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Boosting Drug Discovery: Expanding the Applicability of Fragment Dissolved Molecular Dynamics to Accelerate Binding Mode Elucidation 

Peralta Moreno, María Nuria; Granadino-Roldán, José Manuel; Santos Tomas, M.; Rubio Martínez, Jaime (Publication date: 2026-04-09)

The use of small organic molecules has become one of the most popular strategies in computer-aided drug design (CADD) to facilitate the identification of potential drug-like compounds in the early stages of drug development. ...

THz-based monitoring of the deformation of the inner woven structure of glass fiber reinforcedpolymers 

Pomarède, Pascal; Calvo de la Rosa, Jaume; Antonik, Piotr; Meraghni, Fodil; Citrin, David S.; Rontani, Damien; Locquet, Alexandre (Publication date: 2026-04-08)

This work exploits terahertz (THz) imaging in the real-space and the spatial-frequency domain to determine nondestructively the evolution of the main characteristics of a woven glass-fiber reinforced polymer laminate in ...

Terahertz permittivity of pressed ZnO and CuO powder in polyethylene pellets: Effect of porosity 

Calvo de la Rosa, Jaume; Locquet, Alexandre; Bouscaud, Denis; Berveiller, Sophie; Citrin, David S. (Publication date: 2026-04-08)

Terahertz (THz) spectroscopy is used to measure permittivity (100 GHz-2.5 THz) of ZnO and CuO powders with low fill factor pressed into pellets in a polyethylene binder. We show that porosity (air) of such pressed pellets ...

Durably Superhydrophobic Magnetic Cobalt Ferrites for Highly Efficient Oil–Water Separation and Fast Microplastic Removal 

Ren, Anhua; Rius Ayra, Oriol; Kang, Min; Llorca i Isern, Núria (Publication date: 2025-07-21)

Microplastic pollution has become a primary global concern in the 21st century. Recyclable magnetic particles with micro-nanostructures are considered an efficient and economical way to remove microplastics from water. In ...

Development of hazelnut shell‑derived biochar to support a bifunctional MoCoelectrocatalyst for HER/OER in alkaline medium 

Ñanculeo, Jaime; Andreu Arbella, Teresa; Sirés Sadornil, Ignacio; Ramírez, Andrés; Cea, Mara; Nahuelcura, Benjamín; Valenzuela, Gerson; Garrido-Miranda, Karla; González, María Eugenia (Publication date: 2025-07-15)

Hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER), the two concurrent reactions for the electrolytic production of green H2, require low-cost and sustainable electrocatalysts for their scale-up, as for ...

Determining the chemical ordering in nanoalloys by considering atomic coordination types 

Farris, Riccardo; Neyman, Konstantin M.; Bruix Fusté, Albert (Publication date: 2025-07-16)

The energetically most favorable chemical ordering of bimetallic nanoparticles can be characterized by combining global optimization algorithms and surrogate energy models. The latter approximate the energy of nanoalloys ...

Contrasting Metallic (Rh0) and Carbidic (2D-Mo2C MXene) Surfaces in Olefin Hydrogenation Provides Insights on the Origin of the Pairwise Hydrogen Addition 

Meng, Ling; Pokochueva, Ekaterina; Chen, Zixuan; Fedorov, Alexey; Viñes Solana, Francesc; Illas i Riera, Francesc; Koptyug, Igor V. (Publication date: 2025-07-24)

Kinetic studies are vital for gathering mechanistic insights into heterogeneously catalyzed hydrogenation of unsaturated organic compounds (olefins), where the Horiuti–Polanyi mechanism is ubiquitous on metal catalysts. ...

Ferrofluid-based bioink for 3d printed skeletal muscle tissues with enhanced force and magnetic response 

Fuentes Llanos, Judith; Guix Noguera, Maria; Cenev, Zoran M.; Bakenecker, Anna; Ruiz González, Noelia; Beaune, Grégory; Timonen, Jaakko V. I.; Sánchez Ordóñez, Samuel; Magdanz, Veronika (Publication date: 2025-08-01)

3D printing has emerged as a transformative technology in several manufacturing processes, being of particular interest in biomedical research for allowing the creation of 3D structures that mimic native tissues. The process ...

A Comparative Study of the Life Cycle Inventory of Thermally Sprayed WC-12Co Coatings 

Rúa Ramirez, E.; Silvello, A. (Alessio); Torres Diaz, E.; Vaz, Rodolpho Fernando; García Cano, Irene (Publication date: 2025-04-23)

In this research, a life cycle inventory (LCI) is developed for tungsten carbide–cobalt (WC-Co) coatings deposited via atmospheric plasma spray (APS), high-velocity oxy-fuel (HVOF), and cold gas spray (CGS) techniques. For ...

Compartir ideas. La Universidad va al Instituto: un proyecto de aprendizaje- servicio transversal de la Universidad de Barcelona 

Amat, Concepció; Anderson, Miriam; Arias Sampériz, Bárbara; Asensio, José Antonio, 1957-; Ballesteros Pérez, Esperanza; Boix, Emili, 1956-; Bondia, David; Buenaventura Rubio, Maria Antonia; Bueno i Torrens, David, 1965-; Carrera i Sabaté, Josefina; Cases Rodrigo, Irene; Coll, Tónia, 1965-; Collado Sevilla, Antonia; Condom Bosch, Josep Lluís; Cortès Izquierdo, Ferran; Costa Cuberta, Mercè; Cuffí i Chéliz, Maria Laura; Delás, Jordi; Domingo, Josep M. (Domingo Clua); Escobedo, Anna; Escofet Roig, Anna; Esparza Pagès, Mireia; Esteban i Torné, Maria Esther; Fatjó-Vilas Mestre, Mar; Fernández Cuevas, Ana Belén; Fontiveros Sánchez, Manuel; García García, Ascensión; Giménez Merino, Antonio; Goula, Marta; Grasso, Guillermo; Grau, Eulàlia (Grau i Costa); Illán Villanueva, Montserrat; Lama López, María Xesús; Lecuona Ramírez, Itziar de; López, Marta; Madrid, Antonio, 1968-; March Pujol, Marian; Martín García, Ma. Jesús; Martínez Martín, Miquel; Massip i Bonet, M. Àngels, 1957- (Publication date: 2021-06-03)

Compartir ideas. La universidad va al instituto es un proyecto de aprendizaje servicio transversal de la Universidad de Barcelona. Este representa una propuesta de aprendizaje servicio que bajo una estructura común permite ...

