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Biodegradable binary blends of poly (butylene succinate) or poly (ε-caprolactone) with poly (butylene succinate-ran-ε-caprolactone) copolymers: Crystallization behavior
(Elsevier, 2022-08-12)Poly (butylene succinate) (PBS) and polycaprolactone (PCL) are two immiscible biocompatible and biodegradable polymers. Aiming to combine the properties of these biodegradable polymers, this work explores for the first ... -
Biosulfidogenesis Mediates Natural Attenuation in Acidic Mine Pit Lakes
(MDPI, 2020-08-21)Acidic pit lakes are abandoned open pit mines filled with acid mine drainage (AMD)—highly acidic, metalliferous waters that pose a severe threat to the environment and are rarely properly remediated. Here, we investigated ... -
Black metal hydrogen above 360 GPa driven by proton quantum fluctuations
(Nature Physics, 2020-09-07)Hydrogen metallization under stable conditions is a major quest for realizing the first room temperature su- perconductor. Recent low-temperature experiments report different metallization pressures, varying from 360GPa ... -
Boosting background suppression in the NEXT experiment through Richardson-Lucy deconvolution
(Springer, 2021-07-21)Next-generation neutrinoless double beta decay experiments aim for half-life sensitivities of similar to 10(27) yr, requiring suppressing backgrounds to < 1 count/tonne/yr. For this, any extra background rejection handle, ... -
Bottom-up Fabrication and Atomic-Scale Characterization of Triply Linked, Laterally π-Extended Porphyrin Nanotapes
(Wiley, 2021-07-12)Porphyrin nanotapes (Por NTs) are promising structures for their use as molecular wires thanks to a high degree of pi-conjugation, low HOMO-LUMO gaps, and exceptional conductance. Such structures have been prepared in ... -
Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Study of Biobased Poly(alkylene 2,5-furanoate)s’ Molecular Dynamics
(MDPI, 2020-06-16)Abstract Poly(2,5-alkylene furanoate)s are bio-based, smart, and innovative polymers that are considered the most promising materials to replace oil-based plastics. These polymers can be synthesized using ecofriendly ... -
Brownian Dynamics Computational Model of Protein Diffusion in Crowded Media with Dextran Macromolecules as Obstacles
(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 ... -
Brønsted Base Catalyzed One-Pot Synthesis od Stereodefined Six-Member Carbocycles Featuring Transient Trienolates and a Key Intramolecular 1,6-Addition
(Wiley-VCH, 2019-07-31)Acatalyst-driven one-pot reaction sequence is developed for the enantio- and diastereoselective synthesis of tetrasubstituted cyclohexenes from simple unsaturated ketones or thioesters.The method involves atertiary ... -
Building Risk into the Mitigation/Adaptation Decisions simulated by Integrated Assessment Models
(Springer Nature, 2019)This paper proposes an operationally simple and easily generalizable methodology to incorporate climate change damage uncertainty into Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs). First uncertainty is transformed into a risk measure ... -
Building synthetic simulated environments for configuring and training multi-camera systems for surveillance applications
(SciTePress, Science and Technology Publications, Lda, 2021)[EN] Synthetic simulated environments are gaining popularity in the Deep Learning Era, as they can alleviate the effort and cost of two critical tasks to build multi-camera systems for surveillance applications: setting ... -
Can existing assessment tools be used to track equity in protected area management under Aichi Target 11?
(Biological Conservation, 2018-08-01)Aichi Target 11 (AT11) includes the commitment of 194 governments to equitably manage protected areas (PAs) by 2020. Here we evaluate whether existing PA Management Effectiveness (PAME) and social and governance assessment ... -
Can Spontaneous Emotions be Detected from Speech on TV Political Debates?
(IEEE, 2019)Decoding emotional states from multimodal signals is an increasingly active domain, within the framework of affective computing, which aims to a better understanding of Human-Human Communication as well as to improve Human- ... -
Candida parapsilosis Colony Morphotype Forecasts Biofilm Formation of Clinical Isolates
(MDPI, 2021-01-07)Candida parapsilosis is a frequent cause of fungal bloodstream infections, especially in critically ill neonates or immunocompromised patients. Due to the formation of biofilms, the use of indwelling catheters and other ... -
Cannabinoid Control of Olfactory Processes: The Where Matters
(MDPI, 2020-04-16)Olfaction has a direct influence on behavior and cognitive processes. There are different neuromodulatory systems in olfactory circuits that control the sensory information flowing through the rest of the brain. The presence ... -
Carbon footprint, municipality size and rurality in Spain: Inequality and carbon taxation
(Elsevier, 2020)By using an environmentally extended multi-regional input-output model, this paper analyses the Spanish households carbon footprint for the 2008 2017 period considering the municipality size as well as the urban or rural ... -
Carbon Nanomaterials Embedded in Conductive Polymers: A State of the Art
(MDPI, 2021-02-27)Carbon nanomaterials are at the forefront of the newest technologies of the third millennium, and together with conductive polymers, represent a vast area of indispensable knowledge for developing the devices of tomorrow. ... -
Carbon-nitrogen interactions in European forests and semi-natural vegetation - Part 1: Fluxes and budgets of carbon, nitrogen and greenhouse gases from ecosystem monitoring and modelling
(Biogeosciences, 2020)The impact of atmospheric reactive nitrogen (Nr) deposition on carbon (C) sequestration in soils and biomass of unfertilized, natural, semi-natural and forest ecosystems has been much debated. Many previous results of this ... -
Case Study to Illustrate the Potential of Conformal Cooling Channels for Hot Stamping Dies Manufactured Using Hybrid Process of Laser Metal Deposition (LMD) and Milling
(MDPI, 2018-02)Hot stamping dies include cooling channels to treat the formed sheet. The optimum cooling channels of dies and molds should adapt to the shape and surface of the dies, so that a homogeneous temperature distribution and ... -
Catalysis of a 1,3-dipolar reaction by distorted DNA incorporating a heterobimetallic platinum(II) and copper(II) complex
(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 ... -
Catalytic steam reforming of biomass fast pyrolysis volatiles over Ni-Co bimetallic catalysts
(Elsevier, 2020-08-11)[EN] The influence of the metal selected as catalytic active phase in the two-step biomass pyrolysis-catalytic reforming strategy has been analyzed. The pyrolysis step was carried out in a conical spouted bed reactor at ...