Financial support from the European Union (EU) and the Free State of Saxony through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (SAB GroTEGx, grant no. 100245375) are acknowledged. J.G. acknowledges the financial support from the Principality of Asturias and European U...

In situ laser diffractometry (LD) is increasingly used in oceanographic studies to estimate sediment transport, particle fluxes and to assess the concentration of marine phytoplankton. It enables an accurate characterization of the size distribution of suspended particl...

Since it was first demonstrated in 1987, magnetic force microscopy (MFM) has become a truly widespread and commonly used characterization technique that has been applied to a variety of research and industrial applications. Some of the main advantages of the method incl...

Investigating the detailed substructure of the cell is beyond the ability of conventional optical microscopy. Electron microscopy, therefore, has been the only option for such studies for several decades. The recent implementation of several super-resolution optical mic...

In this work we study the crystallization processes of two sets of amorphous Fe80B20 films fabricated by Pulsed Laser Ablation Deposition on substrates with different nature, Corning glass® and MgO(001). We analyze their magnetic hysteresis mechanisms by means of magnet...

Substrate topography can have profound effects on initial bacterial adhesion during biofilm formation. We applied and cells onto periodically structured substrates with different structure dimensions, structure types and wetting properties. We found a strong dependence ...

Abstract The aim of this study was to investigate the physical and antimicrobial properties of fabricated nanofibre for active packaging systems. Active microcapsules and nanofibres derived from precipitating β-cyclodextrin (β-CD) with cinnamon (CIN) and oregano (OREG) ...

Novel applications for memory devices demand nanoscale flexible structures. In particular, resistive switching (RS) devices are promising candidates for wearable and implantable technologies. Here, the Pt/Si/Ag/TiW metal-insulator-metal structure was fabricated and char...

Bifunctional nanostructured architectures have shown appealing properties, since a single entity can combine the diverse properties of its individual constituents. Particularly, by growing Fe-oxide domains over Ag nanoparticles, the plasmonic and superparamagnetic prope...

Forward osmosis (FO) is a promising membrane technology to combine seawater desalination and water reuse. More specifically, in a FO-reverse osmosis (RO) hybrid process, high quality water recovered from the wastewater stream is used to dilute seawater before RO treatme...