The development of effective strategies for local administration of chemotherapeutic drugs, thus minimizing the adverse side effects to patients, is one of the key challenges in biomedicine and cancer research. This work reports the formulation and characterization of PluronicF127 microemulsions to enhance the bioavailability of Cisplatin (Cis). Th...
Through the years, laser shock peening became a treatment of choice in the aerospace industry to prolong the life of certain critical pieces. Water flow is commonly used as a confinement to improve the process capability but some applications cannot allow for water presence in the area of interest. In a previous article, an alternative to the water...
Since first discovered some two decades ago, metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have shown interesting properties with regard to storage, separation, and catalysis applications. While MOFs have shown promise in these arenas over the years, a major shortcoming of these materials is their inherently crystalline form factor which hinders their applicatio...
The enantiopure coordination polymer [Dy(hfac)3((S/R)-L)]n ([(S/R)-1]n) involving a BINOL-derived bisphosphate ligand (S/R)-L is reported. Paramagnetic NMR and computational investigations demonstrated the formation of mononuclear species [(S/R)-1] in CH2Cl2 solution and its optimized structure was determined. The experimental electronic circular d...
This paper is the continuation of the research we started two years ago on plastic objects in “developmentalism” Barcelona. On this occasion we have focused more on the relationship between Catalan Pop-Art and plastic furniture, on leisure culture understood, according to Lees-Maffei's theories, as a set of mediators and on the analysis of furnitur...
Published in Chemosphere
Microplastics (MPs) are one of the marine debris, accumulated in the ocean as a result of the successive breakdown of a large piece of plastics over several years. MPs are about less than 5 mM, have a detrimental impact on marine organisms/products (seafood/sea salts) and therefore they are considered as a global environmental pollutant. The occurr...
Published in Scientific Reports
In this study, two-step approaches to fabricate periodic microstructures on polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) substrates are presented to control the wettability of polymeric surfaces. Micropillar arrays with periods between 1.6 and 4.6 µm are patterned by plate-to-plate hot embossing using chromium stamps struct...
[ES] Este Trabajo Fin de Grado tiene como objetivo desarrollar los procesos de inyección a nivel industrial y explicar los principales componentes de una máquina de inyección junto a su funcionamiento. Así mismo, se realiza el diseño de una pieza polimérica para el sector del automóvil, en este caso un parachoques delantero, con el programa CAD Sol...
Les travaux abordés dans cette thèse décrivent principalement la catalyse de polymérisation. Dans un premier temps, l’activité du complexe hétérobimétallique (TMP)MgCl·LiCl a été étudiée pour la polymérisation par ouverture de cycle du rac-lactide. Cette polymérisation est contrôlée et présente un caractère vivant. Les polylactides (PLA) obtenus, p...
