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Yarali, E. (author), Klimopoulou, M. (author), David, M.K. (author), Boukany, P. (author), Staufer, U. (author), Fratila-Apachitei, E.L. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author), Accardo, A. (author), Mirzaali, Mohammad J. (author)The Poisson's ratio and elastic modulus are two parameters determining the elastic behavior of biomaterials. While the effects of elastic modulus on the cell response is widely studied, very little is known regarding the effects of the Poisson's ratio. The micro-architecture of meta-biomaterials determines not only the Poisson's ratio but...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Zhenya (author), Wei, Houyu (author), Xiao, Yanqiu (author), Cheng, Chuanxiao (author), Tian, Jiean (author), Li, Xinxin (author), Liu, Junrui (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)This paper comprehensively investigates the purge mechanism of proton exchange membrane fuel cells during the shutdown process, which qualitatively examines the effect of purge parameters (including current density, stoichiometric ratio, and relative humidity) on water content variation, and further quantitatively investigates the remaining...journal article 2024
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Imron, M.F. (author), Setiawan, Wahyu (author), Putranto, Trisnadi Widyaleksono Catur (author), Sheikh Abdullah, Siti Rozaimah (author), Kurniawan, Setyo Budi (author)Bacillus nitratireducens was isolated from textile effluent and showed high tolerance to chromium (Cr), reaching up to a 1000 mg/L MIC value. This research was aimed at utilizing biosorbents from live and dead cells of B. nitratireducens to remove Cr from an aqueous solution. A batch biosorption test was performed, and mechanisms analysis was...journal article 2024
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Chrafih, Younes (author), Al-Hattab, Mohamed (author), El Boubekri, A. (author), Rahmani, Khalid (author), Bajjou, Omar (author), Basyooni-M.Kabatas, Mohamed A. (author)Tandem solar cells have a wider photon absorption range, allowing them to provide better efficiency than single-junction SC. The upper cell absorbs high-energy photons, while the lower cell absorbs low-energy filtered photons. However, in order to obtain affordable, efficient, and long-lasting SC, the absorber layers of the top and bottom...journal article 2024
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Klughammer, N. (author)In this thesis, we have introduced palladium zero-mode waveguides (Pd ZMWs) as a valuable tool for biophysics research and have showcased several applications thereof. We started by using them as single-molecule sensors for free translocations of fluorophores, proteins, and voltage-driven translocations of DNA. By studying salt-gradient driven...doctoral thesis 2023
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Gallego Murillo, Joan Sebastián (author)Production of cultured red blood cells (cRBCs) hold the promise of being a potentially unlimited source of cells that could cover the increasing demand of RBCs for transfusion purposes, while having more control on the quality and safety of the cells compared to the current donor-dependent system. cRBCs could also be used for novel therapies in...doctoral thesis 2023
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Kingma, E. (author)All living systems possess the ability to evolve. This ability has allowed life to adopt a large diversity of shapes, colors, sizes and lifestyles. However, despite being a fundamental property of life, our knowledge of what makes living systems evolvable is limited. The fact that evolution can be sometimes be hopelessly unpredictable while in...doctoral thesis 2023
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Koster, C.C. (author)Building synthetic cells is extremely interesting from a fundamental perspective, as the ability to rationally build viable, dividing, and self-maintaining cells provides knowledge on the minimal requirements to sustain life. This should enhance our understanding about which biological parts are minimally required for a cell to live, and how...doctoral thesis 2023
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Egberts, G. (author)Burns can make patients’ lives quite miserable. Apart from prominent and thickened, or hypertrophic, scars, the skin may be characterized by contraction. When this contraction is so severe that the patient loses joint mobility, it is called contracture. Then a patient may have difficulties with sports or other daily activities. The consequence...doctoral thesis 2023
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Chen, N. (author)The issue of climate change, including global warming, poses a significant challenge to our planet. In response to this challenge, the Paris Agreement was signed, which aims to limit the rise in global temperatures to well below 2 <sup style="--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw...doctoral thesis 2023
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Weninger, B. (author)We have to overcome the intermittent nature of renewables to master the energy transition. Harvesting renewable electricity is only part of the solution. Energy storage is another part and the main challenge of our time. Only with efficient storage solutions can big industries switch to renewables.<br/>Electricity storage is most efficient with...doctoral thesis 2023
