The adsorption behavior of the Tet-124 antimicrobial peptide and the Tet-124 peptide modified at the C- and N-terminus with the sequence glycine-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine-glycine (G-DOPA-G) on titanium surfac...
Authors: Yendry Regina Corrales Ureña, Linda Wittig, Matheus Vieira Nascimento, Juliano Luiz Faccioni, Paulo Noronha Lisboa Filho and Klaus Rischka
In the past decade, the interest in repair and retrofitting of existing structures and rehabilitation of the damaged structures has led to the development of more effective and low invasive architectural and e...
Authors: Júnia Soares Nogueira Chagas and Gray Farias Moita
Self-cleaning surfaces have excelled in recent years in energy and environmental fields. In particular, in solar energy area, these surfaces are used to avoid soiling accumulation on photovoltaic (PV) modules....
Authors: Magnum Augusto Moraes Lopes de Jesus, João Trajano da Silva Neto, Gianluca Timò, Paulo Renato Perdigão Paiva, Maria Sylvia S Dantas and Angela de Mello Ferreira
Classical molecular dynamics were carried out in order to obtain insights into proper conditions to perform chemical fixation of carbon dioxide (CO2) with epoxide molecules into cyclic carbonates. Two different m...
Authors: Vinicius Carrillo Beber, Lucas Taveira Caleiro, Kelen Rossi de Aguiar, Jan-Ole Joswig, Ubirajara Pereira Rodrigues Filho, Paul-Ludwig Michael Noeske, Klaus Rischka and Welchy Leite Cavalcanti
Assessing adhesion or strength of composites or adhesive joints in a non-destructive way is highly challenging. Therefore, instead of performing retrospective quality assurance, i.e. investigating manufactured...
Authors: Kai Brune, Christian Tornow, Michael Noeske, Thorben Wiesner, André Felipe Queiroz Barbosa, Stephani Stamboroski, Stefan Dieckhoff and Bernd Mayer
In this work Nb-doped TiO2 (TiO2:Nb) films were deposited by reactive sputtering. The substrate was biased with negative pulses to change the energy of the ions nearby the sample surface during the deposition. As...
Authors: Juliano Sadi Scholtz, Joel Stryhalski, Julio César Sagás, Abel André Cândido Recco, Marcello Mezaroba and Luís César Fontana