Estimació de la massa d'un porc a partir de l'anàlisi d'imatges digitals 

Alemany i Cahner, Pere; Climent Biescas, Claudia; Soler Soler, Joaquim (Publication date: 2013-12-16)

Es tracta d'un Notebook de Mathematica (Versió 7.0.0) i pot ser executat en qualsevol ordinador que tingui aquest paquet instal·lat. Els conjunts de dades adjunts estan en fitxers en format csv. // L'accés al codi no estarà ...

TES-PS10 postmortem tests: Carbon steel corrosion performance exposed to molten salts under relevant operation conditions and lessons learnt for commercial scale-up 

Ruiz-Cabañas, Francisco Javier; Prieto Rios, Cristina; Madina, Virginia; Fernández Renna, Ana Inés; Cabeza, Luisa F. (Publication date: 2019-12-16)

Postmortem tests were performed over components removed from the TES-PS10 pilot plant after almost four years of continuous operation being exposed to solar salts under representative commercial operation conditions. ...

Routes for the electrochemical degradation of the artificial food azo-colour Ponceau 4R by advanced oxidation processes 

Thiam, Abdoulaye; Brillas, Enric; Garrido Ponce, José Antonio; Rodríguez González, Rosa Ma.; Sirés Sadornil, Ignacio (Publication date: 2020-06-09)

The performance of three electrochemical advanced oxidation processes, namely electro-oxidation with electrogenerated H2O2 (EO-H2O2), electro-Fenton (EF) and photoelectro-Fenton (PEF) for the treatment of aqueous solutions ...

Healing of defects at the interface of nematic liquid crystals and structured Langmuir-Blodgett monolayers 

Petit Garrido, Núria; Trivedi, Rahul P.; Ignés i Mullol, Jordi; Claret Bonet, Josep; Lapointe, Clayton; Sagués i Mestre, Francesc; Smalyukh, I. (Publication date: 2019-01-31)

We use Langmuir-Blodgett molecular monolayers and nematic liquid crystals as model two-and three-dimensional orientationally ordered systems to study the stability and healing of topological defects at their contact ...

Photoelectrocatalytic chemical oxygen demand analysis using a TiO<sub>2</sub> nanotube array photoanode 

García-Ramírez, P.; Pineda-Arellano, C.A.; Millán-Ocampo, D.E.; Álvarez-Gallegos, A.; Sirés Sadornil, Ignacio; Silva-Martínez, Susana (Publication date: 2024-01-31)

The chemical oxygen demand (COD) is a widely used parameter to evaluate the quality of water for industrial applications. Currently, the standardized method for COD analysis employs expensive and harmful reagents that ...

Influence of the synthesis route in obtaining the cubic or tetragonal copper ferrite phases 

Calvo de la Rosa, Jaume; Segarra Rubí, Mercè (Publication date: 2020-06-30)

In this work, magnetic copper ferrite nanoparticles are synthesized by polymer-assisted sol−gel and coprecipitation methods. The obtained purity and particle size reach values of 96% and 94 nm, respectively. Evident ...

Performance of the G(0)W(0) method in predicting the electronic gap of TiO2 nanoparticles 

Morales García, Ángel; Valero Montero, Rosendo; Illas i Riera, Francesc (Publication date: 2020-06-11)

Using a relativistic all-electron description and numerical atomic-centered orbital basis set, the performance of the G(0)W(0) method on the electronic band gap of (TiO2) nanoparticles (n = 1-20) is investigated. Results ...

Dynamics of Fréedericksz transition in a fluctuating magnetic field 

Sagués i Mestre, Francesc; San Miguel Ruibal, Maximino (Publication date: 2009-09-23)

Fréedericksz transition under twist deformation in a nematic layer is discussed when the magnetic field has a random component. A dynamical model which includes the thermal fluctuations of the system is presented. The ...

Unlocking flooded domains in air-breathing cathodes with edge-located asymmetric CoN2O2 sites for robust H2O2 electrosynthesis 

Xia, Pan; He, Tianwei; Xu, Tong; Zhu, Zhong-Shuai; Sun, Yu; Duan, Xiaoguang; Wang, Chao; He, Qiang; Sirés Sadornil, Ignacio; Ye, Zhihong (Publication date: 2025-11-07)

Air-breathing gas-diffusion electrodes (GDEs) eliminating energy-intensive aeration hold great promise for industrial-scale hydrogen peroxide electrosynthesis. However, this configuration suffers from limited O2 mass ...

New analytical (2A',4A') surfaces and theoretical rate constants for the N(4S) + O2 reaction 

Sayós Ortega, Ramón; Oliva, Carolina; González Pérez, Miguel (Publication date: 2020-06-05)

We report two new analytical fits of the ground potential energy surface (PES) (2A') and the first excited PES (4A') involved into the title reaction and its reverse, using ab initio electronic structure calculations from ...

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