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Prevention of Dominant IgG Adsorption on Nanocarriers in IgG‐Enriched Blood Plasma by Clusterin Precoating
2019
Abstract Nanocarriers for medical applications must work reliably within organisms, independent of the individual differences in the blood proteome. Variation in the blood proteome, such as immunoglobulin levels, is a result of environmental, nutrition, and constitution conditions. This variation, however, should not influence the behavior of nanocarriers in biological media. The composition of the protein corona is investigated to understand the influence varying immunoglobulin levels in the blood plasma have on the interactions with nanocarriers. Specifically, the composition of the nanocarriers' coronas is analyzed after incubation in plasma with normal or elevated immunoglobulin G (IgG)…
Macro-micro relationship in nanostructured functional composites
2012
This paper examines the results of the characterization of two functional composites: Poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA)-Ce:YAG (yttrium aluminium garnet doped with cerium) and PMMA-cobalt hexacyanoferrate (CoHCF). The composites were prepared as possible emitters in the fields of lighting thermal sensors. The prepared composites were char- acterized using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, thermogravi- metric analysis (TGA), differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA) analyses to study the correlation between micro and macro characteristics. We found that the molecular interactions of the two different fill…
Del comer, el deseo, la palabra y su lugar en la vida
2005
El Génesis pone como primer pecado comer la fruta prohibida. Que se tratara del Árbol del Bien y del Mal, que la promesa de la serpiente hecha a Eva fuera la de que accedería a un saber igual al saber divino, que este pasaje bíblico haya dado lugar a múltiples interpetaciones, incluída la metafórica, la alegórica, no invalidan el hecho de que se habla de una fruta y de que la primer falta fue comer. Aquellos que padecen de obesidad, de bulimia o de atracones saben eso: hay correlación entre comer y falta, se sienten culpables. Comen a escondidas, no se animan a hablar de ello, comunican la sensación de estar en pecado, el relato mismo suele estar impregnado de culpa, a veces hasta…
The effect of ash and compost on the content and bioaccumulation of selected heavy metals
2019
Abstract Therefore the carried out study aimed at determination of the effect of high-calcium brown coal ash and compost being produced from municipal sewage sludge on the content and bioaccumulation of heavy metals in potato tubers, wheat grains and rapeseeds during a three-year period. Rapeseeds contained most Cd whereas wheat rains less. Potato tubers, wheat grains and rapeseeds contained more Mn, Ni and Zn in the fertilization objects with municipal sewage sludge with or without coal ash and compared to those where calcium carbonate or coal ash had been introduced into the soil at a dose corresponding to 1.5 Mg CaO · ha–1 at the beginning of this study. Differences in the Mn, Ni and Zn …
Electrocatalytic properties of manganese and cobalt polyporphine films toward oxygen reduction reaction
2018
International audience; Novel member of polymetalloporphines, namely manganese polymetalloporphine of type I (pMnP-I) obtained by ion exchange from magnesium polyporphine of type I (pMgP-I) is reported for the first time and compared to its cobalt analogue (pCoP-I). Both polymer films have been obtained via two-step procedure: demetaladon of the pMgP-I electrode film via its exposure to trifluoroacetic acid solution, resulting in formation of the metal-free polyporphine of type I (pH(2)P-I) followed by electrochemically induced incorporation of Co or Mn ions from the acetonitrile solution of cobalt and manganese perchlorates. A further oxidative transformation of pCoP-I, polymer films has l…
Influences of Chemical Functionalities on Crystal Structures and Electrochemical Properties of Dihydro-benzoxazine Dimer Derivatives
2021
Dihydro-1,3,2H-benzoxazine dimer derivatives or dihydro-benzoxazine dimers are a class of compounds typically prepared by ring-opening reactions between dihydro-benzoxazines and phenols. Dihydro-benzoxazine dimers act as chelating agents for several transition and rare-earth cations. To better understand the chelating properties, it is necessary to examine their structural features and electrochemical characteristics thoroughly. However, the electrochemical properties of dihydro-benzoxazine dimers have not been tremendously examined. Herein, eight derivatives of dihydro-benzoxazine dimers possessing different substituents on the benzene ring and the tertiary-amine nitrogen were synthesized …
Implementació i avaluació de codis QR en laboratoris docents d’enginyeria química
2014
Els codis QR (Quick Response) són codis de barra àmpliament utilitzats en aplicacions comercials i de màrqueting per incloure enllaços a pàgines web, entre altres coses. En l'actualitat un gran nombre de dispositius electrònics com telèfons intel·ligents o tauletes compten amb aplicacions capaces de capturar aquesta informació, permetent al seu usuari emmagatzemar-la i compartir-la amb altres usuaris. Hi ha alguns exemples de la seva aplicació en l'educació, encara que no s'han trobat exemples en l'àrea d'Enginyeria Química. En aquest context, el treball que es presenta és la implantació i avaluació de codis QR en laboratoris docents d'Enginyeria Química amb accés a contingut docent multimè…
The Role of Professors in the Formation of Finnish Parliamentary Life: The Struggle between Two Conceptions of Parliament
2017
The Frankfurt Parliament (1848–49) was subsequently dismissively referred to as the “Professors’ Parliament” due to its heavy representation of scholars and the academic style of its lengthy discussions. Professors have played a prominent role in the deliberations and development of other European assemblies, too. This article examines the role of professors in the formation of Finnish parliamentary life. It moreover underlines the close relationship between the academia and national politics in late nineteenth-century Finland, starting from the European revolutions of 1848. The article highlights how politically active professors, together with the newspaper press, were crucial in transfe…
Tuning the Photoresponse of Nano‐Heterojunction: Pressure‐Induced Inverse Photoconductance in Functionalized WO 3 Nanocuboids
2019
S.R. and S.S. contributed equally to this work. This work was mainly supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11874076), National Science Associated Funding (NSAF, Grant No. U1530402), and Science Challenging Program (Grant No. TZ2016001). D.E. thanks the financial support from Spanish MINECO under Grant No. MAT2016-75586-C4-1-P and from Generalitat Valenciana under Grant Prometeo/2018/123, EFIMAT. The X-ray diffraction measurements were performed at the BL15U1 station, Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility (SSRF) in China. The HP XAS measurements were performed at 20 ID-C, APS, ANL. APS is supported by DOE-BES, under contract no. DE-AC02-06CH11357. The authors grat…
Synthesis and characterization of ethylene-1-hexene copolymers prepared by using MgCl2(THF)2-supported Ziegler-Natta catalysts
2000
Ethylene was copolymerized with 1-hexene over vanadium (VOCl3 and VCl4) and titanium (TiCl4) catalysts supported on MgCl2(THF)2 and activated with Et2AlCl. So far these catalyst systems have not been known as initiators of ethylene-1-hexene copolymerization. The vanadium catalysts were more active than the titanium catalyst and, at identical comonomer concentrations in the feed, gave rise to a greater incorporation of 1-hexene into the copolymer. Even at relatively low fractions of 1-hexene, the MgCl2(THF)2-supported catalysts affected much the copolymer properties like density, melting point and crystallinity.