• 

  Reactive mixing enables enzymatic depolymerization of recalcitrant or unsortable polyester wastes

  Enzyme-catalyzed depolymerization allows efficient recycling of poly(ethylene terephthalate) (PET) bottles, which are easy to sort and made of slowly crystallizing PET. However, because crystalline phases are recalcitrant to enzymatic (...)

  
  
• 

  Digital PCR: from early developments to its future application in clinics

  Digital PCR (dPCR) is the third generation of PCR technology, after conventional PCR and real-time quantitative PCR. It is based on the partitioning of a PCR mixture supplemented with the sample to analyse into a large number of parallel (...)

  
  
• 

  Compartmentalized Suspension Array for the Isothermal, Digital, and Multiplex Detection of microRNAs

  The sensitive and accurate detection of panels of microRNA molecules is critical to enable their use as disease biomarkers. While microarrays and next-generation sequencing allow comprehensive miRNA profiling, they generally suffer from low (...)

  
  
• 

  Tuning the size of poly(butylene oxide) nanoparticles by microfluidic-assisted nanoprecipitation

  Microfluidic-assisted nanoprecipitation provides precise control over formulation conditions, enabling for the design of nanoparticles with highly tunable properties. This study explores the influence of channel geometry, flow dynamics, and (...)

  
  
• 

  Droplet-on-demand using a positive pressure pulse

  Droplet generation under steady conditions is a common microfluidic method for producing biphasic systems. However, this process works only over a limited range of imposed pressure: beyond a critical value, a stable liquid jet can instead form. (...)

  
  
• 

  Dielectric Properties of Aqueous Electrolytes at the Nanoscale

  Despite the ubiquity of aqueous electrolytes, the effect of salt on water organization remains controversial. We introduce a nonlocal and nonlinear field theory for the nanoscale polarization of ions and water and derive the electrolyte (...)

  
  
• 

  Shape of a Membrane on a Liquid Interface with Arbitrary Curvatures

  We study the deformation of a liquid interface with arbitrary principal curvatures by a flat circular sheet. Working first at small slopes, we determine the shape of the sheet analytically in the membrane limit, where the sheet is inextensible (...)

  
  
• 

  Laminar-Turbulent Patterns in Shear Flows: Evasion of Tipping, Saddle-Loop Bifurcation, and Log Scaling of the Turbulent Fraction

  Spatial pattern formation can be a signal for tipping points and abrupt transitions in complex systems. In wall shear flows, the homogeneous turbulent state is disconnected from the laminar one and disappears in a tipping catastrophe scenario. (...)

  
  
• 

  Probing the colloidal behavior of a cell wall polysaccharides-degrading enzyme in a highly constrained model system

  Understanding the specific interaction of cell wall polysaccharides degrading-enzymes with their substrates is of fundamental and practical interest for the fine grasp of their activity. Such interactions are difficult to unveil in real-life (...)

  
  
• 

  Nonreciprocal Ising model

  Systems with nonreciprocal interactions generically display time-dependent states. These are routinely observed in finite systems, from neuroscience to active matter, in which globally ordered oscillations exist. However, the stability of these (...)

  
  

Top