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Androulakis, Ioannis (author), Ferrero, Riccardo (author), van Oossanen, R. (author), Manzin, Alessandra (author), Denkova, A.G. (author), Djanashvili, K. (author), Nadar, R.A. (author), van Rhoon, G.C. (author)While hyperthermia has been shown to induce a variety of cytotoxic and sensitizing effects on cancer tissues, the thermal dose–effect relationship is still not well quantified, and it is still unclear how it can be optimally combined with other treatment modalities. Additionally, it is speculated that different methods of applying...journal article 2023
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Mourragui, S.M.C. (author)Extensive efforts in cancer research over the past decades have markedly improved diagnosis and treatments, leading to better outcomes for cancer patients. Paradoxically, however, these discoveries have begun to shed light on a level of complexity that rules out the emergence of a universal cancer treatment. As any tumor is now known to be...doctoral thesis 2023
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van Veldhuizen, B.N. (author), van Biert, L. (author), Amladi, A. (author), Woudstra, T. (author), Visser, K. (author), Aravind, P.V. (author)An increasing demand in the marine industry to reduce emissions led to investigations into more efficient power conversion using fuels with sustainable production pathways. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are under consideration for long-range shipping, because of its high efficiency, low pollutant emissions, and fuel flexibility. SOFC systems...journal article 2023
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Godino, E. (author), Restrepo Sierra, A.M. (author), Danelon, C.J.A. (author)The reconstitution of basic cellular functions in micrometer-sized liposomes has led to a surge of interest in the construction of synthetic cells. Microscopy and flow cytometry are powerful tools for characterizing biological processes in liposomes with fluorescence readouts. However, applying each method separately leads to a compromise...journal article 2023
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Warmink, Kelly (author), Rios, Jaqueline L. (author), Varderidou-Minasian, Suzy (author), Torres-Torrillas, Marta (author), van Valkengoed, Devin R. (author), Versteeg, Sabine (author), Eijkelkamp, Niels (author), Weinans, Harrie (author), Korthagen, Nicoline M. (author), Lorenowicz, Magdalena J. (author)Background: Mesenchymal stromal/stem cells (MSCs) and MSC-derived extracellular vesicles (MSC-EVs) hold promise as a disease modifying treatment in osteoarthritis (OA). Obesity, and its associated inflammation, contribute to OA development and metabolic OA represents a specific and significant group of the OA patient population. Given their...journal article 2023
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Wu, Huan (author), Luo, Houcai (author), Zhang, Jingping (author), Zheng, Bofeng (author), Lang, Lei (author), Wang, Zeping (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Chen, Xianping (author)To investigate the unclamped inductive switch (UIS) characteristics, 1200 V silicon carbide (SiC) planar MOSFETs with four cell topologies of linear, current sharing linear, square, and hexagon are designed and manufactured. The experimental platform was built and tested. The results show that the single pulse avalanche energy density of the...journal article 2023
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van der Sluis, Tetje C. (author), Beyrend, Guillaume (author), van der Gracht, Esmé T.I. (author), Abdelaal, T.R.M. (author), Jochems, Simon P. (author), Belderbos, Robert A. (author), Wesselink, Thomas H. (author), van Duikeren, Suzanne (author), Arens, Ramon (author)Immune checkpoint therapy (ICT) has the power to eradicate cancer, but the mechanisms that determine effective therapy-induced immune responses are not fully understood. Here, using high-dimensional single-cell profiling, we interrogate whether the landscape of T cell states in the peripheral blood predict responses to combinatorial targeting...journal article 2023
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Blanch Jover, A. (author), Dekker, C. (author)The Cdv system is the protein machinery that performs cell division and other membrane-deforming processes in a subset of archaea. Evolutionarily, the system is closely related to the eukaryotic ESCRT machinery, with which it shares many structural and functional similarities. Since its first description 15 years ago, the understanding of the...review 2023
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Zhou, Y. (author), Ibrahim, Aya (author), Muttillo, M. (author), Manganiello, P. (author), Ziar, H. (author), Isabella, O. (author)This paper presents the fundamental study on the relationship between LED light sources and the performance of solar cell as receivers in visible light communication (VLC) links. Here, different colors of LEDs are modulated with a sinusoidal signal, and the bandwidth of the VLC system based on various c-Si PV architectures is characterized at...conference paper 2023