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Vavourakis, Charlotte D. (author), Mehrshad, Maliheh (author), Balkema, Cherel (author), Van Hall, Rutger (author), Andrei, Adrian Ştefan (author), Ghai, Rohit (author), Sorokin, Dimitry Y. (author), Muyzer, Gerard (author)Background: The planetary sulfur cycle is a complex web of chemical reactions that can be microbial-mediated or can occur spontaneously in the environment, depending on the temperature and pH. Inorganic sulfur compounds can serve as energy sources for specialized prokaryotes and are important substrates for microbial growth in general. Here,...journal article 2019
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van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Duijff, R. (author), Reinstra, Otto (author)Due to increased food production, the demand for nitrogen and phosphorus as fertilizers grows. Nitrogen-based fertilizers are produced with the Haber-Bosch process through the industrial fixation of N2 into ammonia. Through wastewater treatment, the nitrogen is finally released back to the atmosphere as N2 gas. This nitrogen cycle is...journal article 2018
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Agarwal, Girish (author), Allen, Roland E. (author), Bezděková, Iva (author), Boyd, Robert W. (author), Chen, Goong (author), Hanson, R. (author), Hawthorne, Dean L. (author), Hemmer, Philip (author), Kim, Moochan B. (author), Kocharovskaya, Olga (author), Lee, D. (author), Lidström, Sebastian K. (author), Lidström, Suzy (author), Losert, Harald (author), Maier, Helmut (author), Neuberger, John W. (author), Padgett, Miles J. (author), Raizen, Mark (author), Rajendran, Surjeet (author), Rasel, Ernst (author), Schleich, Wolfgang P. (author), Scully, Marlan O. (author), Shchedrin, Gavriil (author), Shvets, Gennady (author), Sokolov, Alexei (author), Svidzinsky, Anatoly (author), Walsworth, Ronald L. (author), Weiss, Rainer (author), Wilczek, Frank (author), Willner, Alan E. (author), Yablonovich, Eli (author), Zheludev, Nikolay (author)The Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE) has been a seminal force in quantum optics and related areas since 1971. It is rather mind-boggling to recognize how the concepts presented at these conferences have transformed scientific understanding and human society. In January 2017, the participants of PQE were asked to...journal article 2018
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Dereli, R.K. (author), Wang, Xiaofei (author), van der Zee, F. (author), van Lier, J.B. (author)The impact of nitrogen on biological performance and sludge filterability of anaerobic membrane bioreactors was investigated in two lab-scale cross-flow anaerobic membrane bioreactors that were fed with cheese whey at two different COD:TKN ratios (50 and 190). Nitrogen deprivation adversely affected the biological treatment performance and...journal article 2018
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Wang, R. (author), Sun, X. (author), Ould-Chikh, Samy (author), Osadchii, D. (author), Bai, F. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Gascon, Jorge (author)A nitrogen-doped carbon was synthesized through the pyrolysis of the well-known metal-organic framework ZIF-8, followed by a subsequent acid treatment, and has been applied as a catalyst in the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide. The resulting electrode shows Faradaic efficiencies to carbon monoxide as high as ∼78%, with hydrogen...journal article 2018
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Namsaraev, Zorigto (author), Samylina, Olga (author), Sukhacheva, Marina (author), Borisenko, Gennadii (author), Sorokin, Dimitry Y. (author), Tourova, Tatiana (author)Bitter-1 is a shallow hypersaline soda lake in Kulunda Steppe (Altai region, Russia). During a study period between 2005 and 2016, the salinity in the littoral area of the lake fluctuated within the range from 85 to 400 g/L (in July of each year). Light-dependent nitrogen fixation occurred in this lake up to the salt-saturating conditions....journal article 2018
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Hoekstra, M. (author), Geilvoet, Stefan P. (author), Hendrickx, Tim L.G. (author), van Erp Taalman Kip, Charlotte S. (author), Kleerebezem, R. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)The aim of this research was to study the biological feasibility of the Partial Nitritation/Anammox (PN/A) technology to remove nitrogen from municipal mainstream wastewaters. During stable process operations at summer temperatures (23.2 ± 1.3°C), the total nitrogen removal rate was 0.223 ± 0.029 kg N (m<sup>3 </sup>d)<sup>−1</sup> while at...journal article 2018
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van Dam, S.B. (author), Ruf, M.T. (author), Hanson, R. (author)Defect centres in diamond are promising building blocks for quantum networks thanks to a long-lived spin state and bright spin-photon interface. However, their low fraction of emission into a desired optical mode limits the entangling success probability. The key to overcoming this is through Purcell enhancement of the emission. Open Fabry...journal article 2018
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Hoekstra, M. (author)Currently wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) consume a lot of energy and surface area. While the incoming water contains chemical energy (BOD) and reusable resources which are not effectively utilized. The ideal is to develop a treatment scheme which allows for the efficient removal of pollutants while minimizing the energy input and maximizing...doctoral thesis 2017
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Cueto Rojas, H.F. (author), Milne, Nicholas (author), van Helmond, W. (author), Pieterse, M.M. (author), Maris, Antonius J A (author), Daran, J.G. (author), Wahl, S.A. (author)Background: Microbial production of nitrogen containing compounds requires a high uptake flux and assimilation of the N-source (commonly ammonium), which is generally coupled with ATP consumption and negatively influences the product yield. In the industrial workhorse Saccharomyces cerevisiae, ammonium (NH<sub>4</sub> <sup>+</sup>) uptake is...journal article 2017
