transformation of individual polymer chains to folded/collapsed unimolecular soft nanoparticles. In this work we contribute to the enlargement of the SCT toolbox by demonstrating ... -
Hole-Phonon Relaxation and Photocatalytic Properties of Titanium Dioxide and Zinc Oxide: First-Principles Approach
(Hindawi Publishing, 2014)First-principles calculations for the temporal characteristics of hole-phonon relaxation in the valence band of titanium dioxide and zinc oxide have been performed. A first-principles method for the calculations of the ... -
Hydrothermal Synthesis and Study of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Vanadate of Nickel(II) Coordination Complex with Pyrazine, Ni3(C4H4N2)3(V8O23)
(Elsevier, 2011-02-25)The three-dimensional hybrid compound Ni3(C4H4N2)3(V8O23) has been synthesized by mild hydrothermal methods under autogenous pressure at 170 ºC, together with another hybrid phase, Ni2(C4H4N2)(V4O12)(H2O)2. The isolation ... -
In Vitro Degradation of Poly(caprolactone)/nHA Composites
(Hindawi Publishing, 2014)The degradation behavior and mechanical properties of polycaprolactone/nanohydroxyapatite composite scaffolds are studied in phosphate buffered solution (PBS), at 37 degrees C, over 16 weeks. Under scanning electron ... -
Influence of Humidity on Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors
(Hindawi, 2014-01)We demonstrate the influence of the relative humidity (RH) on the wavelength of fiber Bragg grating sensors (FBGS), performing tests with five FBGS at different humidity and temperature conditions. These tests were performed ... -
Manipulation of domain wall dynamics in amorphous microwires through the magnetoelastic anisotropy
(Springer, 2012-04)We studied the effect of magnetoelastic anisotropy on domain wall (DW) dynamics and remagnetization process of magnetically bistable Fe-Co-rich microwires with metallic nucleus diameters (from 1.4 to 22 mu m). We manipulated ... -
Mother structures related to the hexagonal and cubic close packing in Cu24 clusters: solvent-influenced derivatives
(RSC Publishing, 2015-05-07)Compound 1 [Cu24(m BDC)24(DMF)20(H2O)4]• 24DMF•40H2O (m-BDC is 1,3-benzenedicarboxylate and DMF is N,N-dimethylformamide) has been synthesized and structurally characterized by X-ray diffraction. It consists of Cu24-clusters ... -
Nanostructured giant magneto-impedance multilayers deposited onto flexible substrates for low pressure sensing
(Springer, 2012-04)Nanostructured FeNi-based multilayers are very suitable for use as magnetic sensors using the giant magneto-impedance effect. New fields of application can be opened with these materials deposited onto flexible substrates. ... -
Nonlinear magnetic vortex dynamics in a circular nanodot excited by spin-polarized current
(Springer International Publishing, 2014-08-08)We investigate analytically and numerically nonlinear vortex spin torque oscillator dynamics in a circular magnetic nanodot induced by a spin-polarized current perpendicular to the dot plane. We use a generalized nonlinear ... -
Optimization of solution-processed oligothiophene:fullerene based organic solar cells by using solvent additives
(Beilstein Institut, 2013-10)The optimization of solution-processed organic bulk-heterojunction solar cells with the acceptor-substituted quinquethiophene DCV5T-Bu-4 as donor in conjunction with PC61BM as acceptor is described. Power conversion ... -
Porous self-protonating spiropyran-based NIPAAm gels with improved reswelling kinetics
(Springer, 2016-02)[EN] This study focuses on improving the speed ofactuation of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide)-based photoresponsive gels containing copolymerised spiropyran as the photoswitch and acrylic acid as the proton source. The improvement ... -
Pumped double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling
(Springer, 2011-03)We study driven by an external electric field quantum orbital and spin dynamics of electron in a one-dimensional double quantum dot with spin-orbit coupling. Two types of external perturbation are considered: a periodic ... -
SEM and EDS Characterisation of Layering TiOx Growth onto the Cutting Tool Surface in Hard Drilling Processes of Ti-Al-V Alloys
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011)Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) has been used to identify and analyse the secondary adhesion effect precursors formed during the dry drilling processes of Ti-6Al-4V alloy over the rake face and flute of the drilling ... -
STM study on the self-assembly of oligothiophene-based organic semiconductors
(Beilstein Institut, 2011-11)The self-assembly properties of a series of functionalized regioregular oligo(3-alkylthiophenes) were investigated by using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) at the liquid-solid interface under ambient conditions. The ... -
Structural and Electronic Properties of Low-Dimensional C-Nanoassemblies and Possible Analogues for Si (and Ge)
(Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2011)The delocalised nature of p-electrons in carbon-based compounds has opened a huge path for new fundamental and technological developments using carbon-based materials of different dimensionality (from clusters, to surfaces, ...