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Manganese oxide catalysts for secondary zinc air batteries: from
; ; ; ; Iruin Sanz, Juan José
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An efficient, durable and low cost air cathode with low polarization between the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is essential for a high performance and durable secondary zinc-air ... -
Diversity of winter photoinhibitory responses: a case study in co-occurring lichens, mosses, herbs and woody plants from subalpine environments
Míguez Cano, Fátima; Fernández Marín, Beatriz; Becerril Soto, José María ; García Plazaola, José Ignacio (Wiley, 2017-02-14)
Winter evergreens living in mountainous areas have to withstand a harsh combination of high light levels and low temperatures in wintertime. In response, evergreens can activate a photoprotective process that consists of ... -
Manipulation of Fluid Flow Direction in Microfluidic Paper-Based Analytical Devices with an Ionogel Negative Passive Pump
Akyazi, Tugce; Gil González, Nerea; Basabe Desmonts, Lourdes; Castaño, Enrique; Morant-Miñana, M.C.; Benito López, Fernando (Elsevier, 2017-03-06)
Microfluidic paper-based analytical devices (microPADs) are a relatively new group of analytical tools thatrepresent an innovative low-cost platform technology for fluid handling and analysis. Nonetheless, microPADs lack ... -
Enantioselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of rac-Lactide Dictated by Densely Substituted Aminoacids
; Rivilla de la Cruz, Iván; ; ; Etxeberria Lizarraga, Agustín ; ; ; ; Cossío Mora, Fernando Pedro (ACS, 2017-03-08)
Organocatalysis is becoming an important tool in polymer science because of its versatility and specificity. To date a limited number of organic catalysts have demonstrated the ability to promote stereocontrolled ... -
Brownian Dynamics Computational Model of Protein Diffusion in Crowded Media with Dextran Macromolecules as Obstacles
; Via Nadal, Mireia; ; ; (MDPI, 2017-03-09)
The high concentration of macromolecules (i.e., macromolecular crowding) in cellular environments leads to large quantitative effects on the dynamic and equilibrium biological properties. These effects have been experimentally ... -
Poly(ionic Liquid) Thermo-responsive Hydrogel Microfluidic Actuators
Tudor, Aleksandru; Sáez Castaño, Janire; Florea, Larisa; Benito López, Fernando; Diamond, Dermot (2017-03-14)
tributylhexyl phosphonium sulfopropylacrylate (PSPA) poly(ionic liquid) (PILc) hydrogels as temperature controlled actuators in microfluidic devices. The hydrogel size is modulated by localised changes in its temperature ... -
From classical to nonparametric growth models: Towards comprehensive modelling of mussel growth patterns
(Elsevier, 2017-03-18)Understanding biological processes, such as growth, is crucial to development management and sustainability plans for bivalve populations. Von Bertalanffy and Gompertz models have been commonly used to fit bivalve growth. ... -
A reliable turning process by the early use of a deep simulation model at several manufacturing stages
Urbicain Pelayo, Gorka; ; ; Arsuaga Berrueta, Mikel ; ; (MDPI, 2017-05-02)
The future of machine tools will be dominated by highly flexible and interconnected systems, in order to achieve the required productivity, accuracy, and reliability. Nowadays, distortion and vibration problems are easily ... -
Endogenous Fishing Mortalities: a State-Space Bioeconomic Model
(Oxford University Press, 2017-05-13)A methodology that endogenously determines catchability functions that link fi shing mortality with contemporaneous stock abundance is presented. We consider a stochastic age-structured model for a fishery composed by ... -
A Survey on the Contributions of Software-Defined Networking to Traffic Engineering
; Astorga Burgo, Jasone; ; Higuero Aperribay, María Victoria (IEEE, 2017-05-31)
Since the appearance of OpenFlow back in 2008, software-defined networking (SDN) has gained momentum. Although there are some discrepancies between the standards developing organizations working with SDN about what SDN is ... -
