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BODIPY atropisomer interconversion, face discrimination, and superstructure appending

2016

International audience; A strategy was developed to append sterically hindered apical pickets on both faces of the BODIPY platform to prevent stacking and aggregation. Ortho-substitution of both the meso-phenyl ring and the boron-bound catechol affords the right directionality to append pickets, achieve face discrimination, featuring two inter-convertible atropisomers, and is reminiscent of the picket-fence strategy in porphyrins.

Spin caloric transport from density-functional theory

2019

Spin caloric transport refers to the coupling of heat with spin transport. Its applications primarily concern the generation of spin currents and control of magnetisation by temperature gradients for information technology, known by the synonym spin caloritronics. Within the framework of ab initio theory, new tools are being developed to provide an additional understanding of these phenomena in realistic materials, accounting for the complexity of the electronic structure without adjustable parameters. Here, we review this progress, summarising the principles of the density-functional-based approaches in the field and presenting a number of application highlights. Our discussion includes th…

Pyrrolomycins as novel agents against staphylococcal biofilms

2009

Bacterial biofilms: a challenge in the discovery of new anti-infective agents.

2010

The ability to form a biofilm, bacterial communities able to grow on surfaces and surrounded by an extracellular polymeric substance biofilm agents.Our research group focused on discovering of novel chemical agents of potential therapeutic utility in the treatment of staphylococcal biofilm-associatedinfections by screening novel compounds (synthetic or natural). In a recent study, the antistaphylococcalbiofilm activity of pyrrolomycins C,D, F1, F2a, F2b, F3 a family of halogenated pyrroles which are naturally produced byActinosporangium vitaminophylum and of the synthesized related compounds I, II, III were investigated and compared (Schillaci et al, 2010). We also focused on marine inverte…

Implicación y caracterización de Staphylococcus aureus en las poliposis nasales.

2016

La rinosinusitis crónica (RSC) es una enfermedad inflamatoria, de más de 12 semanas de duración, que afecta a la mucosa de las fosas nasales y de los senos paranasales. Se caracteriza por presentar, obstrucción o congestión nasal, y/o rinorrea; y además poder presentar uno de estos dos síntomas, dolor o sensación de presión facial, y/o pérdida total o parcial del sentido del olfato. La RSC se divide en dos grupos RSC con ausencia o RSC con presencia de poliposis nasal (PN). Además clínicamente la rinosinusitis crónica con presencia de poliposis nasal (RSCcPN) pueden subclasificarse en (a) RSCcPN eosinofílica, que es bilateral e idiopática, pudiendo presentarse de forma aislada, asociada a a…

Panaria Film: An Italian Case of Production Company Style in Documentary Film

2007

Attraverso l’analisi filmica di opere della Panaria Film (tra le quali “Cacciatori sottomarini”, “Tonnara”, “Tra Scilla e Cariddi”), il lavoro individua coerenze di linguaggio e di temi che, assieme alle innovazioni tecniche che le veicolano, consentono di ipotizzare e dimostrare l'esistenza di uno stile rappresentativo specifico della casa di produzione cinematografica siciliana nell'ambito del cinema documentario. Nelle opere documentaristiche di questa casa di produzione, infatti, non c'è soltanto l'interesse antropologico; c'è anche l'interesse tecnico e di sperimentazione del linguaggio cinematografico che nasce da una consapevolezza artistica che spazia dalle esperienze dei formalisti…

Photoluminescence and Electron Spin Resonance of Silicon Dioxide Crystal with Rutile Structure (Stishovite)

2018

This work was supported by ERANET MYND. Also, financial support provided by Scientific Research Project for Students and Young Researchers Nr. SJZ/2017/2 realized at the Institute of Solid State Physics, University of Latvia is greatly acknowledged. The authors express our gratitude to R.I. Mashkovtsev for help in ESR signal interpretation. The authors are appreciative to T.I. Dyuzheva, L.M. Lityagina, N.A. Bendeliani for stishovite single crystals and to K. Hubner and H.-J. Fitting for stishovite powder of Barringer Meteor Crater.

Relationship between volume of submandibular salivary stones in vivo determined with cone-beam computer tomography and in vitro with micro-computer t…

2021

Background Successful removal of salivary stones depends on exact pretreatment information of the location, the size and shape of the stones. This study aimed to compare the volume of submandibular sialoliths determined by preoperative Cone-Beam Computer Tomography (CBCT) scans with the volume of the removed stones on micro-Computer Tomography (micro-CT) scans. Material and Methods In this study, using twenty-one submandibular sialoliths, the pretreatment volumes in-vivo measured on CBCT were compared to the volumes of removed stones determined by micro-CT scans. The volume measured on micro-CT scans served as the gold standard. Pre-operative CBCT’s and in-vitro micro-CT’s were converted in…

Characterization of rhenium oxide films and their application to liquid crystal cells

2009

Rhenium trioxide exhibits high electronic conductivity, while its open cubic crystal structure allows an appreciable hydrogen intercalation, generating disordered solid phases, with protonic conductivity. Rhenium oxide thin films have been obtained by thermal evaporation of ReO3 powders on different substrates, maintained at different temperatures, and also by reactive magnetron sputtering of a Re metallic target. A comparative investigation has been carried out on these films, by using micro-Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction. Two basic types of solid phases appear to grow in the films: a red metallic HxReO3 compound, with distorted perovskite structures, like in the bulk material, a…

Ray optics behavior of flux avalanche propagation in superconducting films

2015

Experimental evidence of wave properties of dendritic flux avalanches in superconducting films is reported. Using magneto-optical imaging the propagation of dendrites across boundaries between a bare NbN film and areas coated by a Cu layer was visualized, and it was found that the propagation is refracted in full quantitative agreement with Snell's law. For the studied film of 170 nm thickness and a $0.9\phantom{\rule{0.28em}{0ex}}\ensuremath{\mu}\mathrm{m}$ thick metal layer, the refractive index was close to $n=1.4$. The origin of the refraction is believed to be caused by the dendrites propagating as an electromagnetic shock wave, similar to damped modes considered previously for normal …