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Grewe, V. (author), Dahlmann, K. (author), Flink, J. (author), Frömming, C. (author), Ghosh, R. (author), Gierens, K. (author), Heller, R (author), Hendricks, J. (author), Jockel, P. (author), Kaufmann, S. (author), Kölker, K. (author), Linke, F. (author), Luchkova, T. (author), Lührs, B. (author), van Manen, Jesper (author), Matthes, S (author), Minikin, A. (author), Niklaß, Malte (author), Plohr, M. (author), Righi, M. (author), Rosanka, S. (author), Schmitt, A (author), Schumann, U (author), Terekhov, I. (author), Unterstrasser, S. (author), Vázquez-Navarro, M. (author), Voigt, C. (author), Wicke, K. (author), Yamashita, H. (author), Zahn, A. (author), Ziereis, H. (author)The WeCare project (Utilizing Weather information for Climate efficient and eco efficient future aviation), an internal project of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt, DLR), aimed at finding solutions for reducing the climate impact of aviation based on an improved understanding of the atmospheric impact from...journal article 2017
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Schiattarella, Chiara (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Polichetti, Tiziana (author), Alfano, Brigida (author), Massera, Ettore (author), Miglietta, Maria L. (author), Di Francia, Girolamo (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author)The sp<sup>2</sup> carbon-based allotropes have been extensively exploited for the realization of gas sensors in the recent years because of their high conductivity and large specific surface area. A study on graphene that was synthetized by means of a novel transfer-free fabrication approach and is employed as sensing material is herein...journal article 2017
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Hoekstra, M. (author), de Weerd, F.A. (author), Kleerebezem, R. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)The implementation of autotrophic nitrogen removal in the mainstream of a municipal wastewater treatment plant is currently pursued. Among the crucial unknown factors are the kinetic properties of anaerobic ammonium oxidising (anammox) bacteria at low temperatures. In this study we investigated the adaptation of a fast-growing anammox culture...journal article 2017
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van Dam, S.B. (author), Humphreys, P.C. (author), Rozpedek, F.D. (author), Wehner, S.D.C. (author), Hanson, R. (author)Quantum networks distributed over distances greater than a few kilometres will be limited by the time required for information to propagate between nodes. We analyse protocols that are able to circumvent this bottleneck by employing multi-qubit nodes and multiplexing. For each protocol, we investigate the key network parameters that determine...journal article 2017
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Hu, Fa-Fei (author), Tang, H. (author), Ye, H. (author), Chen, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The sensing behavior of monolayer tin sulfide (SnS) for four gas molecules (NH<sub>3</sub>, NO<sub>2</sub>, CO, and H<sub>2</sub>O) are studied by the first-principle calculation based on density-functional theory. We calculate adsorption energy, adsorption distance, and Hirshfeld charge to estimate the adsorption ability of monolayer SnS for...journal article 2017
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Sanchez Guilen, J.A. (author)On a global scale, sewage represents the main point-source of water pollution and is also the predominant source of nitrogen contamination in urban regions. The present research is focused on the study of the main challenges that need to be addressed in order to achieve a successful inorganic nitrogen post-treatment of anaerobic effluents in the...doctoral thesis 2016
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Minaya, Veronica (author), Corzo, Gerald (author), Romero-Saltos, Hugo (author), Van Der Kwast, Johannes (author), Lantinga, Egbert (author), Galárraga-Sánchez, Remigio (author), Mynett, A.E. (author)Aims The importance of quantifying carbon stocks in terrestrial ecosystems is crucial for determining climate change dynamics. However, the present regional assessments of carbon stocks in tropical grasslands are extrapolated to unsampled areas with a high degree of uncertainty and without considering the carbon and nitrogen composition of...journal article 2016
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Lüke, Claudia (author), Speth, Daan R. (author), Kox, Martine A R (author), Villanueva, Laura (author), Jetten, M.S.M. (author)Oxygen minimum zones (OMZ) are areas in the global ocean where oxygen concentrations drop to below one percent. Low oxygen concentrations allow alternative respiration with nitrate and nitrite as electron acceptor to become prevalent in these areas, making them main contributors to oceanic nitrogen loss. The contribution of anammox and...journal article 2016
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Lotti, T. (author)Conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), like activated sludge systems, are energy demanding requiring a large electrical energy supply (e.g. 25 kWh PE-1 year-1) which, especially during peak-load periods, may account for an important quote of the grid installed power of the surrounding area. Only across the EU, there are 16000 WWTPs...doctoral thesis 2016
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Laureni, Michele (author), Falås, Per (author), Robin, Orlane (author), Wick, Arne (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author), Nielsen, Jeppe Lund (author), Ternes, Thomas A. (author), Morgenroth, Eberhard (author), Joss, Adriano (author)The implementation of autotrophic anaerobic ammonium oxidation processes for the removal of nitrogen from municipal wastewater (known as "mainstream anammox") bears the potential to bring wastewater treatment plants close to energy autarky. The aim of the present work was to assess the long-term stability of partial nitritation/anammox (PN/A)...journal article 2016