Enhanced Flexibility and Reusability through State Machine-Based Architectures for Multisensor Intelligent Robotics
(MDPI, 2017-05-31)This paper presents a state machine-based architecture, which enhances the flexibility and reusability of industrial robots, more concretely dual-arm multisensor robots. The proposed architecture, in addition to allowing ... -
Microtechnologies for Cell Microenvironment Control and Monitoring
Azuaje Hualde, Enrique; García Hernando, Maite ; Etxebarria Elezgarai, Jaione ; Martínez de Pancorbo Gómez, María de los Angeles ; Benito López, Fernando ; Basabe Desmonts, Lourdes (MDPI, 2017-06)
A great breadth of questions remains in cellular biology. Some questions cannot be answered using traditional analytical techniques and so demand the development of new tools for research. In the near future, the development ... -
Temperature responsive PEG-based polyurethanes “ a la carte”
(Elsevier, 2017-06-22)Temperature responsive polymers able to alter their chemical or physical properties have been extensively investigated. Most of these polymers have an alkane polymer backbone with only carbon-carbon bonds. In this sense, ... -
Off-stage ecosystem service burdens: A blind spot for global sustainability
(IOP Publishing, 2017-07)The connected nature of social-ecological systems has never been more apparent than in today's globalized world. The ecosystem service framework and associated ecosystem assessments aim to better inform the science-policy ... -
Context- and Template-Based Compression for Efficient Management of Data Models in Resource-Constrained Systems
Berzosa Macho, Jorge; Gardeazabal Montón, Pedro José Luis; Cortiñas Rodríguez, Roberto (MDPI, 2017-08)
The Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) paradigm is based on the deployment of interconnected heterogeneous devices and systems, so interoperability is at the heart of any CPS architecture design. In this sense, the adoption of ... -
Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT) Derivatives: Innovative Conductive Polymers for Bioelectronics
(MDPI, 2017-08)Poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)s are the conducting polymers (CP) with the biggest prospects in the field of bioelectronics due to their combination of characteristics (conductivity, stability, transparency and ... -
Catalysis of a 1,3-dipolar reaction by distorted DNA incorporating a heterobimetallic platinum(II) and copper(II) complex
Rivilla de la Cruz, Iván; ; Schäfer, Thomas ; ; ; ; Aboudzadeh, Ali ; ; ; Cossío Mora, Fernando Pedro (Royal Society of Chemistry, 2017-08-11)
A novel catalytic system based on covalently modified DNA is described. This catalyst promotes 1,3-dipolar reactions between azomethine ylides and maleimides. The catalytic system is based on the distortion of the double ... -
Leaves play a central role in the adaptation of nitrogen and sulfur metabolism to ammonium nutrition in oilseed rape ( Brassica napus )
(Biomed Central, 2017-09-20)Background: The coordination between nitrogen (N) and sulfur (S) assimilation is required to suitably provide plants with organic compounds essential for their development and growth. The N source induces the adaptation ... -
Reusable Ionogel-based Photo-actuators in a Lab-on-a-disc
Sáez Castaño, Janire; Glennon, Thomas; Czugala, Monika; Tudor, Aleksandru; Ducree, Jens; Florea, Larisa; Benito López, Fernando (Elsevier, 2017-11-04)
This paper describes the design, fabrication and performance of a reusable ionogel-based photo-actuator, in-situ photopolymerised into a lab-on-a-disc microfluidic device, for flow control. The ionogel provides an effective ... -
Phantom Membrane Microfluidic Cross-Flow Filtration Device for the Direct Optical Detection of Water Pollutants
Lanfranco, Roberta; Sáez Castaño, Janire; Di Nicolò, E.; Benito López, Fernando; Buscaglia, Marco (Elservier, 2017-11-06)
The diffusion of autonomous sensing platforms capable of a remote large-scale surveillance of environmental water basins is currently limited by the cost and complexity of standard analytical methods. In order to create a ...