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most citedPolydispersity stabilizes Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals

69 citations

9 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Atomistic Description of Spin Crossover Under Pressure and its Giant Barocaloric Effect

S. Vela, J. Ribas-Ariño, S. P. Vallone +3

The pressure-dependent evolution of the spin crossover (SCO) transition has garnered significant interest due to its connection to the giant barocaloric effect (BCE) near room temp…

q-bio.BM2025★ 2 cited

Computations Meet Experiments to Advance the Enzymatic Depolymerization of Plastics One Atom at a Time

Francesco Colizzi, Paula Blázquez-Sánchez, Giovanni Bussi +39

Plastics are essential to modern life, yet poor disposal practices contribute to low recycling rates and environmental accumulation-biological degradation and by-product reuse offe…

cs.IT2025

On the Age of Information in Single-Server Queues with Aged Updates

Fernando Miguelez, Urtzi Ayesta, Josu Doncel +1

The Age of Information (AoI) is a performance metric that quantifies the freshness of data in systems where timely updates are critical. Most state-of-the-art methods typically ass…

astro-ph.CO2023★ 4 cited

Characterising galaxy clusters' completeness function in Planck with hydrodynamical simulations

Stefano Gallo, Marian Douspis, Elie Soubrié +1

Galaxy cluster number counts are an important probe to constrain cosmological parameters. One of the main ingredients of the analysis, along with accurate estimates of the clusters…

physics.chem-ph2020★ 29 cited

Remediation of bentazone contaminated water by Trametes versicolor: characterization, identification of transformation products, and implementation in a trickle-bed reactor under non-sterile conditions

Manuel Garcia-Vara, Kaidi Hu, Cristina Postigo +4

Bentazone, an herbicide widely applied in rice and cereal crops, is widespread in the aquatic environment. This study evaluated the capacity of Trametes versicolor to remove bentaz…

q-bio.QM2020★ 47 cited

Fungal bioremediation of diuron-contaminated waters: evaluation of its degradation and the effect of amendable factors on its removal in a trickle-bed reactor under non-sterile conditions

Kaidi Hu, Josefina Toran, Ester Lopez-Garcia +6

The occurrence of the extensively used herbicide diuron in the environment poses a severe threat to the ecosystem and human health. Four different ligninolytic fungi were studied a…

physics.bio-ph2014★ 27 cited

Electrostatic Binding and Hydrophobic Collapse of Peptide-Nucleic Acid Aggregates Quantified Using Force Spectroscopy

Joan Camunas-Soler, Silvia Frutos, Cristiano V. Bizarro +11

Knowledge of the mechanisms of interaction between self-aggregating peptides and nucleic acids or other polyanions is key to the understanding of many aggregation processes underly…

cond-mat.soft2011★ 69 cited

Polydispersity stabilizes Biaxial Nematic Liquid Crystals

S. Belli, A. Patti, M. Dijkstra +1

Inspired by the observations of a remarkably stable biaxial nematic phase [E.v.d. Pol et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 258301 (2009)], we investigate the effect of size polydispersity…

physics.chem-ph2011★ 41 cited

A new approach to local hardness

T. Gal, P. Geerlings, F. De Proft +1

The applicability of the local hardness as defined by the derivative of the chemical potential with respect to the electron density is undermined by an essential ambiguity arising…